This paper is the result of reflection upon a series of software measurement exercises that have been carried out in a telecommunications engineering environment. These exercises were conducted in a manner which attempted, as far as possible, to follow recognised good practice. It is argued that while approaches such as the Goal/Question/Metric paradigm and the framework for the validation of s...

PT. XYZ is a company that produces pharmaceutical products for livestock. Most of the raw materials veterinary drugs consist B3 powder (toxic and hazardous materials). Waste from production process unavoidable, one types waste produced by wastes. According to Environmental Service (DLH) cannot be directly discharged into environment, therefore uses 3rd party services in processing disposal. pow...

Husserlian phenomenology has been used to provide (or perhaps “evoke”) the rationale for the use of soft systems approaches in both information systems (IS) research and IS development. The purpose of this brief paper is to encourage a debate about the feasibility and coherence of such projects. A (fairly) typical “interpretive” IS methodology (Soft Systems Methodology) is critically analysed u...

Researchers who create software production environments face considerable problems Soft ware production environments are large systems that are costly to develop Furthermore soft ware production environments which support particular software engineering methods may not be applicable to a large number of software production projects These conditions have formed a trend towards research into ways...

This paper proposes a sociology of knowledge approach as a basis for understanding the potential of knowledge management for a complex inter-organisational domain– the UK construction industry–with a specific aim of increasing the sustainability of the processes and products of the industry. To this end, soft systems methodology is introduced as a method of conceptualising the industry’s knowle...

Abstract. The formalism of credal networks can be used to represent imprecision in multivariate probabilistic models. Currently, the algorithms for inference with credal nets allow to compute posterior probability intervals given specific evidence. However, they do not deal with soft evidence. This paper presents an approach to integrate soft evidence in credal networks. The proposal is to conv...

Findings – SSM was particularly useful for exploring the holistic information security issues, enabling models to be constructed which were valuable analytical tools and easily understood by stakeholders, which increased the receptiveness of the bank, and assisted with member validation. Significant risks were apparent from internal sources with weaknesses in aspects of governance and security ...

This paper justifies how research results can be more effectively and efficiently communicated between interested parties. In particular, it will focus on the process of seeking research results that most of the time interested parties do not know when they will be communicated. This makes the entire retrieval method a very time consuming approach and most importantly not always a successful on...

In the automotive business, financial services have gained in importance over the last few years. Apart from sales promotion, customer retention is a primary concern. As a consequence quality management which had so far been regarded as a discipline of the manufacturing sector, has been taking a central role in the service sector. Therefore the Six Sigma methodology attracts a lot of attention ...