This paper addresses the question: is higher capability maturity associated with adoption of Quality Assurance (QA) certification? To assess the extent of adoption of third-party QA certification by Australian software developers, a survey of 1,000 software developers was recently conducted. The questionnaire also included an assessment of their capability maturity based on the capability matur...

Commodity software components are intrinsically untrustworthy and it is highly insecure to use them directly in mission critical systems. The trustworthiness of a system can be only vaguely specified or achieved without a quantifiable level of assurance measurement of the components used in the system. While large amounts of research efforts have been devoted to establishing a certain quantifia...

This study aims to determine the indicators that affect quality of service for company. Service analysis is carried out by integrating Quality (Servqual) and Importance Performance Analysis (IPA) methods. Servqual a method identifies using five dimensions: tangible, reliability, responsiveness, assurance, empathy. Each dimension in deployment becomes several describe moment truth company provid...

Patents are a very useful source of technical information. The public availability of patents over the Internet, with for some databases (eg. Espacenet) the assurance of a constant format, allows the development of high value added products using this information source and provides an easy way to analyze patent information. This simple and powerful tool facilitates the use of patents in academ...

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This paper describes the experience of our institution in creating a comprehensive undergraduate information assurance (IA) program. An interdisciplinary approach was undertaken in order to include a larger portion of the student body and faculty and thus influence a broader audience. The program includes a wide variety of mutually supporting information assurance activities including a researc...

This paper discusses how the author integrated issues in Information Assurance into parts of the undergraduate curriculum at his university. The emphasis is on his course on computer ethics and the social implications of computing. . Index terms – Integrating information assurance topics into the undergraduate curriculum; visions for the future.

Purpose This study aims to investigate the influence of organisations’ board gender diversity on adoption United Nations sustainable development goals (SDGs) and use external assurance. Design/methodology/approach The paper combines data from Global Reporting Initiative’s Sustainability Disclosure Database Orbis database Bureau van Dijk. uses logit models based a sample 366 large Asian African ...

Demonstrating the value of computerized clinical information systems (CIS) relative to its cost has been difficult. Decreased mortality in the intensive care unit or a reduction in nursing staff have not been apparent, but CIS does lead to a significant improvement in documentation over handwritten flowsheets, both in volume and accuracy. This may have a medicolegal and quality assurance impact...

Falsification is drawing attention in quality assurance of heterogeneous systems whose complexities are beyond most verification techniques’ scalability. In this paper we introduce the idea of causality aid in falsification: by providing a falsification solver—that relies on stochastic optimization of a certain cost function—with suitable causal information expressed by a Bayesian network, sear...