Few RE methods address analysis of socio-technical system requirements. This paper describes a method for analysing dependencies between computer systems and users/stakeholders in the operational environment. Domain scenarios describing the system and its context are used to create an environment model based on the i* notation. The dependencies between inbound and outbound events between the sy...

This paper is based on the research which was conducted earlier on Kansei Engineering (KE) and resulted in a new concept for scissors to redesign it with another method called “User Centered Design” (UCD). This is a shift from translation of the consumers’ psychological feeling about a product related to their perception of the design (KE) to focus on designing for and involving users in the de...

Systems Engineering plays a key role during industrial product development of complex technical systems. The need for systems engineers in industry is growing. But there is a gap between the industrial need and the academic education. Normally the academic education is focused on the domain specific design, implementation and testing of technical systems. Necessary systems engineering expertise...

Do not require Government contract quality assurance at source for contracts or delivery orders valued below $250,000, unless— (1) Mandated by DoD regulation; (2) Required by a memorandum of agreement between the acquiring department or agency and the contract administration agency; or (3) The contracting officer determines that— (i) Contract technical requirements are significant (e.g., the te...

This paper introduces a price-fixing policy to be applied to software procurement general contractual agreements occurring between customers and suppliers. The price-fixing policy aims at overcoming the limits and problems of “Function Point fixed-price” mechanisms. Basically the policy derives from a practical application of the "Business Function Point" (BFP) technique. Assigning the price of...

requirements might be put in a requirements database. With either implementation, one of the attributes must be priority. Why should you prioritize requirements? 1. If the project is budget-constrained, prioritization will help you decide which requirements should be implemented and which should be candidates for elimination. 2. If the project is time-constrained, prioritization will help you d...

BACKGROUND Point-of-care electronic medical records (EMRs) are a key tool to manage chronic illness. Several EMRs have been developed for use in treating HIV and tuberculosis, but their applicability to primary care, technical requirements and clinical functionalities are largely unknown. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to address the needs of clinicians from resource-limited settings without rel...

identification and analysis of farmers’ vulnerability associated with their risk aversion degree is one of the necessary requirements for planning and reducing impacts of drought in iran. so, this study was investigated three risk vulnerability parameters (economic, social and technical) among wheat farmers categorized in accordance with their risk aversion degree in the mashhad county (iran) b...

Many firms expend a great amount of effort to increase the customer value of their product development (PD) processes. Yet, in PD, determining how and when value is added is problematic. The goal of a PD process is to produce a product “recipe” that satisfies requirements. Design work is done both to specify the recipe in increasing detail and to verify that it does in fact conform to requireme...