Department of Biology, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Ascot, Berkshire SL5 7PY, UK, Universidade dos Açores, Dep. de Ciências Agrárias – CITA-A (Azorean Biodiversity Group), Terra-Chã, 9700-851 Angra do Heroísmo, Portugal, Biodiversity Research Group, Oxford University Centre for the Environment, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK, NERC Centre for Population Biology, Imperial C...

In this paper, we study the performance of static solutions in two-stage adjustable robust packing linear optimization problem with uncertain constraint coefficients. Such problems arise in many important applications such as revenue management and resource allocation problems where demand requests have uncertain resource requirements. The goal is to find a two-stage solution that maximizes the...

Purpose – The purpose of the article is to investigate the impact of organizational culture on software process improvement (SPI). Is cultural congruence between an organization and an adopted process model required? How can the level of congruence between an organizational culture and the values and assumptions underlying an adopted process model be assessed? Design/methodology/approach – The ...

T he effectiveness of the CMMI framework at helping organizations achieve business objectives is currently a hotly debated topic [1]. One of my clients responded to my recent suggestion to consider using the CMMI and Agile techniques together by stating: We do not place much value in the CMMI because we have not seen a difference between Level 4 and 5 organizations and those rated lower. At a r...