This paper describes a framework that is intended to provide an infrastructure for the delivery of support for business processes – including design processes, software development processes and procurement processes. This framework has to be capable of supporting quasi-independent process model instance evolution, and to provide seamless support in this environment for the non-expert Process M...

In the last decades the complexity of software development projects had a significant increase. This complexity emerges from the higher degree of sophistication in the contexts they aim to serve and from the evolution of the functionalities implemented by the applications However, many software corporations have a reduced dimension (micro, small or medium) which imposes a considerable constrain...

We examine the impact of development process modeling on outcomes in software development projects, limiting our attention to process and product quality. Modeling the software development process requires a careful determination of tasks and their logical relationships. Essentially, the modeling is undertaken to establish a management framework of the project. We de®ne and interrelate developm...

strategic environmental assessment can be viewed as a process to integrate the concept ofsustainable development into planning. in this context, sea can be regarded as a method that regulates theplanning process to a state of sustainable development. however, to reach that goal it is necessary to achieve full integration of planning and the sea process.therefore this paper considers the integra...

novelty or the pure and unique creation is the profoundest item in economic development and entrepreneurship in every country. however, there is no consensus regarding the process of creation of novelty among economists so that “schumpeter” used the term “impossible” to define this unknowable process because this subject cannot be described within the theoretical framework of orthodox conceptua...