Interorganizational systems (IOS) adoption requires cooperation and collaboration between trading partners and, therefore, is reliant on the nature of their relationships. There has been some research that investigates relationships and how organizations progress from one level to the next level of adoption. However, these studies do not adequately justify the exclusion of other variables and a...

Constant changes created by the global market have led software organizations to depend increasingly on their intellectual capital, its human resources. In this context, the lessons learned are presented as an important resource to aid in the preservation and control of this intellectual capital. This paper aims to present a process model focused on gradually implement activities to improve the...

This paper presents a novel application involving two important Software Engineering research areas: process modeling and software reuse. The Spiral Model is a risk-driven process model, which, depending on the specific risks associated with a given project, may be tailored to create a project-specific process model. The software reuse area is that of domain modeling of families of systems, whi...

INTRODUCTION Military personnel are often required to wear ballistic protection in order to defend against enemies. However, this added protection increases mass carried and imposes additional thermal burden on the individual. Body armor (BA) is known to reduce combat casualties, but the effects of BA mass and insulation on the physical performance of soldiers are less well documented. Until re...

Many process models have been hitherto suggested. Very few of them, however, deal with the most utilised process today – the maintenance process. In this paper, we present and motivate the “Corrective Maintenance Maturity Model” (CM 3 ) a process model entirely dedicated to only software maintenance. .

In this study, we examine the role of information technology (IT) in improving organizational agility and firm performance from the perspectives of the resource-picking and capability-building mechanisms of rent creation, and the hierarchy of dynamic capabilities. We divide IT capabilities into IT exploration capability, which corresponds to the resource-picking phase, and IT exploitation capab...

This chapter presents the process of upfront corrective maintenance at the front-end support level. The chapter is logically divided into two parts. The first part introduces the domain of the upfront corrective maintenance process, and presents its current status practised in the industry. It first describes the process, places it within a global virtual IT enterprise and explains its role wit...

One of the most commonly used agile methods is Scrum. Capability Maturity Model Integration for Development (CMMI-DEV) is currently the de facto framework for process improvement and for determining the organizational maturity of software development companies. CMMI-DEV and Scrum share certain characteristics, and even though they were developed for different purposes, they can be complementary...

  In this study, a new method for joining aluminum tubes in subsurface structures using steel converting and aluminum welding are presented and reviewed. But near the weld area is under high thermal cycle and will cause residual stresses in heat affected zone. Therefore for assessment of proposed connection from the perspective of residual stress by using the finite element method welding of tu...