This paper presents two case studies to theorize how project team culture in software engineering organizations affects CMMI implementation from an organizational culture framework. We contend that CMMI implementation success is positively related to project team culture along the eight dimensions of organizational culture, such as orientation to horizon. The results indicate the extent of the ...

Kin altruism appears to influence an individual’s evaluation of the reproductive decisions of other people. Playing the role of an older woman advising a younger woman about reproduction influenced female participants’ self-reported beliefs about the decision. Women randomly assigned to the group with the task of advising a daughter were more inclined to believe that the choice consistent with ...

An emergent domain that raises some unique engineering challenges is that of software architectures to convert large bodies of unstructured data to human-usable knowledge, such as in the domain of socio-cultural information analysis. We report on an architecture based on Service-Oriented Architectures that we are applying in this domain. We list the requirements that such an architecture must s...

Software industries unlike other industries have been lacking the productivity gains through quality improvement programs, suggesting failures in the application of software engineering standards to software development. This paper increases the understanding of how quality management systems (QMS) which are based on software engineering standards are incorporated into systems development metho...

1 The paper is a revised version of the paper entitled "The impact of stakeholders’ geographical distribution on managing requirements in a multi-site organization” published in the Proceedings of the IEEE Int’l Conference on Requirements Engineering, 2002 Abstract The increasing globalization of software industry demands an investigation of Requirements Engineering (RE) in multi-site software ...

Three dimensional terrestrial laser scanning has already proved its potential in several application fields, such as topography, archaeology, mining and cultural heritage protection. Beside these areas a new demand emerged: accurate point cloud acquisition and post-processed results in engineering survey. This technology could broaden the field of engineering survey, although the limited accura...

We discuss the ‘software crisis’ as a social and cultural phenomenon, arguing that it can be viewed as (one more) manifestation of postmodernism. We illustrate our argument with a range of examples taken from software engineering, demonstrating software engineering’s roots in (and commitment to) modernism and the nature of its fin de siècle predicament. We argue that current attempts within sof...

Group decision-making problem is a common and crucial human activity. By the characteristic of group decision making process, the model of multi-attribute group decision making (MAGDM) process based on evidence theory is proposed. The interacting process for MAGDM is analyzed, and the consensus analysis and the improving approach in group experts’ decision making based on similarity is given. B...

The ginseng industry has expanded rapidly in recent years. Asian and American ginseng are cultivated around the world. Ginseng products in various forms are increasingly popular, and its consumers are no longer limited to Asians. More knowledge is needed about the horticultural characteristics, cultural methods, disease control, drying and storage procedures, and technology for value-added prod...