BACKGROUND Zoonoses account for over half of all communicable diseases causing illness in humans. As there are limited resources available for the control and prevention of zoonotic diseases, a framework for their prioritization is necessary to ensure resources are directed into those of highest importance. Although zoonotic outbreaks are a significant burden of disease in North America, the sy...

Literature on socioeconomic determinants of antibiotic consumption in the community is limited to few countries using cross-sectional data. This paper analyses regional variations in outpatient antibiotics in Italy using a balanced panel dataset covering the period 2000-2008. We specify an econometric model in which antibiotic consumption depends upon demographic and socioeconomic characteristi...

The order in which test-cases are executed has an influence on the rate at which faults can be detected. In this paper we demonstrate how test-case prioritization can be performed with the use of model-checkers. For this, different well known prioritization techniques are adapted for model-based use. New property based prioritization techniques are introduced. In addition it is shown that prior...

Requirements prioritization method is an essential activity in software development to identify most important functionalities of the project within limited resources. This work evaluates various requirements prioritization methods with respect to a number of parameters viz. size of the project, feasibility measure, conflicts resolution, complexity analysis and keeps the developer focused on mo...

The Software testing phase of the development life cycle model of software plays a very important role in deciding the quality and functionality of the software. The Testing of the software is done to detect the fault in its functionality and on the basis of its performance further quality of software is improved. In the software testing phase there is a task involved which is prioritization of...

1 2 During regression testing, a modified system is often retested using an existing test suite. Since the size of the test suite 3 may be very large, testers are interested in detecting faults in the modified system as early as possible during this retesting 4 process. Test prioritization attempts to order tests for execution so that the chances of early detection of faults during retest5 ing ...

Organizations generally have a variety of IT projects to implement, but only limited resources to develop them. As information technology and systems pervade organizations, the pool of potential IT projects is continually increasing. In this paper, we explore IT project prioritization practices in a real life context and contrast them with the rational approaches which dominate the IS literatur...

Abstract— The most appropriate prioritization method is still one of the unsettled issues of the Analytic Hierarchy Process, although many studies have been made and applied. Interestingly, many transportation evaluation and selection models using AHP apply only Saaty’s Eigenvector method. Many theoretical studies have found that this method may produce rank reversals and have proposed various ...

This chapter provides an overview of techniques for prioritization of requirements for software products. Prioritization is a crucial step towards making good decisions regarding product planning for single and multiple releases. Various aspects of functionality are considered, such as importance, risk, cost, etc. Prioritization decisions are made by stakeholders, including users, managers, dev...

Regression testing is a time consuming, costly process of re-running existing test cases. As software evolves, the regression test suite grows in size. Test case prioritization techniques help by ordering test cases such that at least the test cases which cover the changes made in the software are executed amidst resource and time constraints. Genetic Algorithm (GA) has been widely used for tes...