Models describing business processes in a company nowadays have the drawback that they are not machine-processable for two reasons: First the terminology is not formalized. Second the dynamic semantics of the process model is not formally defined. Thus, many discussions and human work is necessary in order to create and maintain process models. However, with a semantic annotation of process mod...

The mechanical properties of steel are the most important factor in the safety of structures that must be stable and appropriate. In order to investigate whether the process capability of steel production meets the quality requirements or not, Sung et al. proposed a procedure to evaluate the production and quality control of steel manufacturing. This evaluation model uses statistics to judge th...

There is a strategic need for a cost-effective method of conducting ISO/IEC 15504 conformant assessments of the capability of software development projects. This applies particularly in the case of SMEs for whom the cost of a full three to four day assessment may be prohibitive. The Rapid Assessment for Process Improvement for software Development (RAPID), has been developed to address this nee...

Assessment-based Software Process Improvement (SPI) programs such as the Capability Maturity Model (CMM), Bootstrap, and SPICE (ISO/IEC 15504) are based on formal frameworks and promote the use of systematic processes and management practices for software development. These approaches identify best practices for the management of software development and when applied, enable organizations to un...

Enterprises are confronted with rapidly changing situations in regulations, globalisation, time-to-market pressures and advances in the technology. Management and design of capabilities allowing for more flexibility in business services is one way to tackle these challenges. This requires a shift from a business process oriented to capability management oriented view. In this respect this work ...

This article introduces a set of unified basic concepts for Process Capability Models for the unification, generalization and modeling of views of the structure and elements of relevant models, with more similar granularity of its leaf elements. This set is part of an ongoing research effort to evolve the current Software (and Systems) Process Improvement area towards a Model Driven Process Cap...

Process Capability Indices (PCIs) are appropriate tools in order to measure the inherent capability of a process. In statistical process control, there are some uncertainties in data, such as uncertain specification limits and data. In these cases, fuzzy logic can be employed to manage the uncertainties. There are some researches about fuzzy process capability indices and in this paper; we pres...

Process Capability: Definition and standard evaluation: Process Capability tells you, to what extent the process is likely to satisfy the customer's wish. Standard Process Capability calculations assume 99.73% coverage of the process mapped as σ 3 ± x. Where x is the process mean σ is the process standard deviation. The standard evaluation of Process Capability Indices Cp & Cpk is given by the ...

The usability maturity of two organisations was assessed using the model in ISO TR 18529 to identify the need for usability process improvement. The results were used to select simple user-based methods implementing the recommendations in ISO 13407 and were applied in trial development projects over a 12-month period. A second usability capability assessment at the end of the trial demonstrated...