The importance of prioritizing requirements stems from the fact that not all requirements can usually be met with available time and resource constraints. Although several papers have been published in this domain, they mainly focus on descriptive research endeavors to suggest different requirement prioritization approaches. Prescriptive research dealing with design science for a systematic and...

Smart home (SH) products and services aim to enhance the comfort, convenience, security, entertainment, health, education and communication of tenants and their guests enabled by information technology platforms. Despite ongoing waves of enthusiasm, the SH market has remained a niche for more than three decades. At the same time, recent forecast expect the market to grow at high rates in the up...

This paper presents a methodology for requirement prioritization. The approach provides a flexible and realistic approach that considers all attributes of particular requirements and fuses them into a unified metric, representative of all quality criteria identified for a specific software project. The derived quality measurement can be used as the main metric for requirements prioritization. T...

The increasing pervasiveness of digital technologies, often referred to as the "Internet of Things" (IoT), offers a wealth of new services and business model opportunities across an ecosystem of partners and so it forces companies to rethink their current business models. To date, literature does yet not provide actionable, field-tested model theories for capturing, visualizing and analyzing fi...

In this paper we develop an analytical threshold-based bandwidth allocation policy for 3G multi-class cellular networks. We consider the effects of user mobility when the cellular network supports multiple classes of connections having different QoS bandwidth requirements. The policy gives priority to handoff connections over new calls and prioritizes between different classes of handoff connec...

background: setting research priorities is an important process in management of health researches. if this process is carried out based on the goals and values ​​of the health system, the actual needs will be properly met. this study is aimed to determine research priorities of kerman medical sciences university.   methods: in this documentary study, content analysis method was used. the study...

When people need help they often turn to their social peers for reliable information, recommendation or guidance. It is often difficult to find someone in the vicinity for help or communicate with someone from a distant place who can provide reliable help. Conveying the actual context of the question during remote communication is a cumbersome task, especially when avoiding speech communication...