ـ ـــ This paper presents the quality model of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems by adapting the ISO9126 standard. This model is used to verify that whether the implementation of ERP systems will succeed or fail in higher educational institutions. Six quality characteristics are suggested to be minimum requirements for creating the quality model of ERP systems, including functionality,...

Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) is a promising and fast growing area of technologies and services to assist people with special needs (e.g. elderly or disabled) in managing more independently their everyday life. AAL is founded on increasing needs for welfare technologies, as well as on significant effort from many scientific disciplines, the society, and the industry. The research has so far bee...

Software process improvement models have been developed to support very small organizations in achieving the software quality expected by their customers. Software quality, however, allows to be studied from process and product perspectives. The aim of this work is to attain insights into the extent to which the product quality view is addressed in very small organizations. A mapping method was...

The embedded system development methodology has not been as well established as the development methodology in software engineering. Involving inter-disciplinary activities in the development of hardware and software need to be further considered when developing an embedded system. This paper presents a new development model for an embedded system by the hybridization of selected development me...

In this article it is developed and it analyze a computational model based on the concepts of the Fuzzy Logic that it will allow the calculate the value of Usability to final user’s of software developments based on the Norma ISO/IECE 9126-1:2.001, and based on the Fuzzy Model of Takagi Sugeno Kang. For this model’s development it becomes necessary to keep in mind a series of attributes that th...

Usability has become a critical quality factor of software systems in general, and especially important regarding Web-based applications. Measuring quality is the key to developing high-quality software, and it is widely recognised that quality assurance of software products must be assessed focusing on the early stages of the development process. This paper describes a controlled experiment ca...

Making major changes in enterprise information systems, such as large IT-investments, often have a significant impact on business operations. Moreover, when deliberating which IT-changes to make, the consequences of choosing a certain scenario may be difficult to grasp. One way to ascertain the quality of IT-investment decisions is through the use of methods from decision theory. This paper pro...