This article examines the role of management in business processes in relation to the process-oriented organization and strategy formation as a formal process (strategic planning). A questionnaire designed to measure these variables after the validity and reliability among a sample of 183 managers, officials and experts in working systems, information technology and strategic planning in major ...

This paper outlines a four step effort estimation study and focuses on the first and second step. The four steps are formulated to successively introduce a more formal effort experience base. The objective of the study is to evaluate the needed formalism to improve effort estimation and to study different approaches to record and reuse experiences from effort planning in software projects. In t...

In this paper we discuss a new kind of information system that helps people be ready for information work and locate documents. This system differs from a traditional information retrieval system by relying extensively on descriptions of both how a document is used and the purposes it is used for. A formal language represents this information.

In this article we propose the use of the Alexandrian pattern formalism in order to encapsulate creative aspects of information systems strategy formation. We use a case study from a UK police force from which to derive two patterns that demonstrate salient creative practice in action at a micro-political level. The first deals with the dilemma of having to introduce formal systems and procedur...

Background: Electromyographic (EMG) signals obtained from a contracted muscle contain valuable information on its activity and health status. Much of this information lies in motor unit potentials (MUPs) of its motor units (MUs), collected during the muscle contraction. Hence, accurate estimation of a MUP template for each MU is crucial. Objective: To investigate the possibility of improv...

Companies tend to adopt security approaches that align with some subset of the four categories of IS security techniques checklists, risk analysis, formal methods and soft modeling. To develop a structure of secure IS that upholds confidentiality, integrity and availability of information there remains a need for an integral security model that incorporates the benefits of other security design...

Social entrepreneurship has soon recognized as important factor in socio-economic development. So far little research been done the context of developing young countries like Pakistan. This study investigate how institutional factors affect social entrepreneurial activities Data from GEM were used for analysis. Due to binary nature dependent variables, we logistic regression models test hypothe...