It is intensively discussed in both science and practice how data quality (DQ) can be assured and improved. The growing relevance of DQ has revealed the need for adequate metrics because quantifying DQ is essential for planning quality measures in an economic manner. This paper analyses how DQ can be quantified with respect to the DQ dimension timeliness. Based on an existing approach, we desig...

It is intensively discussed in both science and practice how data quality (DQ) can be assured and improved. The growing relevance of DQ has revealed the need for adequate metrics because quantifying DQ is essential for planning quality measures in an economic manner. This paper analyses how DQ can be quantified with respect to the DQ dimension timeliness. Based on an existing approach, we desig...

Customers were introduced as one of the brilliant resources of knowledge for the companies and enterprises. This paper proposes to integrate the agent-mediated knowledge management and the customer knowledge management systems. This is to provide a framework to acquire the cryptic knowledge from and related to the customers and provides required knowledge for them. The abilities of agents in kn...

A release is a major (new or upgraded) version of an evolving product characterized by a collection of (new, corrected or modified) features. The terms “product release planning” refers to the process of deciding which features will be offered, and if so, in which of the future product releases. This article describes the Why, What and How for improving the pr...

Customer satisfaction is the result of product quality and viability. The place of the perceived satisfaction of users/customers for a software product cannot be neglected especially in today competitive market environment as it drives the loyalty of customers and promotes high profitability and return on investment. Therefore understanding the importance of requirements as it is associated wit...

1.1 Agile Development The Agile Manifesto explicitly states that priority should be given to ‘‘individuals and interaction over processes and tools, customer collaboration over contract negotiation, working software over comprehensive documentation, and responding to changes over following a plan’’ [1]. Thus these agile principles promotes the flexibility by allowing changes to project requirem...

Service oriented development is the process of developing an application that is able to provide the required service to the customer keeping in mind the requirements of the customer but an application is said to be good service providing software if it provides the quality that is required by the consumer. In this paper we have reviewed various proposed methods that are capable of developing s...

Software development cycle is based on the software requirements. Requirement elicitation is first and most important activity in the requirement engineering. If the requirements are efficiently elicited and managed then the stakeholders application can be accomplished within time and budget. If the requirements are not complete, consistent and correct then projects fail because they not meet t...

Loyalty program is a marketing effort by the merchant to keep customers loyal to their stores. It tries to keep track of the purchasing-behavior of a customer by recording customer’s purchase information, including his credit card number, as a key identifier to the customer. While it may benefit the customer, the drawback is that the privacy of the customer is intruded. If the customer is using...

Customer Satisfaction Development Costs Technical Risks Urgency Frequeny of Use Negative Value A prioritization criterion is a characteristic mark relevant for a certain requirements type and that is used to make a judgment on a requirement concerning its priority.