Even though there has been a considerable amount of progress on software development tools, techniques, methodologies and SDLCs, still %68 of software development projects are unsuccessful. In this study, Flexible and Adaptive Life Cycle (FALC) Framework is introduced to manage the utilization of different SDLCs in the projects in order to increase success rates. The FALC Framework provides opp...

Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) represents one of the four steps of the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology, which is a standardized procedure (ISO 14040:2006) to estimate the environmental impacts generated by the production, use and delivery of goods and services and final waste disposal. The calculation of emergy using LCI databases is acknowledged to be of great advantage to improve the accu...

Development life cycles are useful for developing systems since they offer methodologies and models. Although, there are different models or methodologies to develop systems with different purposes, but there is no such comprehensive or complete one for knowledge management systems. The reason may be the complexity and the variety of related topics in knowledge management, which is an interdisc...

Many approaches to improving system affordability focus on one or two strategies (e,g., automation, outsourcing, repurposing, reuse, process maturity), and miss the opportunity for further improvements. Often, they focus on one phase (e.g., acquisition) at the expense of other factors that increase total ownership cost (TOC). Based on several related research projects, we have developed, applie...

This paper presents some of the experiences made with AOP. In an object oriented C++ framework, aspects have been identified which now have been separated from the components of the framework. In this paper, the focus is on life-cycle control aspects when applying the Command Processor pattern. Because no weaver technology was available, preprocessor macros were used. They simulate both operati...

This article provides a conceptual framework for thinking about the system created at the interface of chronic illness with the family life cycle. First, a psychosocial typology and time phases of illness schema is described as a necessary, preliminary step to create a common language that bridges the worlds of illness, individual, and family development. This schema organizes similarities and ...

The performance measurement method introduced in this paper is based on the five-step indicator lifecycle that covers formal definition of indicators, measurement, analysis, reaction, and reformulation of indicator definitions. Performance measurement framework is introduced that support this performance measurement method and that enables the indicator lifecycle. The goal of this research is t...

This paper summarises the difficulties in the application of life cycle costing (LCC) as a decision making tool in the construction industry on the parts of the client, the analyst and the industry practices. Life cycle costing encompasses a great deal of uncertainty, functions of which are data imperfection, randomness and ambiguity. The traditional use of the probability theory and statistics...

this paper presents the results obtained from the life cycle assessment (lca) of the productionof sicilian artichokes (cynara scolymus) with the aim of reducing impacts, interpreting the results, suggesting possible improvements and enriching the sustainability knowledge already existing in the agro food field. artichokes represent one of the excellent italian agricultural products even if stil...