The importance of people factors for the success of software development is commonly accepted, because the success of a software project is above all determined by having the right people on the right place at the right time. As software development is a knowledge intensive industry; the `quality' of developers is primarily determined by their knowledge and skills. This paper presents a concept...

This study explores the possibility of flexibility in the use of information technology. The study examines different viewpoints and definitions of flexibility and tries to reconcile some of these different viewpoints by creating a model for flexibility in information systems. The model addresses two different types of flexibility, efficient versatility and robust responsiveness, that might eff...

E-Learning has attained significance in todays’ cyber world due to the obvious advantages of anywhere anytime learning, to reach the unreachable and so on. It is a well known fact that explosion of E-learning technologies were due to the wide spread adoption of certain technical enablers. However no specific standards were followed for the development of existing systems making them more custom...

Information and communication technology (ICT) has seen exceptional growth in the last decade in Ethiopia and Africa. Delivery of health care services is an issue for governments in most developing countries. However, service and quality depend on the availability of financial and human resources along with the organizational and management capability to transform the resources to meet national...

This paper focuses on improving the stability as well as the approximation properties of Reduced Order Models (ROM) based on Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD). The ROM is obtained by seeking a solution belonging to the POD subspace and that at the same time minimizes the Navier-Stokes residuals. We propose a modified ROM that directly incorporates the pressure term in the model. The ROM is ...

This article is an attempt to construct a chemical datument as a means of presenting insights into chemical phenomena in a scientific journal. An exploration of the interactions present in a small fragment of duplex Z-DNA and the nature of the catalytic centre of a carbon-dioxide/alkene epoxide alternating co-polymerisation is presented in this datument, with examples of the use of three softwa...

BACKGROUND Overweight or obesity during adolescence affects almost 25% of Australian youth, yet limited research exists regarding recruitment and engagement of adolescents in weight-management or healthy lifestyle interventions, or best-practice for encouraging long-term healthy behaviour change. A sound understanding of community perceptions, including views from adolescents, parents and commu...

Continuous optimization of value co-creation in networks of consumers and autonomous service enablers describes a major challenge to mediating platform operators. In analogy to systems theory, we propose to introduce customizable feedback loops from the service-enabling ecosystem to the service enablers via the platform operator. Relevant feedback information can be derived from analysis of net...