Requirements engineering (RE) is concerned with the identification of stakeholders' needs concerning a future system, the specification of services and constraints that satisfy these needs, and the assignment of the resulting requirements to agents such as humans, hardware devices, and software components. Functional requirements describe what functions must be provided to satisfy the stakehold...

This study investigates the practices of Requirements Engineering (RE) for packaged software implementation, as enacted by Small Packaged Software Vendors (SPSVs). Throughout the study, a focus on the actions carried out by SPSV analysts during RE is maintained, rather than a focus on the actions of client companies. The study confirms assertions in the literature, finding that most contemporar...

In 1994, Carnegie Corporation of New Yo r k released a re p o rt called S t a rting Points: Meeting the Needs of Our Youngest Childre n ,2 which pre s e n t e d re s e a rch evidence on a “quiet crisis” confro n t i n g c h i l d ren under age three in the United States. The re p o rt concluded that “an epidemic of inadvertent neglect” characterized the nation’s response to childre n ’s fundame...

This paper presents a narrative-based Requirements Engineering (RE) mediation model to help RE practitioners to effectively identify, define, and resolve conflicts of interest, goals, and requirements. With SPI community, there is a common belief that social, human, and organizational issues significantly impact on the effectiveness of the software process improvement in general and requirement...

background: in-service educational courses have made the organization employees more capable of solving problems, making decisions and analyzing the job. educational programs should be based on educational needs. so aim of present research was to determinate educational need assessments of employees affiliated to dezful university of medical sciences regarding in-service educational courses in ...

in the recent years, increasing demand for products such as protein-rich meals and oilseeds has caused the food basket to shift towards the proteins and fats consumption. this change has been happening in iran too. shortage in oilseed productions has been a serious problem in iran. to overcome the problem, the government planed some programs to encourage oilseed productions. beside government’s...