This study investigated the project risk in information systems design and development in the context of Hong Kong. While a large majority of the past research studies was conducted using the Delphi method, multiple case study research methodology was employed in this study in order to provide compelling evidence of the phenomenon. Another novel approach was the application of the causal mappin...

Project management (PM) is vital to the survival of many organizations. Traditional PM focuses on a single project at a single location (Evaristo and Fenema 1999) and is more concerned with project inputs and outputs than with project process (Turner 2000). The PM paradigm has begun to change due to the increasing number of distributed projects (Jonsson et al. 2001). Current and future PM will ...

Credibility influences a user’s interest in a web site. Once users perceive the credibility of a web site they will be more likely to use it. A combination of factors affects such credibility – such as the provider, content, aesthetics, accessibility and solution of technical problems. The aesthetics of a web site can affect a user’s first impressions of credibility. Experiments have shown that...

Acting as the bridge between the designers and manufacturing companies, Chip Implementation Center (CIC), founded in 1992 under National Science Council, aims at the services for the fabrication of multi-project chip, the procurement / integration of software CAD tools, and the promotion of IC design / testing / CAD software technology. To date, 2000 academic licenses of software CAD tools have...

This document presents the integration of design patterns and mobile applications, in the development of software management of plates (SIGEP) that allows to support in the solutions to problematics that they appear in the process of maintaining of plates copper cathodes of a Mining Company, in our case for Quebrada Blanca S.A. (CMQB S.A.). These problematics mainly are related to the little co...

Digital badging is becoming more popular in an assortment of disciplines, both academic and professional. Along with the success of practical badging initiatives, badging research is also moving at a rapid pace, a rate of change that may be intimidating to the uninitiated wishing to study them. However, there is a great need for additional research in light of the complexity of badging and the ...

A possible route to managing workload peaks facilitated by advances in technology is to use Dynamic Function Allocation, in other words to design work so that it is possible to switch adaptively between levels of automation. In the main, current approaches to Dynamic Function Allocation assume that functions are to be serviced as soon as possible, and in order of arrival. These methods utilise ...

since there are concerns about spread of mycological infection in the society and in order to determine the epidemiology and risk factor for such infections among primary school students in tehran, a research project was proposed to dean of research affairs of shaheed beheshti medical university and 4 medical students undertook to work on the subject as their thesis project. the project was acc...