Free access to information is a powerful and alluring concept. Under the “Public Access to Science Act,” recently introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives by Representative Martin O. Sabo (Democrat, Minnesota), papers describing scientific research substantially funded by the U.S. Government would be excluded from copyright protection. This is proposed as a means to guarantee free acce...

Human activities may significantly increase the risk of rapid climate change in the coming decades by inducing a possible slowdown of the Atlantic Ocean thermohaline circulation (THC), a fundamental controlling factor on the European climate owing to its crucial role in transporting northward the excess of heat imparted in the equatorial regions. The ultimate objective of the NERC funded RAPID ...

Despite software engineering community efforts, projects continue to fail. Researches have shown that modeling became more critical due to the growth of complexity and scale of the system. In this context, the i* Framework, a Goal-oriented Requirement Language, is used to model and analyze dependencies and intentions relationships of actors on the observed environment. However, in large-scale p...

The information technology (IT) industry is characterized by rapid innovation and intense competition. A key issue is the ability of the development team to leverage emerging software development best practices. It is a critical enabler for the overall health and sustainability of an organization's ability to build software solutions. In this paper, we are proposing an evolutionary model that c...