The purpose of this study was to assess the farmer's satisfaction with services delivered by Water User Associations (WUAs) and determine the factors affecting farmer's satisfaction with the WUAs. Stratified sampling was used to select 124 farmer members of WUAs in the Gotvand irrigation Scheme (GIS). A researcher-made questionnaire was employed for data collection. Its validity was confirmed b...

Maintenance is an indispensable part of the business process and plays an important role in an organisation’s success and survival. The main purpose of maintenance is to ensure equipment functions at its original optimal level. Thus, the knowledge and skills of operators are crucial and in demand. This paper presents a knowledge management of maintenance activities transfer method. Knowledge ma...

Purpose Maintenance policy is an element of building maintenance management that deals with organisation policy, planning and procedures, delineates how units in will manage specific components, auxiliary facilities services. Given this contextual setting, study investigates whether organisational policies (OMPs) utilised developed countries are relevant developing – using Nigeria as a case exe...

This paper presents an approach that aims to assist maintenance of component-based systems by means of Software Configuration Management techniques. These techniques support different activities of software maintenance, from the maintenance request up to implementation and integration. Moreover, some feedback about the relationship of component-based artifacts is provided by applying data minin...

Evaluation and continuous improvement of software maintenance are key contributors to improve software quality. The software maintenance function suffers from a scarcity of the management models that would facilitate its evaluation, management and continuous improvement. This paper presents an overview the measurements practices that are being introduced for level 3 and higher to the software m...

Software Maintenance risk management differs in many aspects from software development risk management. Although it is the longest and the riskier phase on the software life cycle, differently from software development where many processes and models were established, very few processes have been developed to deal with software maintenance. Because it deals with systems that are already in prod...

Aurora Vizcaíno, Jesús Favela, Mario Piattini Grupo Alarcos, Escuela Superior de Informática, Ciudad Real (Spain) CICESE, Ensenada (México)