Prioritization of requirements towards finalizing the intended requirement set has considerable received attention from academicians and practitioners. Articles proposing requirement prioritization artifacts have focused mostly on describing these artifacts. There is no attempt to uncover the principles that guide the design of these artifacts towards holistic understanding of the prioritizatio...

In this paper we investigate a choice behavior that recognizes the intrinsic value of opportunities for choice. Nonconsequentialism is a choice attitude toward outcomes and opportunities and prioritizes opportunities for choice rather than outcomes. It is possible to define various types of nonconsequentialism in terms of criteria for ranking opportunity sets. We consider the leximax ordering o...

The failure of critical infrastructures may be hazardous to the general population, the economy, even national security. Disruptions in one type of infrastructure often transverse to other dependent infrastructures and possibly even back to the infrastructurewhere the failure originated. Unlike previous studies, this paper proposes a newmethodwhich addresses this interdependency and the feedbac...

Currently, there are a lot of e-learning and collaborative platforms to support distance and collaborative learning, however, all of them were designed just like an application without considering the network infrastructure below. Under these circumstances when the platform is installed and runs in a campus, sometimes it has very poor performance. This paper presents a network and data link lay...

Food justice movement: a movement that believes all communities, regardless of race or income, can have both increased access to healthy food and the power to influence a food system that prioritizes environment and human needs over corporate profits. The food justice movement also stresses that the cultivation of food systems that are both environmentally sustainable and socially just requires...

We propose a framework for assessing and realizing the benefits from IT investment and an integrative process for prioritizing, justifying, and evaluating results of IT implementations. IT investments can drive changes in business processes. Our framework emphasizes identifying those changes so that responsibility for realizing benefits (financial and non-financial) can be assigned and evaluate...

An allocation rule that prioritizes registered donors increases the willingness to register for organ donation, as laboratory experiments show. In public opinion, however, this priority rule faces repugnance. We explore the discrepancy by implementing a vote on the rule in a donation experiment, and we also elicit opinion poll-like views. We find that two-thirds of the participants voted for th...

Duty cycling is an efficient mechanism to conserve energy in wireless sensor networks. Several existing duty cycling techniques have been proposed to conserve energy, but they are not able to handle the contention under dynamic traffic loads. In this paper we propose a protocol called Sender-Assisted-Receiver-Initiated MAC (SA-RI-MAC) which solves this problem without sacrificing the energy eff...