CONTEXT – Software development outsourcing is a contract-based relationship between client and vendor organisations in which a client contracts out all or part of its software development activities to a vendor, who provides agreed services for remuneration. OBJECTIVE – The objective is to identify various barriers that have a negative impact on software outsourcing clients in the selection pro...

Taking a social shaping perspective we unpack the development trajectory of a packaged software product to show, that contrary to mainstream accounts, design is not completely specified a-priori and that the process continues throughout implementation, and use. We show how developers, in this case third party vendors, can continue to engage in shaping packages during implementation and also how...

Abstract With the development and advancement of reverse logistics concepts and practice, the evaluation and selection of vendors or partners for the specific function of reverse logistics support becomes more important. The factors that play an important role in selecting a third-party reverse logistics provider are different than the factors for selecting a forward provider. These factors are...

The increasing variety of breast implants has led to their classification into "profile" types to guide implant cataloguing and selection. Implant "profile" describes the overall silhouette of the implant. It represents a permutation of all 3 dimensions of the implant: base diameter, projection, and volume. Implant "profile" is not the same as implant projection. Implant projection is a quantif...

The purpose of this paper is to study vendor selection problem with multi-vendor and multi-item in iron & steel industry. Firstly, the native fuzziness, derived from some uncertainty information, of some parameters in decision-making objectives is analyzed. After that, a fuzzy multiobjective programming model is formulated, with procurement quantity as decision variable, minimizing the net cost...

Organizations frequently consider offshore systems development in the belief that projects can be completed at lower cost. While prices quoted by offshore vendors are often very appealing when compared with domestic vendors, additional risks must be considered when looking into offshore systems development. These risks typically take the form of intangible and indirect project costs which add t...

Just like other software, spreadsheets can contain significant faults. Static analysis is an accepted and well-established technique in software engineering known for its capability to discover faults. In recent years, a growing number of tool vendors started offering tools that allow casual end-users to run various static analyses on spreadsheets as well. We supervised a study where three unde...