There has been a dramatic increase in commercial interest in the potential of Open Source Software (OSS) over the past few years. However, given the many complex and novel issues that surround the use of OSS,
the process ...
Method engineering approaches are often based on the assumption that method users are able to explicitly express their situational method requirements. However, similar to software requirements,situational method requirements ...
In a recent communication, Van Damme et al (1) presented a statistical analysis of the performance of world-ranked decathletes, and made inferences about the ability of these athletes to respond uniformly to the demands ...
Systems development methods are used to express and communicate
knowledge about systems and software development processes; i.e. methods
encapsulate knowledge. Since methods encapsulate knowledge, they also
encapsulate ...
Palcic, Dónal; Reeves, Eoin(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2005)
Although a late starter with regard to privatising State Owned Enterprises (SOEs), Ireland was recently ranked 8th among OECD countries in terms of relative privatisation activity. This paper presents the first detailed ...
Agerfalk, Par J.; Deverell, Andrea; Fitzgerald, Brian; Morgan, Lorraine(2005)
This paper addresses the open source software
(OSS) phenomenon from an industry perspective and reveals
a number of complexities surrounding the role of OSS in the
secondary software sector. It presents the research ...
This paper reflects on a two-year EU funded
specific research targeted project that officially began
in January 2004 entitled COSPA, a Consortium for
studying, evaluating and supporting the introduction of
Open Source ...
Halton, Mark; Hayes, Martin J.; Iordanov, Petar(IEEE Computer Society, 2005)
This paper considers the application of the skewed
structured singular value to the robust stability of systems
subject to strictly real parametric uncertainty. Three statespace
formulations that counteract the discontinuous ...