Mc Caffery, Fergal; Richardson, Ita; Burton, John(Springer Verlag, 2009)
Failure of medical device (MD) software can have potentially catastrophic effects, leading to injury of patients or even death. Therefore regulators penalise MD manufacturers who do not demonstrate that sufficient attention ...
The rapid growth in the number of conferences and papers appearing in conference proceedings publications has increased the need to examine the issue of conference paper quality. Since conference content is included in ...
Hogan, Thomas Brendan(University of Limerick, Department of Education and Professional Studies, 2009)
The IT 2000 initiative kick started the drive to incorporate ICT into teaching and learning in the Irish education system. In the secondary sector, in particular, the availability of suitable software programmes has been ...
Walkenhorst, Heiko(University of Limerick, Department of Politics and Public Administration, 2009)
European identity is a politically relevant concept. The study of European identity, however, suffers from its conceptual overstretch. Aiming to facilitate the use and operationalisation of European identity this article ...
Felle, Tom; Adshead, Maura(University of Limerick, Department of Politics and Public Administration, 2009)
Freedom of information (FOI) is important because it aims to makes government open, transparent and accountable. The legislation is based on the premise that people have the right of access to public documents, save for ...
Conroy, Sharon(University of Limerick, Department of Education and Professional Studies, 2009)
The purpose of this case study was to investigate if early school leaving is still a problem in Ireland, and if so, what are the reasons for it and also what is being done to try and prevent the problem. The study focused ...
Evolving business needs call for customizing choreographed interactions. However, conventional choreography description languages provide only a partial view of the interaction. Business goals of each participant and ...
Large-scale autonomic systems are required to self-optimize with respect to high-level policies, that can differ in terms of their priority, as well as their spatial and temporal scope. Decentralized multiagent systems ...
Several authors have proposed information seeking as an appropriate perspective for studying software maintenance and evolution, and have characterized information seeking empirically in commercial software evolution ...