Cloud Futurology

Anticipating Requirements Changes-Using Futurology in Requirements Elicitation

It is well known that requirements changes in a later phase of software developments is a major source of software defects and costs. Thus, the need of techniques to control or reduce the amount of changes during software development projects. We advocate the use of foresight methods as a valuable input to requirements elicitation, with the potential to decrease the number of changes that would...

Commentary: Epidemiology and futurology--why did Rothman get it wrong?

Cloud manufacturing system

Cloud manufacturing is defined as a relationship between the consumer and a flexible array of production services, managed by an intervening architecture that can match service providers to product and manufacturing processes Cloud manufacturing definitions typically make explicit or imply three groups of actors: consumers, who request and use cloud manufacturing processes; application provider...

Futurology of Iran health transformation plan: letter to the editor

The Namesake: Futures; futures studies; futurology; futuristic; foresight—What's in a name?

The termwe used to describe the study of alternative futures is important. Disciplines and discourses do not emerge from a vacuum but have a history and a cultural context; and their names can hide as much as they reveal. This paper examines such terms as ‘futurology’ and ‘foresight’, and argues that to emphasise plurality and diversity the study of the future is best served by the moniker ‘fut...