Meeting requirements and changing culture

Language learning and language culture in a changing world

To  communicate  effectively,  learners  have  to  become  proficient  in  both  the  language  and  the culture of the target language.  Being aware of socio-cultural frameworks does not mean that as an outcome of instruction learners have to become "native-like," but an awareness of L2 cultural norms can allow learners to make their own informed choices of how to become competent and astute l...

Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture

The Meeting Businessmen Problem: Requirements and Limitations

Let us assume that some businessmen wish to have a meeting. For this to happen, they usually have to meet somewhere. If they cannot meet physically, then they can take part in a video (or audio) conference to discuss whatever needs to be discussed. But what if their meeting is meant to be private? In this case they need a cryptographic protocol that allows them to exchange their ideas remotely,...

Effort Estimation for Changing Requirements

Complex software systems have to cope with a steady stream of changing requirements. However, current software engineering techniques are ill equipped for assessing the impact of changes, either within a single system or across reused assets and the systems in which they are reused. This is a critical inhibitor for (amongst others) effort estimation in the object-oriented development process wh...

Accommodating Changing Requirements with EJB

Component Based Software Development promises to lighten the task of web application developers by providing a standard component architecture for building distributed object oriented business applications. Hard evidence consolidating this promise has yet to be provided, especially knowing that the standard libraries of today's programming languages offer considerable support for distribution (...