There appears to be a lack of knowledge on the phases South African (SA) organisations go through while adopting agile methods. As a means to address this gap, this study uncovered empirical evidence on the phases SA organisations go through whilst adopting agile methods as well as the disparities between agile prescriptions and the way SA organisations actually implement agile methods. The dat...

The series constitute ‘ideas in progress,’ after the notion described by I.J. Good in ‘The Scientist Speculates.’ Good also describes ideas about ideas as ‘partly baked ideas’ believing that “ ... it is often better to be stimulating and wrong than boring and right.” While the papers do not take this tenet as an excuse for licence at the expense of rigour, they are exploratory and the ideas may...

Reducing power consumption, improving designer productivity and mitigating thermal effects are grand challenges for future CMOS-based designs in the nanometer regime [1]. Solving these challenges requires a power estimation methodology that is temperature aware and simple, fast and accurate. In this paper, we present such a power estimation methodology that utilizes data from different levels o...

Modeling and simulation of multiphysics multiscale systems poses a grand challenge to computational science. To adequately simulate numerous intertwined processes characterized by different spatial and temporal scales (often spanning many orders of magnitude), sophisticated models and advanced computational techniques are required. The aim of the workshop on Simulation of Multiphysics Multiscal...

In August of 2007 and December of 2007, North American academic researchers, industry representatives and regulators were invited to meetings in Washington and Minneapolis, respectively, with the goal of forming a Software Certification Consortium (SCC). At the first meeting, objectives were established for the consortium and a certification grand challenge was issued. At the second meeting, al...

The grand challenge for the 21st century is to harness the rapidly accumulating knowledge of Earth’s biodiversity and the ecosystems that support it. Meeting this challenge involves managing two kinds of complexity: the biological complexity of the organisms and the sociological complexity of biological information mobilization. The Flora of North America (FNA) is an authoritative resource to h...

According to the National Academy of Engineering, the list for the Grand Challenges for Engineering are: (1) Make solar energy economical; (2) Provide energy from fusion; (3) Develop carbon sequestration methods; (4) Manage the nitrogen cycle; (5) Provide access to clean water; (6) Restore and improve urban infrastructure; (7) Advance health informatics; (8) Engineer better medicines; (9) Rever...

With the rapid development and advancement in media enable devices and new application digital libraries, news, entertainment etc have emerge a grand challenge that, there is a need for a technique and a framework that can store, manage, search and retrieve the data from the media archive in order to cope with this demand, the researchers are continuously thinking for an effective and efficient...