Healthcare providers are moving towards tailoring self-management interventions to include the communication technologies patients use in daily life. Accurate understanding of patients' attitudes towards both technology and involvement in managing chronic conditions will be critical for informing effective self-management strategies. The tailoring of these interventions, however, could be under...

Cleanroom is a set of software engineering principles that support the development of reliable software. The Systems group at Raytheon TI Systems, a SEI level 3 organization, successfully adopted Cleanroom into a pilot CMM level 5 project. The successful introduction of this technology was a result of the principles of Cleanroom being based on fundamental computer science foundations. As with a...

Currently, proposed development processes are often considered too generic for operational use. This often leads to a misunderstanding of the project-specific processes and its refuse. One reason for non-appropriate projectspecific processes is insufficient support for the tailoring of generic processes to project characteristics and context constraints. To tackle this problem, we propose a met...