Software development teams are often geographically distributed from their customers and end users. This creates significant communication and coordination challenges that impact the effectiveness of requirements engineering. Travel costs, and the local availability of quality technical staff increase the demand for effective distributed software development teams. This research reports an empi...

Traditional approaches to requirements elicitation stress systematic and rational analysis and representation of organizational context and system requirements. This paper argues that the introduction of any computer-based system to an organization transforms the organization and changes the work patterns of the system’s users in the organization. These changes interact with the users’ values a...

There are many problems associated with requirements engineering, including problems in defining the system scope, problems in fostering understanding among the different communities affected by the development of a given system, and problems in dealing with the volatile nature of requirements. These problems may lead to poor requirements and the cancellation of system development, or else the ...

This paper examines the use of Bayesian Networks to tackle one of the tougher problems in requirements engineering, translating user requirements into system requirements. The approach taken is to model domain knowledge as Bayesian Network fragments that are glued together to form a complete view of the domain specific system requirements. User requirements are introduced as evidence and the pr...

abstract: with regard to the basel committee’s emphasis on the necessity of using 10-day value-at-risk (var) internal models in order to determine minimum market risk capital requirements, and downsides of the square-root-of-time rule, our purpose is to produce more accurate forecasts of the multi-period var using sixteen models for three stock indices, the tepix, nasdaq, and ftse. the results,...

published data on the effects of ruminal bolus on the number of ovulatory follicles in ewes does not exist. the present study determined the effects of a ruminal bolus on trace element status, follicular dynamics and reproductive performance in ewes. eighty afshari cycling ewes were synchronized during breeding season using cidr for 14 days and assigned to 4 groups (n=20); group 1 received a si...

A meta-analysis was conducted to determine the maintenance energy requirements of adult dogs. Suitable publications were first identified, and then used to generate relationships amongst energy requirements, husbandry, activity level, methodology, sex, neuter status, dog size, and age in healthy adult dogs. Allometric equations for maintenance energy requirements were determined using log-log l...

An'outline of the recentAgricultural Research Council (UK) proposals for assessing protein requirements of ruminants (ARC, 1980), is presented, The importance of considering both rumen degradable protein (RDP) and rumen undegradable protein (WYP) is n&d, Calculations of the protein requirements and formulation of rations for (i) a high yielding' cow in early lactation and (ii) a growing/fatteni...