BACKGROUND Zoonoses account for over half of all communicable diseases causing illness in humans. As there are limited resources available for the control and prevention of zoonotic diseases, a framework for their prioritization is necessary to ensure resources are directed into those of highest importance. Although zoonotic outbreaks are a significant burden of disease in North America, the sy...

Priorities for protecting ecosystem services must be identified to ensure future human well-being. Approaches to broad-scale spatial prioritization of ecosystem services are becoming increasingly popular and are a vital precursor to identifying locations where further detailed analyses of the management of ecosystem services is required (e.g., examining trade-offs among management actions). Pri...

Architecture has been identified as a main tool for high quality system development. It encapsulates the earliest design decisions of the system under development. These decisions constrain heavily the overall design space; therefore it is worth emphasis on the reasons behind architectural choices. Methods for architecting process have been suggested by various researches. Unfortunately, they f...

We describe some simple domain-independent improvements to plan-reenement strategies for well-founded partial order planning that promise to bring this style of planning closer to practicality. One suggestion concerns the strategy for selecting plans for reenement among the current (incomplete) candidate plans. We propose an A* heuristic that counts only steps and open conditions, while ignorin...

The order in which test-cases are executed has an influence on the rate at which faults can be detected. In this paper we demonstrate how test-case prioritization can be performed with the use of model-checkers. For this, different well known prioritization techniques are adapted for model-based use. New property based prioritization techniques are introduced. In addition it is shown that prior...

Requirements prioritization method is an essential activity in software development to identify most important functionalities of the project within limited resources. This work evaluates various requirements prioritization methods with respect to a number of parameters viz. size of the project, feasibility measure, conflicts resolution, complexity analysis and keeps the developer focused on mo...

How should actions to redress absolute human deprivation be framed? Current international coordinated actions on absolute poverty are framed by human rights or by goals such as the Millennium Development Goals. But appropriate, effective and sustained responses to needs require localized participation in the definition of those rights/goals/needs and in measures taken to redress them. Human rig...

The Software testing phase of the development life cycle model of software plays a very important role in deciding the quality and functionality of the software. The Testing of the software is done to detect the fault in its functionality and on the basis of its performance further quality of software is improved. In the software testing phase there is a task involved which is prioritization of...

Ecological restoration is increasingly being upscaled to larger spatial scales of tens hundreds kilometers. Yet the complex logistics and high costs ecological mean that actions must be placed strategically at local meters maximize benefits reduce socioeconomic costs. Despite purported use systematic planning tools for allocating effort, uptake implementation data-driven goal setting remains po...