Emerging agile software development methods are people oriented development approaches to be used by the software industry. The personal software process (PSPSM) is an accepted method for improving the capabilities of a single software engineer. Five original hypotheses regarding the impact of the PSP to individual performance are tested. Data is obtained from 58 computer science students in th...

Innovation effects on firm value have not been effectively discussed because previous studies ignore the market structure and tax shields from research and development (R&D) (e.g., Hirschey and Weygandt (1985), Shevlin (1991)). Market structures of personal computer (PC) firms are explored in this paper to the degree to which innovation increases firm value depending on market structure charact...

Political office holders are chiefly entrusted with the formulation and implementation of government policies and programmes designed to enhance sustainable development. Their activities can therefore make or unmake a nation, geo-political region initiative. The mental health and emotional intelligence of political office holders had been linked with their personal growth initiative and a...

This research paper assesses the impact of ICTs (which includes the Internet, mobile phone, pager, personal computer, and telephone) on Gross National Income (GNI) per capita in developing countries in 2005. It found a significant relationship between GNI per capita (in PPP international dollar) and adoption of each ICT (mobile phone, personal computer, and telephone) but not for Internet techn...

The reliability of data stored in a storage system is of immense importance for the users of the storage system and every storage system is expected to provide reliability. Along with reliability, storage systems are also expected to provide a degree of high availability. However, availability depends on the context in which the storage systems are used. Traditionally RAID (Redundant Array of I...

P u b l i s h e d b y t h e I E E E C o m p u t e r S o c i e t y Pervasive Computing: A Paradigm for the 21st Century In 1991, Mark Weiser, then chief technology officer for Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center, described a vision for 21st century computing that countered the ubiquity of personal computers. “The most profound technologies are those that disappear,” he wrote. “They weave themselve...

Taking countries of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), this paper analyzes factors affecting their software piracy rate (SPR) by taking into account several economic and technological variables. The empirical results show that per capita GDP (PerGDP), inflation, consumer prices (ICP), unemployment rate (UR), and high-technology exports (HTE) have positive correla...

Standard Sneak Analysis procedures are costly from a time, money and personnel perspective. The processing of design data available only during the latter portions of the development cycle are highly labor intensive and difficult to institute a design change. Automated techniques for sneak analysis have been developed by several contractors for the workstation environment, but are either not co...