this bipartite paper examines the function of tasrif in the quranic story of creation in the light of halliday's textual meta-function. first, the quranic concept of tasrif as a field in elm-al maani (semantics of syntax), and its relation to systemic linguistics is introduced and reviewed. then, through review of literature, it is referred to givenness hierarchy, empathy degree, point of ...

1InfoSci Inc., Menlo Park CA 94026–7117, U.S.A. 2Department of Information Systems, Statistics, and Management Science, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa AL 35487–0226, U.S.A. 3School of Computing and Information Technology, University of Western Sydney, Kingswood, NSW 2747, Australia 4Department of Computing, Imperial College, London SW7 2BZ, U.K. 5Institute of System Science, National Univers...

A model for software maintenance based on the Human Information Processing (HIP) model has been developed and tested. Based on the results, recommendations for further research as well as for practitioners have been made.

“Make or buy” of software has been a key question for management since the emergence of computerized information systems. Until today this question has not been answered satisfactorily. It is still unclear what evaluation methods should be used to support the decision process in the selection of a suitable package unambiguously. In this article a first step in the development of a framework for...

scheduling has become an attractive area for artificial intelligence researchers. on other hand, in today's real-world manufacturing systems, the importance of an efficient maintenance schedule program cannot be ignored because it plays an important role in the success of manufacturing facilities. a maintenance program may be considered as the heath care of manufacturing machines and equip...

Software maintenance phase is started once a software project has been developed and delivered. After that, any modification to it corresponds to maintenance. Software maintenance involves modifications to keep a software project usable in a changed or a changing environment, to correct discovered faults, and modifications, and to improve performance or maintainability. Software maintenance and...

The current maintenance system of the national defense industry shall be schemed to complete and establish an integrated logistics support management system of the military aircraft commercial maintenance in the future, so as to provide a main information link system that carry out the military maintenance businesses. The methods of maintenance data collect and work orders release base on Maint...

Working memory is comprised of separable subsystems for visual and verbal information, but what if the information is affective? Does the maintenance of affective information rely on the same processes that maintain nonaffective information? The authors address this question using a novel delayed-response task developed to investigate the short-term maintenance of affective memoranda. Using sel...

A large number of software products enter the maintenance phase due to the growing application of information systems. Software maintenance is the modification of a software product after delivery to correct faults and improve its overall performance and quality. Easily maintainable software saves large costs and effort involved in developing the software. Hence maintainability assessment is an...

A large software project may be distributed over multiple sites when the organization needs resources which are available on a single site. However, previous empirical research in the context of telecommunication organizations has shown a number of disadvantages. In this paper we continue our comparative postmortem analysis on data from a large software massive maintenance project in the inform...