Smart home (SH) products and services aim to enhance the comfort, convenience, security, entertainment, health, education and communication of tenants and their guests enabled by information technology platforms. Despite ongoing waves of enthusiasm, the SH market has remained a niche for more than three decades. At the same time, recent forecast expect the market to grow at high rates in the up...

This paper presents a methodology for requirement prioritization. The approach provides a flexible and realistic approach that considers all attributes of particular requirements and fuses them into a unified metric, representative of all quality criteria identified for a specific software project. The derived quality measurement can be used as the main metric for requirements prioritization. T...

background: setting research priorities is an important process in management of health researches. if this process is carried out based on the goals and values ​​of the health system, the actual needs will be properly met. this study is aimed to determine research priorities of kerman medical sciences university.   methods: in this documentary study, content analysis method was used. the study...

When people need help they often turn to their social peers for reliable information, recommendation or guidance. It is often difficult to find someone in the vicinity for help or communicate with someone from a distant place who can provide reliable help. Conveying the actual context of the question during remote communication is a cumbersome task, especially when avoiding speech communication...

Defining software requirements is a complex and difficult process, which often leads to costly project failures. Requirements emerge from a collaborative and interactive negotiation process that involves heterogeneous stakeholders (people involved in an elicitation process such as users, analysts, developers, and customers). Practical experience shows that prioritizing requirements is not as st...

trous 2007–2008 food price crisis, it was that it prompted governments and international donors to re-examine their priorities for agricultural development. They committed to invest in agriculture and food security in a manner that prioritizes small-scale producers (especially women), enhances the environment and contributes to the development of rural economies. While their promises to spend m...

Test case prioritization techniques let testers order their test cases so that those with higher priority, according to some criterion, are executed earlier than those with lower priority. In previous work, we examined a variety of prioritization techniques to determine their ability to improve the rate of fault detection of test suites. Our studies showed that the rate of fault detection of te...

In order to maximize the use of results from high-throughput experimental studies, e.g. GWAS, for identification and diagnostics of new disease-associated genes, it is important to have properly analyzed and benchmarked gene prioritization tools. While prospective benchmarks are underpowered to provide statistically significant results in their attempt to differentiate the performance of gene p...

Test case prioritization (TCP) techniques have been proven to be beneficial for improving testing activities. Prioritized test suites are found using different techniques of prioritization. While code coverage based prioritization techniques are found to be used by most scholars, test case prioritization based on UML behavioral models has not been given much attention so far. We propose a novel...