We demonstrate DUDE (Dialogue and Understanding Development Environment), a prototype development environment that automatically generates dialogue systems from business-user resources and databases. These generated spoken dialogue systems (SDS) are then deployed on an industry standard Voice XML platform. Specifically, the deployed system works by dynamically generating context-sensitive Voice...

What types of human and social capital identify the emergence of leaders of open innovation communities? Consistent with the norms of an engineering culture, we find that future leaders must first make strong technical contributions. Beyond technical contributions, they must then integrate their communities in order to mobilize volunteers and avoid the ever-present danger of forking and balkani...

Technical debt utilises financial debt as a metaphor to describe the phenomenon of increasing software development costs over time. Whilst this phenomenon is evidently detrimental to the long-term success of software development, it appears to be poorly understood in the academic literature. The absence of a clear definition and model for technical debt means that the notion of technical debt r...

New business practices are forcing high-tech firms to reconsider their strategic thinking in R&D and supply chain management. How do these firms manage differing new product development strategies to facilitate collaboration with suppliers and customers? This paper examines the effects of modularization in black-box design and subsequent impacts on supplier-buyer partnerships by evaluating the ...

For the improvement of software quality and productivity, organizations need to systematically build up and reuse software engineering know-how, promoting organizational learning in software development. Therefore, an integrated support platform has to be developed for capturing, storing and retrieving software engineering knowledge. Technical support is complicated through specific characteris...

In many current development projects targets concerning time, cost and quality are often not achieved. This is due to the complexity of the product and its engineering processes. The conceivable development of information and communication technology will enable advanced mechatronic systems. Their manifold system functions, the cross-linking of elements within the system and their hardly manage...