When software development teams modify their requirements engineering process as an independent variable, they often examine the implications of these process changes by assessing the quality of the products of the requirements engineering process, e.g., a software requirements specification (SRS). Using the quality of the SRS as the dependent variable is flawed. As an alternative, this paper p...

The elicitation of end-user requirements is primarily focusing on the industry, where companies endeavor to discover and satisfy their customer’s requirements. Increasingly however, companies which are working in the same or in different fields are getting together, in order to do joint research and development, despite the fact that they may be potential competitors. These kinds of projects ha...

This paper introduces an approach to multi-perspective requirements engineering (PREview) which has been designed for industrial use and discusses our practical experience in applying PREview. We have developed a flexible model of viewpoints and, using examples from an industrial application, show how this can be used to organise system requirements derived from radically different sources. We ...

Developing a desirable framework for handling inconsistencies in software requirements specifications is a challenging problem. It has been widely recognized that the relative priority of requirements can help developers to make some necessary trade-off decisions for resolving conflicts. Address for correspondence: Kedian Mu, School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, P...

Do employers prioritize university prestige above an applicant’s skills in the hiring process? To distinguish between effect of human capital process from name graduating university—while controlling for networking effects—2,400 fictitious applications were submitted to IT and accounting jobs US, UK, Australia. The resumes belonged citizens, both female male. For each sector labor market, two d...

Leaf Traits, Neighbors, and Abiotic factors: Ways That Context Can Mediate the Impact of Invasive Species on Nitrogen Cycling by Marissa R. Lee University Program in Ecology Duke University Date:_______________________ Approved: ___________________________ Justin P. Wright, Supervisor ___________________________ Emily S. Bernhardt ___________________________ Daniel D. Richter __________________...

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Chapter 2 Enhancing E-Service Collaboration with Enforcement and Relationship Management: A Methodology from Requirements to Event Driven Realization .................................................................................. 15 Dickson K.W. Chiu, Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong Shing-Chi Cheung, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Sven Till, Hong Kong Universit...

The Role of Erythrocytic miRNA in the lifecycle of Plasmodium falciparum by Gregory Michael LaMonte University Program in Genetics and Genomics Duke University Date:_______________________ Approved: ___________________________ Jen-Tsan Ashley Chi, Supervisor ___________________________ Bryan Cullen ___________________________ Jack Keene ___________________________ Chris Nicchitta ______________...

The Functional Evolution of Mammalian Odorant Receptors by Kaylin Alexis Adipietro University Program in Genetics and Genomics Duke University Date:_______________________ Approved: ___________________________ Hiroaki Matsunami, Supervisor ___________________________ Marc Caron ___________________________ William Dan Tracey ___________________________ Christine Drea ___________________________ ...