The design of engineering processes is dependent on the context they are designed for. This paper presents the results of an action research study that used design rationale to discover a number of contextual factors that provide criteria for designing a requirements engineering process in a given product line environment. The presented context dimensions and process design argumentation provid...

The news classification approach is the primary approach for the online news portals with the news data sourced from the various portals. The various types of data is received and accepted over the news classification portals. The lexicon analysis plays the key role in the categorization of the news automatically using the automatic news category recognition by analyzing the keyword data extrac...

We explore the relationship between the choice of the strategy space and outcomes in Tullock contests. In particular, in a framework where one of the contest’s participants moves …rst, we show that there is an equilibrium where this individual wins the contest with probability one. We also show that not only the nature of the outcome changes (e.g., who wins the contest) with the choice of the s...

Nanomaterials and Nanotechnologies attract tremendous attention in recent researches. New physical properties and new technologies both in sample preparation and device fabrication evoke on account of the development of nanoscience. Various research fields including physics, chemists, material scientists, and engineers of mechanical and electrical are involved in this research. Synthesis of nan...

Welfare persistence is estimated and compared between Swedish-born and foreign-born households during the 1990s. This is done within the framework of a dynamic discrete choice model controlling for the initial condition and permanent unobserved heterogeneity. We control for three types of persistence in terms of observed and unobserved heterogeneity, serial correlation, and structural state dep...

Ion-associate complexes of Itopride hydrochloride with zinc(II) thiocyanate, sodium cobaltinitrite and ammonium reineckate are precipitated. The solubility of the ion associates at the optimum pH and ionic strength values have been examined. Saturated solutions were prepared at different temperatures ( 25 – 60C ) under the optimum precipitation conditions and the metal ion contents ( zinc, chro...

Undergraduates (N=216) participated in a managerial inbasket simulation while being periodically interrupted by videotaped depictions of a subordinate performing at 1 of 2 levels of task performance, helping and voice. After completion of the simulation, participants made decisions about how much of a pay increase to provide the subordinate, whether to promote him and whether to recommend him f...

This paper deals with the group decision making problem, assuming that each individual defines his/her opinion through fuzzy binary preference relations, in parallel to the classical approach due to Prof. Arrow. In particular, it is postulated that the main reason for the discouraging impossibility theorems is neither in the domain of admissible preferences or in the concept of solution (Social...