Process tailoring and verification are very important since project-specific processes are tailored from an organizational process standard and many quality assurance activities are based on the process standard. However, existing researches do not provide systematic method for the process tailoring and verification. In this paper, we propose a systematic method for formalizing a process standa...

Tailorability is generally regarded as a key property of CSCW-systems, because cooperative activities provide for very dynamic and diversified requirements. Extensive tailorability has to be supported by the architecture of the application, which is determined by the design of the groupware platform. This contribution points out the value of a scaleable component architecture for groupware appl...

Tailorability is generally regarded as a key property of CSCW-systems, because cooperative activities provide for very dynamic and diversified requirements. Extensive tailorability has to be supported by the design of the system architecture. In this contribution we investigate the value of component architectures for this purpose and discuss several design options for the questions raised by t...

Technology mediated healthcare services designed to stimulate patients’ self-efficacy are widely regarded as a promising paradigm to reduce the burden on the healthcare system. The promotion of healthy, active living is a topic of growing interest in research and business. Recent advances in wireless sensor technology and the widespread availability of smartphones have made it possible to monit...

Component-based software can be used to build highly tailorable and therefore flexible software systems. To support end-users while tailoring their applications themselves different approaches were discussed. This paper describes an interactive integrity checking concept as a support for end-user tailoring. It is based on the idea that developers can describe the ”right” use of their components...

The need for method tailoring is widely accepted in the field of information systems development methods. Today much attention has been devoted to viewing method tailoring either as (a) a highly rational process with the method engineer as the driver where the method users are passive information providers, or (b) as an unstructured process where the developer makes individual choices, a select...

Tailoring software processes is an activity that allows process engineers to adapt organizational software processes to the needs of particular projects. Model-driven engineering (MDE) has been used for tailoring software processes using models and transformations. Even though there are some proposals for automatically generating part of the transformations, they are not easily applicable in th...

One of the conditions for the successful introduction of ICT-based homecare services is to allow non-technical persons such as home nurses to personalize these services. We refer to this process of homecare service personalization as service tailoring. Service tailoring can be done by configuring and composing previously developed and deployed service building blocks. In this paper, we describe...

Little research has been conducted to date on the specific topic of the tailoring of systems development methods. Two related research areas—contingency factors research and method engineering—have exhibited a primarily deductive research focus. In contrast, this paper presents an inductive study into method tailoring in practice within the Motorola organisation. The findings illustrate the sop...

This paper deals with the problem of finding an average of several curves subject to qualitative constraints. The average curve is the solution of a weighted least squares problem involving the deviation between the given curves and the unknown curve. The qualitative constraints are that some curves are preferred compared to other curves. The qualitative information is converted into constraint...