Usability capability models are used for assessing the ability of development organisations to develop usable products. We have identified quality criteria for usability capability models and analysed the strengths and weaknesses of the existing models. The analysis reveals that there are differences both in the quality of the structure of the models and in the extent that they cover phenomena ...

The aim of requirements analysis for an agent that is to be designed is to identify what characteristic capabilities the agent should have. One of the characteristics usually expected for intelligent agents is the capability of reasoning. This paper shows how a requirements analysis of an agent’s reasoning capability can be made. Reasoning processes may involve dynamically introduced or retract...

This study aimed to identify and present applications of the process capability indices in a company Vale do Paraíba. To reach this objective, applied research exploratory quantitative nature was carried out. After adjustment, it possible observe uniform distribution data centered on nominal value, without exceeding lower upper limits, which produced an adjusted within specifications. As contri...

Since the inception of cloud computing in mid 2000, academic groups and industry vendors have developed a number of Cloud Resource Orchestration Frameworks (CROFs) for simplifying the application management. The CROF aids software engineers, scientists, and infrastructure administrators to migrate and manage their in-house applications to cloud environments. Despite the higher level of technica...

Business capabilities are a key element of a modern Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) approach. They are the core component of a business architecture and essential for communication between business and IT. There is an enormous interest among academics and practitioners reflected in a growing number of publications on definition, use cases, and experiences from case studies. However, du...

As is discussed by Walker, Abraham De Moivre first discovered the Normal distribution in 1733. This theoretical distribution has since been found to model many real life situations well, including distributions of heights and weights. It is very important in statistical theory, for example via the Central Limit Theorem (CLT). Though this theorem assists us in control chart methodology, it serve...