This paper presents an agile reverse engineering process, referred to as PARFAIT/RE, which has been abstracted from the use of a framework-based agile reengineering process, named PARFAIT. The proposition of PARFAIT/RE has been evidenced from an analysis done in a reengineering case study of a medium size system. Several factors collaborate to make PARFAIT/RE agile: a) active participation of l...

Since the 2001 publication of the Agile Manifesto, agile information systems development (ISD) methods have enjoyed increasing popularity. Extant research has highlighted critical challenges and key benefits associated with agile methods. Notwithstanding, the contribution of the actions performed by actors involved in an ISD project toward the achievement of agility remains unclear. This issue ...

The increasing growth of the Web field has promoted the development of a plethora of Model-Driven Web Engineering (MDWE) approaches. These methodologies share a top-down approach: they start by modeling application content, then they define a navigational schema, and finally refine the latter to obtain presentation and rich behavior specifications. Such approach makes it difficult to acquire qu...

In the emerging agile manufacturing paradigm, there is a great need for a flexible and re-configurable IT platform to form virtual enterprises. In this paper, according to the functional requirements of virtual agile manufacturing, a pragmatic Web-based platform entitled ‘‘E-DREAM’’ has been developed to support the virtual enterprising. Firstly, this paper discusses the E-DREAM basic architect...

The proliferation of newer agile integrative business information systems (IBIS) environments that use the software agent and the multiagent systems paradigms has created the need for a common and well-accepted conceptual modeling grammar that can be used to efficiently, precisely, and unambiguously, model agile IBIS systems at the conceptual level. In this paper, we propose a conceptual modeli...

Defects in early software development products, e.g., design specifications, can have a major impact on product quality. Analytical quality assurance methods, like Software Inspections and Testing are common practices for detecting non-conformities in software products. Often, these quality assurance (QA) activities are not seen as integral part of software construction process but rather as ti...

The Covid-19 pandemic has huge impact on business environment throughout the globe, particularly it posed many challenges for healthcare sector. There are about 219 known viruses which can cause diseases to human beings and researchers estimate that this number is like one drop of ocean. In past twenty years, there virus outbreaks SARS, Swine Flu, MERS, Ebola Zika. These pandemics registered bi...

This paper describes a concrete partial implementation of the DELOS Reference Model to the particular field of manuscripts and incunabula, and how an agile software methodology, SCRUM, suits the evolutive nature of Digital Libraries, solving misunderstandings and lightening the underlying model.

To ensure long-term competitiveness and survival, companies implement new strategies, based on collaboration with business partners and an advanced utilization of IT and Web services (Geunes et al. 2002). Various competitive strategies of agile, responsive and flexible SCs have been developed over the last decade. In many branches, hierarchical SCs with long-term predetermined suppliers’ struct...