The main goal of this paper is to construct three sets of road safety performance indicators, which are regional road safety performance indicators, urban road safety performance indicators and highway safety performance indicators, respectively. Fuzzy Delphi Method and Grey Delphi Method are applied to quantify experts’ attitudes to regional road safety, urban road safety and highway safety. C...

We investigated the risk factors of outsourced software development. Our first objective was to create empirically generated lists of risk factors for both domesticallyand offshore-outsourced projects. Our second objective was to compare these two contexts: how do the risk factors change and which ones are most important in each. To address these objectives, we conducted two Delphi surveys to i...

The O2O is a fast-growing emerging business model, the O2O business model framework is established and the most basic 7 major elements are identified in our research with Value Net theory as follow: customer, telecom operator, content provider, service provider, software provider, third-party payment platform and offline business entity. Then, we apply the Delphi method to identify 8 secondary ...

Multiple cases have been reported in which patents have posed dilemmas in the context of cooperative standard setting. Problems have come to the fore with regard to GSM, WCDMA, and CDMA standards, for example. Furthermore, JPEG and HTML standards, as well as VL-bus and SDRAM technologies, have faced patent-related difficulties. Nevertheless, it could be argued that complications have arisen in ...

Article history: Received 22 August 2011 Received in revised form 5 September 2011 Accepted 6 September 2011 Available online 6 October 2011 The Delphi technique has been around for over half a century, so now seems a proper time to consider its past, present and future. This introduction characterises the papers in this special Delphi issue, which include both conceptual and empirical works. I...

A developing country like India encounters challenges like exponential increase in population and rising per capita energy consumption which demands an optimum usage of available energy resources. Currently the energy demands are mostly met by non renewable energy sources, a system that puts a tremendous pressure on the economy and causes a serious threat to the environment, flora and fauna. He...

The drought continuity and also restricting watery sources caused agriculture section forgetold flooding methods for optimum water exploitation and proceeding new irrigation systems.New generation of irrigation systems called intelligent systems is a new solution leading toexploiting water increase to higher than 80%. In order to measure sensors and to controlprocessors in designing and dismoun...

In this paper, we will present how to find keys elliptic curve cryptosystems (ECC) with simple tools of Delphi 7 console application, using the software problem solving of the scalar point multiplication in the field GF (p), where p is an arbitrary prime number.

OBJECTIVE Effective response to biological events necessitates ongoing evaluation of preparedness. This study was a bilateral German-Israeli collaboration aimed at developing an evaluation tool for assessing preparedness of medical facilities for biological events. METHODS Measurable parameters were identified through a literature review for inclusion in the evaluation tool and disseminated t...

Today’s globalization of software development has its advantages, but also its drawbacks. Software project managers often lead the production of new software versions and their release on the market. This paper analyses the main challenges faced by software product managers in release planning with regard to the adoption of Global Software Development (GSD) practices for developing packaged sof...