This research focuses on developing a quality model for semantic Information System (IS) standards. A lot of semantic IS standards are available in different industries. Often these standards are developed by a dedicated organization. While these organizations have the goal of increasing interoperability, there is no way to determine the quality of such a standard. This research will provide qu...

We examine and bring out the architecturally significant characteristics of various virtualization and cloud oriented platforms. The impact of such characteristics on the ability of guest applications to achieve various quality attributes (QA) has also been determined by examining existing body of architecture knowledge. We observe from our findings that efficiency, resource elasticity and secu...

Software architecture is the result of a design effort aimed at ensuring a certain set of quality attributes. As we show, quality requirements are commonly specified in practice but are rarely validated using automated techniques. In this paper we analyze and classify commonly specified quality requirements after interviewing professionals and running a survey. We report on tools used to valida...

Most of the critical aspects for secure and dependable systems, such as safety, integrity, availability, are related to uncertainty. Literature proposes many approaches to deal with uncertainty, mainly in the area of risk management and safety&reliability engineering. However, what is still missing is a clear understanding of the nature of uncertainty that very often has produced mistreatments ...

This report examined the technical aspects of a future ecosystem-ready software platform for the smart building domain. We analyzed the type of contributors that may exist in a smart building ecosystem, the quality attributes that those roles are concerned with, and the key functional attributes that the software platforms of future smart buildings should provide in order to make smart building...

Architecture-based software development plays an important role in successfully developing and managing large and complex software systems. Recently, there have been a number of studies for designing, evaluating, or transforming architectures. However, there is not much work being done for closely connecting an architectural evaluation with an architectural transformation in order to achieve qu...

A model for software product quality is defined. It has been formulated by associating a set of qualitycarrying properties with each of the structural forms that are used to define the statements and statement components of a programming language. These quality-carrying properties are in turn linked to the highlevel quality attributes of the International Standard for Software Product Evaluatio...

This study proposes perceived ‘Importance-Performance Analysis’ by simultaneously integrating ‘importance-performance analysis’ and Kano’s model in identifying key success factors. Kano’s model, which provides a two-dimensional view of quality, is a very useful tool to identify which customer requirements of a particular product or service might be more than the proportional satisfaction to cus...

This is a theoretical attempt to discover within the vast universe of data/information (D/I) quality dimensions the first invariants and principles of more lasting validity. It required a move from the internal (designers’) toward the external (users’), from the ontological to the teleological perspective and a full recognition of the relativity of quality within the context of decision situati...

Most of the quality models that are commonly practiced in the business world have been adapted and used in the education sector. In this paper, we proposed to look at the quality issue in higher education from the marketing perspective; that is, to first understand the customers’ needs via their perception of quality. The aim of our paper is to assess the quality attributes of higher education ...