Mobile technology has emerged as a necessity from luxury in day todays lives. This rapid increase in mobile telecommunication has also increased large number of mobile application development strategies. As mobile Application development has distinct requirements which drive several challenges, the appropriate methodology need to be adopted. The unique characteristics of mobile devices and appl...

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...

Earth Observation Satellite (EOS) scheduling is an important oversubscribed constraint optimization problem. Permutation-based scheduling methods have recently been shown to be effective on these problems. However, the new agile EOS satellites present additional scheduling complexity because they allow image acquisition over a window of possible observation times. Constraint propagation algorit...

Understanding how human beings delegate tasks to trustees when presented with reputation information is important for building trust models for human-agent collectives. However, there is a lack of suitable platforms for building large scale datasets on this topic. We describe a demonstration of a multi-agent game for training students in the practice of Agile software engineering. Through inter...

Enterprise management has become extremely complex today. The Internet, information and communication technologies, and compulsions from globalisation, pose both opportunities and threats to the enterprise, of dimensions never seen before. Only the technosavvy, intelligent, and agile enterprises can manage their business effectively. They seek and depend on intelligent information systems for s...

The Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) is a process modeling language which uses standard control constructs to define a process flow. But today enterprises have to be flexible and adaptable to cope with increasing change, uncertainty and unpredictability. Automating agile business processes is still a challenge as they are normally knowledge intensive, little automated but compliance r...

As software development evolves toward more agile methodologies (SCRUM, XP, RUP), engineering best practices become key to ensuring the delivery of high quality software that best meets a customer’s needs. This paper will briefly introduce agile methodologies and the best practices that facilitate successful agile implementations. It will focus on software configuration management (SCM) practic...

We consider the problem of downloading observations for a next-generation agile Earth-observing satellite. The goal is to schedule file downloads during ground reception station visibility windows while minimizing information age and promoting the fair sharing of the satellite between users. It is a complex scheduling problem with constraints ranging from unsharable resources to timedependent p...