In order to survive in their competitive sector, software companies must complete software products on time and within budget and those products should satisfy the customers’ quality expectations. One of the most effective methods to achieve this result is collecting necessary metrics during development and process these metrics to compute and control the quality costs. Based on some previous s...

Tourism companies do not always understand the attributes of a quality website. An effective method of evaluating a website can contribute to the development of more quality websites. In this paper a website evaluation instrument is designed that is flexible enough to serve a variety of e-tourism players. The instrument is developed from quality dimensions derived from an existing IS e-commerce...

The ability to work in an effective team has been identified by employers as a key skill for students entering the work force. Furthermore, a desire for active learning by both students and faculty has also increased the use of team-based learning. However, team-based learning also has its drawbacks – notably, managing conflict among team members, reconciling differing levels of effort by stude...

We consider the problem of allocating a finite number of indivisible items to two players with additive utilities. We design a procedure that looks for all the maximin allocations. The procedure makes repeated use of an extension of the Adjusted Winner, an effective procedure that deals with divisible items, to find new candidate solutions, and to suggest which items should be assigned to the p...

Purpose: To describe the issues involved in the introduction of mandatory submission of electronic theses at Cranfield University. Design/methodology/approach: Background information on how the availability of e-theses has developed at Cranfield University is provided along with discussions and advice on issues such as the choice of software, thesis submission workflow and timeframes, particula...

Although the Institute of Medicine attributes significant mortality in the United States to behavioral and social issues, these topics are commonly not prioritized areas of learning by medical students. A common belief is that problem-based learning (PBL) is an effective method to stimulate learning in these areas. While examining the effects on behavioral and social issue learning of a multime...

In [3] we investigated finitely presented lattices and the closely related subject of lattices generated by a finite partial lattice. We described a canonical form for the elements of such a lattice and used this to study the covering relation. We showed that there is an effective procedure for finding the covers of any element of a finitely presented lattice. We gave an example of a finitely p...