An allocation rule that prioritizes registered donors increases the willingness to register for organ donation, as laboratory experiments show. In public opinion, however, this priority rule faces repugnance. We explore the discrepancy by implementing a vote on the rule in a donation experiment, and we also elicit opinion poll-like views. We find that two-thirds of the participants voted for th...

Test case prioritization techniques schedule test cases for execution in an order that attempts to increase their eeectiveness at meeting some performance goal. Various goals are possible; one involves rate of fault detection | a measure of how quickly faults are detected within the testing process. An improved rate of fault detection during testing can provide faster feedback on the system und...

Aiming at integrating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in its corporate strategy, company Corbion has developed and performed an impact assessment consisting of three steps: 1) Product supply chain SDG 2) Prioritization 3) Target setting. As outcome this assessment, chosen to focus on 2, 3 12 as goals which it can make most significant impact. The aims for 80% revenues contribute these ...

Introduction Organisms learn from experience in many ways. One component of learning from experience is recording what has happened in the world when actions are taken, a form of episodic memory, and distilling such experience over time to learn models of phenomena for generating expectations. As further actions are taken, the accuracy of such models can be monitored, to detect surprises and to...

One of the daily tasks of an enterprise architect is to prioritize strategic IT projects. To achieve a business-IT alignment, this prioritization needs to be based on business strategies and goals. Therefore, business goals and their traceability to strategic IT projects are relevant for the enterprise architect. However, surprisingly little formalisations and reasoning techniques have been dev...

During software development, many decisions need to be made to guarantee satisfaction of the stakeholders’ requirements and goals. The full satisfaction of all of these requirements and goals may not be possible, requiring decisions over conflicting human interests as well as technological alternatives, with an impact on the quality and cost of the final solution. This work aims at assessing th...

Today, companies are required to be in control of the security of their IT assets. This is especially challenging in the presence of limited budgets and conflicting requirements. Here, we present RiskBased Requirements Elicitation and Prioritization (RiskREP), a method for managing IT security risks by combining the results of a top-down requirements analysis with a bottom-up risk analysis. Top...

While performance management is increasingly widespread, we still know little about how performance information generates learning and affects organizational responses. Recent work on performance information and learning in private business organizations, however, suggests that perceived negative performance triggers important strategic responses related to problem identification, search, and c...

This paper develops a new integrated evaluation and planning approach for implementing a given set of best practices in a prioritized and phased manner. The best practices are implemented for achieving lower-level business unit objectives and higher-level strategic goals of an organization. With a multiattribute decision making algorithm under the balanced scorecard (BSC) framework, a new evalu...

Duty cycling is an efficient mechanism to conserve energy in wireless sensor networks. Several existing duty cycling techniques have been proposed to conserve energy, but they are not able to handle the contention under dynamic traffic loads. In this paper we propose a protocol called Sender-Assisted-Receiver-Initiated MAC (SA-RI-MAC) which solves this problem without sacrificing the energy eff...