People want to know the most accept­ able words aTuI rules jar using English, and the goal oj prescriptive grammar is to determine and to teach those rules. The present article argues that psychology can help to develop principles and procedures for pre­ scriptive grammar. As a first step in that direction, an e:rperimental technique is reported jar evaluating the prescription oj he to mean "he...

Implementations of requirements change processes in large system projects face many difficulties. In this paper we present a method for analysing requirements change processes to identify implementation weaknesses and their causes. This method relies on prescriptive process models and tracing actual Change Proposals through the process model. We apply the method in the analysis of the requireme...

In safety–critical applications, it is necessary to justify, prior to deployment, why software behaviour is to be trusted. This is normally referred to as software safety assurance. Within certification standards, developers demonstrate this by appealing to the satisfaction of objectives that the safety assurance standards require for compliance. In some standards the objectives can be very det...

In the macro education plan for Iran (2010-2025), twelve years of schooling has been characterized as “General” education. Such a characterization is prone to certain misconceptions. General education does not equal “Uniform,” or standardized, education and should refrain from identifying as such. Yet it is misinterpreted that there is a relationship between offering a G...