The Unique Adequacy requirement of methods (UA) is proposed as a means of evaluating research in construction management. UA addresses the problems stemming from the significance of conscious action in constituting human organisation. These may be summarised as: first, that objectivity is a problematic concept in such studies; second, that the determination of meaning is their primary goal; and...

We present a modeling framework that supports the engineering of early requirements specifications for design of learner centric dynamic Learning Management System. The framework is based on i* modeling tool and Means End Analysis, that adopts primitive concepts for modeling early requirements (such as actor, goal, and strategic dependency). We show how pedagogical and computational requirement...

This paper presents four requirements for BDI-based agent programming languages to facilitate the implementation of autonomous robot control systems. The first requirement is to support the integration of these languages with robotic frameworks. The second requirement is real-time reaction and response to events. The real-time reactivity problem in the BDI architecture is discussed and a distri...

Requirements of a project are found to change in various ways during the course of the same. The effects of varying magnitude of requirement volatility on different project parameters like effort, schedule, etc have been well investigated. However, there has been no analysis on how different ‘patterns’ of requirement volatility influence selection of project management approaches and the result...

Software developers have been successfully tailoring software development methods according the project situation and more so in small scale software development organizations. There is a need to propagate this knowledge to other developers who may be facing the same project situation so that they can benefit from other people experiences. In this paper, use of situational method engineering in...

Wireless channels have a high channel bit error rate and limited bandwidth. The high bit error rate degrades the quality of multimedia transmission, and also increases the buffer size requirement at the client. In this paper, we propose a novel selective retransmission scheme for multimedia transmission over wireless ATM networks using the ABR service. Our objective is to develop a simple cost ...

Currently, there are important limitations in the abstractions that support creating and managing services in a cloud-based IT system. As a result, cloud users must choose between managing the low-level details of their cloud services directly (as in IaaS), which is time-consuming and error-prone, and turning over significant parts of this management to their cloud provider (in SaaS or PaaS), w...

The goal of this research is to define and validate (theoretically and empirically) requirements management measures connected to the attributes stability and volatility of requirements. With theoretical validation we prove that the relationships between the entities in the empirical world are still valid in the mathematical/formal world. With empirical validation we prove that a measure is a p...

This paper presents a database system developed to provide a computerized environment for requirement management during the product definition phase. The scope of this database system is to facilitate and demonstrate a methodology for product definition by recognizing and adopting functional requirement patterns from previous product designs so as to address a broad spectrum of domain-specific ...