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This paper is an exploratory study on architects' attitudes towards risk and its influences on the architectural decision-making process. A classification of architects' attitude to risk-taking has been developed on the basis of Fowler's Technical Debt Quadrants. The core proposition of the paper is that the well-established concept of 'risk appetite' can be equally well applied to characterise and...
Grey-incidence decision making approach is proposed to deal with the implementation of brownfield redevelopment project in the remediated sites. The inspiration behind this approach is valuable, because it is suitable to use regardless of the sample size. Whether it is big or small, or whether the data fulfills a particular conventional distribution or not. Above and beyond that, what makes it convenient...
Public power showcase has evaluated in time and most significant of that evaluation come up with the technology movement. Especially widened usage of internet contribute that empowerment of Public. Many studies in PPGIS areas aims' is to get more impressed views to reach optimum value of urban environment. Volunteered geographic information for acquiring flow data, and public participation geographic...
We investigate the differences between groups and individuals in newsvendor ordering behavior by a laboratory experiment under the tournament competitive environment. We also study the association between newsvendor decision making and the decision-making styles measured by the General Decision-making Style (GDMS) inventory. We observe that group decision making is not always superior to individual...
Component model is a standard or specification used to produce software components. It is regarded as the cornerstone of any CBSD methodology and plays important role in determining its success. Advances in component based software development (CBSD) have resulted in the birth of many component models. The presence of many component models causes difficulty in determining suitable component model...
Standard formulation/development processes/stages are important to be analyzed as they determine whether a standard is acceptable in the market and/or able to meet the stakeholders' expectation.
Outsourcing of software development tasks has become a major issue for large software enterprises over the last decades. Nowadays, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) follow this trend and outsource parts of their software development as well. However, most of the existing literature deals with large enterprises whereas the situation of SMEs is being neglected. Especially sourcing decisions...
Natural hazards (i.e. earthquakes, floods) become disaster when they strike the man-made environment. Algeria has frequently experienced various types of severe natural disasters which result in considerable loss of life and extensive economic damage. To effectively reduce the impact of every disaster, available data of buildings, lifeline systems, roads, hospitals, etc, will help the managers to...
The construction industry has been facing a paradigm shift to (i) increase; productivity, efficiency, infrastructure value, quality and sustainability, (ii) reduce; lifecycle costs, lead times and duplications, via effective collaboration and communication of stakeholders in construction projects. Digital construction is a political initiative to address low productivity in the sector. This seeks...
IEEE P1900.4 is an emerging standard for optimized radio resource utilization where cognitive radio technologies are used for efficient spectrum utilization. In this paper, we design and implement a cognitive wireless network system based on open documents of IEEE P1900.4, and evaluate its performance using UDP streaming and HTTP download. Our experiments show interesting results that total network...
Digital Earth (DE) is a virtual presentation of the planet based on geographic coordinate, and is an information system with tremendous amount of multiple resolutions and multiple scales data as shown in multiple dimensions. It can visualize the real earth and represent historical phenomena in digital way by using the large amount of data of the earth, and utilizing the computer techniques, image...
Due to the continuously growing possibilities provided by technology and its wider application, today's IT products are becoming more and more complex both from technical and managerial standpoints. Very often, multiple parties are involved in their development. Consequently, the organization of the integration and testing of these products gets increasingly complex. Organisations already encounter...
Current fashion systems to interconnect large software architectures are moving toward SOA based solutions. This new paradigm for designing system can be improved, in our opinion, by using semantics. Semantics can a play a main role in boosting interoperability thanks to current technologies to express knowledge and to describe semantic Web services (SWS). This paper tackles the provision of a Software...
The Open Distributed Processing Reference Model (ODP-RM) provides viewpoints and abstract infrastructure guidelines that can be used for a basis for enterprise architecture, especially for an inter-enterprise architecture. The ODP-RM does not prescribe methodology for modeling itself, but provides common vocabulary and focus for description. This paper performs a brief analysis of the ODP-RM (and...
This paper employs democratic theory as a method of inquiry into the political implications of openness in information and communication technology (ICT) standards. Our account describes four ways in which ICT standards have political implications in democratic societies: standards can have implications for other democratic processes; standards can affect the broader social conditions relevant to...
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