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This paper presents a multicriteria nominal classification method derived from the concepts of PROMETHEE, which is then applied to problems characterized by minimum performance profiles (MMP) to determine categories. In order to illustrate the applicability of the proposal, this method is applied to classify relational attitudes in the context of IT outsourcing regarding an IT service contractor company...
A software project is typically completed as a result of a collective effort done by individuals of different personalities. Personality reflects differences among people in behaviour patterns, communication, cognition and emotion. It often impacts relationships and collaborative work, and software engineering teamwork is no exception. Some personalities are more likely to click while others to clash...
Accompanied by the sharp economic evolution, the amounts of products that are circulating more and more outstanding. Depend on the fact that in the process of delivering goods, businesses need to have professional Logistics to help them promote transferring goods to necessary places many logistics companies have established. Third party Logistics (3PL) companies specialize in integrated operation,...
In this paper, we build a duopoly game model consisting of two logistics enterprises and a third-party company, with the consideration of the cost, quality, and competitions among the players, to analyze the equilibriums under different situations with the objective of maximizing the interests of all parties involved. Then we examine the relationships between the dominate strategies and the key game...
The paper examines the features of IT-projects and their impact on the management decisions of outsourcing companies in their implementation, as well as demonstrates the necessity to apply simulation models of portfolio management of IT-projects. It introduces a system-dynamic model of IT-project with elements of the cognitive approach as a basis for model management of an outsourcing IT-company as...
In today's software industry many business organizations are realizing that Software Development Outsourcing (SDO) is an imperative and strategic step for their system operation success. Many organizations have or are in the process of implementing such business transformation. This study is to investigate the status quo of strategic SDO in the software industry. To conduct this research, a mixed...
The digital revolution alongside with the evolution of social networking and widespread of personal and mobile devices enabled several new avenues. In particular, crowdsourcing raised and attracted interests on an innovative approach of performing tedious and repetitive work by outsourcing them to a wide population of people, a crowd. In this paper, such new trends are discussed by analyzing some...
Until 1976, the Portuguese electrical sector was fragmented into several companies operating at regional or even local scale. In the aftermaths of the April Revolution of1974, there was large-scale nationalization program to which the electrical sector was no exception. Electricidade de Portugal (EDP) was created in 1976 with the fusion of 13 nationalized companies. Several development programs were...
Recently, the increased utilization of outsourcing services for a part of designing VLSIs might reduce the reliability of VLSIs. There is a risk that hardware Trojan circuits are inserted into VLSIs by attackers at design phases. It is difficult to detect Trojan circuits by functional verification and testing. In this paper, we propose a hardware Trojan circuit detection method based on a pair of...
Nowadays the competition in IT offshoring is fierce along with the rapid growth of IT offshoring. Some of Indonesian IT vendors succeed in acquiring IT projects from clients abroad, but some of them are not successful in delivering the project. Some previous studies have included interaction capability as the determinant of IT outsourcing success, but the concept of interaction is considered as one...
One of the most salient features of smart city is to utilize big data to make our lives more convenient and more intelligent. This is usually achieved through solving a series of large-scale common and fundamental problems such as linear systems of equations, linear programs, etc. However, it is a very challenging task for resource-limited clients and small companies to solve such problems as the...
Achieving efficiency gains on all levels of enterprise architecture by such means as standardization has been and is a goal of researchers and practitioners working on the provisioning of IT services. At the process level, provisioning IT services is defined in common practice frameworks like the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL). ITIL describes a trend where vendors offer new application systems for...
Manufacturing in all sectors has undergone dramatic changes as a result of globalization and the introduction of IOT. Globalization and IOT have brought significant challenges, as well as opportunities to the supply chain of large enterprises (for example Ericson, Alcatel, and HP). There has been an infrastructure change from a single integrated process performed within the boundaries of the traditional...
The outsourcing of software development projects has lead to the emergence of global virtual teams. However, the use of outsourcing strategies and consequently the establishment of global virtual teams by multinational corporations have had mixed reviews even though they often create access to a wider talent pool and sometimes at more affordable labor costs. This is the case because it is difficult...
Trustworthy effort estimation for a software project remains one of the biggest challenges for developer. Software effort estimation is the initial phase between the client and the business enterprise. So the association begins with effort estimation. Trustworthiness increases accurate estimation. Organizations turned toward GSD because it benefits with shorter development cycle. This paper presents...
This research aims to address supply chain collaboration with a perspective of broader three-dimensional relationship, not a linear two-dimensional relationship discussed broadly in previous research. Case study was adopted for this research, and data collection was mainly conducted via interview. The research results highlighted that supply chain collaborations are common practice across all levels...
P2P outsourcing model is introduced to describe an interaction process of project tasks distribution between employees as a part of the enterprise project management system that supports decision-making process within the company. The proposed solution provides an agile technology of tasks allocation in enterprises with matrix organizational structure. The described approach was implemented using...
Information Technology companies hitherto shipping their information system have off late started strategizing in pulling back their outsourced information technology. Outsourcing was looked at technically feasible and financially viable strategy for decades. This paper looks into the phenomenon of backsourcing as an organizational innovation that is betraying the engineering marvel of outsourcing...
Maintenance activities, both corrective and preventive, are initially conducted by maintenance department in each company. Currently, some companies implement outsourcing strategies in performing maintenance activities. Outsourcing is the delegation of business functions in total or partial to other companies in conjunction with the administrative and operational activities. One of the advantages...
The growth in popularity of Agile methods plus a dissatisfaction of Government agencies with traditional software development methods have stimulated the adoption of Agile Methods. The action research approach was used in this work to assess the implementation of a process for the Management of Agile Development Demands - whose original acronym in Portuguese is 'GeDDAS' - for a software factory in...
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