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Task switching and interruptions are a daily reality in software development projects: developers switch between Requirements Engineering (RE), coding, testing, daily meetings, and other tasks. Task switching may increase productivity through increased information flow and effective time management. However, it might also cause a cognitive load to reorient the primary task, which accounts for the...
Due to advances in medicine, the societies have become aging, which leads to the problem of missing teeth. Missing teeth negatively affects not only external appearance but also personal dietary habits. Therefore, it has become an important issue in dentistry to solve the problem of missing teeth. In Taiwan, dental prostheses for missing teeth are produced by dental technicians in dental laboratories...
Information overload may affects everyone who receives, processes and presents the information. When individual is over supplied with the information which is more than he/she can process, it leads to information overload. In dealing with this phenomenon, individuals sometimes do not realize they are overloaded until the symptoms appear. Hence, it is important to recognize the starting point at where...
In a scenario-based software development, a lot of scenarios should be described in order to clarify the whole behaviors of the target software. By reusing scenarios of similar software systems, it becomes more efficient to newly describe scenarios of the target software. A differential scenario includes the difference between sequences of events of the two scenarios and the difference between nouns...
Designer productivity is a growing concern as over-all hardware complexity rises. Design reuse, a key component in productivity, is underutilized. Not only can existing designs be reused, but also the patterns and information contained within them as well. With the increase in the number of circuits available, there requires a need to analyze and retrieve designs with ease in order to accelerate design...
This study aims to shed light on the factual of the published intellectual productivity of faculty members of The University of Bahrain (UOB) in SCOPUS database from 1986 till 29th Dec 2014. The analytical and Bibliometrics methodology used to identify and allocate the substantive trends, type (Article, Conference paper, Review, Book chapter, etc.), no of authors and size of their Publications, and...
In order to perform productive autonomous excavation of a fragmented rock pile, it is necessary to recognize the condition of the fragmented rock pile and to plan appropriate excavating motion according to the condition of the fragmented rock pile. In this paper, we propose imitation-based motion planning method, and develop a recognizer of rock pile condition and an excavating motion planner. We...
With decades of investments, productivity has still continued to be a major issue for many digital circuit designers. One of the most important factors in improving productivity is design reuse, which current tools have yet to fully exploit. Reusing designs involve manually searching through repositories to find a design that meets the requirements of a project. This search can be tedious and often...
In India, Information and Communication technology (ICT) is being used vastly as a tool in almost every sector like education, health, media, etc. But if we talk about Indian agriculture, ICT is still to be exploited for its benefits. Many initiatives have been taken by Government of India to promote and introduce ICT in agricultural field. On comparing to its counter developing countries like China,...
Numerous studies have indicated enhanced productivity results for computer science (CS) researchers as well as their respective institutions. This paper aims to evaluate the research productivity of a Malaysian university, namely, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) concentrating in particular on the CS researchers. The author uses the Scopus database which is known as the most accessible bibliographic...
Most help desk operations keep records on incidents and how they are resolved. Rarely are these analyzed with respect to recommendations for improvements. At the same time, improvements have the potential to decrease costs of helpdesk operations and increase effectiveness. We analyzed incident reports of two products (one incident prone, the other not incident prone) used at a major, multinational...
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the important driving forces for the growth of China's economy. However, financing difficulty has always been the important problem besetting the development of SMEs for a long time. In this paper, based on micro-data from 2007 China Industrial Enterprise Database, Propensity Score Matching (PSM) method is adopted to conduct empirical analysis of indirect...
The literature on distrust in information systems (IS) research is still in its infancy. In this literature review, we have compiled the IS-related texts on distrust from the major journals and conferences and examined how the IT artefact itself is portrayed and conceptualised. We find that a majority of the research treats information technology in a nominal way, failing to explicitly theorise about...
Over the last years a number of Crosscutting Frameworks (CFs) have been developed employing white-box strategies. This strategy requires significant technical knowledge to reuse these frameworks, such as, knowledge in specific programming languages, architectural details and also about the framework nomenclature. Besides, the reuse process can only be initiated when the development reaches the implementation...
Due to the vast volume of publications in nowadays research environment, methods for analyzing, organizing, and accessing information from large databases are in great need. Through appropriate analytic tools, competitive intelligence can be revealed to enhance the organization or individual performance. This article will show how a free software package called CATAR carry on the analysis about the...
We present the second release of the Plant Prom DB (initially lunched in 2003), an annotated, non-redundant collection of proximal promoter sequences for RNA polymerase II (Pol II) with experimentally determined transcription start site(s) (TSS) from 86 plant species. It contains 576 entries including 150, 403 and 23 promoters of monocot, dicot and other plants genes, respectively. The database provides...
In this study, we examine whether internal and external collaboration (considering institutional and national levels) among scientific associates with research impact relates to research performance. We extract data from Scopus, a bibliometric database, searching for journal publications having 'information science' phrase in their title or keywords or abstracts and retrieve totally 4,579 publications...
Development productivity of overall project and each screen in two projects developing UI intensive database application on Force.com are reported in this paper. Variation in screen productivity on those projects is well-explained in following three factors: implementation method, database interaction type, requirement dependent factor.
Mobile computing is becoming ubiquitous across many areas including education. Many of the education-based applications are targeted toward the student as the end-user and trying to create a more effective educational environment using mobile technology. At our institution, we are investigating such applications, but wanted to look at tools focusing on the educator as well as the student. In this...
Group decision support systems (GDSS) have evolved from applications designed primarily to support decision making for groups. Indeed, it is generally accepted that improvements of group support systems is a longstanding interest to organizational researchers, containing solid practical as well as scientific significance. Within this practice, there is increasing challenge to improve the exchange...
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