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This study empirically tests the model of the Technology Threats Avoidance Theory (TTAT) in a healthcare context to investigate health information technology (HIT) avoidance behaviors when used in unsecure environment. Testing the model in this new context explained avoidance behaviors towards HIT in a holistic way. It is found that the HIT avoidance is predicted by levels of perceived threat, avoidance...
The context of a software system comprises the knowledge that architects need to have about the environment in which a system is expected to operate. Contextual knowledge, however, is often unknown or overlooked. This results in software architects designing systems based on assumptions that are largely unfounded and can potentially lead to system failures. To address this problem, this paper presents...
Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) has come to play a critical role in the global software industry. Organizations are widely adopting FOSS and interacting with open source communities, and hence organizations have a considerable interest in seeing these communities flourishing. Little research has focused on the tools used to develop that software. Given the absence of formal mandate that would...
Software development consists to a large extend of human-based processes with continuously increasing demands regarding interdisciplinary team work. Understanding the dynamics of software teams can be seen as highly important to successful project execution. Hence, for future project managers, knowledge about non-technical processes in teams is significant. In this paper, we present a course unit...
Throughout a semester students use textbooks to reference key fragments especially in response to assigned homework problems. We present an extension to an existing web-based Question and Answer (Q&A) system by incorporating the course textbook as a collection of annotated and chunked resources in a website. To characterize student interaction with the textbook contents, we capture the progress...
In this paper, novel method is introduced to establish content driving of engineering model entity definition and generation at computer description and representation of multidisciplinary industrial product system. Main objective of this work was developing new structure of driving content which made construction of requirements, functional, logical, and physical (RFLP) structured product model easier...
Cloud computing is an emerging economic modelthat provides a broad network access to services with manybenefits to many tenants at the same time. Although it createsa large potential to develop new online services the evolution ofcloud computing has been accompanied by the proliferation ofvarious attacks against the services on the cloud infrastructures. The importance of risk management in cloud...
When successful, multi-tenant SaaS applications service many customer organizations (tenants) at once, and SaaS providers face the challenge of complying to the different SLAs of each of these tenants. As a consequence, evolving a SaaS application is in practice done at run time to limit service disruptions, and preferably on a gradual, tenant-per-tenant basis, while taking into account the nature...
Many open source and commercial developers practice contemporary code review, a lightweight, informal, tool-based code review process. To better understand this process and its benefits, we gathered information about code review practices via surveys of open source software developers and developers from Microsoft. The results of our analysis suggest that developers spend approximately 10-15 percent...
It took 10 years for the city of Munich to migrate 15,000 PCs from Windows to the Linux operating system. Was it worth it? This article focuses on how to effectively cope with open source software (OSS) adoption in an organizational context. Based on the Linux in Munich case, the authors present challenges and risks for IT decision makers and propose recommendations for evaluating and calculating...
Organizational project management focuses on the delivery of business objectives, using a multi-layered integration of portfolio, program, and project management. This is contrasted with change management, an approach to delivering changes in organizations based in a significantly different intellectual heritage. It is argued that although the differences between the philosophies underlying these...
Knowledge sharing has emerged as a core process of knowledge management. By doing knowledge sharing, organization can solve problems and improve individual work performance of its member. Individual members involved in knowledge sharing have different characteristics. These characteristics related to the role in knowledge sharing, which are knowledge provider and knowledge receiver. Besides the characteristics...
The objective of this research is to investigate the influence effect of personality factors that influence individual decision-making on adoption of health related information via online social networks. The study explores the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) model with perceived value to explain user's adoption behavior. The influence of personality factors was examining...
A search system that allows the users to search and find the most interesting software artifacts based on the current context of the user is highly desirable. This paper sets forth the requirements of contextual search for software engineering. A context for software engineering is defined by four dimensions in. A contextual search system is presented to address the requirements. We conclude that...
Big Data technology is a generic technology, which can be applied to any real-world problem that involves a lot of data. Moreover, the use of cloud-based infrastructure to implement the big data technology makes it a cost-effective solution to the big data problem. One of the fundamental sectors that can benefit from this technology is education and research. The education system can use big data...
This paper explores what constitutes a trustworthy message in the context of e-learning. We did this by asking students to produce messages that they believed people like themselves would trust and then analyzed the data they produced. Coming from a user experience (UX) perspective, our interest is in improving the design of e-learning systems. We found that students reinforced and reiterated several...
Summarizing a body of information is a complex task which mainly depends on the ability to distinguish important information and to condense notions through abstraction. Considering a knowledge representation partially ordering concepts into a directed acyclic graph, this study focuses on the problem of summarizing several human descriptions expressed through sets of concepts. We formally define the...
This paper makes a contribution to the development of computational archival science by thinking about and linking computational and archival thinking. It suggests that archival thinking and the archival problem space encompasses questions about the nature of consciousness, highlighting how these questions seem to be apparent within the fundamental archival principles of respect des fonds, provenance...
Reputation is the opinion (more technically, a social evaluation) of the public towards a person, a group of people, or an organization. In other words, reputation is the general estimation that the public has for a person or an institution. It is an important factor in many fields, like business, online communities or social status. It is also a subject of study in social, management and technological...
The crucial element of any agile project is people. Not surprisingly, principles and values such as “espect for people”, “Communication and Collaboration”, “Lead using a team approach”, and “Learn and improve continuously” are an integral part of Open Kanban. However, Open Kanban has not provided any tools or techniques to aid the human side of software development. Moreover, as a Lean initiative,...
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