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We conducted a qualitative study to investigate the main aspects related to the development and management of applications (or apps) for smart and mobile devices. Is investigation is composed of two main steps and its context is the so ware industry. In the rst step, we interviewed so ware managers with experience in the context of app development and management. Is part of our study can be intended...
In this work, we report a study carried out to identify a set of metrics to early estimate the development effort of mobile apps. The applied methodology was inspired by the work of Mendes et al. who addressed a similar problem in the field of web apps. In particular, we extracted an initial set of metrics by analyzing the online quotes forms that companies made available on their websites. Afterward,...
Software Defined Networks (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) could be taken as a different expression of the overall transformation trend toward network softwarization which is deeply impacting and bringing Telecom and ICT Industry. These changes will have a broader impact on society, including aspects of regulation, policy, social impacts and new business model. A number of new stakeholders...
The transition from voice to data services has led to new trends in telecommunication business, and therefore the need to adjust legacy metrics and KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) that aims to point out the effects of these changes. In this paper, we give the review of development trends of new KPIs that provide greater insight into the use of data based services, as well as estimating the share...
Open Source Software (OSS) has substantial impact on how software-intensive firms develop products and deliver value to the customers. These companies need both strategic and operational support on how to adapt OSS as a part of their products and how to adjust processes and organizations to increase the benefits from OSS participation. This work presents the key insights from the journey that Sony...
In Brazil, software industry and academia have formed partnerships more often due to funding agencies and tax incentives originated, for example, from Brazil's Informatics Law. Like in many relationships, each party brings different experiences, and goals to be achieved. However, for a partnership to be successful, it is necessary to learn how to deal with these differences, respecting the limits...
In this paper, we describe the need, requirements and challenges for implementing a global information grid. The grid connects all participating elements in a military mission and provides them with all mission-relevant information in a timely and secure manner, independent of the used command and control information systems (C2IS), the available communication technologies, the degree of mobility,...
In the last few years there has been increasing interest from scholars and practitioners in the customer experience and its determinants given its importance for the success of organizations and their competitiveness. As customer experience is a context specific concept, the objective of our research is to identify the major variables that build up the customer experience in a regulated environment...
The new concept of omni-channel has inspired researchers to develop a model of consumer confusion to increase purchase intention. Previous studies were tested that the omni-channel integration quality can improve customer satisfaction. As a novelty, this study introduced omni-channel integration as a moderating variable that influence consumer confusion to the intention of purchase. This paper constituted...
World economic development is moving rapidly making state-owned companies have to compete with foreign companies in order to win the global competition. ASEAN as a new economic community has a huge market potential in the communications business. In our analysis, PT Telkom Indonesia has potential because it has other business unit that also has a high market share in Indonesia. In finding, we proposed...
The comprehension of human mobility patterns can help governments and private sectors to improve the quality of services offered to population. Characterizing and understanding the different workloads generated on mobile networks during different kind of events are a challenge for carriers, who should keep connectivity services always on. The visualization and analysis of such workloads can drive...
The project titled “ONLINE FLOWER MARKETING SYSTEM USING MOBILE APPS” is a comprehensive system which co-ordinates various operations in flower shop by using the mobile application through the online. This includes a variety of collections of flowers and flower made products such as flower arrangements, flower bouquets, retails and etc. This project deals with the booking of various flower products...
Buying and maintaining supercomputers are exceedingly costly affairs. In a country like India, not many organisations can afford to have one, due to which many compute-intensive works and research remain undone. On the other hand, the revolution of smartphones has brought unforeseen computing power to our fingertips. Today's smartphones can deliver equivalent or even better performance than supercomputers...
Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is the best means to learn latest /current technologies which are otherwise difficult to gain access and learn them. A case study of how, MOOC on 'User Experience (UX) provided by Udacity for mobile app' was utilized to enhance the quality of student projects, is presented in this paper. Most of the time, MOOCs are provided by the global experts who teach the course...
Team-based learning (TBL) is a form of student-centered active learning which will help to develop various professional skills, problem solving, interpersonal team skills, and self-directed independent learning. The success of TBL approach depends on its design comprising Team formation, Project identification and distribution, monitoring the progress, maintaining open discussion in every phase and...
User experience design is all about making a product by understanding its users and enables user to use a product easily. UX design is part of current industry standards which can be started along with requirement phase. Undergraduate students build products in project courses. Such courses include Software Life Cycle phases like Requirement gathering/ analysis, Design, Implementation and Testing...
In this paper, we report an application of data analytics in a real world business case of the telecom industry. This work has been tied up with an IT company in India with a large data set of telecom customers. As part of data analytics, the first task was to perform cleansing of bad and missing data, transforming heterogeneous formats into a unified format, semantic analysis on the data (semantics...
Regulatory intensity is a key determinant of investment in telecommunications. This subject has been studied extensively, yet results have been ambiguous. For such reason, this study considers the recent evolution in the Mexican regulatory environment, which has responded to specific circumstances, thus playing a key role in determining the relationship between regulation and investment in mobile...
Cloud computing allows developers of mobile apps to overcome limited computing, storage, and power resources of modern smartphones. Besides these huge advantages, the hidden utilization of cloud services by mobile apps leads to severe privacy concerns. To overcome these concerns and allow users and companies to properly assess the risks of hidden cloud usage, it is necessary to provide transparency...
The paper presents Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) based solution for inventory management reported by the researchers in various case studies of warehouses. Limitations and challenges faced by companies in monitoring and managing inventory are highlighted. To cope with the associated complexities, a centralized architecture with four different configurations is proposed. The presented configurations...
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