Situational method engineering (SME) has as a focus a repository of method fragments, gleaned from extant methodologies and best practice. Using one such example, the OPF (OPEN Process Framework) repository, we identify ...

Requirements Volatility is considered to be a major source of risk to the management of large and complex software projects. The ability to characterise the nature and origins of requirements change during software ...

Digital video and accompanying editing software are increasingly becoming more accessible for researchers in terms of ease of use and cost. The rich, visually appealing and seductive nature of videobased data can convey ...

Secure electronic commerce relies on the application of secure transaction protocol. However, even with the so-called secure protocol, the communication can be compromised frequently without effective approach to detect ...

This paper designs a novel fuzzy attributes and competition based bidding strategy (FAC-Bid), in which the final best bid is calculated on the basis of the assessment of multiple attributes of the goods and the competition ...

In this paper we describe our research that examines the activities in the commercial web development lifecycle, particularly in gathering and defining requirements. Often requirements are inadequately documented, or ...

The novel model proposed in this paper tunes the cache sue adaptively on It combines the extant MACSC (Model for Adaptive Cache Size and the novel RTPD (real-time pattern detection) capability. Similar to its MACSC ...

Movie affective content analysis attracts increasing research efforts since affective content not only affect users attentions but also locate movie highlights. However, affective content retrieval is still a challenging ...

This paper reports a successful experience of the use of strategic planning for selection of Software Process Improvement (SPI) processes. It presents an unexpected benefit from this approach, which was the adoption of SPI ...