Software development has had much comment over the last two to threedecades; large research organisations such as the Standish Group have carriedout several empirical studies that measure the success rate of software projectsas they have typically been unsuccessful over time. An integral part of...

Intellectual property piracy is a significant global problem and an enormous problem for U.S. companies and policymakers. This article examines why typically law-abiding people are more inclined to steal intellectual property products than more tangible, material products. The authors propose...

The Information Technology Sector is probably the most booming sector in the world at present. This revolution in the market is attributable to a great extent to the increasing use of computer driven softwares and other innovations in the field of intellectual property. This massive progression...

This paper examines the factors that influence the attitude and purchase decisions of pirated software in Saudi Arabia. Based on a review of literature, a model is developed that examines the personal, social, attitudinal and other factors that influence an intention to purchase pirated...

This paper presents a method for optimizing the software testing efficiency by using the genetic algorithm classifier. Here the datasets of certain attributes are taken as the inputs and the output i.e. persons-month(PM) is obtained. We have divided into 5 classes each as the particular range of...

In this paper we present and analyze a model for clustering in networks that offer Software as a Service (SaaS). In this problem, organizations requesting a set of applications have to be assigned to clusters such that the costs of opening clusters and installing the necessary applications in...

Jørgensen’s paper examines the application of the one of the most well established findings in forecasting – namely, the superior accuracy of quantitative models in comparison to judgmental forecasts. Models improved accuracy in 72% of the 136 studies in the meta-analysis by Grove, et al....

We develop variations of the M|G|1 queue to model the process of software maintenance within organizations and use these models to compute the optimal allocation of resources to software maintenance. User requests are assumed to arrive following a Poisson process and a binomial distribution is...

The starting point for this paper is the general paucity of research on the demand-side of custom software development. As an initial step, we derive and estimate a Hedonic Pricing model using a sample of 160 projects executed by a large software solutions vendor based in India. Our results...