There is little empirical research that demonstrates a link between quality management practice and better project management performance. Some evidence to this effect is presented and analysed. Reviews two studies that examined the relationship between quality management practice and...

In this paper reliability models for fault tolerant N‐version programming and consensus recovery block (combination of N‐version programming and recovery block) with deadline mechanism are analysed. Explicit expressions for reliability of N‐version programming and consensus recovery block...

It is important to take into account the trade‐off between hardware and software systems when total computer‐system reliability/performance is evaluated and assessed. Develops an availability model for a hardware‐software system. The system treated here consists of one hardware and one...

Non‐homogeneous Poisson process (NHPP) models, as the stochastic models frequently employed in reliability engineering, have been successfully used in the reliability study of software systems. The software reliability based on NHPP models was proposed by Goel and Okumoto. In general, the...

Presents briefly ERP as a software solution integrating various functional spheres in an organization. Highlights its role in building a customer process, ERP technologies, available systems, viz. database systems, communication protocols and user interface framework. Details organizational...

Computer simulations of economic systems are slowly gaining ground within the economic profession. However, such a process is hindered by a lack of communication among researchers who do not share a common language. For its object-oriented structure and its versatility, Swarm has the necessary...