A long working hours is a common issue in a software industry. This research study was carried out to investigate the impact of working environment on job satisfaction of software professionals in software industry. Work environment, results that are affected by job satisfaction on employee's...

The Big data state of art has strong focus on opportunities but very less explored in risk management and software testing. This paper draws attention towards risk management of high volume big data sets and testing them to achieve confidence in software quality. The research describes big data...

Increased globalization has resulted in an incessant transfer of technology from foreign entities to India. The increasing focus on service industry has augmented in a broader attention to Intellectual Property Rights transfers across borders. What this paper addresses; Is how Intellectual...

The Supreme Court should grant review of the Federal Circuit's decisions in Oracle v. Google for two compelling sets of reasons. First, the Federal Circuit's decisions conflict with this Court's seminal decision in Baker v. Selden, 101 U.S. 99 (1879), misinterpret Congress's codification of this...

Over the last few years green and sustainable software engineering has become a tremendous area for researchers and developing companies. The environmentally sound, Information & Communication Technology (ICT) products and sustainable green software gained much attraction for research. Because,...

This paper used the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) to calculate for the expected return of Microsoft and Google. In calculating CAPM, the paper chooses to use Wilshire5000 as a market proxy for more accurate result. The market return of each asset is using 10 years period in daily basis. The...

Open source software (OSS) is playing an increasing role in information and communication technology (ICT) standards. Many standard development organisations (SDOs) are exploring approaches to incorporating OSS into their standard-setting context. How to address intellectual property rights...

Total Factor Productivity Toolbox is a new package for MATLAB that includes functions to calculate the main Total Factor Productivity (TFP) indices and their decompositions, based on Shephard's distance functions and using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) programming techniques. The package...

This paper examines the role of software piracy in digital platforms where a platform provider makes a decision of how much software to produce in-house and how much to outsource from a third-party software provider. Using a vertical differentiation model, we theoretically investigate how piracy...

The open-source software (OSS) production model has been gaining ground and even expanding to a broader class of products. A central virtue of OSS is co-creation through contributions and feedback from the user community, yet our knowledge of how to coordinate and maximize the benefit of such...