Purpose – This paper aims to present an approach where assumption personas are used to engage stakeholders in the elicitation and specification of security requirements at a late stage of a system’s design. Design/methodology/approach – The author has devised an approach for developing...

We study the effect of intellectual assets quality, social interaction, and reallocation of intellectual assets on the reputation of open source software projects, by analyzing 3,196 software games over twelve months. Our main findings are: 1) the aggregate performance of the individuals...

Existing data centers today are not ready to support IT organizations to meet the ever changing business demands. Therefore, next generation of data center like Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) is explored and expected to come to rescue. However, SDDC is relatively new since its inception in...

We develop a model to investigate the manner in which the pricing, profitability and protection strategies of the seller of a proprietary digital good respond to changing market conditions. Specifically, we investigate how the optimal strategy of a seller of proprietary software (such as...

The success of an outsourced software testing effort is a function of a number of factors, not all of which are easily measurable. Traditional metrics used for this have tended to focus on objective attributes such as “productivity per tester” but have generally ignored more subjective...

An Integrated Library Management System is a computer-based system used to manage internal and external resources including tangible assets, financial resources, materials, and human resources. It performs library automation and collection development tasks broken down into different modules...