This paper describes briefly main functionalities and exploited numerical methods of the package CompDTIMe which consists of several Matlab routines. This package allows one to calculate two-dimensional bifurcation diagrams, to find periodic points not depending on whether they are attracting,...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the information gathering methods used during enterprise system (ES) selection among Polish organizations and to have IT consulting experts evaluate these methods, which will result in identification of the preferred approach for the...

Purpose – Security is a vital requirement for software systems. Misuse case models allow system designers to inject security considerations within their designs early in the development cycle rather than patching an end system with security mechanisms after it was developed. The notation and...

Purpose – Little research to date has investigated how firm experience and industry experience in related inter‐organizational systems (IOS) affect the adoption of open IOS. The purpose of this paper is to address this issue. Design/methodology/approach – Based on large‐scale archival...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the reliability of individual software components in terms of the probability that each software component performs its intended functionality successfully. The overall software system reliability is evaluated. Design/methodology/approach –...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of some organizational information technology (IT) factors (i.e. IT assets, employees' IT skills, IT resources, and satisfaction with legacy IT systems) and their interacting effects with two contingency factors (i.e. organization's...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report a collection of developments that enable users to program industrial robots using speech, several device interfaces, force control and code generation techniques. Design/methodology/approach – The reported system is explained in detail and a...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the barriers to the implementation of a software system for managing job task analysis and competency‐based training in a large organization in the State of Kuwait. Why, in spite of many positive selling points, was this system rejected...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to is to discuss the results of recent experiments in calculating the h‐index and other bibliometric and scientometric indicators from Google Scholar with the Publish or Perish software. Design/methodology/approach – The paper discusses the Publish or...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report research that sought to understand the requirements of information systems designed to support people engaged in creative intellectual activity. The research aimed to provide empirical evidence based on a case study of a particular arena of...