The Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is generally interpreted as the set of procedures that transform inputs into outputs and as the method by which information systems are built. In the software development industry, the SDLC not only produces information systems but also is itself a type...

Intelligent Product Recommendation Agents have been used for some time now by large, well known Internet businesses such as Amazon and Netflix. Unfortunately there is little research assessing the effectiveness of these systems in influencing online consumer behavior. Businesses that sell...

The contribution of this research is in positing that national level indicators matter in IT adoption and diffusion and providing empirical support for this theory. National level indicators are scantily represented in IT adoption or diffusion theory. Empirical results on this are almost absent...

Due to the relative youth of the computer-aided software engineering (CASE) market and the lack of standards, evaluation of CASE tools is a difficult problem. This problem is made more difficult by the fact that no single CASE tool is able to satisfy the needs of all potential users. In...

Since maintenance is the most expensive phase of the software life cycle, detecting most of the errors as early as possible in the software development effort can provide substantial savings. This study investigates the behavior of complexity metrics during testing and maintenance, and their...

Future helicopters will require all-weather capability for stabilized flight through severe atmospheric turbulence. This requirement has brought into focus the effect of turbulence on handling qualities. Accordingly, there is renewed interest in modeling and simulating turbulence and predicting...

Use cases and scenarios are used by most of the object-oriented modeling approaches for capturing users' requirements, analyzing the system and building the test cases. All the different methodologies have different approaches for modeling use cases and applying them to other object-oriented...

Over the past ten years, Client/Server computing has had a powerful impact on the way businesses deal with information technology. Client/Server computing has enhanced user's productivity, revolutionized computer networking, and restructured the computer industry.

Distribution centers and warehouses are becoming more and more dependent on advanced computer technologies to establish and maintain competitiveness in a global economy. Neural network represent a new technology with a wide scope of potential warehouses applications, ranging from planning and...

As the software industry continues to mature, best practices have been defined to improve the quality and productivity of software development. Adoption rates of these practices are better understood for large organizations as compared to small standalone organizations. Based on surveys and...