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Abheeshta, Putta. "Comparative Analysis of Software Development Practices across Software Organisations : India and Sweden." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för programvaruteknik, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-13355.
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Sekgweleo, Tefo Gordon. "A decision support system framework for testing and evaluating software in organisations." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/2772.
Full textIncreasingly, organisations in South African and across the world rely on software for various reasons, such as competitiveness and sustainability. The software are either developed in-house or purchased from the shelf. Irrespective of how the software was acquired, they do encounter challenges, from implementation to support, and use stages. The challenges sometimes hinder and are prohibitive to processes and activities that the software is intended to enable and support. Majority of the challenges that are encountered with software are attributed to the fact that they were not tested or appropriately tested before implementation. Some of the challenges has been costly to many organisations, particularly in South Africa. As a result, some organisations have been lacking in their efforts toward growth, competitiveness and sustainability. The challenges manifest from the fact that there are no testing tools and methods that can be easily customised for an organisation’s purposes. As a result, some organisations adopt more tools and methods for the same testing purposes, which has not solved the problem, as the challenges continue among South Africa organisations. Based on the challenges as stated above, this study was undertaken. The aim was to develop a decision support system framework, which can be used for software testing by any organisation, owing to its flexibility for customisation. The interpretivist and inductive approaches were employed. The qualitative methods and the case study design approach were applied. Three South African organisations, a private, public and small to medium enterprise (SME) were used as cases in this study. A set of criteria was used to select the organisations. The analysis of the data was guided by two sociotechnical theories, actor network theory (ANT) and diffusion of innovation (DOI). The theories were complementarily applied because of their different focuses. The actor network theory focuses on actors, which are both human and non-human, heterogeneity of networks, and the relationship between the actors within networks. This includes the interactions that happen at different moments as translated within the heterogeneous networks. Thus, ANT was employed to examine and gain better understanding of the factors that influence software testing in organisations. The DOI focuses on how new (fresh) ideas are diffused in an environment, with particular focus on innovation decision process, which constitute five stages: knowledge, persuasion, decision, implementation and confirmation. Findings from the data analysis of the three cases were further interpreted. Based on the interpretation, a decision support system framework was developed. The framework is intended to be of interest to software developers, software project managers and other stakeholders, most importantly, to provide guide to software testers in their tasks of testing software. Thus, this research is intended to be of interest and benefit to organisations and academic through its theoretical, practical and methodological contribution as detailed in the chapter seven (conclusion). In conclusion, even though this research is rigorous, comprehensive and holistic, there are room for future studies. I would like to propose that future research should be in the areas of measurement of software testing. Also, sociotechnical theories like structuration theory and technology acceptance model should be considered in the analysis of such studies.
Dick, Martin. "The benefits of object technology to Australian software development organisations." Monash University, School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, 2002. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/9313.
Full textLoureiro-Koechlin, Cecilia. "Human and social aspects of software development for complex organisations : an online ethnography of software developers." Thesis, University of Hull, 2006. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:5667.
Full textGarbash, Dor Avraham. "Organisational awareness : mapping human capital for enhancing collaboration in organisations." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCB134/document.
Full textHow can we become more aware of the sources of insight within human organisations? Rapid economical and technological changes force organisations to become more adaptive, agile and interdisciplinary. In light of this, organisations are seeking alternatives for traditional hierarchical communication structures that hinder bottom-up collaboration practices. Effective bottom-up methods require empowering members with access to the information and expertise they need to take qualified decisions. This is a complex challenge that involves organisational culture, IT and work practices. Failing to address it creates bottlenecks that can slow down business processes, hinder innovation and often lead to suboptimal and redundant work. For example, a 2014 survey of 152 Campus IT leaders in the US, estimated that 19% of the campus IT systems are redundant, costing US universities 3.8B$ per year. In aggregate, knowledge workers find the information they need only 56% of the time. With a quarter of knowledge workers total work time spent in finding and analyzing information. This time waste alone costs 7K$ per employee annually. Another example of the waste created is that newcomers and remote employees may take up to 2 years to fully integrate within their department. Furthermore according to extended surveys, only 28% of millennials feel that their current organizations are making ‘full use’ of the skills they currently have to offer and 66% expect to leave their organisation by 2020. Successfully resolving this challenge holds the potential to motivate organisation members, as well as enhance innovation and learning within it. The focus of this thesis is to better understand this problem by exploring the challenges faced by a university IT department and an interdisciplinary research center. Second, co-develop and implement a solution with these institutions, I describe their usage of the software tool we developed, outcomes and value obtained in these pilots. Third, test the effectiveness of the solution, and explore further applications and potential for a similar system to be used in a wider scale. To better understand the problem I engaged in discussion with members and leaders of both organisations. An important conclusion from the discussions is that members of these organizations often suffer from lack of awareness about their organisation’s knowledge capital—the competencies, knowledge of processes and social connections of their colleagues. Due to this exposure to innovative ideas, opportunities and common interests of peers is severely limited. This causes unnecessary delays in inter-team projects, bottlenecks, and lack of awareness about internship opportunities. I further broke down the problem, and defined it as one of information fragmentation: Different information is stored in disparate databases or inside people’s heads, requiring effort and know-how in order to obtain it. Following the conclusions of this analysis and state-of-the-art review, we have set together the goal to create a collaborative visual database to map the people, projects, skills and institutions for the IT department of Descartes University, and in addition, people, interests and internship opportunities within the CRI, an interdisciplinary research and education center. We have also conducted interviews, surveys and quizzes that ascertain that people had difficulties identifying experts outside their core teams. During the course of this thesis, I progressively addressed this challenge by developing two collaborative web applications called Rhizi and Knownodes. Knownodes is a collaborative knowledge graph which utilized information-rich edges to describe relationships between resources. Rhizi is a real-time and collaborative knowledge capital mapping interface. A prominent unique feature of Rhizi is that it provides a UI that turns text-based assertions made by users into a visual knowledge graph. (...)
Myhr, Jonas. "Supporting Collaboration in Dispersed Organisations using Computer Software : eCollaboration in AstraZeneca." Thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Information Technology, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-110897.
Full textAstraZeneca is a pharmaceutical company developing, producing and selling prescription medicine in over 100 countries. Information and communication technologies (ICT) are a potent mean for lowering the barriers caused by dispersion in space and time. The aspiration of this study is to understand how collaboration supported by electronic means (eCollaboration) can be improved in AstraZeneca. Are proper tools in place and what factors affect adoption of eCollaboration practices?
Data gathering was conducted in a globally distributed manner by a university student team consisting of six members based in China, France, Sweden, UK and the US. The team performed interviews with numerous AstraZeneca employees and stakeholders and also experienced first hand use of AstraZeneca eCollaboration capabilities. Supporting collaboration between employees depends on the type of relationship that binds them together. Ties can be characterised as strong, weak, or potential depending on intensity and information flows. A major finding of this study is that the current eCollaboration platform in AstraZeneca mainly supports collaboration via strong ties.
Further, facilitating factors for eCollaboration have been identified and divided into three categories; tools, cognitions and structural properties of an organisation. Having a consolidated and integrated eCollaboration platform, with a high critical mass of users is important for adoption. Policies for information access and sharing, as well as an incentive structure adapted to collaboration are identified as important structural properties for effective use of eCollaboration.
Johansson, Björn. "Deciding on Sourcing Option for Hosting of Software Applications in Organisations." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, VITS - Laboratoriet för verksamhetsinriktad systemutveckling, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-10024.
Full textInformation och kommunikations teknik (IKT) och hur organisationer väljer att organisera driften av mjukvaruapplikationer spelar en allt större roll för organisationers framgång. Forskningsfrågan i avhandlingen är: Varför samt hur organisationer beslutar när de väljer ett specifikt lokaliseringsalternativ för driften av mjukvaruapplikationer. Avhandlingen beskriver och förklarar lokaliseringsbeslut i Posten AB och Jönköpings Kommun från ett resursbaserat perspektiv. Båda organisationerna uppvisade en spretig och decentraliserad struktur av mjukvaruapplikationer. Postens lokaliseringbeslut resulterade i utlokalisering. Kommunens lokaliseringsbeslut resulterade i en intern omlokalisering. Besluten resulterade i båda fallen i en mer centraliserad drift av mjukvaruapplikationer. Avhandlingen är en retrospektiv fallstudie baserad på analys av semistrukturerade intervjuer och dokument. Begrepp från resursbaserad teori och litteratur om lokalisering används för att beskriva och förklara lokaliseringsbesluten. Från nio teoretiska initiala propositioner utvecklas 28 propositioner vilka tydligare redogör för varför samt hur lokaliseringbeslut genomförs. Utifrån dessa propositioner diskuteras kring relationer mellan varför och hur faktorer är involverade i lokaliseringsbeslut. Den främst dragna slutsatsen är att organisationers mognad vad gäller användningen av mjukvaruapplikationer kan beskrivas som influerande för såväl starten, beslutsprocessen som sådan, samt det slutliga resultatet av beslutsprocessen vid ett lokaliseringsbeslut rörande drift av mjukvaruapplikationer. Detta kan förklaras som att ju mer mogen organisationen är vad gäller användning av mjukvaruapplikationer desto mer proaktiv är beslutsfattare i beslutsprocessen. Involverade faktorer kan också förklaras som antingen påverkande eller försvarande. Kontroll av användning kan beskrivas ha den största påverkan på starten av beslutsprocessen. Analysen föreslår att beslutsprocessen kan ses som en irrationell beslutsprocess som genomförs med inriktning på att förankra ett redan fattat beslut, och att ju mer omogen och decentraliserad desto större inverkan har önskemålet om en ökad kontroll över mjukvaruapplikationer i ett lokaliseringsbeslut.
Johansson, Björn. "Deciding on sourcing option for hosting of software applications in organisations /." Linköping : Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-10024.
Full textBajer, Javier. "An investigation of the human costs of software upgrades in organisations." Thesis, Loughborough University, 1997. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/27006.
Full textIskoujina, Zilia. "Knowledge sharing in virtual organisations : the case of open source software communities." Thesis, Durham University, 2010. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/424/.
Full textMoolman, Lafras. "A characterisation of open source software adoption decisions in South African organisations." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/8533.
Full textThe objective of this research is to characterise the factors influencing Open Source Software (OSS) adoption decisions in South African organisations. OSS is used extensively throughout the world, but there is a large amount of fear, uncertainty and doubt surrounding decisions to adopt OSS. The research improved this situation by determining the adoption factors that are relevant to South African organisations. OSS adoption is influenced by individual and organisational technology adoption factors. An extensive literature revealed the technology adoption factors relevant to OSS adoption. Adoption factors identified in literature were localised to the South African context, taking into account both public and private sector organisations. The research has found that OSS adoption factors identified in literature are relevant in a South African context. Factors investigated include access to source code, adoption costs, software freedom and control, technological factors, support factors, organisational factors and environmental factors. An important factor in OSS adoption decisions is the choice between vendor and community based OSS and the skills and resource requirements. Choosing community based software requires additional training, skills and resources. Organisations should take into account the effect of OSS development methodology on adoption decision factors. Important adoption decision factors include software compatibility (open standards), compatibility different hardware platforms (cross platform capabilities) and software and hardware vendor independence. The research concludes with recommendations approaching OSS adoption decisions when considering the choice between OSS and proprietary software.
Noruwana, Nimrod. "How do South African organisations adopt agile methodologies for software development in practice?" Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11708.
Full textBefore organisations adopt agile methods, they need to ensure that they are prepared for the change. They also need to understand the problems they are trying to address by adopting agile methods. Agile methods deviate substantially from traditional methods of systems development (Tolfo & Wazlawick, 2008). This, therefore, makes it difficult for organisations to adopt agile methods even though they might see them attractive, as the adoption of such methods has an effect on organisational culture. If the culture cannot accommodate an agile approach, then the organisation will not be able to adopt agile (Lindvall, Basisli, Boehm, Costa, Dangle, Shull, Teseriero, Williams & Zelkowitz, 2002). Having a culture that is conducive to the adoption of agile methods is almost unanimously perceived by agile experts to be a necessary factor for the introduction of agile methodologies (eWorkshop, 2002). It is also important to understand the phases organisations go through during the process of adopting agile methods.
Greenley, Neil. "Driving and inhibiting factors in the adoption of open source software in organisations." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/16332.
Full textColman, Alan Wesley, and n/a. "Role oriented adaptive design." Swinburne University of Technology, 2006. http://adt.lib.swin.edu.au./public/adt-VSWT20070320.110756.
Full textSandén, Oscar. "Threat Management in Agile Organisations : Using the Results of a Threat Analysis in Agile Software Development." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för informationsteknologi, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-364635.
Full textPayne, Tim. "Identifying and evaluating factors that help contribute to IS 'success' for software development projects in multi-national organisations." Thesis, Kingston University, 2010. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/20888/.
Full textSaoutal, Amina. "Amélioration de l'awareness informationnelle dans la collaboration inter-organisations pendant la gestion de crise." Thesis, Troyes, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015TROY0036/document.
Full textIn order to overcome the technological and social locks that are identified in supporting collaboration - for instance, the computer systems design problems that do not meet the needs of users and/or systems that are rigid and do not allow to deal with dynamic situations where events are unexpected and appeal to emerging measures - our work is positioned in the field of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) characterized by the dualistic social and technical aspects.This research proposes flexible information and communication system that supports the information awareness in the inter-agency collaboration in emerging and complex situations as crisis. These situations add to a collaborative work several constraints such as stress, lack of foresight, the multitude of actors and organizational boundaries. In crisis management, the various organizations – emergency medical service, firefighters, police and others - need to perceive useful information to them to complete their inter-agency activities. However, actors encounter problems that prevent them to reach their goals. This study brings to its scale, a contribution in computer sciences opened to interdisciplinary with the help of social sciences which rely on study of current practices to understand and analyze the users, their activities and the work environment
Lubbe, C. R. "Success factors of a winning organisation, measured at Rubico (Pty) Ltd." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53606.
Full textENGLISH ABSTRACT: South Africa is a land of contrasts - contrasts in its landscape, cultures and business. Highly successful organisations exist in South Africa. The less fortunate organisations can learn a lot from them and other successful international organisations. Business has become a highly sophisticated science and although a recipe for instant success does not exist, the criteria described in this study can enhance an organisation's chances for success considerably. The first section of the study focuses on a literature study of nine critical factors identified in successful organisations. The study covers: Vision, Map, Customer Focus, Confidence, Standards, Drive, Teamwork, Support and Belonging. The establishment and development of these critical factors within an organisation are fundamental in highly successful organisations. The study will defines and develops these factors into practical and understandable criteria to be used and measured in an organisation. It further uses the criteria to show where an organisation could be failing and highlights some common mistakes that can be avoided. The study also provides business models to develop these criteria. The second section of the study focuses on an internal survey done at Rubico (Pty) Ltd, to measure the criteria explained in the first section. The survey highlights areas where Rubico (Pty) Ltd is functioning well, but also identifies shortcomings. The survey can be used as a measuring tool to provide insight into areas where an organisation is lacking and give the user the ability to manage more effectively.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Suid-Afrika is 'n land van kontraste - kontraste in die landskap, kulture en sakewêreld. Daar bestaan baie suksesvolle organisasies in Suid-Afrika. Minder suksesvolle organisasies kan baie leer by hierdie en ander suksesvolle internasionale organisasies. Besigheid het verander in 'n hoogs gesofistikeerde wetenskap en hoewel daar geen resep bestaan vir oornagsukses nie, kan die kriteria wat beskryf word in hierdie studie 'n organisasie se kanse op sukses verbeter. Die eerste deel van die studie fokus op 'n literatuurstudie oor nege kritiese faktore wat in suksesvolle organisasies geïdentifiseer is. Die studie spreek die volgende aan: visie, strategie, verbruiker fokus, vertroue, standaarde, dryfkrag, spanwerk, ondersteuning en "belonging". Die daarstelling en ontwikkeling van hierdie faktore binne die organisasie is fundamenteel in hoogs suksesvolle organisasies. Die studie definiëer en ontwikkel hierdie faktore in praktiese en verstaanbare kriteria wat gebruik en gemeet kan word binne 'n organisasie. Verder gebruik die studie hierdie kriteria om aan te dui waar 'n organisasie nie slaag nie en om algemene foute wat vermy kan word, uit te wys. Die studie voorsien ook sakemodelle om die kriteria te onwikkel. Die tweede deel van die studie fokus op 'n interne opname wat in Rubico (Pty) Ltd geloods is, om die kriteria wat in die eerste deel verduidelik is, te meet. Die opname beklemtoon areas waar Rubico (Pty) Ltd suksesvol is, maar identifiseer ook leemtes. Die opname kan gebruik word as 'n meetinstrument om insig oor tekortkominge in die organisasie te bekom en die gebruiker daarvan toe te rus vir effektiewe bestuur.
Lang, Carsten. "Organisation der Software-Entwicklung : Probleme, Konzepte, Lösungen /." Wiesbaden : Dt. Univ.-Verl, 2004. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/475260279.pdf.
Full textGutknecht, Olivier. "Proposition d'un modèle organisationnel générique de systèmes multi-agents et examen de ses conséquences formelles, implémentatoires et méthologiques." Phd thesis, Université Montpellier II - Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc, 2001. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00008737.
Full textHu, Yufan. "Organisation of objects in class-based software environments." Thesis, Keele University, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.260289.
Full textLunt, Graeme Arnold. "A software framework for representing organisational communication." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.258172.
Full textTorrisi, Salvatore. "The organisation of innovative activities in European software firms." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.240407.
Full textJanke, Ulrike. "Business process management in an intrapreneurial software organisation / Ulrike Janke." Thesis, North-West University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/1355.
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Čaušević, Adnan. "Software Testing in Agile Development : Technological and Organisational Challenges." Licentiate thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för innovation, design och teknik, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-12174.
Full textPatel, M. P. "Optimisation and self-organisation in adaptive learning networks." Thesis, Brunel University, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.375834.
Full textHjelmquist, Åsa, and Ola Stafström. "Social Software Roadmap : Implementering av sociala verktyg internt i organisationer." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Industriell teknik, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-158105.
Full textKerin, Michael A. "Self-organisation and autonomous learning in logical neural networks." Thesis, Brunel University, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.303172.
Full textStein, Sebastian. "Softtware Process Improvements in a Small Organisation : an Ethnography." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Avdelningen för programvarusystem, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-2879.
Full textPlease review the chosen subjects! I'm not sure, if I have done this correctly. My thesis touches all those parts, still it is not a complete sociological study. Besides email you can reach me by phone (Germany, mobile): +49 163 4016393
Al-Rawas, Amer Awadh Salim. "A framework for the communication and organisation of requirements perspectives." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.360546.
Full textStergiou, Maria. "A process-centered architecture for organisational transformation." Thesis, University of Kent, 1999. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/21775/.
Full textFilipe, Joaquim Belo Lopes. "Normative organisational modelling using intelligent multi-agent systems." Thesis, Staffordshire University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.327505.
Full textChipunza, Enciliah. "Quality management challenges in iterative software product development of a selected software development organisation in Cape Town, South Africa." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/2779.
Full textMany software organisations using iterative software development approach use practices that relate to quality management. However, the quality management process has been inadequate. Despite many research studies conducted on quality management in iterative software product development none have adequately addressed the challenges and mitigation techniques to have an adequate process that leads to a quality software product. The objective of this study was to determine factors that affect the quality management process in iterative software development. The research followed a qualitative approach, a case of software organisation SasTech in Cape Town, South Africa. 22 interviews were conducted on three roles actively involved in the software product development process. These are product management, quality assurance and software developers. Themes were drawn from results and were tabulated. The duality of technology theory was used as a theoretical lens to data analysis. Several factors were identified to influence the software quality management process. These include planning, documentation, process ownership, technologies, testing, timelines and management support. Through the general proposed framework, facilities (human resources and technologies), interpretive schemes (architecture) and norms (practices) of software quality management can be institutionalised leading to adequate and effective quality management in iterative development for SasTech as well as other organisations in the same industry.
Kugler, Petra. "Coordinating innovation : evidence form open source software development /." [St. Gallen] : [s.n.], 2005. http://aleph.unisg.ch/hsgscan/hm00142393.pdf.
Full textBrigham, Martin Patrick. "The organisation of technology and the technology of organisation : the Vehicle Mounted Data System and the provision of UK fire services." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2005. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/1184/.
Full textSarbu, Miruna [Verfasser], and Ashok [Akademischer Betreuer] Kaul. "Software, firm performance and work organisation : an empirical analysis / Miruna Sarbu. Betreuer: Ashok Kaul." Saarbrücken : Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, 2014. http://d-nb.info/1058586432/34.
Full textStephens, Mark Andrew. "An investigation into the planning, organisation and control of rapid software development and prototyping." Thesis, University of Wolverhampton, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/2436/90580.
Full textLonthoff, Jörg. "Externes Anwendungsmanagement : Organisation des Lebenszyklus komponentenbasierter, mobiler Anwendungen /." Wiesbaden : Dt. Univ.-Verl, 2007. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=016151699&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
Full textRauscher, François. "Gestion des connaissances et communication médiatisée : traçabilité et structuration des messages professionnels." Thesis, Troyes, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016TROY0032/document.
Full textEven if intangible capital represents an increasingly important part of the value of our enterprises, it’s not always possible to store, trace or capture knowledge and expertise, for instance in middle sized projects. Email it still widely used in professional projects especially among geographically distributed teams. In this study we present a novel approach to detect zones inside business emails where elements of knowledge are likely to be found. We define an enhanced context taking into account not only the email content and metadata but also the competencies of the users and their roles. Also linguistic pragmatic analysis is added to usual natural language processing techniques. After describing our model and method KTR, we apply it to a real life corpus and evaluate the results based on machine learning, filtering and information retrieval algorithms
Debbabi, Bassem. "Cube : a decentralised architecture-based framework for software self-management." Thesis, Grenoble, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014GRENM004/document.
Full textIn recent years, the world has witnessed the rapid emergence of several novel technologies and computing environments, including cloud computing, ubiquitous computing and sensor networks. These environments have been rapidly capitalised upon for building new types of applications, and bringing added-value to users. At the same time, the resulting applications have been raising a number of new significant challenges, mainly related to system design, deployment and life-cycle management during runtime. Such challenges stem from the very nature of these novel environments, characterized by large scales, high distribution, resource heterogeneity and increased dynamism. The main objective of this thesis is to provide a generic, reusable and extensible self-management solution for these types of applications, in order to help alleviate this stringent problem. We are particularly interested in providing support for the runtime management of system architecture and life-cycle, focusing on applications that are component-based and that run in highly dynamic, distributed and large-scale environments. In order to achieve this goal, we propose a synergistic solution – the Cube framework – that combines techniques from several adjacent research domains, including self-organization, constraint satisfaction, self-adaptation and self-reflection based on architectural models. In this solution, a set of decentralised Autonomic Managers self-organize dynamically, in order to build and administer a target application, by following a shared description of administrative goals. This formal description, called Archetype, contains a graph-oriented specification of the application elements to manage and of various constraints associated with these elements. A prototype of the Cube framework has been implemented for the particular application domain of data-mediation. Experiments have been carried-out in the context of two national research projects: Self-XL and Medical. Obtained results indicate the viability of the proposed solution for creating, repairing and adapting component-based applications running in distributed volatile and evolving environments
Demetriou, Georgia. "Organisational social media platforms : exploring user participation behaviours in software and technology firms." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2012. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/organisational-social-media-platforms-exploring-user-participation-behaviours-in-software-and-technology-firms(3f8d3ca5-d248-4467-8eb2-97da4888ee48).html.
Full textJönsson, Per. "Impact Analysis : Organisational Views and Support Techniques." Licentiate thesis, Karlskrona : Blekinge Institute of Technology, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-00284.
Full textAvhandlingen handlar om påverkansanalys av programvaruändringar under utvecklingscykeln. Påverkansanalys diskuteras från ett organisatoriskt perspektiv med fokus på kravhantering. Detta skiljer sig från majoriteten av existerande forskning, där man typiskt har ett tekniskt perspektiv samt fokuserar på programvaruunderhåll. Nyckelord: påverkansanalys, roller, organisatoriska nivåer, kravhantering
Starkey, Andrew J. "Many-objective genetic type-2 fuzzy logic based workforce optimisation strategies for large scale organisational design." Thesis, University of Essex, 2018. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/21543/.
Full textDyerson, Romano. "The implications of technical change for economic organisation in the CAD/CAM sector - a suggested transaction cost approach." Thesis, Heriot-Watt University, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10399/596.
Full textD'Adderio, Luciana. "Inside the virtual product : the influence of integrated software systems on organisational knowledge dynamics." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.394286.
Full textFoucault, Matthieu. "Organisation des développeurs open-source et fiabilité logicielle." Thesis, Bordeaux, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015BORD0219/document.
Full textReliability of a software, i.e. its capacity to produce the expected behaviour, is essential to the success of software projects. To ensure such reliability, developers need to reduce the amount of bugs in the source code of the software. One of the techniques available to help developers in this task is the use of software metrics, and especially metrics related to the development process.The general objective of this thesis is to contribute to the validation of process metrics, by studying their relationship with software reliability. These metrics, once validated, can be used in bug predictionmodels with the goal to guide maintenance efforts or can be used to create development guidelines. Given the extent of this domain, we chose to focus on one particular aspect of the development process, which is developers organisation, and we studied this organisation in open-source software projects.In parallel to the validation of process metrics, we contributed to the improvement of the methodology used to extract and analyse metrics, thanks to information available in software repositories
Bird, Alan J. "Development of a corporate communication strategy for a medium size organisation in the computer software field." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/1424.
Full textThis research paper is aimed at formulating a corporate communication strategy for a medium- sized organisation, Highbury Solutions, operating in the computer software ' industry. Highbury Solutions consists of a Managing Director and four managers who, together with fifteen operational staff, make up a total staff complement of twenty. Highbury Solutions had a tumover of approximately R25 million over the past financial year (2004). The organisation enjoys a partnership with the computer conglomerate IBM in which the branding of Highbury Solutions products carries the computer giants' endorsement. This relationship has been in existence since 2001. The relationship, however, according to preliminary research, indicates no communication strategy or formal communication channels in place between the two organisations. The aim of this research paper will thus be to transform theoretical perspectives into a practical approach and design of a suitable corporate communication strategy for Highbury Solutions. This strategy will be based on sound research principles of both the organisation and its stakeholders and will be based on the model for Corporate Communication Strategy in Steyn & Puth (2002: 62). This research paper will aim to formulate a corporate communication strategy that will nurture and grow the relationship between the two organisations for the next three to five years. Chapter one consists of an introduction to the research issue, including the aim of the research, the stating of the research problem as well as identifying subproblems and possible assumptions.
Venter, Johanna Maria. "The relationship between psychological career resources and engagement at a South African software and services organisation." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24017.
Full textDissertation (MCom)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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Brunauer, Martina. "Social Software in politischen Kampagnen : qualitative Untersuchung am Beispiel politischer Non-Profit-Organisationen in Österreich /." Wien : Facultas.wuv, 2008. http://www.gbv.de/dms/ilmenau/toc/595548091.PDF.
Full textLjungstedt, Stefan. "Distribution av programvara i en stor organisation : fallstudie från landstinget i Östergötland." Thesis, University West, Department of Informatics and Mathematics, 2002. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-638.
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