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    Towards increasing web application development productivity through object-oriented framework

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    Software development remains complex, expensive and risky.Thus, the need for reusability has become obvious.Through reusability web developers/engineers can save countless hours and millions of dollars in development cost. Object-oriented (OO) framework mechanism provides a new vehicle for reuse and enables web engineers to customize or reuse various aspects in web engineering such as customizing one or more elements of user interface, automatically generate event handlers, data handlers or related data elements based on changes made by them.The OO framework mechanism includes tags and scripts that predefine some generic web application activities and a common programming interface for generating a framework customization environment. This study provides a novel solution to produce high quality web applications within a shortest development timeframe through the means of customization, reusability, extensibility and flexibility.At the end, this study will conduct a comprehensive evaluation on the proposed OO framework. Building on previous works, this study emphasized the reuse of design, code and testing as a tool to uncover strengths and weaknesses of the OO framework for dynamic web engineering

    Decision support evaluation for building information modeling software selection

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    Building Information Modeling (BIM) has shift the construction industry into a new approach in development of project.The effectiveness of BIM towards increasing productivity and quality of project has been reported not only in literature yet project report.Thus, there are numerous of BIM software available with different features and function.This trend has created decision problem among the companies to select the best software that fulfill company need and project needs.Hence, a web-based Decision Support System (DSS) application namely topsis4BIM has been developed.This paper presented the evaluation the proposed DSS though using the latest technology such as web 2.0 and cloud technology

    Incorporating Agile with MDA Case Study: Online Polling System

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    Nowadays agile software development is used in greater extend but for small organizations only, whereas MDA is suitable for large organizations but yet not standardized. In this paper the pros and cons of Model Driven Architecture (MDA) and Extreme programming have been discussed. As both of them have some limitations and cannot be used in both large scale and small scale organizations a new architecture has been proposed. In this model it is tried to opt the advantages and important values to overcome the limitations of both the software development procedures. In support to the proposed architecture the implementation of it on Online Polling System has been discussed and all the phases of software development have been explained.Comment: 14 pages,1 Figure,1 Tabl

    The Use of Hosted Enterprise Applications by SMEs: A User Perspective

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    This paper seeks to deepen our understanding of the engagement of small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in hosted enterprise applications (high complexity e-business applications) in the UK by investigating the relevance of organisational and technical factors through conducting interviews with SME users of hosted applications. The emergence and development of the application service provider (ASP) sector has attracted much interest and highly optimistic forecasts for revenues. Of particular interest in this paper is the emergence of service offerings targeted specifically at SMEs. The paper starts by considering information technology (IT) adoption by SMEs in general before reviewing the provision of hosted enterprise applications in the US and UK. The empirical data collected from SME users of hosted enterprise applications is then analysed in order to produce the key findings and conclusions. From an SME user perspective the key findings to emerge from the study include: i) confirmation that ICT infrastructure was no longer a barrier to adoption, ii) the pragmatic approach taken to security issues, iii) the use of both multiple information systems (hosted and resident) and service providers, iv) the attractiveness of the rental cost model and v) the intention to continue or extend their use of hosted applications within the enterprise. The early promise of the ASP sector appears not to have been generally realised for SMEs in the UK. This study explores the experience of early adopters of this new IT related innovation and identifies some significant business gains experienced by SME users. It also highlights the opportunity for gaining competitive advantage by using hosted enterprise applications to reduce costs. There are very few empirical studies of hosted applications which take a deliberately SME user perspective and this paper make an important contribution in this emerging field

    Applications of lean thinking: a briefing document

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    This report has been put together by the Health and Care Infrastructure Research and Innovation Centre (HaCIRIC) at the University of Salford for the Department of Health. The need for the report grew out of two main simple questions, o Is Lean applicable in sectors other than manufacturing? o Can the service delivery sector learn from the success of lean in manufacturing and realise the benefits of its implementation?The aim of the report is to list together examples of lean thinking as it is evidenced in the public and private service sector. Following a review of various sources a catalogue of evidence is put together in an organised manner which demonstrates that Lean principles and techniques, when applied rigorously and throughout an entire organization/unit, they can have a positive impact on productivity, cost, quality, and timely delivery of services

    Between the Information Economy and Student Recruitment: Present Conjuncture and Future Prospects

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    In university programs and curricula, in general we react to the need to meet market needs. We respond to market stimulus, or at least try to do so. Consider now an inverted view. Consider our data and perspectives in university programs as reflecting and indeed presaging economic trends. In this article I pursue this line of thinking. I show how various past events fit very well into this new view. I provide explanation for why some technology trends happened as they did, and why some current developments are important now.Comment: 18 pages, 4 figure

    Innovation, skills development and labour: a European perspective

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    LSE Enterprise was approached by Microsoft, a software developer engaged in lobbying the European Commission and Parliament, to appoint an expert team of academic consultants to research and write a series of four reports on various aspects of innovation. Working with our nominated academic director, LSE Enterprise put together a strong research team, who continue to work closely with the client to deliver each of the reports to a standard suitable for consumption by top EU policy-makers, the client's industry sector, the press and the public. The reports are designed and printed professionally to ensure maximum quality and consistency across the series
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