Ahmed Abdeltawab Abdelgawad
Ahmed has a Ph. D. in Information and Communication Technology from the University of Agder, and an M. Phil. in System Dynamics from the University of Bergen in Norway. He also received a B. Sc. in Telecommunication and Electronics from Zagazig University, and a Diploma in Information Technology from the Information Technology Institute in Egypt. He has been employed by the Information Technology Institute as a lecturer for a couple of years starting from 2000. In 2002, after the beginning of his System Dynamics master study, he joined the Information and Decision Support Center, the think tank affiliated with the Egyptian Cabinet of Ministers, to work as a modelling specialist, modelling team leader, then as the deputy manager of the economic issues programme for more than 6 years. In this duration, Ahmed has authored and co-authored many publications and policy papers in different areas like the Egyptian agriculture, poverty, subsidies and others. By the end of 2008, he moved to Norway, where he worked for the University of Agder, GISNOR, and again for the University of Agder until now. His research and work focus on optimal public policy design via mathematical modelling, in addition to innovative ICT solutions development.
Supervisors: Mikael Snaprud, Jaziar Radianti, and John Krogstie
Phone: +47 90 36 64 68
Address: Skibberheia 25,
4870 Fevik,
Norway
Supervisors: Mikael Snaprud, Jaziar Radianti, and John Krogstie
Phone: +47 90 36 64 68
Address: Skibberheia 25,
4870 Fevik,
Norway
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The main findings from our analysis are:
• The surveyed methods have not been standardised through an official standards organisation.
• Although there are established relevant standards, for aspects covered by the methodologies e.g. concerning usability or accessibility, the measurement methods rarely refer to them.
• Software vendors are mostly not included in the intended group of users of the measurement results.
• Assessment and evaluation of the current situation of measured objects to identify bottlenecks is not carried out frequently.
• 'Ex-post' measurements are far more popular among the surveyed methods. Although, 'exante' and 'in between' measurements are expected to save money, time and effort.
• Several of the surveyed measurement methods are not regularly updated or maintained in a transparent way.
• Only with one possible exception (UWEM) the surveyed measurement methods do not have an open process for the methodology development, nor an open document license for the methodology document.
• Increasing the budget devoted to the workforce, paying more attention to the selection process while recruiting and retaining the experienced workforce members.
• Keeping the desired development rate at a level lower than the capacity of the available workforce.
• Training the workforce in HTML and WCAG, in addition to updating technology, are possible long-term investments.
The method outline and code developed in preparation for this paper is publicly available, allows us to analyze the relationship between model structure and behavior and may be implemented as par of any simulation package.
The Matlab code is available at: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/36455
The main findings from our analysis are:
• The surveyed methods have not been standardised through an official standards organisation.
• Although there are established relevant standards, for aspects covered by the methodologies e.g. concerning usability or accessibility, the measurement methods rarely refer to them.
• Software vendors are mostly not included in the intended group of users of the measurement results.
• Assessment and evaluation of the current situation of measured objects to identify bottlenecks is not carried out frequently.
• 'Ex-post' measurements are far more popular among the surveyed methods. Although, 'exante' and 'in between' measurements are expected to save money, time and effort.
• Several of the surveyed measurement methods are not regularly updated or maintained in a transparent way.
• Only with one possible exception (UWEM) the surveyed measurement methods do not have an open process for the methodology development, nor an open document license for the methodology document.
• Increasing the budget devoted to the workforce, paying more attention to the selection process while recruiting and retaining the experienced workforce members.
• Keeping the desired development rate at a level lower than the capacity of the available workforce.
• Training the workforce in HTML and WCAG, in addition to updating technology, are possible long-term investments.
The method outline and code developed in preparation for this paper is publicly available, allows us to analyze the relationship between model structure and behavior and may be implemented as par of any simulation package.
The Matlab code is available at: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/36455