Two Rule-Based Natural Language Strategies for Requirements Discovery and Classification in Open Source Software Development Projects
Open source projects do have requirements; they are, however, mostly informal text descriptions found in requests, forums, and other correspondence. Understanding such requirements provides insight into the nature of open source projects. Unfortunately, ...
Supporting Agile Organizations with a Decision Guidance Query Language
Decision optimization is widely used in many decision guidance and support systems DGSS to support business decisions such as procurement, scheduling, and planning. In spite of rapid changes in users' requirements, the implementation of DGSS is ...
Understanding Technology Support for Organizational Transactive Memory: Requirements, Application, and Customization
Transactive memory is an effective mechanism for locating and coordinating expertise in small groups and has been shown to hold numerous benefits for groups and organizations. To extend transactive memory beyond the scope of small groups, researchers ...
Theory-Informed Design and Evaluation of an Advanced Search and Knowledge Mapping System in Nanotechnology
Effective search support is an important tool for helping individuals deal with the problem of information overload. This is particularly true in the field of nanotechnology, where information from patents, grants, and research papers is growing ...
Facilitation Roles and Responsibilities for Sustained Collaboration Support in Organizations
Research shows that under certain conditions, groups using collaboration technologies such as group support systems GSS can gain substantial improvements in the effectiveness and efficiency of their work processes. GSS, however, have been slow to ...
Going Concerns: The Governance of Interorganizational Coordination Hubs
Business-to-business interactions are increasingly conducted through interorganizational coordination hubs, in which standardized information technology-based platforms provide data and business process interoperability for interactions among the ...
Effect of Information Feedback on the Outcomes and Dynamics of Multisourcing Multiattribute Procurement Auctions
Electronic auctions are increasingly being used to facilitate the procurement of goods and services in organizations. Multiattribute auctions, which allow bids on multiple dimensions of the product and not just price, are information technology-enabled ...
Leveraging Information Technology Infrastructure to Facilitate a Firm's Customer Agility and Competitive Activity: An Empirical Investigation
This paper investigates how information technology IT facilitates a firm's customer agility and, in turn, competitive activity. Customer agility captures the extent to which a firm is able to sense and respond quickly to customer-based opportunities for ...
Methodology Mashups: An Exploration of Processes Used to Maintain Software
The majority of studies of software development processes explore initial development rather than ongoing software maintenance, yet the majority of the systems development budget in many organizations is devoted to maintenance. Software maintenance ...
Patch Release Behaviors of Software Vendors in Response to Vulnerabilities: An Empirical Analysis
Software vulnerabilities have become a serious concern because unpatched software runs the risk of being exploited by hackers. There is a need for software vendors to make software patches available in a timely manner for vulnerabilities in their ...
