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Or Best Offer: A Privacy Policy Negotiation Protocol

Walker, Daniel David 1980- - 2007

negotiation protocol, ``Or Best Offer", that includes a formal model for specifying privacy preferences and reasoning about … privacy policies. The protocol is guaranteed to terminate within three rounds of negotiation while producing policies that are …

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The consistency of empirical comparisons of regression and analogy-based software project cost prediction

Mair, CM; Shepperd, M J - 2005

OBJECTIVE - to determine the consistency within and between results in empirical studies of software engineering cost estimation. We focus on regression and analogy techniques as these are commonly used. METHOD – we conducted an exhaustive search using predefined inclusion and exclusion...

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How reliable are systematic reviews in empirical software engineering?

MacDonell, S G; Shepperd, M J; Kitchenham, B A; Mendes, E - 2009

BACKGROUND – the systematic review is becoming a more commonly employed research instrument in empirical software engineering. Before undue reliance is placed on the outcomes of such reviews it would seem useful to consider the robustness of the approach in this particular research context....

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A Systematic Review of Software Development Cost Estimation Studies

Jørgensen, M; Shepperd, M J - 2007

This paper aims to provide a basis for the improvement of software estimation research through a systematic review of previous work. The review identifies 304 software cost estimation papers in 76 journals and classifies the papers according to research topic, estimation approach, research...

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Organizational Culture in Nursing: A Systematic Review

Systematic reviews are useful to keep abreast of the literature by summarizing large bodies of evidence. By conducting systematic reviews, we can learn how to apply scientific strategies, in ways that limit bias, to the assembly, critical appraisal, and synthesis of all relevant studies that...

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Social Capital and SME: A Systematic Literature Review and Research Directions

GAMAGE, Sisira Kumara Naradda; PRASANNA, RPIR; … - 2020

This study aims to review past literature on social capital and SME. The paper systematically discusses the literature on social capital and SME between the years 1999 to 2020. The Scopus database was selected to make the literature search process transparent, and the literature survey used...

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Microcredit

Heverly, Barbara M.; Tierney, Lori L. - 0000

Microcredit, or small, short-term loans to the very poor, can help to bring about wholesale changes not only in … the community in a myriad of other ways. The core concept of microcredit was built upon the belief that credit is a … how microcredit can provide access to hope. This paper explores the impact of world poverty on the world’s poorest of the …

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Determining the Criteria for Success in Social Ventures: A Case Study of Social Entrepreneurship

Gumaste, Varun - 2010

utilizes a comparative case study of two social entrepreneurship models, microconsignment and microcredit, to systematically …

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Optimal strategies for the development of microfinance in Korea and the impact of microfinance

Yoon, Youngeun - 2010

results into the real microcredit world.Next, this paper outlines the impact of microfinance on the income level of the poor … and the repayment ratio of microcredit. This task is carried out by a simulation which is an agent based model. The … the amount of microcredit to make it easier to start businesses and you can support an increase in the yield rate of …

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Influences on financial decision making among the rural poor in Bangladesh

Jackson, Laurel R. - University of Western Sydney; College of Business; … - 2010

This thesis gives a voice to the chronically poor people of rural Bangladesh, enabling them to tell their own stories about the nature of their financial decision making which is taking place within the marketing systems that are operating in all poor villages in the region. Financial decision...

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