The 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 theworld, but there is a large amount of fear, uncertainty and doubt surrounding decisions to adoptOSS. The...

Surface texture plays an important role in the specification of a precision workpiece. However, the route of traceability for surface texture measurements is not well developed. One of the main technical obstacles is the lack of tools to check traceability of the software of surface measuring...

This study investigated some of the early non-technical components of the software development process from the perspective of project success. The causal relationships among these components, as well as their relationship to software practitionersâ overall perception of project success, were...

This report summarizes the work that has been carried out as part of the FLAVIIR project, a 5 year research program looking at technologies for future unmanned air vehicles. A novel classication of aircraft product defnition is utilised and a framework to estimate the life cycle cost of aircraft...

Technologies such as Web Services, the Semantic Web and the Grid may give rise to new electronic service markets, which have so many services, providers and consumers that software agents need to be employed to search and configurethe services for their users. To this end, in this thesis, we...

Looking at software engineering from a historical perspective, we can see how software development methodologies have evolved over the past 50 years. Using the right software development methodology with the right settings has always been a challenge. Therefore, there has always been a need for...

Applied Game Theory has been criticised for not being able to model real decision making situations. A game's sensitive nature and the difficultly in determining the utility payoff functions make it hard for a decision maker to rely upon any game theoretic results. Therefore the models tend to...

Empirical research is vital if software engineering technology is to be meaningfully evaluated --- without it only guesses can be made at the competing merits of different approaches. Unfortunately, as this thesis demonstrates, much of existing empirical work contains some kind of weakness...

Many papers have speculated on the possibility of applying peer-to-peer networking concepts to networks that exist in the physical world such as financial markets, business or personal communication and ad hoc networking. One such application that has been discussed in the literature has been...