This book discusses action-oriented, concise and easy-to-communicate goals and challenges related to quality, reliability, infocomm technology and business operations. It brings together groundbreaking research in the area of software reliability, e-maintenance and big data analytics,...

This book contains revised and extended versions of selected papers from the Sixth International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design, BMSD 2016, held in Rhodes, Greece, in June 2016, organized by the Institute IICREST in cooperation with BPM-D, Aristotle University of...

"This book presents applications of evolutionary computation in the software engineering field, including how evolutionary algorithms are used to solve different search and optimization problems in the area of software engineering"--Provided by publisher.

"Practical Goal Programming" is intended to allow academics and practitioners to be able to build effective goal programming models, to detail the current state of the art, and to lay the foundation for its future development and continued application to new and varied fields. Suitable as both a...

The focus of existing open source software (OSS) research has been on how and why individuals and firms add to the commons of public OSS code - that is, on the “giving” side of this open innovation process. In contrast, research on the corresponding “receiving” side of the innovation...

History and Philosophy of Goal Programming -- Goal Programming Variants -- Formulating Goal Programmes -- Advanced Topics in Goal Programming Formulation -- Solving and Analysing Goal Programming Models -- Detection and Restoration of Pareto Inefficiency -- Trend of Integration and Combination...