Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide and develop a comprehensive and holistic understanding of the working relationship between the in-house IT department and other parts of the business. Design/methodology/approach – In this paper, IT professionals and internal customers at...

By providing a route from model to architecture, Model Driven Architecture (MDA) promises, among other things, to narrow the gap between business users and software developers. That is, the approach is intended to involve stakeholders in modelling, so that, by transformation from Computationally...

Time series forecasting has a long track record in many application areas. In forecasting research, it has been illustrated that finding an individual algorithm that works best for all possible scenarios is hopeless. Therefore, instead of striving to design a single superior algorithm, current...

A system has been developed that analyses the emotional content of web pages. Text is extracted from an embedded Internet browser and sent to a text-to-emotion engine that identifies the emotive content. An experiment was conducted that examines the effect the emotional content of the web page...

This article reports on the latest developments of our Emotional Stock Analyser application. The original application automatically analyses the text that is input by the user, using a text-to-emotion engine that identifies the emotive content. The whole text of newspaper articles about the...

There is a continuing drive for better, more robust generalisation performance from classification systems, and prediction systems in general. Ensemble methods, or the combining of multiple classifiers, have become an accepted and successful tool for doing this, though the reasons for success...

Software is quite often expensive to develop and can become a major cost factor in corporate information systems budgets. With the variability of software characteristics and the continual emergence of new technologies the accurate prediction of software development costs is a critical problem...

Ensuring that organizational IT is in alignment with and provides support for an organization's business strategy is critical to business success. Despite this, business strategy and strategic alignment issues are all but ignored in the requirements engineering research literature. We present...

As a means of contributing to the achievement of business advantage for companies engaging in e-business, we propose a requirements engineering framework that incorporates a business strategy dimension. We employ Jackson’s Problem Frames approach, goal modeling, and business process modeling...

One of the motivations for a model driven approach to software development is to increase the involvement for a range of stakeholders in the requirements phases. This inevitably leads to a greater diversity of roles being involved in the production of models, and one of the issues with such...