This paper provides a survey on recent research in the area of design rationale. The study of
design rationale spans a number of diverse disciplines, touching on concepts from research …

Knowledge centric activities of developing new products and services are becoming the
primary source of sustainable competitive advantage in an era characterized by short …

Drawing upon the requirements and software development literature, the present study
proposes an integrative contingency model for requirements development. Based on 116 …

The understanding of knowledge can be impaired if it is isolated from the proper context.
Despite the importance of contextual information, there has been limited support for utilizing …

This paper explores how to integrate formal meta-models with an informal method rationale
to support evolutionary (continuous) method development. While the former provides an …

The Internet has led to the widespread trade of digital information products. These products
exhibit unusual properties such as high fixed costs and near-zero marginal costs. They need …

This paper presents a new integrated tool and decision support framework to approach
complex problems resulting from the interaction of many multi-criteria issues. The framework …

Web services are currently one of the trends in network-based business services, which
intuitively will be applied to build a semantic web-based decision support system (DSS) …

The requirements specification–as outcome of the requirements engineering process–falls
short of capturing other useful information generated during this process, such as the …

Rapid technological change has had an impact on the nature of software. This has led to
new exigencies and to demands for software engineering paradigms that pay particular …