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Hindrance to Requirements Engineering During Software Development with Globally Distributed Teams
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With the increase in the availability of skilled software engineers, the process of global software development is being increasingly adopted by organizations, at a relatively lesser cost. This has led to software processes being more viable in a progressive manner for several reasons that include better communication technologies and the levels of maturity seen in the software industry. That being said, Organizations that undertake the decision of adopting Global software development should realize that this process isn't exactly a risk-free action and there have been many failures reported with regard to it. The existing bools of globally distributed projects portray a number of challenges. During the interactive phase, the need for particular consideration towards the requirements of the client and the globally dispersed distributed software provider teams has been indicated. This paper makes use of surveys collected from IT professionals and people working in the software industry in order to present realistic insights gathered from them.
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HitBand: A Prefetching Model to Increase Hit Rate and Reduce Bandwidth Consumption
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Caching is a very important issue in distributed web system in order to reduce access latency and server load. A request is a hit if it is available in the cache and if not then it will fetch from the server in order to cache and serve the request. Researches have shown that generic algorithms of caching can increase hit rate up to 40−50%, but adding prefetching scheme can increase this rate to 20%. Prefetching is a technique to fetch documents before they are requested. This paper proposes a process model for prefetching named HitBand which will balance hit rate bandwidth in every scenario with the combination of "Roulette-wheel selection". Roulette-wheel selection is a very popular selection based algorithm which selects objects according to their fitness. We have compared our HitBand with the generic algorithms of prefetching like prefetching by popularity, apl characteristic, good Fetch and lifetime. Generic algorithms did not take web object size into consideration and in limited bandwidth scenario object size has a big impact on bandwidth consumption. Though prefetching by lifetime algorithm shows little concern about bandwidth consumption by getting the object with changes happening less frequently but this compromises the hit rate. But our proposed HitBand not only considers bandwidth but also hit rate during prefetching. Performance evaluation of HitBand along with other algorithms is provided in our paper. We have tested our HitBand with the testing engine which is built using JavaScript and maintained under AngularJS framework. From the performance evaluation, our HitBand shows better results both in high and low bandwidth.
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House Price Prediction Modeling Using Machine Learning
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Machine Learning is seeing its growth more rapidly in this decade. Many applications and algorithms evolve in Machine Learning day to day. One such application found in journals is house price prediction. House prices are increasing every year which has necessitated the modeling of house price prediction. These models constructed, help the customers to purchase a house suitable for their need. Proposed work makes use of the attributes or features of the houses such as number of bedrooms available in the house, age of the house, travelling facility from the location, school facility available nearby the houses and Shopping malls available nearby the house location. House availability based on desired features of the house and house price prediction are modeled in the proposed work and the model is constructed for a small town in West Godavari district of Andhrapradesh. The work involves decision tree classification, decision tree regression and multiple linear regression and is implemented using Scikit-Learn Machine Learning Tool.
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This qualitative study explores human resource managers' perceptions of blockchain technology adoption within the automobile sector in Punjab, India. Based on semi-structured interviews with HR managers from 52 organizations, the research uncovers critical insights into blockchain's potential benefits and challenges. The findings reveal that 80% of participants recognize blockchain’s ability to enhance data security, improve operational transparency, and streamline processes such as recruitment and supply chain management. For instance, blockchain’s ability to automate credential verification is perceived to reduce recruitment time by up to 30%. However, significant barriers impede adoption. Approximately 70% of HR managers cited technical complexity and a lack of in-house expertise as primary challenges, while 60% expressed concerns about high implementation costs and the absence of a clear regulatory framework. Furthermore, 50% highlighted resistance to change among employees as a critical obstacle. The study emphasizes the importance of targeted training programs to address skill gaps, strategic planning to manage high costs, and effective change management strategies to reduce resistance. These findings underscore the transformative potential of blockchain technology to improve HR efficiency and organizational performance while highlighting the need for addressing adoption barriers to unlock its full benefits. This research provides actionable insights for the automobile industry, contributing to academic discourse and offering a roadmap for blockchain integration into HR practices.
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Hybrid Security Models for Cloud Systems: Blockchain and Quantum Cryptographic Integration
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The introduction of cloud technology changes the face of data management by eliminating tedious concerns with regards to proper storage and accessibility as it can done from any location, therefore, it can be said that the emergence of this technology came with a number of challenges related to data confidentiality, integrity, and authentication as well. As a resolution to certain weaknesses presented in this case, the authors in this paper suggest a hybrid security model which integrates both quantum cryptography and blockchain technology, and improves security flaws on cloud and quantum models. There are three characteristics of data that are crucial to its safety and security; confidentiality, integrity, and availability, and cloud technology has been known to be accompanied with plenty of challenges concerning these aspects, however, with the use of Blockchain technology, data becomes immutable, decentralized, and transparent thereby reducing the risk of unauthorized access. The combination of strategies proposed in this paper, helps to eliminate a number of drawbacks like key loss, data loss, and man in the middle attacks that are common in cloud infrastructure. This study shows the structural design, data transmission and processes of the architecture for the hybrid model, looking forward to achieve better data security. The analysis of the model suggests its advantages over conventional encryption model and a purely constructed model of blockchain. Performance benchmarks are also included, demonstrating that the model is resilient to cyber threats during the quantum age. The architecture is seamless with the current cloud stature, takes cloud security a notch higher by solving the considerable challenges and is poised to be deployed on a larger scale The directional works will include improving the system’s computational efficiency and extending the model to multiple cloud infrastructures to achieve higher security in today’s complex cloud systems.
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IReadWeb: Towards Best Performance of WebAnyWhere
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This article describes IReadWeb system, which is based on existing WebAnyWhere technology. The existing WebAnyWhere system uses depth-first search (DFS) to traverse the Document Object Model (DOM) during the Web surfing task. DFS uses an exhaustive search and crawls through an entire page until it identifies the target node thereby greatly increasing the response time to users. We developed a user-experienced based algorithm, which, unlike DFS, exploits pre-fetched information stored in a local cache to speed up the browsing task. The performance of IReadWeb is thoroughly evaluated and compared against WebAnyWhere by using a sizeable sample of blind native Arabic speakers. The experimental results show that IReadWeb outperformed WebAnyWhere in attaining fast response speed.
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Both small and large companies are facing tough competition in today’s rapidly changing environment. They should be able to adapt continuously to these changes and to exploit them as opportunities of development. Firms should then innovate in order to gain sustainable advantage, by proposing adequate products and services allowing them to increase market shares and sustain their growth. Disruptive technologies are thus adopted in order to conceive innovative products, to develop a new use of existing products/services or to optimize processes. In this article, we describe our theoretical framework and its main constructs. It presents the direct effect of information technology innovation on economic, social and environmental performance. Moreover, our proposed framework focuses on the intermediary role of organizational agility. In addition, the main findings of our quantitative study based on the analysis of survey data from 103 participants are highlighted. After verifying the validity and reliability of our questionnaire results, the framework’s hypotheses are tested using partial least squares path modeling method.
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Identification of a Better Laptop with Conflicting Criteria Using TOPSIS
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Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) methods are useful for evaluating several complex factors of multiple selection problems. The Multi-Objective problems are an extension of Single-Objective problems. The goal of MCDM is to help the decision maker to make a choice among a finite number of alternatives or to sort or rank a finite set of alternatives in terms of multiple criteria. Among the MCDM methods, the most widely applied method is TOPSIS. It is applied for different kinds of MCDM problems. In laptop selection process, it is difficult to select better laptop because relatively all laptops are seems to be same. By applying the TOPSIS method to the alternatives it is simple to differentiate the laptops from one another. The better laptop has been selected using TOPSIS based on conflicting criteria such as warranty, size, battery life, specification and others. This methodology also has been evaluated by MCDM evaluation metrics such as Time and Space Complexity, Sensitivity Analysis, ranking reversal and relative closeness coefficient.
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Image Restoration Algorithm Research on Local Motion-blur
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In this paper, we aim at the restoration of local motion-blur. On the base of construction of basic model of local motion-blur, the formation mechanism of local motion-blur is analyzed, and a new restoration algorithm aimed at local motion-blur in a complex background is proposed. In the algorithm, the problem of restoration of blurred image with complex background is simplified. First, the blurred part is extracted from the complex background, and then it is pasted onto a bottom with monochromatic background. After restoration in the monochromatic background, the restored part is pasted back to the original complex background. All the operations can be completed in spatial domain. Because the restoration of blur image with monochromatic background is easier, so the algorithm proposed in this paper is simple, fast and effectual. It is an effective method of blur image restoration.
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An image represents millions of words which is depend on people interpretation. If image application considers for the marketing arena, then it represents to masses of peoples of different categories as per their requirements. The image-based marketing is an innovative and creative phenomenon which highly depends on geographical areas as well as on the interest of different placed habitat consumers. At recent times, the digital devices are widespread and it possesses by common peoples for completion of their daily miscellaneous needs and services. That is why, a new globe is opened for digital marketing, especially image-based marketing. Marketers jolt out traditional marketing strategies and adopt new marketing strategies to enhance productivity and sale. However, it is possible by application of a digital communication medium due to its effectiveness and efficiency. At recent times, the marketing paradigm has been shift very rapidly as per consumer mindset, for that, it is essential to switch into modern marketing technique keeping in mind of future firm prospect and its prosperity. Hence, in this research article, we discuss of how product sale grows by adopting digital marketing strategies, with that, we analyzed consumer behavior.
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Natural disasters cause economic instability, leading to severe financial hardships for affected communities. The rapid surge in essential goods prices during such events significantly burdens vulnerable populations, highlighting the critical need for timely policy interventions. While understanding public sentiment on economic distress is crucial for effective data-driven policy generation, research specifically analyzing public sentiment on price hikes in such contexts remains limited, often due to a lack of dedicated datasets. To address this, this paper first introduces a novel dataset of social media comments on price hikes related to the 2023 Turkey earthquake. Second, to support data-driven policy-making by quantifying public sentiment, we applied a range of AI models and identified transformer-based models like DistilBERT as particularly effective for sentiment classification. Furthermore, we employ Explainable AI techniques to enhance model trust, enabling policymakers to confidently use these insights to support disaster recovery and economic stabilization in affected regions.
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Impact of Modification Rate in Artificial Bee Colony for Engineering Design Problems
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Artificial Bee Colony (ABC), a recently proposed population based search heuristics which takes its inspiration from the intelligent foraging behavior of honey bees. In this study we have studied the impact of modification rate (MR) in basic ABC by gradually increasing it from 0.1 to 0.9. This impact is studied on four engineering design problems taken from literature. The simulated results show that it is beneficial to set the modification rate to a lower value.
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Impediments to Requirement Engineering in Distributed Team
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Due to the greater availability of skilled software engineers, organizations are increasingly adopting Global Software Development, at relatively lesser costs. Software process in such distributed teams have turned out to be progressively more viable for numerous reasons, due to better communication technologies and maturity level of software industry. However organizations adopting Global Software Development must take into consideration that it is not a risk-free action, as many failures related to it have been reported. There are a number of challenges when existing tools of globally distributed projects are adopted. Upon deep evaluation of requirement analysis during interactive phase, particular consideration must be given to the requirements of clients and distributed software provider teams which are globally dispersed. In this paper, we present realistic insights gathered from carrying out surveys from IT professionals and people working in the software industry. Moreover, extensive examination of the literature work previously done in this regard is also documented in our paper. The objective of our paper is to get a clear idea about the major factors and challenges faced by the team members of the globally distributed team. After identification of these key factors, based on the results of our survey, we have endeavored to present an analysis on how to overcome these challenges.
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Implementation and Performance Effect on Electronic Procurement and its Ship Management Companies
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Transportation industry in general and maritime transportation industry in particular are not exception in this regard. Customers, partners, agents, collaborators, shippers, port operators, suppliers and service agencies are involved in the ship transport industry supply chain, and one of the major requirements in such a supply chain in which all concerned parties are scattered all over the world, is the high speed transferring of data between them. In maritime transportation procurement process plays an essential role. In this study based on the literature review, seven most frequently mentioned factors found. These performance factors were: Cost, visibility of supply chain, cycle time, procurement control, inventory management and purchasing errors which were influenced by implementing E-Procurement. An attempt has been made in this research to find the performance effect of e-procurement implementation in ship management companies.
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This study aims to examine how to evaluate the activities undertaken in IDX. By building the system "business intelligence implementation to determine the evaluation of activities ". Where in this study also used the algorithm Naive Bayes in the process of data classification activities that have been done. The approach to the development of this software is through the study of libraries, data collection, system design, system implementation, Test systems and analysis. The tools used in the development of this software are Pentaho, PostgreSQL (as a data processing tool), Microsoft Excel (as a tool for creating training data), XAMPP (as a Web server tool) and the encoding used in this software development is the PHP CodeIgniter framework (as the backend), Highcharts (as Dashboard views) and DataTables (as table views). In this study, authors build software that is expected to help the Directorate of Development (RPE) in conducting evaluation activities in IDX. The analysis of the study uses variables from budget-realization data and activity categories as comparators to figure out the activity status. The study also used IDX activity data in 2018 to implement a built-in system. The results of this study show that the realization of the budget and category of this activity strongly affects the activities that will be evaluated or not evaluated. Activities in each of the IDX representative offices are also potentially to be evaluated, depending on the value of the budget specified in the training data set.
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Implementation of Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm in VHDL for Digital Circuits Optimization
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In order to accomplish the targets of specified levels for reducing the hardware requirements of digital systems, innovative techniques are required to be implemented either at the device level, architectural level or gate level designs. In this paper one of the evolutionary techniques i.e. Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm has been used to optimize digital circuits at the gate level on VHDL platform to draw an automatic, generalised and reliable technique to find optimum solutions with reduced gate count for the designing of digital systems.
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Agricultural price prediction in developing regions faces significant challenges from missing data in Internet of Things (IoT)-based environmental monitoring systems, particularly in tropical fruit cultivation where sensors frequently experience connectivity and operational failures. This study evaluates the impact of missing data imputation methods on agricultural price prediction model performance using environmental and market data from a commercial durian orchard in Chanthaburi Province, Thailand (2023-2024). Three imputation strategies—Linear Interpolation, Prophet, and Kalman Filter—were systematically compared across four machine learning algorithms (Regression Trees, Random Forest, XGBoost, and Artificial Neural Networks) using 10-fold cross-validation. The dataset comprised 182 observations with 28.02% missing environmental data and 68.13% missing price data, representing realistic constraints in developing agricultural economies. Results demonstrated that XGBoost consistently achieved superior performance across all imputation methods, with Kalman Filter combined with XGBoost showing the best testing performance (R² = 0.9767, MSE = 0.0013, MAE = 0.0287, MAPE = 1.49%). However, these results require careful interpretation given the limited sample size, high missingness, and potential temporal data leakage from random train-test splitting. Time series visualization revealed distinct characteristics: Linear Interpolation provided computational efficiency but oversimplified data complexity, Prophet captured seasonal patterns but introduced excessive noise, while Kalman Filter offered balanced performance preserving both smoothness and natural variability. Practical price prediction analysis showed substantial variations up to 35 Thai Baht per kilogram between imputation methods. The findings provide methodological evidence for imputation strategy selection in agricultural IoT systems with missing data, though validation with larger multi-site datasets is essential before operational deployment.
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Improving Fault-Tolerant Load Balancing Algorithms in Computational Grids
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Fault tolerant scheduling of many jobs in an environment with millions of unpredictable nodes is not an easy issue. To the best of our knowledge, no work in the literature has proposed a solution that combines the merits of active and passive replication schemes of fault tolerance with the advantages of performance-driven load balancing so as to make the most of the strong points of each. While extensive fault tolerant scheduling and load balancing methods have been presented for the sequential jobs, none have taken into account fault-tolerant load balancing that minimizes the job make-span, provides efficient network and node utilization, achieves a Ill-balanced load and high system flexibility even during the resource failures. Hence, in this article, I present an Adaptive Scheduling Algorithm namely ASA that overcomes these problems. With thorough simulations, I conclude that ASA allocates any number of jobs to a million nodes with relatively low overhead and high flexibility. Experimental results show that the performance of ASA is better than those of its counterparts.
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Increasing ERP Implementation Success Ratio by Focusing on Data Quality & User Participation
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ERP systems projects have been spread widely across many organizations in general and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in particular. Regrettably, failures were the results for most of the ERP implementations. As a result of that, critical failure and success factors (CFFs & CSFs) have been identified with the help of large number of researches. Accordingly, data quality and user participation were categorized as two of the most critical factors that threaten the success of the ERP projects. In order to raise the success percentage of such projects, a data cleansing methodology and some guidelines for user participation have been proposed.
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Indicator Automation with Power BI in the Innovation Sector of a Transformer Company
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The use of indicators is increasingly common, as they allow the visualization and analysis of useful data to assist in decision-making and planning. In this context, this article aimed to evaluate the process of automating indicators in the area of innovation in a multinational company located in Brazil, a transformer manufacturer. To this end, the themes of indicators and the application of Business Intelligence (BI) and process automation for project manager functions were conceptualized. The action research methodology developed automated indicators to facilitate decision-making and improve the productivity of the project team. These results also allowed for the improvement of visual and systemic management, by presenting all current projects and information on the occupancy rate of each team member, in addition to real-time control of whether goals are being achieved in the company. Thus, it was evident that centralizing data helps managers make more assertive decisions and the case reported can be replicated to other industrial sectors. In the academic sphere, the research also contributed to the evolution of the topic of project integration, automation and visual management of indicators using the Power BI tool.
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