Factors used in the selection of packaged software in small businesses: views of owners and managers
Information and Management
Quality function deployment usage in software development
Communications of the ACM
A stakeholder-centric software architecture analysis approach
ISAW '96 Joint proceedings of the second international software architecture workshop (ISAW-2) and international workshop on multiple perspectives in software development (Viewpoints '96) on SIGSOFT '96 workshops
Pattern-oriented software architecture: a system of patterns
Pattern-oriented software architecture: a system of patterns
A quantitative approach for assessing the priorities of software quality requirements
Journal of Systems and Software - Special issue on software engineering and knowledge engineering
Ranking fuzzy numbers using ω-weighted valuations
International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems
Essentials of Fuzzy Modeling and Control
Essentials of Fuzzy Modeling and Control
Managing software requirements using quality function deployment
Software Quality Control
Representing and Using Nonfunctional Requirements: A Process-Oriented Approach
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering - Special issue on knowledge representation and reasoning in software development
Formalising ERP Selection Criteria
IWSSD '00 Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Software Specification and Design
The Rational Unified Process: An Introduction
The Rational Unified Process: An Introduction
An empirical study of factors affecting software package selection
Journal of Management Information Systems
A general model of software architecture design derived from five industrial approaches
Journal of Systems and Software
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Group decision making to better respond customer needs in software development
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Software architecture design: evaluation and transformation
ECBS'99 Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE conference on Engineering of computer-based systems
Software requirements negotiation using the software quality function deployment
CRIWG'05 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Groupware: design, Implementation, and Use
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
A non-functional requirements tradeoff model in Trustworthy Software
Information Sciences: an International Journal
A Set of Criteria for Selection of Enterprise Resource Planning ERP
International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems
ERP software selection with MCDM: application of TODIM method
International Journal of Business Information Systems
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In many software acquisition methods, functional software requirements are resolved, but non-functional requirements are more or less deliberately put aside. A large body of research exists on the necessity of handling specific non-functional requirements as major drivers in the software development process. However, prior research does not provide adequate support for managing non-functional requirements in the software selection process, and suggests a unique technique and methodology for identifying the selection criteria. This paper presents a fuzzy quality function deployment approach for determining which of the non-functional requirements reported by earlier studies are important to a company's software selection decision based on and integrated with its functional requirements. The solution provided in this study not only assists decision makers in acquiring software requirements and defining selection criteria, but also supports determining the relative importance of these criteria. An actual case in Audio Electronics of Turkey's electronic industry demonstrates the feasibility of applying the proposed framework in practice.