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Self-adaptable system concerns on service adaptation whenever errors persist within the system. Changes in contextual information such as networks or sensors will affect the system’s effectiveness because the service adaptation process is not comprehensively handled in those contexts. Besides, the correctness to get the most equivalence services to be substituted is limitedly being addressed from previous works. A dynamic service adaptation framework is introduced to monitor and run a reasoning control to solve these issues. Hence, this paper presents a case study to proof the dynamic service adaptation framework that leverages on semantic-based approach in a context-aware environment. The evaluation of the case study resulted in a significant difference for the effectiveness at a 95% confidence level, which can be interpreted to confirm that the framework is promising to be used in operating dynamic adaptation process in a pervasive environment.

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Software development process and software quality have important roles in government and education sector as our society nowadays becomes more dependent on computers technology especially in system or software product development. Thus, the effectiveness of project management is an important factor to find out the achievement of the software development processes as well as level of software quality. Previously, a research studies regarding the practices of software development process have been conducted by many researchers to examine the effectiveness of the practices including research studies were conducted in European countries, India, Japan and just a few in Asian countries especially in Malaysia. With regard of this situation, this research study conduct a survey in order to investigate current practices of software development process activities as well as identifies the methodology, programming languages and techniques used in software development processes. The structured questionnaire have been distributed to the respective respondents for data collection followed by data extracting, data analyzing, evaluation and discussion of the results. Basic statistical methods which are frequency and cross tabulations were used to analyze the data. The results of this research study have addressed some important points regarding the practices of software development processes used in government and education sectors in Malaysia such as gives impact towards a better quality of software or system. Furthermore, implementing of project management process are not in maximum approach which show that project management are not fully implemented in development of a project.