editorial: neurotechnology: an engineering perspective

Editorial: Neurotechnology: An Engineering Perspective

Editorial: Neurotechnology: An Engineering Perspective

merging Brain-Machine-Brain Interfaces (BMBIs) are promising alternative to study the neural activity underlying cognitive functions and pathologies, detecting mind driven decisions, etc. A BMBI covers many engineering and medical science disciplines. It includes biomedical circuits and systems, biosensor interfaces and devices, biosignal and bioimage processing, and bioinformatics, bioelectron...

[Editorial] Business Process Re-Engineering: An Analysis Perspective

BPR has arguably been the most popular and sweeping change management approach of the past decade. The widespread attention, indeed hype, surrounding BPR can, at least partly, be attributed to the fact that BPR advocates an alternative perspective on how businesses should be studied and improved. According to this perspective, businesses should not be analyzed in terms of the functions in which...

BioMedical Engineering OnLine: An Editorial

Greetings This month marks the two-year anniversary of the founding of "Biomedical Engineering OnLine." As it is customary to mark such occasions one way or another, and since I am the editor, I am contributing an editorial. I sometimes think that there is a human gene that is activated on anniversaries and so helps us to remember significant events. Putting it in writing insures the memory las...

[Editorial] Business Process Re-Engineering: A Modeling Perspective

The increasing speed of technological progress has resulted in complex and dynamic business environments. As organisations need to adapt to new trading conditions and respond to competitive pressures, various change management approaches such as business process reengineering (BPR) are being adopted. This management concept relates to the fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of an entire...

[Editorial] Business Process Re-Engineering: A Design Perspective

Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) is considered by many to have ‘had its day’ with scholars such as Hansen (Foster, 1994) stating that BPR is a misnomenor, and goes onto conclude that re-engineering does not exist because business systems were never engineered in the first place, they simply developed. Yet, others such as Hales and Savoie, (1994) and Irani et al., (1997) argue that BPR is a...