during the past two decades business and manufacturing have observed significant and radical changes. companies have used automation in the manufacturing, in order to improve quality and competency. it was expected that along with these changes, management accounting systems, which focus on monitoring and analyzing management decisions, should adapt with and encourage the changes. many authors ...

this paper presents a new bridge management system (j-bms). it is integrated with a concrete bridge rating expert system that can be used to evaluate the serviceability of existing concrete bridges. the proposed j-bms not only evaluates the performance of bridges, but also offers a rehabilitation strategy based on a combination of maintenance cost minimization and quality maximization. in this ...

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the purpose of this paper is a comparative study of information technology management phd programmes at the world top universities. so, the top five rankings of universities were identified. then the top universities in the world generally and information systems/information technology field were identified too. 19 related fields were investigated. the titles of the courses of them were documen...

The New Zealand Government is strongly focused on better, smarter, faster public services delivering what the customer needs. Significant change is occurring, including machinery of government changes. To support this, many departments are re-evaluating their strategies and their use of KPIs, benchmarking and the balanced scorecard. These tools, used appropriately, provide insight to track stra...

For several years we have been pursuing a vision of knowledge on demand, the ability for all users to access knowledge regardless of time, location, device or level of expertise. This paper overviews the central role human language technology can play in several areas of knowledge on demand. After motivating the importance of this area, we describe several implemented examples of human language...