In this paper we present a feasibility study we conducted in a German county in order to assess the potential of a legal knowledge system in the domain of family law. The goals of this project were to describe the actual work processes, to propose optimized processes if needed and to develop a prototype. Our study was based on interviews, on two test cases submitted to clerks and on an online q...

The fierce global competition in the international markets forces manufacturers to compete in quality, cost, and the time to market aspects of their products. Knowing the cost of the manufactured components is essential for efficient operation and competitive production. The current evolution of competitive manufacturing requires a shorter market life span of products—emphasizing the design and...

Recently, Activity Based Costing (ABC) and ABM (Activity Based Management) have gotten a lot of attention. This paper’s target is the realization of production resource management based on ABM. In order to realize ABRM (Activity Based Resource Management), the analysis of “Activity” and the development of “Monitoring system” are necessary. “Monitoring system” measures the amount of each activit...

In this paper, we address the problem of predicting the usage of home appliances where a key challenge is to model the everyday routine of homeowners and the inter–dependency between the use of different appliances. In particular, given an efficient day–ahead prediction of electrical usage, home energy management systems can suggest homeowners when is the best time to run appliances in order to...

The current paper analyses the specifics of the application of Activity-Based Costing method in hospital management. Primary objective of the paper is to outline the methodology of the ABC application in hospitals. First part of the paper analyzes the ways of ABC implementation in published foreign studies. Second part describes the individual steps in ABC application and discusses the differen...

SUMMER 2015 63 In today’s world of ubiquitous computing, an abundance of information is constantly at hand wherever you go, whenever you desire. This can make it challenging for users to find the actual information they need in between these vast amounts of resources. Additionally, unrelated information can easily distract users from the original work they set out to do, leading separate activi...