The complexity of modern organisations’ IT landscapes has grown dramatically over the last decades. Many enterprises initiate role projects in order to reorganise their access structures based on an organisation-wide Identity Management Infrastructure (IdMI). This paper surveys role models and related literature and identifies different role properties. It shows that current role models are not...

With the increasing competition and customer demands and new market areas, the need for organizations to innovate and furthermore to ceaselessly innovate is stressed throughout the modern management domain. Innovation is the body of knowledge referred to collectively as knowledge management. Knowledge is considered as a potential key competitive advantage, by helping to increase innovation with...

Due to the diversity of resources and different personalized management requirements, Cloud management is faced with great challenges in complexity and difficulty. For constructing a management system to satisfy a specific requirement, a redevelopment solution based on existing system is usually more practicable than developing the system from scratch. However, the difficulty and workload of re...

The increasing need for rapid introduction of new services and highly customised service offerings poses additional management challenges for today's networks. In this paper we propose a flexible distributed management system based on role driven policies and active layer networking that addresses these demands. Management information is distributed via a hierarchy of Information Servers which ...

Recent years, the forward design based on requirements has become mainstream mode of aircraft and its component systems development. Requirements analysis management not only runs through whole process system development validation activities, but also plays an important role in these activities. However, there are some practical problems requirement prognostics health (PHM) aircraft, such as l...

The growing proliferation of management systems standards (MSSs), and their individualized implementation, is a real problem faced by organizations. On the other hand, MSSs are aimed at improving efficiency and effectiveness of organizational responses in order to satisfy the requirements, needs and expectations of the stakeholders. Each organization has its own identity and this is an issue th...