The ability of organisations to support collaborative working environments is of increasing importance as they move towards more distributed ways of working. Despite the attention collaboration has received from a number of disparate fields, there is a lack of a unified understanding of the component factors of collaboration. As part of our work on a European Integrated Project, CoSpaces, colla...

Due to the rapid growth of consumer electronics market, there are urgent needs in effective execution of integrated circuit (IC) collaborative design projects and better utilization of silicon intellectual property (SIP) as design knowledge on a virtual design cyber-space. In order to provide IC industry a well-integrated design environment, this research proposes an integrated information plat...

This paper studies the collaborative rating allocation problem, in which each user has limited ratings on all items. These users are termed “energy limited”. Different from existing methods which treat each rating independently, we investigate the geometric properties of a user’s rating vector, and design a matrix completion method on the simplex. In this method, a user’s rating vector is estim...

User participation seems especially important in the development of collaborative work systems where the technology is used by a work group to coordinate their joint activities. Using a sample of 163 collaborative and 239 noncollaborative applications, this research focuses on (1) Is user participation more effective in collaborative applications? (2) What specific decision issues enhance user ...

Continuous development, including continuous RE, requires more intensive, better organized, and better supported involvement of, and interaction with, business stakeholders than ever before. We should move from looking at (business) stakeholder involvement as an occasional activity in a design/development project to a regular activity very much embedded in and integrated with the daily, core bu...

The Indian banking sector has been remarkably successful in some respects. Its immense size and enormous penetration in rural areas are exemplary among developing countries, as is its solid reputation for stability among depositors. The penetration in rural areas has been associated with a reduction of poverty and a diversification out of agriculture (Burgess and Pande, 2003). However in recent...

Objectives: To evaluate the in vitro activity of aqueous and methanolic extracts of stem bark of Terminalia glaucescens on the eggs and larval stages of Haemonchus contortus of sheep. Methods: The eggs were exposed for 24 hours in five different concentrations (625, 1250, 2500, 3750 and 5000 μg/ml) of methanol, hot water (decoction) and cold water extracts at room temperature (25 ̊C). Distilled ...

Research in the area of the early-stage of innovation concentrates on non-linear innovation environments constituted by the nature of the “fuzzy front end” of innovations in which there are no well-defined problems or goals at that point in time [1,2]. Early-stage-innovation requirements are the general applicability and the support of iterations within the software tools to be developed within...

1. creation of a web collaborative working environment for interactive theorem proving, aimed at fostering knowledge-intensive cooperation, content creation and management; 2. exploitation of the markup in order to enrich the document with several kinds of annotations or active elements; annotations may have both a presentational/hypertextual nature, aimed to improve the quality of the proof sc...