This paper aims at developing an ultrasound-based diagnostic measure which quantifies plaque activity, that is, the likelihood of the asymptomatic lesion to produce neurological symptoms. The method is rooted on the identification of an ”active” plaque profile containing the most relevant ultrasound parameters associated with symptoms. This information is used to build an Enhanced Activity Inde...

ABC Communications case study, 281–284 Accelerated SAP framework, 320 activity-oriented prcesses, 337 Actual Implementation phase of implementation, 200 adopters organizations studied, 32–36, 37 success measurement by, 24 see also implementers; users advantages of ERP systems, 277–278 AeroGroup, 373 anticipated change, 330 Antony’s planning and systems control framework, 76 application hosting ...

In addressing enterprise integration problems, a diversity of technologies such as CORBA and XML were promoted, yet no single integration technology solves all integration problems. As a result, a new generation of software called Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) is emerging to addresses many integration problems by combining a diversity of integration technologies (e.g. message brokers...

The first number of the second volume of the EAI Transactions on Serious Games focuses on the results presented on the European Conference on Game-Based Learning. This event, already on the 8 edition, has set standards in terms of presentation of research and practice and in the pointing out of new and future trends in the development of Game-Based Learning. As such, we are quite thrilled to be...

The dynamic and competitive enterprise environment requires enterprises to ensure the highest pro®t from their resources, integrating them to work together in obtaining the enterprises objectives. The project of design and implementation of an Integrating Enterprise System, is an extremely complex project that involves di€erent technological, human and organisational elements. For this purpose ...

Introduction Although the Internet was a result of government and university collaboration, the digital tsunami that has blown through various industries has barely affected the way higher education institutions conduct business. However the winds of change are now slowly starting to affect these institutions as colleges and universities take a page from dot.com businesses and ramp up front and...

The emerging Semantic Web may change business integration from using partial, ad-hoc and costly connections to a qualitatively new level providing universal representation and transformation means for business terminologies, documents, business processes, services, and business models. Currently, the Semantic Web is based on representation languages like XML, RDF (Schema), and OIL, however it l...