Nonperforming assets (NPA) reflect the risk factor of the concerned commercial bank. Some of these banks operate at a threshold point where further reduction of NPA is not possible without reducing loans and advances, a desirable output. Pursuing an additive slack based efficiency DEA model the potential rate of reduction of NPA is explored for 50 commercial banks operating on Indian soil.

Enterprise interoperability and collaborative work are two aspects to involve in knowledge oriented enterprise collaboration. The first one implies a rather systemic view, the second one a rather activity related view on collaboration of enterprises within their ecosystems. For example, manufacturing or distribution are often dealt with by applying an input-output perspective. Product developme...

The construction industry is always criticized for lack of collaboration and ineffective communication. Building Information Modelling (BIM) is introduced to the industry as a concept that involves a series of changes on organizational processes, tools, structures and policies, as well as the interaction patterns among individuals and professional groups. Proponents claim that BIM will improve ...

In a collaborative knowledge creation environment knowledge is socially constructed and the nature of knowledge being shared, integrated and converted is dominantly tacit. Achieving the required level of exchange, proliferation and extraction of tacit knowledge in a social network context is intimately tied to social capital and the socialization and externalization modes of knowledge conversio...

This paper illustrates through a practical example an integration of a humanoid robotic architecture, with an open-platform collaborative working environment called BSCW (Be Smart Cooperate Worldwide). BSCW is primarily designed to advocate a futuristic shared workspace system for humans. We exemplify how a complex robotic system (such as a humanoid robot) can be integrated as a proactive colla...

Distributed cognition provides a framework for examining collaborative systems with the aim of supporting systems design. The approach provides a theoretical basis for structuring the analysis of data from workplace studies within a problem-solving framework. Whilst the approach has been successfully applied in well constrained activity domains, well structured problems and highly organised inf...

In this paper, the influence of four key issues on wavelet-based analysis of hydrologic series’ complexity under multi-temporal scales, including the choice of mother wavelet, noise, estimation of probability density function and trend of series data, was first studied. Then, the complexities of several representative hydrologic series data were quantified and described, based on which the perf...