In 1995 the commercial legalization of the Internet immediately triggered e-Government initiatives all over the developed world. After more than e decade, e-Government initiatives in developing countries are still rendering poor results while they are struggling to catch up with similar applications in the developed world. Despite the strong base that BPR offered for the phasing in of new e-Gov...

We describe in this paper our contribution to the ECML PKDD Discovery Challenge 2013 (Offline Track). This years task was to predict the next given names a user of a name search engine interacts with. We model the user preferences with a sequential factor model that we optimize with respect to the Bayesian Personalized Ranking (BPR) Optimization Criterion. Therefore we complement the sequential...

There are several methods to count the number of real roots of an univariate polynomial p(x) ∈ R[x] of degree n (for details we refer to [BPR]). Among them, the Sturm algorithm says that the number of real roots of p(x) is equal to the number of Permanence minus the number of variations of signs which appears in the leading coefficients of the signed remainders sequence of p(x) and p(x). Anothe...

Business Process Reengineering has been touted by many as dramatic improvements necessary for organization competitiveness, but in practice there are many unsuccessful cases. Thus, there is need for a more systematic and rigorous assessment of the factors deemed important to project success. That is the main objective of this study. In this case, success has been defined in three different ways...

Current research on business process management (BPM) outlines the importance of business process reengineering and its role in improving business process. As well, requirements on context-awareness go forward including BPM in many research areas. That is why, in this paper, we introduce a methodology for BPR consisting on: (i) using the process context in order to discover the process nature, ...

The field of Business Process Re-Engineering (BPR) aimed at enabling the large scale re-design of processes within organisations. BPR initiatives are by nature highly knowledge intensive activities. In this paper we argue that the knowledge based nature of BPR has not previously received sufficient recognition. We explain how BPR initiatives can be assisted through the use of techniques and too...

The recently enacted Rehabilitation, Comprehensive Services, and Developmental Disabilities Amendments of 1978 (P .L. 95-602) amended the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to establish a National Institute of Handicapped Research (NIHR) . This new Institute has charged with the prime responsibility of providing the required knowledge for defining needs, and of identifying the means for improving servi...

The purpose of the research presented herein was to evaluate the effects of solids residence time (SRT) and organic acid augmentation on biological phosphorus removal (BPR), with a focus on how these operational variables affect key metabolisms and the distribution of the microbial population. Using laboratory-scale sequencing batch reactors seeded with a mixed microbial consortium and fed real...

The spectral sequence (1) was introduced in [9] and [8]. Here, BPR is the Realoriented Brown-Peterson spectrum, which was constructed from Landweber’s Real cobordism spectrum MR [10] by Araki [2]. These are Z/2-equivariant spectra, indexed on RO(Z/2). The subscript ⋆ refers to the RO(Z/2)-indexing, i. e. all (bi)degrees k + lα, k, l ∈ Z, where α is the sign representation of Z/2. Thus, the spec...

O of the most fundamental assumptions held by applied anthropologists is the view that the anthropological perspective can be fruitfully applied in any human endeavor. As stated by P. Higgins and A. Paredes in their introductory notes to Classics of Practicing Anthropology 1978-1998 (Society for Applied Anthropology, 2000), this has been the underlying philosophy of Practicing Anthropology sinc...