This paper proposes an advanced distribution automation planning problem in which emergency-based demand response plans are incorporated during service restoration process. The fitness function of this planning problem consists of various costs associated with fault occurrence in electric distribution systems consisting of the total yearly cost of customers’ interruptions, the total annualized ...

To-do lists have been found to be the most popular personal information management tools, yet there is no automated system to interpret and act upon them when appropriate on behalf of the user. Automating to-do lists is challenging, not only because they are specified as free text but also because most items contain abbreviated tasks, many do not specify an action to be performed, and often ref...

In this paper we share and explore the key features we have found to be critical for different health facilities with regard to automation of hospital processes and Electronic Patient Records (EPR). We have deployed an Electronic Patient Record Management System (EPRMS) in a total of 15 hospital facilities in Uganda albeit with varying levels of success. The goal was to create a paperless envir...

Introduction Telework – Context and trends The telework concept provides answers to important questions raised by changes in the social, economic and technological environment of today. The following are some of the typical developments that are characteristic of those changes [10, 11, 12]: • Information and knowledge based work increases. • New concepts to improve the companies’ business proce...

As with the growing degree of office automation and diffuse use of electronic media, such as e-mails, written business communication is becoming a key element to promote synergies, relationships and disseminating information about products and services. Task recognition and the definition of strategies and suitable vocabularies are some of the activities that office workers deal with each time ...

This paper examines the patterns of communication on computer office automation systems (COA) in terms of organizational functi ons. A new category system is devised. Two areas of organizationally functional communi cation are defined: Operational Control Communication and Managerial Control Communication, the latter being divided into organizing and problem solving communication. Messages sent...

One of the most important tasks in every office is document management which includes the subtasks of creating, archiving, retrieving, dispatching, updating and processing documents. In the last decades and in many different ways, there have been attempts to automate these tasks with positive results. Technological advances allow these tasks to be fully automated through the use of computers an...