Metadata in environmental management systems support searching and browsing operations. XMLbased metadata systems can store metadata in a flexible manner that is suitable also for small and medium size organizations. Our EcoExplorer software package consists of three closely cooperating programs for the management of XML-based environmental metadata. It is implemented in Java and therefore plat...

The shift from device and application towards service-orientated IT Management raises new questions that require concepts such as portfolio management, resource planning or mass customization for IT services. These concepts increase the complexity of IT Service Management and require additional tool support. Conceptual models are necessary in order to develop appropriate tools. The goal of our ...

given the role that knowledge management can play consistently on the changes and the need to develop human resources in the implementation of knowledge management on the one hand and important position of cooperative sector in country economics, on the other hand, led to that the researchers study the relationship between knowledge management and human resource performance of the agricultural ...

This article analyses HRIS impact in a SME based on a longitudinal case study. This SME evolves in the educational sector and has just operated a fusion of four private schools. A HRIS (time management & activity software) is launched. A contextualist perspective is taken from 2002 to 2010 based on various stakeholders interviews (external actors as consultant; internal actors as HR manager, Fi...

0963-8687/$ see front matter 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsis.2013.03.002 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +61 409 849 099; fax: +61 2 9351 4729. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (K. Dery), [email protected] (R. Hall), [email protected] (N. Wailes) [email protected] (S. Wiblen). Kristine Dery ⇑, Richard Hall, Nick Wailes, Sha...

In this paper, we examine the communication-performance link in the R&D laboratory, with an eye toward the effects of taskand equity-related communications on the social environment. We argue that social comparisons (in which employees make comparisons between themselves and their coworkers) can have deleterious effects on performance under certain conditions, possibly negating the positive eff...

BEKO-SMS is a knowledge-based skill management system that combines project planning and human resource management. Application and system functions model specific skills and relationships used in a particular project. The definition of skills, skill trees, skill updating and other processes form the basis for the success factors of the SMS. We conclude that efficient project resource planning ...

Energy management mechanisms in resource constrained environments such as mobile systems are typically based on the current status of various system parameters such as utilization and quality of service requirements. Any knowledge gained about future system resource usage and other significant dynamics in the system can further lead to increased optimizations in such mechanisms. Future knowledg...

This paper builds on recent work on measuring and evaluating environmental performance of a process using statistical process control (SPC) techniques. We propose the CUSUM chart as a tool to monitor emissions data so that abnormal changes can be detected in a timely manner, and we propose using process capability indices to evaluate environmental performance in terms of the risk of non-complia...