Since 2000 several papers have examined the efficiency of healthcare delivery systems worldwide. These papers have extended the literature using drastically different input and output combinations from one another, with little theoretical or empirical support backing these specifications. Issues arise that many of these inputs and outputs are available for a subset of OECD countries each year. ...

The core of Enterprise Modelling methodology is the Enterprise Model (EM), that is a system of knowledge, maintained by a software tool. The EM can be regarded as a requirements specification (RS) as well as used as a basis for other forms of its presentation. The framework of the EM reflects different aspects of enterprise and has been found to support and amplify human thinking and reasoning....

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In this article, we present a validation approach and method to support the development of database applications. We explain how validation can cope both with the need for a formalized evaluation of correctness as well as the need for prototyping of conceptual database schemata. We de ne di erent levels of correctness for such schemata and show how these levels can be achieved through validatio...

In this paper, we analyze software production problem profiles and their link to the organizational contexts of European software production units. The data used in our study contains more than 3800 observations representing software production units in the Information Technology (IT), Production, and Service sectors. Software production problems examined in our study include those associated w...

This paper presents a new methodology for the hierarchical design of embedded systems including jitter for quality-of-service (QoS). Hierarchical top-down design requires that the specifications for the systems must be translated into specifications for the components such that, when the components are implemented to meet their specifications, the system will also meet its specifications. In a ...