Getrude is a business process modeling methodology centered on object orientation. The approach is bottom-up. A technique similar to use cases is the starting point of the analysis: we generate scenarios and we identify the people and their roles. OMT is then used to get a picture of the structure of the enterprise. Afterwards, we produce activity based forms to validate our model against a tim...

The satellite mission GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) provides monthly solutions of the global gravity field of the Earth. Temporal variations in gravity reflect mass redistributions over the Earth. Those mass movements are caused by physical phenomena such as ice sheet dynamics, accumulation of hydrological masses over land, the dynamics in the solid Earth and the dynamics in t...

An important current trend in the business environment is the tendency for applications of technology to be 'bundled' together with legitimating discourses aimed at senior management. For example, many applications of Information Technology (IT) in the early and mid-1990's were either stimulated or justified by a discourse of Business Process Reengineering (BPR), which held that old functional ...

This study proposed a KM-oriented BPR model to assist managers to implement the knowledge management in the construction firms. Two philosophies, namely the (1) Business Process Reengineering (BPR) and the (2) Knowledge Management (KM), were combined in the addressed KM-oriented BPR model to ensure the KM operations can be merged with the business processes. That is, by using the proposed model...

This paper is primarily concerned with gathering requirements in the context of work-oriented design, although its methodological ‘recommendations’ are readily applicable in other contexts. We preface those recommendations with a consideration of changing circumstances of design. We suggest that not only are circumstances of design changing but also, and perhaps more importantly, circumstances ...

In this paper, we propose a listwise approach for constructing user-specific rankings in recommendation systems in a collaborative fashion. We contrast the listwise approach to previous pointwise and pairwise approaches, which are based on treating either each rating or each pairwise comparison as an independent instance respectively. By extending the work of (Cao et al., 2007), we cast listwis...

Building surfaces with textures and microstructures provide important information for many military and civilian applications. The extraction of the information from aerial imagery is diicult due to problems such as perspective distortion, data deeciency, and corruption caused by shadows and occlusions. In this paper we present a Surface Texture and Microstructure Extraction (STME) system to de...

We examine power relations at ‘Tiger’; a utility company in Hong Kong, where becoming a ‘learning organisation’ (LO) has been part of the stated mission. Interviews suggested that five vehicles drove a successful LO endeavour: selforganised Total Quality Management (TQM) and Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) programmes, leadership by the managing director and the change programme manager, a...

This chapter presents an approach to BPR that is focused on achieving results from the first stages to implementation. The engineering approach presented utilizes an integrated set of methods applied incrementally. This allows BPR practitioners to more realistically approach a project; assess its impact, duration, and required budget; and mitigate the risks of failure. We present the approach a...