Collaboration, either inter or intra-organization is a critical business function that demands skills and knowledge spanning a wide range of domains including social, business and technical domains. Collaboration patterns can be a means to capture best practices about recurring collaborative problems and solutions. Many forms of patterns have been proposed addressing specific aspects of collabo...

The management of virtual projects is fundamentally different from that of traditional projects. Furthermore, the research in this area comes from different reference disciplines and perspectives, and a unified view or theory of best practices does not yet exist. We use the theoretical frame of patterns to propose a unified view. We focus on three concepts as the underlying theoretical elements...

The advantages of the agent-based approach are still not widely recognized outside the agent research community. We believe that there is a need for guidelines that summarize the key benefits of the agent approach to non-agent experts. Agent patterns can provide that guidance. The agent community has already started to use patterns for describing best practices of agent design. However, these p...

Collaboration within and between organisations requires knowledge and skills that collaborating partners do not always possess. In an effort to capture best practice collaboration knowledge, we propose patterns as models of repeatable collaboration processes for recurring high-value collaborative tasks. We present a pattern-based approach, associated ontology and tool which act as a platform th...

P. Brittenham R. R. Cutlip C. Draper B. A. Miller S. Choudhary M. Perazolo The IT Infrastructure Libraryt defines a set of best practices to align information technology (IT) services to business needs and constitutes the framework for IT service management (ITSM). This framework helps organizations manage their IT services using standard design patterns and the requisite customization. In this...

How can we help people design well-formed and innovative games? The design Patterns of Christopher Alexander is one methodology that has been proposed to assist in the design of well-formed artifacts. However, most work on gamedesign Patterns to date has opted either for “best practice” style Patterns – or for an alternative model of Patterns to support game innovation. This paper describes ini...

The most efficient currently known algorithms for two dimensional pattern matching with rotations have a worst case time complexity of O(nm), where the size of the text is n × n and the size of the pattern is m × m. In this paper we present a new algorithm for the problem whose running time is O(nm).

We introduce a novel algorithm for transposition-invariant contentbased polyphonic music retrieval. Our SIA(M)ESE algorithm is capable of finding transposition invariant occurrences of a given template, in a database of polyphonic music called a dataset. We allow arbitrary gapping, i.e., between musical events in the dataset that have been found to match points in the template, there may be any...

 The use of Human Resource Management (HRM) practices in the form of ‘bundles’ and in integration with the business strategy of the organisation have been emphasised throughout the HRM literature. These are called the horizontal integration and vertical integration respectively. This article aim at examining the use of these practices in liner shipping industry in which human element plays a vi...

BACKGROUND Cell-free DNA (cfDNA) circulating in blood is currently used for noninvasive diagnostic and prognostic tests. Minimizing background DNA is vital for detection of low abundance cfDNA. We investigated whether a new blood collection device could reduce background levels of genomic DNA (gDNA) in plasma compared to K(3) EDTA tubes, when subjected to conditions that may occur during sample...