Quality in its contemporary incarnation is commonly referred to as organizational excellence, enterprise excellence, business excellence, or performance excellence. While technology may serve as a key enabler of enterprise excellence, enterprise excellence itself is in large enabled by the human dimension both in terms of ideation and effort. The human dimension manifests in many ways, with peo...

The target article argues that whole groups can act as interactors in an evolutionary process. We believe that Smaldino's discussion would be advanced by a more thorough analysis of the appropriate replicators and lineages for this model. We show that cultural evolution is necessarily a separate process from cultural group selection, and we also illustrate that the two processes may influence e...

In this paper we present the WissKI System, an open source Virtual Research Environment and Content Management System for Cultural Heritage. It promotes semantic enrichment of data on the basis of OWL / RDF using the ontology CIDOC CRM / ISO 21127. The data is rendered in a Wikipedia-like fashion, combining textual, visual and structured information (info boxes) for a documented object on one p...

ANDASA is a knowledge management platform for the capitalization of knowledge and cultural assets for the artistic and cultural sectors. It was built based on the priorities expressed by the participating artists. Through mapping artistic activities and specificities, it enables to highlight various aspects of the artistic research and production. Such instrument will contribute to create netwo...

With regard to the increasing complexity and heterogeneization of the organizations, the technological and organizational dimensions in the software process modeling are passing through an integration period. In this article we present a methodological framework in order to analyze the software construction models cultural feasibility. A symbiotic multilevel software process cycle model (SMPCM)...

introduction  nowadays, landscape recounts the land components, elements and components which each alone and together have a key role in building and shaping the natural environment and consequently the natural landscape and eventually the built environment and landscape. although humans connection with its surrounding is achieved through different senses, but still more than 80% of its connect...