The need to effectively promote safe staffing levels in community settings challenges commissioners and providers of services to find rigorous methods of capturing workforce evidence that can be systematically used to shape effective services and skill mix for the future. This article presents a brief review of current approaches and challenges to measuring community nursing workload activity i...

Coalitional game theory is a sub-area of game theory that models situations where agents can benefit from cooperation. Its representations and solution concepts are NP-hard in the general case. I describe some of the major solution concepts and survey two papers that deal with this general-case intractability. The first studies a specific well-motivated coalitional game and finds that two solut...

The widespread adoption of Information Technology has helped reduce market problems caused by geographical separation and allow collaboration between organisations who are physically distributed around the globe. However, despite the successful strategic benefits brought by the evolution of the Internet and other web based services, this has not led to a higher project success rate. The biggest...

This article examines the complexity of resource-allocation decisions for resource-constrained project scheduling. The allocation decisions are modeled by means of precedence networks and are closely related to ES-policies, which are a type of scheduling policies introduced for stochastic scheduling. We find that even a number of ‘surrogate’ objective functions, whose use has recently been prop...

In archiectural synthesis, scheduling and resource allocation are important steps. During the early stage of the design, imprecise information is unavoidable. Under the imprecise system characteristics and constraints, this paper proposes a polynomial-time scheduling algorithm which minimizes both functional units and registers while scheduling. The algorithm can be used in design exploration f...

Vector field methods for trajectory following are generally computed offline before execution and thus only applicable to static trajectories. In contrast this paper introduces Laplacian trajectory vector fields (LTVF) as a computationally efficient method for creating convergent vector fields towards a discretized reference trajectory. In case of environmental changes both the vector field and...

The management of outsourced information systems development (ISD) projects is both complex and problematic due to the type of outsourcing arrangement, the nature of the work that is outsourced, and the relationship between the vendor and client. Moreover, outsourced projects are conducted in an unstructured environment with divergent organizational expectations. Existing project management tec...

The term ‘SC’ appeared for the first time in Government of India Act of 1935(1). In April 1936, British government issued the Government of India Scheduled Caste order 1936, specifying certain castes, races and tribes as scheduled castes in the then provinces of Assam, Bengal, Bihar and Bombay, Central provinces and Berrar, Madras, Orissa, Punjab and United Province. Prior to these, they are kn...

In this paper we propose DCP, a new algorithm for solving the Frequent Set Counting problem, which enhances Apriori. Our goal was to optimize the initial iterations of Apriori, i.e. the most time consuming ones when datasets characterized by short or medium length frequent patterns are considered. The main improvements regard the use of an innovative method for storing candidate set of items an...

Compared to other projects, information technology (IT) projects, characterized by emergency and uncertainty, are unique. To implement an IT project successfully, many aspects need to be monitored and carefully controlled and managed. One such aspect is social relationships. All IT professionals are exposed to, and in many cases involved, in the phenomenon of social relationships. These relatio...