Many individual scientific and technical disciplines contribute to the multidisciplinary field of remediation science and practice. Because of the relative youth of this enterprise, disciplinary interests sometimes compete and conflict with the primary goal of achieving protective, costeffective, efficient projects. Convergence of viewpoints toward a more mature, common vision is needed. In add...

Much has been written about Critical Success Factors (CSFs) for private sector Enterprise System implementation success. Our focus is on CSFs for public sector enterprise software implementations, and our research concludes that differences exist between CSFs in Private and Public Sector enterprise software implementations. These differences are described in this paper. Private sector CSFs appl...

Organizations invest substantial resources in Enterprise Systems (ES) expecting positive outcomes for the organization and its functions. Implementing an ES is a lengthy and costly undertaking, with general upheaval for many of the organizations. Many organizations therefore are seriously considering rapid ES-implementations to reduce cost and other related resources. This paper presents findin...

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Often in industrial experimentation there are a large number of factors to be considered, even though only a few are important (effect sparcity). Several techniques have been proposed for screening the important factors, but each has its limitations. We propose a new adaptive screening technique using a genetic algorithm by construction of an optimal supersaturated design from the Hadamard matr...

Both organ growth and tumor growth are dependent upon a biased ratio of cell births to cell deaths; this ratio is independent of the frequency of mitosis. Thus, so-called growth factors that affect only the frequency of mitosis are not really growth factors. I shall advance two hypotheses: that the normal adult ratio of cell births to cell deaths is maintained by the activity of a factor or fac...

Ensuring the availability of enterprise IT systems is a challenging task. The factors that can bring systems down are numerous, and their impact on various system architectures is difficult to predict. At the same time, maintaining high availability is crucial in many applications, ranging from control systems in the electric power grid, over electronic trading systems on the stock market to sp...