Health care processes are nowadays heavily dependent on Information Technology (IT). On the other side, assessing a higher quality of health care to patients has become increasingly important. Effective health care processes are thereby heavily dependent on a comprehensive IT-support. Therefore, a thorough understanding about both the hospital IT-systems and clinical pathways is required, to id...

PDP 0101. Successfully Managing People. 1.4 Hour. Focuses on key elements to help students meet the current challenges in a changing environment. One’s results as a manager are dependent upon the results of others; therefore, to be successful one must effectively manage others. Offers students an opportunity to learn how to apply proven leadership techniques for coaching, counseling, delegating...

The focus of this chapter is on the application of a framework for remotely delivering role-playing experiences that afford users the opportunity to practice real-world skills in a safe virtual setting. The framework, AMITIES, provides a single individual the capabilities to remotely orchestrate the performances of multiple virtual characters. We illustrate this by introducing avatar– enabled s...

As frequent readers of this part of the Bulletin may have already noticed, from this volume I have taken over the job of editing the concurrency column. On behalf of the whole concurrency community, I take this opportunity for thanking my predecessor, Mogens Nielsen, for his superb editorial work over the years. In order to follow on Mogens’ footsteps I need the assistance of the concurrency co...

Since its development, YouTube, the world’s third most popular online destination, has transformed from a video-sharing site into a job opportunity for content creators in both new and mainstream media. Based on content analysis, the study examined how three prominent YouTubers have created a successful personal brand. Analysis revealed the common characteristics that these online celebrities s...

Résumés provide critical information for organizations to make selection decisions and applicants with their first opportunity to influence decision makers. While résumés are intended to convey job relevant information, they also potentially provide information about applicants that could hinder their employment prospects. For example, many names give clues about an applicant’s sex or race, and...

Sensor networks that can support time-critical operations pose challenging problems for tracking events of interest. We propose an architecture for a sensor network that autonomously adapts in real-time to data fusion requirements so as not to miss events of interest and provides accurate real-time mobile target tracking. In the proposed architecture, the sensed data is processed in an abstract...

BACKGROUND Due to the aging of the population and subsequent higher pressure on public finances, there is a need for employees in many European countries to extend their working lives. One way in which this can be achieved is by employees refraining from retiring early. Factors predicting early retirement have been identified in quantitative research, but little is known on why and how these fa...

This paper describes an architecture for dynamically deploying Web Services over a grid or the Internet. Distributed job scheduling systems are found at the heart of most grid computing infrastructures. They allow jobs (a combination of the code to be executed and (in many cases) the data on which it is to operate) to be created by clients and dynamically routed to available, remote computing r...

contacts for future opportunities. Ideas and projects are developed in groups to build communication and interpersonal skills, helpful in a future work environment. Guest speakers provide business and industry perspectives on leadership and communications topics. A survey of ALA students indicated job shadowing was the most beneficial activity of ALA and students agreed they were able to demons...