In the current business environment IT outsourcing has gained prominence. Many firms in Europe outsource their IT requirements to Asia. This study analyzes the factors which favor this trend in which clients are based in Europe and vendors are based in Asia. From a strategic perspective, this study identifies the characteristics that IT activities must possess for them to be outsourced from Eur...

The supply chain consists of those activities associated with manufacturing from raw material acquisition to final product delivery. Because of the recently changed environmental requirements that affect manufacturing operations and transportation systems, growing attention is given to the development of environment management strategies for supply chains. A green supply chain aims at confining...

A process is a set of activities which produces an output -product or servicevaluable for the customer. Ensuring quality of products and services requires high amounts of cooperation between the different actors in an organization. This suggests the use of workflow techniques in order to implement quality. Workflow management systems allow the control of flow of work and guarantee that a job sh...

Processes play an important role in modern hospital settings. Both cost pressure and increasing quality requirements force hospitals to redesign their processes and to document their execution and results. Clinical Pathways are evidence based and interdisciplinary treatment processes for specific diagnosis. Along such treatment processes a lot of documents – both patient specific and unspecific...

the present research was conducted to estimate the dietary lysine (lys) requirement of growing female quail base on performance and carcass constitutes at 24 to 42 d of age. a dose-response diet mainly based on corn, corn gluten and soybean meal was used. lys content was minimized in dose-response diet (10 g/kg) while assuring the minimum levels of all other essential amino acids in a manner th...

Grid computing is a high performance computing environment to solve larger scale computational demands. Grid computing contains resource management, task scheduling, security problems, information management and so on. Task scheduling in an important aspect of distributed computing. As grid computing is a form of distributed computing with heterogeneous resources working in a shared environment...

In this paper we discuss the importance of ontologies in the knowledge management practices in the context of distributed enterprise, their maturation processes, the corresponding stages in their maturation, and the collaborative aspect of their creation. We then present our workflow and corresponding authoring tool architecture for the creation of semantic document, a sub concept in the ontolo...

In this paper, we split the service management layer, as defined in the Telecommunication Management Network (TMN), into two sublayers, namely the service application management sublayer and the service network management sublayer. The former deals with managing the mapping of the non functional requirements into functional constraints over the telecommunication service of interest, while the s...

This paper describes an operator workflow oriented information framework for services and network management. Particular attention is drawn on the requirement for a high-level management information specification. It proposes for this purpose a management information transformation formalism as a tool to specify the polymorph behavior of the information during its lifecycle across the operator ...

knowledge on animal requirement, available forage and its quality is fundamental for successful livestock and range management. since sheep is dominant grazing animal of rangelands in iran and there are over 27 sheep breeds and each breed has special body size, physiological condition and consequently different daily nutrition requirement, animal unit should be determinated for dominant breed o...