The Capability Maturity Model for Software is a model for building organizational capability that has been widely adopted in the software community and beyond. The Software CMM is a five-level model that prescribes process improvement priorities for software organizations. Level 4 in the CMM focuses on using quantitative techniques, particularly statistical techniques, for controlling the soft...

Community resilience planning, risk mitigation and recovery optimization must assume a system perspective at the level of the overall community built environment. While engineers can quantify the performance of individual buildings and facilities, such information must be aggregated to reflect the vulnerability of the building portfolio as a whole to support resilience-based decisions at the co...

Community-based interventions to promote physical activity (PA) among older adults are of high interest in health promotion since they promise to be effective strategies to reach this population group. Community capacity building, that is, the local promotion of knowledge, skills, commitment, structures, and leadership, is among the recommended core strategies. However, little guidance is provi...

This research intends to explore students’ aspect and impact on forming virtual learning communities within online courses. A formal online course that is on the process of building virtual community is closely examined to discover students’ perceptions of learning community approach, their online performances, and how these perceptions and performances facilitate or hinder the forming of a vir...

In the industrial engineering community, it’s a well-known adage that focusing on process can help achieve better results. In this second of a series of papers, we’ll focus on the process of simulation testing and outline how improving your testing process can lead to better results for your projects. We’ll consider model building as a software development exercise, and discuss how best practic...

A collaborative approach to identify opportunities for interactions between multiple systems is an important model for childhood obesity prevention. This paper describes a process aligning multiple partners in primary care, public health, university research, schools, and community organizations. Jointly implemented strategies in a Latino underserved community included: (1) building an effectiv...

Building performance simulation is being increasingly deployed beyond the building design phase to support efficient building operation. Specifically, the predictive feature of the simulation-assisted building systems control strategy provides distinct advantages in view of building systems with high latency and inertia. Such advantages can be exploited only if model predictions can be relied u...

The Open Language Archives Community is an international partnership of institutions and individuals that is creating a worldwide virtual library of language resources. We report on the development of OLAC metadata as a specialization of Dublin Core metadata and then describe the interoperability framework in which the metadata is validated, disseminated and aggregated. We also discuss the comm...