in the present study an attempt has been made to use a non-parametric method data envelopment analysis (dea) for assessing source-wise and operation-wise the technical efficiency (te) and return-to-scale (rts) for paddy production in four zones of the state of punjab, india. the results were then compared to corresponding ones already obtained from a parametric method (cobb-douglas production f...

Software development is rarely an individual effort and generally involves teams of developers collaborating to generate good reliable code. Among the software code there exist technical dependencies that arise from software components using services from other components. The different ways of assigning the design, development, and testing of these software modules to people can cause various ...

In this experience report we present a case study in designing, implementing, and reusing an object-oriented framework for constructing and editing complex search expressions over arbitrary data domains. We present a framework design that achieves a large degree of business domain decoupling through the application of design patterns. We outline the reuse process and analyse and classify the pr...

-This paper is concerned with programming of the Potts mean field theory neural networks for pattern recognition by homomorphic mapping of the attributed relational graphs (ARG). In order to generate the homomorphic mapping from the scene relational graph to the model graph, we make use of the recently introduced [Suganthan, Technical Report, Nanyang Technical University (1994)] compatibility f...

We describe the technical aspects of the in-situ X-ray diffraction of a protein crystal prepared by a nanodroplet-based crystallization method. We were able to obtain diffraction patterns from a crystal grown in a capillary without any manipulation. Especially in our experimental approach, the crystals that moved to the nanodroplet interface were fixed strongly enough to carry out X-ray diffr...

This paper shows how Model Driven Engineering (MDE) and Business Process Management (BPM) can be combined when generating executable BPEL processes out of BPMN models. By adding appropriate meta-data information to the BPMN models, business patterns like model fragments or reference process building blocks and technical patterns are applied during the BPMN to BPEL transformation phase. The prop...

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Design of peer-review support systems is shaped by the policies that define and govern the process of peer review. An important component of these are policies that deal with anonymity: the rules that govern the concealment and transparency of information related to identities of the various stakeholders (authors, reviewers, editors, and others) involved in the peer-review process. Anonymity po...

Negotiation Support Systems (NSSs) offer a multidimensional support of negotiations through the internet. Different kind of conflicts – apart from the initial conflict – can occur during this process. This paper will give an overview of the current state-of-the-art in managing electronic negotiations with the help of NSSs and it introduces an advanced conflict management concept to resolve esca...