Over the past ten years, we have seen many useful developments in software specification tools, languages, processes, and practices as well as the creation of a number of excellent requirements management tools. Numerous books and articles have been produced on requirements elicitation and development. We have leamed to explicitly specify complex synchronous and asynchronous processes using Pet...

Health Care has traditionally been dominated by a strong professional culture, to which information and communications technology has not maybe fitted in the optimal way. Currently, however, strong currents are changing the intellectual climate in the field. Modern information and communications technology is being taken into usage in the Health Care sector at an increasing pace. This article p...

Construction industry accounts for a significant portion of world economic activities, especially in emerging economies where infrastructure developments are much needed. Construction industry is typically characterized as a labor-intensive and low-tech sector. Meanwhile, it is also the sector consistently found the least productive. Commonly cited reasons for such poor performance in this sect...

In any development, screw compressor has several prominent roles. One is its unavoidable application in infrastructure building of the road and railway networks, as well as in major housing developments. Other roles are introduction of new compressor manufacturing facilities and a consequential improvement of the existing compressor industry in which the screw compressor has a vital part as an ...

Production planning and inventory control efforts are known as the driving engines of manufacturing systems. The manufacturers, competing to survive in these days’ competitive business environment, aim to satisfy customers’ needs. This requires a precise production plan throughout the supply chain. These days, because of the increasing costs of production and distribution, especially in the cem...

W hile most antitrust cases proceed in obscurity, the case brought against Microsoft by federal and state antitrust authorities was front-page news. Much of the drama and media hype centered on the struggle between the titan of high technology, personified in Bill Gates, and the titan of government, personified in U.S. Assistant Attorney General Joel Klein. For economists and policymakers, howe...