The Contract Change Management (CCM) system is an on-line collaboration tool, which supports the contract change management process of NEC (New Engineering Contract) form of contract. It is currently used in practice on a wide range of live civil, power and building projects in the UK. Anecdotal evidences show that the system helps construction projects in saving costs, reducing risk and increa...

In this paper, the Change Management (CM) and version control mechanisms used in the mechanical and software domains are presented respectively in the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) approaches. Based on their comparison results, this paper discusses branching / merging concepts and presents them as an opportunity for

background and objectives: today, management is one of the most important factors in hospital effectiveness and performance. the objective of this study was to assess the management skills of administrators in hospitals of tehran university of medical sciences and to identify how these skills are related to effective management.   methods: a cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out o...

New information and communication technology, specifically computer networked systems, create both a demand and an opportunity for businesses to approach training and knowledge management from new perspectives. These new training perspectives are driven by the need for businesses to provide the right training quickly and efficiently and to support knowledge systems that are current, accessible,...

We introduce the Information Agent as a component of the information infrastructure supporting collaborative computing environments. We discuss the functions of the Information Agent, describe an architecture based on an Agent Program and a Knowledge Management System and present our choices for these components. We show how the architecture can be designed and implemented using description log...

Change management is crucial to the survival and development of organizations, the more effectively you deal with change, the more likely you are to thrive. However there are a large number of failures of change management. Organizational change itself is a considerably complex activity; any tiny mistake in change management could lead to the failure of organizational change. Consequently this ...

With the increase in the need and demand for evolving Web services, the rate at which changes are made to the services has increased. In case of importunate change requests, there arise critical situations where the business analysts are subjected to make changes by themselves without the aid of the developers because of the time and cost factors. However, there are high chances that an analyst...

This paper addresses enterprise performance problems that can occur after Business Process Reengineering (BPR) project as consequence of business change. The general idea is to lean a Bayesian network from past BPR projects and use this model for prediction in future restructured processes. The role of Bayesian network will be to measure influence of business process structural changes, quantif...

We are passing through information age with lightning communication speed. Information asset storage in Cloud and retrieval in the net has become the new invisible corporate voyage into the information space. Information Assets are a valuable source of Knowledge for both Information asset creator as well as the user. These are fluid assets that change overtime based on several internal and envi...

In order to meet the demands of the Semantic Web, today’s ontologies need to be dynamic, networked structures. One important challenge, therefore, is to develop an integrated approach to the evolution process of ontologies and related metadata. Within this context, the specific goal of this work is to capture the evolution of metadata due to changed concepts, relations or metadata in one of the...