Grammar-Oriented Visualisation Environment Richard Webber and Aaron Scott Department of Computer Science, University of Newcastle, Callaghan 2308, Australia

Software testing is an important software quality assurance activity to ensure that the benefits of Object oriented programming will be realized. Testing object oriented systems is little bit challenging as complexity shifted from functions and procedures as in traditional procedural systems to the interconnections among its components. Object oriented development has presented a numerous varie...

The purpose of this study is to calculate and examine the Islamic banks operating efficiency in Pakistan. It consists of 04(four) full-fledged Islamic Banks of Pakistan. The results of Liquidity & Profitability ratios and stochastic frontier approach using data of 2004 to 2011 showed positive patterns with respect to ROE, ROA and NPR. According to the achieved results, Meezan Islamic Bank can b...

The main causes of building defects are errors in the design and the construction phases. These causes related to construction are mainly due to the general lack of control of construction work and represent approximately 75% of the anomalies. In particular, one of the main causes of such anomalies, which end in building defects, is the lack of control over the physical variables of the work en...

SOA brought new opportunities for the long expected agility, reuse and the adaptive capability of information technology to the ever changing business requirements and environments. The purpose of this paper is to describe the implementation of Medical Insurance Claim Process Model using SOA. We adopt Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to reduce the complexity among systems and solve data cons...

A 20-item Likert Organizational Profile (LOP) was administered twice to 256 employees in 13 Brazilian development banks. Actual and ideal bank profiles were similar to those found in the U.S. and elsewhere: employees want participative-group management methods but say their organization uses autocratic or consultative methods. Factor analyses did not yield the six dimensions predicted by Likert...

The European Network for Lifelong Competence Development is an Integrated Project funded by the EU. Its goal is to establish an innovative technical and organizational infrastructure using open-source, standards-based technology to support lifelong competence development. In this paper the TENCompetence approach to competence development in lifelong learning is described, and the challenges whi...