values matter to business process management? Results from a global Delphi study. Notice: Changes introduced as a result of publishing processes such as copy-editing and formatting may not be reflected in this document. For a definitive version of this work, please refer to the published source. Abstract Purpose – Business Process Management (BPM) requires a holistic perspective that includes m...

This article uses cluster analysis to develop an early warning model of political change in the Levant as reflected in WEIS-coded event data generated from Reuters between April 1979 and December 1998. We employ a new statistical algorithm that uses the correlation between dyadic behaviors at two time points in time to identify clusters of political activity. The transition to a new cluster occ...

Chazelle, B., H. Edelsbrunner, L.J. Guibas and M. Sharir, A singly exponential stratification scheme for real semi-algebraic varieties and its applications, Theoretical Computer Science 84 (1991) 77-105. This paper describes an effective procedure for stratifying a real semi-algebraic set into cells of constant description size. The attractive feature of our method is that the number of cells p...

estimation of seepage from water channels are necessary in evaluating water productivity in agricultural sector as affected by floodwater spreading on plains and artificial recharge of groundwater. several empirical seepage equations have been developed for this purpose. previous research results in iran have shown lots of variation in the coefficients and the empirical equations change in diff...