In order to facilitate better Information Systems Development (ISD), Method Engineering technqiues and tools are needed that support flexible creation, modification, and reuse of ISD methods and tools for use on specific problem domains. A metamodelling notation is needed for specifying and integrating different design notations. MetaCASE support is required for building, reusing and evolving t...

Against the background of the current financial crisis and increasing compliance regulations, companies are forced to implement an integrated approach that includes not only risk management, but also e.g. compliance and value-based management. In this situation, the concept of integrated enterprise balancing (IEB) can be applied that integrates risk and return figures to support value-based man...

In recent years, business process management (BPM) has emerged as a major process management approach to acquire the agility and flexibility of the business processes. As being failed to effectively evaluate, monitor, and control the business processes, paradigms of BPM have evolved continuously with changes in information technology (IT), and vice versa. BPM should be implemented based on a sy...

Model checking specifications with complex data and behaviour descriptions often fails due to the large state space to be processed. In this paper we propose a technique for reducing such specifications (with respect to certain properties under interest) before verification. The method is an adaption of the slicing technique from program analysis to the area of integrated formal notations and t...

The present paper proposes a novel way of extracting local texture features based on the Morphological Primitive Patterns with grain components (MPP-g) on texton based Local Directional Pattern (LDP) for effective stone texture classification. To reduce the dimensionality, the proposed research used Integrated Logical Compact LDP with OR operation on Textons (ILCLDP-T). Mathematical Morphology ...

In the United States, many transit agencies are considering integrating their demand-responsive service with traditional fixed-route service. In some cases, it may be advantageous to the transit agency or to the passenger to coordinate traditional demand-responsive transit service with fixed -route service. The demand-responsive service connects passengers from their origin to the fixed route s...

Urban Heat Island (UHI) is defined as the air temperature difference between the city and its surrounding areas. This phenomenon varies spatially (depending on the type of urban fabric constituting each neighborhood) and temporally (depending on the time of the day, on the season and on the weather conditions). This contribution proposes a methodology to model the UHI spatially and temporally u...

This paper studies the electromagnetic interference problems arising in corridors shared by transmission lines, pipelines, and railways, etc. A new circuit model method for analyzing interference problems is introduced. This method can be used to compute the combined inductive, capacitive, and conductive interference level efficiently and accurately. Practical examples are examined and results ...

to evaluate the effect of different application methods of different strains of pgpr on sorghum forage production, a field experiment was conducted in research farm of college of agriculture of university of tehran in karaj during 2009. the treatments were arranged factorially and the data was analyzed based on a complete block design with three replications. the treatments comprised of three p...