Purpose of this paper Research was undertaken to move beyond the generally accepted generic knowledge areas and processes in order to evaluate and rank the critical success criteria (the ‘what’ to be achieved) and the success factors (the ‘how’ to achieve) in built environment project management. Problem investigated To establish if the success criteria and factors in built environment project ...

When facing new fields, interpreters need to perform extensive searches for specialised knowledge and terminology. They require this information prior to an interpretation and have it accessible during the interpreting service. Fortunately, there are currently several terminology management tools capable of assisting interpreters before and during an interpretation service. Although these tools...

The purpose of this study was to investigate potential differences between two pilot groups; the first was a sample of individuals who have not been involved in an accident and the second was a sample of pilots from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) accident database. Factors investigated included flight time, pilot flight review status, pilot certification, employment as a profes...

Regulatory compliance management (RCM) is a problem gaining wide interest in the business process management (BPM) community. However, research has not yet provided a non-ambiguous and agreedupon definition of RCM, and it is hard for newcomers to this field of research to get a clear overview of available results. This paper surveys and analyzes solutions proposed in research on RCM from the pe...

The objectives of this research are to characterize urban building damage , using a comparative analysis of remote sensing imagery acquired before and after an earthquake event, and to develop preliminary damage detection algorithms for locating collapsed urban structures. R emote sensing technologies are emerging as useful post-earthquake damage evaluation tools. Recent studies in Japan, Europ...

Purpose – Coordination in supply chains and networks calls for information sharing among the members of the supply chain. Accordingly, information visibility – the availability of relevant information for making supply chain related decisions is an important concept in the context of supply chain management. The purpose of this paper is to identify the different dimensions of information visibi...

Collaborative management of natural resources involves two or more parties working together to govern and/or manage a set of resources within a defined area. Although a number of collaborative management frameworks have been developed for protected area and fisheries management, few exist for freshwater resources that enable their comparative analysis. We present a framework of collaborative ma...

This paper proposes the use of an enterprise architecture methodology known as the Systemic Enterprise Architecture Methodology to determine the relevance of EA in addressing the business-IT alignment. A construct that characterized EA was developed based on review of the literature. A theoretical framework build upon the Systemic Enterprise Architecture Methodology (SEAM) was used based on a b...

Economic evaluation involves the comparative analysis of the costs and consequences of alternative programmes or interventions. It has increasingly been used to inform decision making about healthcare in the United Kingdom and other industrialised nations. Randomised controlled trials are commonly used as a vehicle for economic evaluations. Indeed, many funders, such as the UK National Institut...

Recent requirements to establish the credibility of the models and simulations (M&S) that are used in Department of Defense (DoD) applications have resulted in the development of several approaches to M&S credibility assessment. Each of these approaches attempts to integrate verification and validation (V&V) activities into a formal process whose products (hopefully) support M&S accreditation. ...