the main tasks of ‘environmental graphics’ have been designated as: provision of instructions and essential information, environmental embellishment, ease of interconnection and visual identity establishment all of which can affect the culture and identity of the audience through an unconscious process. if we consider, on the one hand, the crisis of identity and cultural problems of the present...

Recent studies at the University of Arizona and elsewhere have suggested that an Electronic Meeting System (EMS) designed to support construction of IDEFO models can eflectively support groups during development of semantic models. Group electronic modeling tools enable large groups of Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) from the business areas to actively participate in model building process and to...

From a healthcare viewpoint, BPR is a management approach that rethinks present practices and processes in business and its interactions. It attempts to improve underlying process efficiency by applying fundamental and radical approaches by either modifying or eliminating non-value adding activities and redeveloping the process/structure/culture. However, in the health sector, a wide variety of...

Business Entscheidungen basieren zunehmend auf der Analyse großer Datenmengen. Damit Nutzer die für ihre Entscheidungen relevanten Aspekte möglichst einfach erkennen können, werden interaktive Grafiken immer wichtiger. Für die Barrierefreiheit einer Anwendung, speziell für blinde Nutzer, ist dies aber eine erhebliche Herausforderung. Wir beschreiben, wie die Inhalte einer interaktiven Grafik in...

In the twenty-first century, the field of business and finance has become a media spectacle. Not only have advances in technology changed the ways in which audiences engage with business information, the pervasiveness of internet and cable television networks has led to the emergence of new hybrid forms of business news discourse, blending verbiage, images, graphics, audio and video clips. Comb...

Based on the analysis of limitation of existing workflow management system, a workflow management system based on micro kernel is researched and designed. In this system, a micro kernel based workflow engine is designed by separating the service implementation and activity scheduling; the workflow engine interface is defined to connect the related workflow components seamlessly; and then graphi...

Empirical Modelling (EM) research was initiated by Meurig Beynon at University of Warwick more than 20 years ago. The name Empirical Modelling was adopted in 1994. EM can be conceived as an exploratory and human-centered approach to software systems development (Yung, 1993, Wong, 2003, Sun, 1999). The word empirical reflects two characteristics of the EM approach, namely, the experimental and t...