The main goal of the paper is to present the characteristics of business renovation efforts in Slovenia. Renovation is presented as the highest level of strategy for managing change that commonly cannot be handled by continuous improvement and reengineering methods or organizational restructuring. The research is based on the questionnaire about BPR projects implemented in Slovenian organizatio...

BACKGROUND Children in poor and minority neighborhoods often lack adequate environmental support for healthy physical development and community interventions designed to improve physical activity resources serve as an important approach to addressing obesity. In Denver, the Learning Landscapes (LL) program has constructed over 98 culturally-tailored schoolyard play spaces at elementary schools ...

The operation principles and the components of the electrical power grid are recently undergoing a major renovation. This renovation has been triggered by several factors. First, the grid recently showed signs of resilience problems. For instance, at the beginning of 2000s, California and Eastern interconnection of the U.S. experienced two major blackouts which have caused large financial losse...

OBJECTIVES Assess the benefits of green renovation on self-reported health of primarily elderly residents of a low-income public housing apartment building. DESIGN AND SETTING Using questions from the Medicare Health Outcomes Survey, we interviewed residents at baseline and 1 year after green renovation of their 101-unit building in Mankato, Minnesota, comparing self-reported mental and physi...

Regenerative events for different queueing models are considered. The aim of this paper is to construct these events for continuous-time processes if they are given for the corresponding discrete-time model. The construction uses so-called renovative events revealing the property of the state at time n of the discrete-time model to be independent (in an algebraic sense) of the states referring ...

COBOLISRE is a sofhvare re-engineering and renovation environment for COBOL systems. I t supports a wide range of features such as system-level analysis and browsing, program-level analysis and browsing, data model recovery, concept recognition, and code segmentation. COBOLISRE is implemented on top of a distributed execution architecture to address issues of multi-user access, performance, and...

We evaluate the parsing technology used by people working in the reengineering industry. We discuss parser generators and complete systems like Yacc, TXL, TAMPR, REFINE, CobolTransformer, COSMOS, and ASF+SDF. We explain the merits and drawbacks of the various techniques. We conclude that current technology may cause problems for the reengineering industry and that modular and/or com-positional ...

Incorporating energy efficiency is nowadays the top priority of building renovation projects. The renovation solutions are normally the result of many combined solutions concerning all components of the building (walls, roofs, windows, doors, HVAC, occupation...) and the final outcome is the sum of these micro solutions. The modeling and simulation of the building thermal behavior can quickly b...