* Address for correspondence: J.E.Dobson, 31 Wentworth Park, Allendale Northumberland NE47 9DR, U.K. email Abstract: In this paper we shall look at some of the problems in designing an information and communication (ICT) system for an organisation located in a complex multi-organisational setting. We shall look in particular at the handling of errors both within the ICT i...

Copies of the full protocol and details of training programmes are available from Association of Litigation and Risk Management (ALARM), Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London W1. Contributors: CV and ST-A carried out the research on which the original protocol was based. All authors participated equally in the development of the protocol, in which successive versions were tested i...

When medication errors occur, nurse managers strive to determine the cause(s), identify the significant contributing factors within the system, or question staff competency. Critical care managers juggle this question against the backdrop of the demands of budget, bed utilization, patient outcome, and work life of the nursing staff that practises within chaotic environments with complex, severe...

The paper offers a partial vindication of Sterelny's view on the role of error rates and reliability in his theory of decoupled representation based on modelling techniques borrowed from the biological literature on evolution in stochastic environments. In the case of a tight link between tracking states and behaviour, I argue that in its full generality Sterelny's account instantiates the base...

In this paper, we extended the result about the error estimation for linear complementarity problem to the extended linear complementarity problem (ELCP) in management equilibrium modeling. More precisely, we first present that the level set of a computable residual function is bounded, and give error estimation in level set. Based on this, we use this residual function to establish a global er...

Distributed computing continues to be an alphabet-soup of services and protocols. No single system for managing CPUs or I/O devices has emerged (or is likely to emerge) as a universal solution. Therefore, distributed applications require adapters in order to plug themselves into existing systems. The difficulty of building such adapters lies not in normal operations, but in the complications of...

Building energy consumption monitoring and management system plays a vital role in the advance of building energy conservation, because it offers abundant online real time data, which are mainly used to further analyze energy saving potential and put forward a feasibility methodology for implementation. In addition to its extreme importance in decreasing energy consumption and saving costs, the...