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White Papers
Service Learning Utilizing Live Business Partnerships
Jan 2010
Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Arrays (CGRAs) are a very promising platform, providing both, up to 10-100 MOps/mW of power efficiency and are software programmable. However, this cardinal promise...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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White Papers
Enabling Privacy in Provenance-Aware Workflow Systems
Dec 2010
A new paradigm for creating and correcting scientific analyses is emerging, that of provenance-aware workflow systems. In such systems, repositories of workflow specifications and of provenance...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania
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Case Studies
Online Jewelry Marketplace: End-to-End Solution
Jan 2011
Leading jewelry e-commerce player in India. An online venture of one of the world's largest buyer of rough diamonds and India's best exporter of cut and polished diamonds. A Leading offline...
Provided by iksula.com
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Webcasts
Microsoft Webcast: How the Microsoft EPM Solution Can Benefit Government IT Project Management Offices
Feb 2007
Many government Information Technology (IT) organizations are turning to their project management offices (PMOs) to help them manage their work more effectively. This webcast explains how the...
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
The Measurement and Analysis Infrastructure Diagnostic, Creating a Foundation for Effective Measurement and Analysis
Oct 2008
Organizations run on data. But how reliable is the data that organizations collect, analyze, and report? How useful are the reports to managers and decision makers? This webinar describes the...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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White Papers
Agent Based Model for Providing Optimized, Synchronized and Failure Free Execution of Workflow Process
Oct 2007
The main objective of this paper is to provide an optimized solution and algorithm for the execution of a workflow process by ensuring the data consistency, correctness, completeness among various...
Provided by Bahria University
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White Papers
Satisfiability and Resiliency in Workflow Systems
Jun 2007
Workflow systems are used in numerous domains, including production, purchase order processing, and various management tasks. Workflow authorization systems have gained popularity in the research...
Provided by Purdue University
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White Papers
The Adoption of Benchmarking Principles for Project Management Performance Improvement
Dec 2010
Effective management of projects is increasingly becoming important for organisations to remain competitive in today's dynamic business environment. The use of benchmarking is widening as a...
Provided by University of Reading
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White Papers
Achieving Coordination Through Dynamic Construction of Open Workflows
Aug 2009
Work flows, widely used on the Internet today, typically consist of a graph-like structure that defines the orchestration rules for executing a set of tasks, each of which is matched at run-rime...
Provided by Washington University in St. Louis
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White Papers
A Model of Semantics and Corrections in Language Learning
Apr 2010
The authors present a computational model of language learning via a sequence of interactions between a teacher and a learner. The utterances of the teacher and learner refer to shared situations,...
Provided by Yale University
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White Papers
Efficient Resource Capacity Estimate of Workflow Applications for Provisioning Resources
Apr 2008
Workflow technologies have become a major vehicle for the easy and efficient development of science applications. When integrating the workflow technology with the state-of-art resource...
Provided by Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
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White Papers
Evolutionary Feature Selection for Text Documents Using the SVM
Jun 2009
HILE more and more textual information is available online, effective retrieval is difficult without good indexing and summarization of document content. Document categorization is one solution to...
Provided by Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
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White Papers
Policy-Based Verification of Distributed Workflows in a Multi-Domain Environment
Jan 2011
There is a growing need to support secure interaction among autonomous domains/systems for developing distributed applications. As domains operate according to their individual security and access...
Provided by Purdue University
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White Papers
Unifying Human and Software Services in Web-Scale Collaborations
Jun 2008
As collaborative Web-based platforms evolve into service-oriented architectures, they promote composite and user-enriched services. In such platforms, the collaborations typically involve both...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Methodological Reflections on a Field Study of a Globally Distributed Software Project
Jan 2011
The authors describe the methodology of a field study of a globally distributed software development project in a multinational corporation. The project spanned four sites in the U.S. and one in...
Provided by UC Regents
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White Papers
Weighted Fuzzy Clustering for Capability-Driven Service Aggregation
Oct 2010
Workflow design, mashup configuration, and composite service formation are examples where the capabilities of multiple simple services combined achieve a complex functionality. In this paper the...
Provided by Vienna University of Technology
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White Papers
VieBOP: Extending BPEL Engines With BPEL4People
Mar 2008
The need for integration of human interaction scenarios into BPEL processes lead to the formalisation of tasks and human roles. The specifications BPEL4People and WS-HumanTask introduce, among...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Business Versus Scientific Workflow: A Comparative Study
Mar 2009
While the benefits of scientific workflow management are widely accepted, in practice, implementing real scientific processes is a difficult task for scientists. In sharp contrast to business...
Provided by UC Regents
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White Papers
Stargate: An Author-Centric Approach to Software Project Visualization
Jan 2011
With the success of open source software projects, such as Apache and Mozilla, comes the opportunity to study the development process. In this paper, the authors present StarGate: A novel system...
Provided by UC Regents
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White Papers
Using Explicit Control Processes in Distributed Workflows to Gather Provenance
May 2008
Distributing workflow tasks among high performance environments involves local processing and remote execution on clusters and grids. This distribution often needs interoperation between...
Provided by Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
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White Papers
Adaptive Leadership
Jun 2011
The agile movement has made enormous strides in the last decade, greatly improving software delivery and creating more satisfactory work environments in many organizations. The next horizon is...
Provided by ThoughtWorks
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White Papers
A Model for Sharing of Confidential Provenance Information in a Query Based System
May 2008
Workflow management systems are increasingly being used to automate scientific discovery. Provenance meta-data is collected about workflows, processes, simulations and data to add value. This...
Provided by North Carolina State University
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Case Studies
TCS Helps Qualcomm Gain Better Project Visibility Through a Customized Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) System
Nov 2010
With increased pressure on productivity and profitability, companies need to focus their limited development resources on projects that are sure to produce winning results. Portfolio Management...
Provided by Tata Consultancy Services
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Case Studies
Hydra-Grene A/S Gains Operational Insight Via Better Reporting
Jun 2011
Hydra-Grene A/S is a specialized trading and engineering company, they had been using Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel documents to register information such as customer complaints, complaints...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
WINGS: Intelligent Workflow-Based Design of Computational Experiments
Dec 2009
Scientists use computational experiments to study natural phenomena through the lens of software tools and computer programs. A computational experiment consists of a description of how selected...
Provided by University of Southern California
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White Papers
A Semantic Framework for Automatic Generation of Computational Workflows Using Distributed Data and Component Catalogs
Dec 2009
Computational workflows are a powerful paradigm to represent and manage complex applications, particularly in large-scale distributed scientific data analysis. Workflows represent application...
Provided by University of Southern California
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White Papers
Principles for Interactive Acquisition and Validation of Workflows
Feb 2009
Workflows, also known as process models, are essential in many science and engineering fields. Workflows express compositions of individual steps or tasks that assembled together account for...
Provided by University of Southern California
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White Papers
Towards Privacy Aware Data Analysis Workflows for e-Science
Jul 2007
e-Science is getting more distributed and collaborative and data privacy quickly becomes a major concern, especially when the data contain sensitive information. Existing data access policies for...
Provided by Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
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White Papers
Reasoning About Record Matching Rules
Aug 2009
Record matching is the problem for identifying tuples in one or more relations that refer to the same real-world entity. This problem is also known as record linkage, merge-purge, and duplicate...
Provided by VLDB Endowment
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White Papers
WOLVES: Achieving Correct Provenance Analysis by Detecting and Resolving Unsound Workflow Views
Aug 2009
Workflow views abstract groups of tasks in a workflow into composite tasks, and are used for simplifying provenance analysis, workflow sharing and reuse. An unsound view does not preserve the...
Provided by VLDB Endowment
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White Papers
RankIE: Document Retrieval on Ranked Entity Graphs
Jun 2009
Developer communities built around software products, like the SAP Community Network, provide a knowledge base for recurring problems and their solutions. Due to the large amount of content...
Provided by VLDB Endowment
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White Papers
PDiffView: Viewing the Difference in Provenance of Workflow Results
Aug 2009
Scientific workflow systems are becoming increasingly important for managing in-silico experiments. Such experiments are typically specified as directed flow graphs, in which the nodes represent...
Provided by VLDB Endowment
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White Papers
Tolkien: An Event Based Storytelling System
Aug 2009
Since the dawn of human civilization, stories have been a popular medium of communication, both synchronously and asynchronously. Technically, a story is a time-ordered coherent sequence of...
Provided by VLDB Endowment
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White Papers
Provenance and the Price of Identity
May 2008
As developers acknowledge that provenance is essential, more and more datasets are attempting to keep provenance records describing how they were created. Some of these datasets are constructed...
Provided by University of Michigan
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White Papers
Learner Model in Adaptive Learning
Jun 2009
Formerly, Learning Management Systems (LMS) support well for interaction between learner and lesson, learner and teacher. However, every student has individual features such as: knowledge, goal,...
Provided by World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
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White Papers
CoSeNa: A Context-Based Search and Navigation System
Oct 2009
Most of the existing document and web search engines rely on keyword-based queries. To find matches, these queries are processed using retrieval algorithms that rely on word frequencies, topic...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Analyzing Control-Flow and Data-Flow in Workflow Processes in a Unified Way
Jan 2009
Workflow correctness properties are usually defined based on one workflow perspective only, e.g. the control-flow or the data-flow. In this paper the authors consider workflow correctness criteria...
Provided by Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
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White Papers
Implementing Standard Reference Models for e-Learning Systems
May 2008
Active development in the field of e-Learning has led to multiple organizations and specifications that try to provide some interoperability to systems, tools and learning contents. The great...
Provided by University of Alcalá
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Case Studies
Queensland Motorways: Breaks up Traffic Congestion in Fast-Growing Brisbane
Oct 2010
Leveraging advanced sensing technology, Queensland Motorways' free-flow tolling has cut the average commute by 15 minutes, or greater than 50%. This not only improves the quality of life for...
Provided by IBM
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Podcasts
TechEd 2011 Birds-of-a-Feather (Session 09): Get a Better Work/life Balance Through Process Improvement
May 2011
Frustrated or having to work late because: one or more areas of ones' work process can be improved, ones' teammates or manager don't see the need to improve and they see the need but are too busy...
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
BMC MainView Problem Solving Scenario's
Nov 2009
Customers often ask BMC customer support and field software consultants questions like; 'How to use MAINVIEW to solve problem?'. This webcast will walk thru some of the top problem scenarios that...
Provided by BMC Software
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Webcasts
Control-M for Databases
Dec 2009
This presenter will cover the basic topics within the new BMC CONTROL-M for Database.
Provided by BMC Software
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Webcasts
TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Project 2010 Portfolio Analysis (Level 200)
Feb 2010
In this webcast, the presenter discusses the purpose of portfolio management, detail the portfolio management process according to Project Management Institute (PMI) standards, and explain the...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Breakthrough: The State of Texas Improves Information Sharing Through Adoption of National Information Exchange Model Standards
Nov 2008
The State of Texas wanted to enhance information sharing across all levels of state and local government to streamline data exchange and facilitate informed decision making - without negatively...
Provided by Unisys
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Webcasts
Paper, Paper Everywhere
Mar 2010
From forms, to applications, to records, and more, one can reduce costs, risks, and inefficiencies by digitizing that paper with remote document capture. The attendee will learn the latest...
Provided by EMC
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Case Studies
Puilaetco Dewaay Private Bankers SA Relies on HP Exstream to Improve the Quality of Its Client Documents
Jan 2010
Puilaetco Dewaay Private Bankers SA is a private Belgian bank. As part of its development strategy and to add coherence to the implementation of its client relationship policy, it wanted to...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
U.S. Department of Education Implements Document Best Practices
Jan 2010
Each year, the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services (OSERS) - one of the eight departments of the U.S. Department of Education (Dept. of ED). Managing the associate grant review...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
HP Indigo Digital Press Workflow Transforms Business Model
Oct 2009
Founded in 1916, Cober Printing Limited has thrived for nearly a century by staying ahead of the competition in strategic deployment of cutting-edge technologies. Off late, the company prospers...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
HP's Automated Ticket Processing System Contributes to Road Safety
Oct 2009
New Zealand Police is the lead agency responsible for reducing crime and enhancing community safety across New Zealand. NZ Police sets out to modernize its infringement processing system. In order...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
State's Upgraded Computer System Secured Federal Certification
Sep 2009
The Michigan Department of Human Services works with almost 10 million residents to ensure the safety and security of every child. Michigan needed IT integration for federal certification...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
Gore Mutual Deploys HP Exstream Interactive Document Applications and Gets Extreme Results
Nov 2009
Gore Mutual Insurance Company needed to replace its legacy document generation system with a flexible solution that included the ability to integrate back end document processing with front office...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Webcasts
Removing Paper From Critical Business Processes
Dec 2009
Do paper documents and forms slowing down the critical business transactions? The attendee of this webcast will find out how organizations are using intelligent capture to transform paper into...
Provided by EMC
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Webcasts
Speeding Web-Based Application Deployment
Jan 2010
Right tools are needed to create feature-rich imaging solutions that sell. With EMC Captiva ISIS PixTools Distributed Imaging toolkits, organization can quickly develop and deploy web-enabled,...
Provided by EMC
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Webcasts
Why Captiva Over the Competition?
Jan 2010
EMC Captiva InputAccel is about to become easier to use than ever - for any document, anywhere, anytime. The attendee of this webcast will learn more about the simplified design and development...
Provided by EMC
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Webcasts
The Brand Management Breakthrough
Feb 2010
Marketing organizations are under pressure to achieve a greater return on investment while delivering compelling interactive customer experiences. The attendee of this webcast will find out more...
Provided by EMC
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Webcasts
Raise Service Levels With Actual End-User Monitoring
Feb 2010
Despite an environment where service is everything, organizations often find it nearly impossible to effectively monitor their content management systems. With Reveille Management Consoles for EMC...
Provided by EMC
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Webcasts
TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Office Project 2010 Enhanced Project Management (Level 200)
Jan 2010
Discover how one can do more, better, faster, and cost effectively, by taking advantage of the new features in Microsoft Office Project 2010. The presenter of this webcast discusses how advanced...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Are Your Electronic Documents Secure?: Manager's Checklist for Evaluating Your EDM System's Security
Feb 2010
Since business documents and their content drive the decisions and record the transactions that take place in every business, it's critical for managers and their workers to ensure they're secure....
Provided by Optical Image Technology
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White Papers
The Practitioner's Stepping Stone to Electronic Medical Records
Nov 2009
The first step in revamping the healthcare system is getting rid of paper files and manual processes and moving toward full-blown EMRs. Digital accessibility to information is critical to...
Provided by Optical Image Technology
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White Papers
Change Management: Ensuring ECM Success by Preparing End-Users for Automation
May 2009
Preparations for a successful ECM implementation do not happen overnight. They involve in-depth analyses of business processes; software that is both flexible and extensible in its integration...
Provided by Optical Image Technology
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White Papers
Moving From Fear to Confidence in Buying Technology
Jul 2009
Implementing EDM is exciting, yet challenging. New ideas and discoveries about the business will result in changes, adaptations, and - if change is substantial - altered timelines. Whatever one...
Provided by Optical Image Technology
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Case Studies
Midwestern Medical School Reforms Student Services With Document Management
Jan 2010
One mid-western university that enrolls and grooms some of the best and brightest medical minds was successfully attracting top candidates, but needed a better way to track and manage applicant...
Provided by Optical Image Technology
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Case Studies
BMC CONTROL-M Automates Batch Jobs for Vhi Healthcare as Part of Their Continuous Improvement Initiative
Jul 2009
Vhi Healthcare operates in the competitive Irish health insurance market and depends heavily on IT to support its business processes. Its principal systems are based on Oracle databases and...
Provided by BMC Software
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Case Studies
BMC Software Case Study: Sun Chemical Corporation
Sep 2009
Sun Chemical employees around the world work tirelessly to ensure reliable, on-time delivery and consistent product quality. To support their efforts, the company implemented software from SAP, a...
Provided by BMC Software
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Webcasts
Microsoft Office System Webcast: Using Project 2007 to Manage Multiple Projects and Cross-Project Dependencies (Level 200)
Jan 2010
Often, people from multiple departments or disciplines work on separate aspects of a large project or program. Large projects typically require multiple project plans, and a different group could...
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Project 2010 Desktop: Tips and Tricks (Level 200)
Jan 2010
The attendee of this webcast focuses on using some of the new features in Microsoft Project 2010 that help the attendee to build effective schedules quickly.
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
Microsoft Project 2010 Recorded Webcast: Project Professional 2010 Overview
Jan 2010
Microsoft, will discuss and demonstrate how the new features and visual enhancements of Project Professional 2010 provides Project Managers of all maturity levels with the rights tools to...
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
TechNet Webcast: User-Controlled Scheduling in Microsoft Project 2010 (Level 200)
Jan 2010
There are situations when user-controlled scheduling offers an advantage, and there are times when the attendee should turn off user-controlled scheduling. The presenter of this webcast...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Danfoss Safeguards the Manufacture of 250,000 Products a Day With CA NSM and CA Autosys Workload Automation
Mar 2009
Danfoss is a leading manufacturing company headquartered in Denmark. To meet its growth goals, the company must have a robust supply chain. All manufacturing and distribution processes are managed...
Provided by CA
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Case Studies
Teaching Children Science, One LEGO at a Time
Apr 2009
ORTOP is affiliated with First LEGO League (FLL), an international organization dedicated to sports for the mind. As part of its sponsorship, Intel funds scholarships for teams who cannot pay the...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Productivity in the Workplace
Oct 2008
Improving productivity is seldom about the drastic overhaul of procedures and process in a company where good, solid managerial processes already exist. It is more about management technique and...
Provided by Enabling
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White Papers
Smart System Design: How to Get the Information You Need From Your Document Management System, Every Time
Dec 2009
Likewise, to get superior results from an Electronic Document Management (EDM) system, smart vendor choice must be matched with detailed planning and intelligent system design. Whether one tackle...
Provided by Optical Image Technology
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White Papers
Review of New Project Management Trends
Aug 2009
This paper provides a consolidated review of near future trends in research topics on project management from different authoritative sources. The research is based on a literature review of...
Provided by Project Perfect
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White Papers
The Dynamics of Project Management
Mar 2009
This paper suggests project management methods and practices can move from a static, unidirectional framework, to a dynamics, multidirectional framework. It focuses on how project role dynamics...
Provided by Project Perfect
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White Papers
Technology in Education
Mar 2009
Preparing students for lifelong learning requires new approaches to education that incorporate technologies increasingly a part of students' everyday lives. While the importance of reading,...
Provided by Adobe Systems
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White Papers
Delivering on the Promise of e-Learning
May 2008
Adobe's solutions for eLearning are all based upon creating and extending rich-engaging learning experiences that connect learners with instructors, other learners, and rich learning content...
Provided by Adobe Systems
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White Papers
Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Accessibility Guide: PDF Accessibility Overview
Feb 2009
A document or application is accessible if it can be used by people with disabilities - such as mobility impairments, blindness, and low vision - and not just by people who can see well and use a...
Provided by Adobe Systems
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White Papers
Application of CCPM (Critical Chain Project Management) to Generate Gains for Industrial Customers
Jul 2009
CCPM (Critical Chain Project Management) is a Project Management Methodology based on Theory of Constraints (TOC). This paper summarizes the application of this methodology to the software...
Provided by Geometric
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White Papers
Effective Strategies for Performing PLM Upgrades: Strategies and Best Practices for Implementing PLM Upgrades
May 2009
Enterprises that have PLM Solutions deployed are often faced with challenges on how to optimize their investments on PLM upgrades. PLM vendors are continually coming up with next generation PLM...
Provided by Geometric
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Case Studies
With IBM and Timpanogos Technologies, Teachers Have More Time to Help Students and Know Which Students Need Help
Jan 2008
The Olathe School District like any business, has established its own vision, purpose, beliefs and values aimed at improving the K-12 education experience for students in the district. Its vision...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Enabling Privacy in Provenance-Aware Workflow Systems
Dec 2010
A new paradigm for creating and correcting scientific analyses is emerging, that of provenance-aware workflow systems. In such systems, repositories of workflow specifications and of provenance...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania
-
Case Studies
Online Jewelry Marketplace: End-to-End Solution
Jan 2011
Leading jewelry e-commerce player in India. An online venture of one of the world's largest buyer of rough diamonds and India's best exporter of cut and polished diamonds. A Leading offline...
Provided by iksula.com
-
Webcasts
Microsoft Webcast: How the Microsoft EPM Solution Can Benefit Government IT Project Management Offices
Feb 2007
Many government Information Technology (IT) organizations are turning to their project management offices (PMOs) to help them manage their work more effectively. This webcast explains how the...
Provided by Microsoft
-
Webcasts
The Measurement and Analysis Infrastructure Diagnostic, Creating a Foundation for Effective Measurement and Analysis
Oct 2008
Organizations run on data. But how reliable is the data that organizations collect, analyze, and report? How useful are the reports to managers and decision makers? This webinar describes the...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
-
White Papers
Agent Based Model for Providing Optimized, Synchronized and Failure Free Execution of Workflow Process
Oct 2007
The main objective of this paper is to provide an optimized solution and algorithm for the execution of a workflow process by ensuring the data consistency, correctness, completeness among various...
Provided by Bahria University
-
White Papers
Satisfiability and Resiliency in Workflow Systems
Jun 2007
Workflow systems are used in numerous domains, including production, purchase order processing, and various management tasks. Workflow authorization systems have gained popularity in the research...
Provided by Purdue University
-
White Papers
The Adoption of Benchmarking Principles for Project Management Performance Improvement
Dec 2010
Effective management of projects is increasingly becoming important for organisations to remain competitive in today's dynamic business environment. The use of benchmarking is widening as a...
Provided by University of Reading
-
White Papers
Achieving Coordination Through Dynamic Construction of Open Workflows
Aug 2009
Work flows, widely used on the Internet today, typically consist of a graph-like structure that defines the orchestration rules for executing a set of tasks, each of which is matched at run-rime...
Provided by Washington University in St. Louis
-
White Papers
A Model of Semantics and Corrections in Language Learning
Apr 2010
The authors present a computational model of language learning via a sequence of interactions between a teacher and a learner. The utterances of the teacher and learner refer to shared situations,...
Provided by Yale University
-
White Papers
Efficient Resource Capacity Estimate of Workflow Applications for Provisioning Resources
Apr 2008
Workflow technologies have become a major vehicle for the easy and efficient development of science applications. When integrating the workflow technology with the state-of-art resource...
Provided by Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
-
White Papers
Evolutionary Feature Selection for Text Documents Using the SVM
Jun 2009
HILE more and more textual information is available online, effective retrieval is difficult without good indexing and summarization of document content. Document categorization is one solution to...
Provided by Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
-
White Papers
Policy-Based Verification of Distributed Workflows in a Multi-Domain Environment
Jan 2011
There is a growing need to support secure interaction among autonomous domains/systems for developing distributed applications. As domains operate according to their individual security and access...
Provided by Purdue University
-
White Papers
Unifying Human and Software Services in Web-Scale Collaborations
Jun 2008
As collaborative Web-based platforms evolve into service-oriented architectures, they promote composite and user-enriched services. In such platforms, the collaborations typically involve both...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Methodological Reflections on a Field Study of a Globally Distributed Software Project
Jan 2011
The authors describe the methodology of a field study of a globally distributed software development project in a multinational corporation. The project spanned four sites in the U.S. and one in...
Provided by UC Regents
-
White Papers
Weighted Fuzzy Clustering for Capability-Driven Service Aggregation
Oct 2010
Workflow design, mashup configuration, and composite service formation are examples where the capabilities of multiple simple services combined achieve a complex functionality. In this paper the...
Provided by Vienna University of Technology
-
White Papers
VieBOP: Extending BPEL Engines With BPEL4People
Mar 2008
The need for integration of human interaction scenarios into BPEL processes lead to the formalisation of tasks and human roles. The specifications BPEL4People and WS-HumanTask introduce, among...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Business Versus Scientific Workflow: A Comparative Study
Mar 2009
While the benefits of scientific workflow management are widely accepted, in practice, implementing real scientific processes is a difficult task for scientists. In sharp contrast to business...
Provided by UC Regents
-
White Papers
Stargate: An Author-Centric Approach to Software Project Visualization
Jan 2011
With the success of open source software projects, such as Apache and Mozilla, comes the opportunity to study the development process. In this paper, the authors present StarGate: A novel system...
Provided by UC Regents
-
White Papers
Using Explicit Control Processes in Distributed Workflows to Gather Provenance
May 2008
Distributing workflow tasks among high performance environments involves local processing and remote execution on clusters and grids. This distribution often needs interoperation between...
Provided by Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
-
White Papers
Adaptive Leadership
Jun 2011
The agile movement has made enormous strides in the last decade, greatly improving software delivery and creating more satisfactory work environments in many organizations. The next horizon is...
Provided by ThoughtWorks
-
White Papers
A Model for Sharing of Confidential Provenance Information in a Query Based System
May 2008
Workflow management systems are increasingly being used to automate scientific discovery. Provenance meta-data is collected about workflows, processes, simulations and data to add value. This...
Provided by North Carolina State University
-
Case Studies
TCS Helps Qualcomm Gain Better Project Visibility Through a Customized Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) System
Nov 2010
With increased pressure on productivity and profitability, companies need to focus their limited development resources on projects that are sure to produce winning results. Portfolio Management...
Provided by Tata Consultancy Services
-
Case Studies
Hydra-Grene A/S Gains Operational Insight Via Better Reporting
Jun 2011
Hydra-Grene A/S is a specialized trading and engineering company, they had been using Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel documents to register information such as customer complaints, complaints...
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
WINGS: Intelligent Workflow-Based Design of Computational Experiments
Dec 2009
Scientists use computational experiments to study natural phenomena through the lens of software tools and computer programs. A computational experiment consists of a description of how selected...
Provided by University of Southern California
-
White Papers
A Semantic Framework for Automatic Generation of Computational Workflows Using Distributed Data and Component Catalogs
Dec 2009
Computational workflows are a powerful paradigm to represent and manage complex applications, particularly in large-scale distributed scientific data analysis. Workflows represent application...
Provided by University of Southern California
-
White Papers
Principles for Interactive Acquisition and Validation of Workflows
Feb 2009
Workflows, also known as process models, are essential in many science and engineering fields. Workflows express compositions of individual steps or tasks that assembled together account for...
Provided by University of Southern California
-
White Papers
Towards Privacy Aware Data Analysis Workflows for e-Science
Jul 2007
e-Science is getting more distributed and collaborative and data privacy quickly becomes a major concern, especially when the data contain sensitive information. Existing data access policies for...
Provided by Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
-
White Papers
Reasoning About Record Matching Rules
Aug 2009
Record matching is the problem for identifying tuples in one or more relations that refer to the same real-world entity. This problem is also known as record linkage, merge-purge, and duplicate...
Provided by VLDB Endowment
-
White Papers
WOLVES: Achieving Correct Provenance Analysis by Detecting and Resolving Unsound Workflow Views
Aug 2009
Workflow views abstract groups of tasks in a workflow into composite tasks, and are used for simplifying provenance analysis, workflow sharing and reuse. An unsound view does not preserve the...
Provided by VLDB Endowment
-
White Papers
RankIE: Document Retrieval on Ranked Entity Graphs
Jun 2009
Developer communities built around software products, like the SAP Community Network, provide a knowledge base for recurring problems and their solutions. Due to the large amount of content...
Provided by VLDB Endowment
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White Papers
PDiffView: Viewing the Difference in Provenance of Workflow Results
Aug 2009
Scientific workflow systems are becoming increasingly important for managing in-silico experiments. Such experiments are typically specified as directed flow graphs, in which the nodes represent...
Provided by VLDB Endowment
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White Papers
Tolkien: An Event Based Storytelling System
Aug 2009
Since the dawn of human civilization, stories have been a popular medium of communication, both synchronously and asynchronously. Technically, a story is a time-ordered coherent sequence of...
Provided by VLDB Endowment
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White Papers
Provenance and the Price of Identity
May 2008
As developers acknowledge that provenance is essential, more and more datasets are attempting to keep provenance records describing how they were created. Some of these datasets are constructed...
Provided by University of Michigan
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White Papers
Learner Model in Adaptive Learning
Jun 2009
Formerly, Learning Management Systems (LMS) support well for interaction between learner and lesson, learner and teacher. However, every student has individual features such as: knowledge, goal,...
Provided by World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
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White Papers
CoSeNa: A Context-Based Search and Navigation System
Oct 2009
Most of the existing document and web search engines rely on keyword-based queries. To find matches, these queries are processed using retrieval algorithms that rely on word frequencies, topic...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Analyzing Control-Flow and Data-Flow in Workflow Processes in a Unified Way
Jan 2009
Workflow correctness properties are usually defined based on one workflow perspective only, e.g. the control-flow or the data-flow. In this paper the authors consider workflow correctness criteria...
Provided by Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
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White Papers
Implementing Standard Reference Models for e-Learning Systems
May 2008
Active development in the field of e-Learning has led to multiple organizations and specifications that try to provide some interoperability to systems, tools and learning contents. The great...
Provided by University of Alcalá
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Case Studies
Queensland Motorways: Breaks up Traffic Congestion in Fast-Growing Brisbane
Oct 2010
Leveraging advanced sensing technology, Queensland Motorways' free-flow tolling has cut the average commute by 15 minutes, or greater than 50%. This not only improves the quality of life for...
Provided by IBM
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Podcasts
TechEd 2011 Birds-of-a-Feather (Session 09): Get a Better Work/life Balance Through Process Improvement
May 2011
Frustrated or having to work late because: one or more areas of ones' work process can be improved, ones' teammates or manager don't see the need to improve and they see the need but are too busy...
Provided by Microsoft
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Whitepapers
Analysis of Effort Estimation Based on Software Project Models
Sep 2009
This paper investigates the interrelationship among various measured characteristics of a software project, ranging from project model, size, and metrics used to govern the administration of the...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
