In a competitive health-care market, hospitals have to focus on ways to streamline their processes in order to deliver high quality care while at the same time reducing costs. To a...
Ronny Mans, Helen Schonenberg, Giorgio Leonardi, S...
In high-end grid networks, distributed resources (scientific instruments, CPUs, storages, etc.) are interconnected to support computing-intensive and data-intensive applications, w...
This paper describes the construction of a generic data model for strategic planning in Public Administration (PA). This model is presented at two distinct levels corresponding to...
Konstantinos A. Tarabanis, Vassilios Peristeras, G...
Reluctance of data owners to share their possibly confidential or proprietary data with others who own related databases is a serious impediment to conducting a mutually beneficia...
Ashish P. Sanil, Alan F. Karr, Xiaodong Lin, Jerom...
The location, type, and severity of external defects on hardwood logs and stems are the primary indicators of overall log quality and value. External defects provide hints about t...
Liya Thomas, Lamine Mili, Clifford A. Shaffer, Ed ...