Due to the rapid introduction of new technology and the increasing complexity of the marketplace, Software systems development and implementation has become progressively more difficult. This paper proposes an evaluation framework for identifying the causes of shortfalls in implemented information system projects. This framework has been developed during a longitudinal case study of a problemat...

Over the past two years, states across the country have been struggling to cope with rising Medicaid expenditures and, in some cases, significant budget shortfalls. They have sought to cut Medicaid spending by limiting benefits, increasing costsharing, and slowing provider payment increases. A number of states have also tightened Medicaid eligibility standards or have delayed planned eligibilit...

Vol. 15 No. 1–2 2 The article by Kirk describes some of the shortfalls in foodborne disease surveillance in Australia, and argues for greater integration of surveillance information on the microbial contamination of food, animal carriage, human illness, and other hazards. Kirk cites the benefits that have been realised, in some Scandinavian countries, through the integration of surveillance inf...

This discussion paper concentrates on a possible combination of different activation functions in the multilayered perceptron (MLP) for classification tasks. The activation functions, which are combined are the sigmoidal and the radial basis function. We propose this approach to modification of MLP as solutions to some of the shortfalls of this network.

Introduction Recent studies in the United Kingdom [1],[2] have highlighted serious shortfalls in the care of patients with a tracheostomy or laryngectomy. Such patients potentially require time-critical, decisive airway management, likely involving resident intensive care clinicians. However, previous regional studies identified critical care trainees as inadequately trained and experienced to ...

Focusing on technical security can lead to shortfalls in the understanding of social and organisational security challenges. This paper proposes a method for analysing social, technical, and organisational security challenges, in regard to industrial control systems (ICS). This method is applied to a target organisation dependent on ICS, to validate the approach and gain initial insight into th...

In most practical domains, scheduling is not a one-shot generative task of producing time and resource assignments for pre-specified sets of requirements and capabilities, but an iterative process of getting the constraints right. Initial solutions are developed (at some level of detail) to understand the feasibility of various requirements and the sufficiency of assumed resources. This require...

In most practical domains, scheduling is not a one-shot generative task of producing time and resource assignments for pre-specified sets of requirements and capabilities, but an iterative process of getting the constraints right. Initial solutions are developed (at some level of detail) to understand the feasibility of various requirements and the sufficiency of assumed resources. This require...