nowadays, it is belived that human resource is competitve advantage so it’s a kind of organizition capital, and therefore focusing the valuable role of individuals in organization and their desirable management is very important and sensitive. talent managenent repersents a paradigm shift in traditional human resource managenent to new human resource management that includes attention to organi...

This paper investigates the issue of enabling scalable quantitative delay guarantee support in DiffServ networks through NSIS. A NSIS QoS Model is utilized to add the admission control framework to the DiffServ architecture and reservation-based admission control algorithms are designed for ingress and interior nodes respectively for enabling quantitative delay guarantees in a DiffServ domain. ...

Interacting with toys and other people is fundamental for developing social communication skills. However, children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are characterized by having a significant impairment in social interaction, which often leads to deficits in play skills. For this reason, methods of teaching play skills to young children with ASD have been well documented. Although previous st...

AIMS/INTRODUCTION Recently, the prevalence of lifestyle-related disease has increased, and its associated medical costs have become considerable. Although walking is thought to prevent lifestyle-related disease, few studies have evaluated its effect on medical costs in Japanese subjects. We aimed at evaluating the effect of walking on medical costs by simulation mainly focusing on diabetes in t...

EPMcreate is a creativity technique for requirements elicitation based on a 16-step process. These steps suggest focusing on requirements related to every combination of two different target users or viewpoints. A series of experiments confirmed its feasibility; its applicability, both as individual and group technique; and its greater effectiveness than brainstorming. However, analysts involve...

iLook is a user interface designed to support everyday interaction between people and home appliances focusing on four potential assets provided to us by a leading home appliances manufacturer as a design brief: a) remote control; b) assistance and maintenance; c) ecological-economic impact; d) social networking. We discuss the participatory design process we followed firstly focusing on the fu...