Packaging products as services can create financial opportunities for suppliers and can create the economies of scale which help environmentally preferable products (EPP) achieve their maximum effectiveness. For suppliers, offering product service systems (PSS) broadens their market to reach customers who are only interested in purchasing a financed or valued-added version of the product. Envir...

Software Engineering (SE) and Usability Engineering (UE) both provide a wide range of elaborated process models to create software solutions. Today, many companies have realized the need for usable products and understood that a systematic and structured approach to usability is as important as the process of software development itself. However, theory and practice still have problems to effic...

On a bright early morning of 25 February 2011, almost 1200 healthcare professionals gathered in a packed hotel ballroom in Singapore to witness the opening of a 2 day Conference on Integrated Care—the first academic and practitioner focused event solely devoted to the challenges of Integration of Care in Asia. The theme of the Conference was " Integrate Now, Create Health ". It signified the ur...

This paper discusses whether computers, using Artifical Intelligence (AI), could create art. The first part concerns AI-based tools for assisting with art making. The history of technologies that automated aspects of art is covered, including photography and animation. In each case, we see initial fears and denial of the technology, followed by a blossoming of new creative and professional oppo...

0 7 4 0 7 4 5 9 / 9 8 / $ 1 0 . 0 0 © 1 9 9 8 I E E E ecently, I had dinner with James Bach, a thoughtful and well-known figure in the software quality field. As he began to tell me about a new testing model he was developing, I gently interrupted him and suggested that, with a few exceptions, the software industry does not need any more models right now—whether new formalisms for software deve...

The work of M.C. Escher shows that the best artists can raise to an admirable degree of perfection some simple geometric facts. This talk, makes a journey into planar and three dimensional theory and shows geometric optimization problems where the theory alone provides the aesthetically pleasing solutions.

To examine the impact of globalization on managerial compensation, we consider a matching model where a number of firms compete both in the product market and in the managerial market. We show that globalization, i.e. the simultaneous integration of product markets and managerial pools, leads to an increase in the heterogeneity of managerial salaries. Typically, while the most able managers obt...

in what they can cover, there is little doubt that the construction of humor is generally regarded as creative, with the most successful creators of humor sometimes being hailed as “comic geniuses.” This suggests that the task of getting a computer to produce humor falls within the area of computational creativity, and any general theory of creativity should have something to say about humor. T...

I The harn10nization of information systerns that characterizes this fourth stage of the information society has made possible new types of threats to cultural rights such as the right to create. Here these new threats as experienced by avant garde and traditional artists are explored, with attention to the restriction of speech rights by differential application across the information producti...