One way to enhance the success of supply chain is through the adoption of e-logistics. Much literature discusss the success stories of supply chain, it is however lacked of the determination of its success factors in the e-logistics environment. Extranet is considered as an enabler/system that could enrich the betterment of service quality in e-logistics. This paper identifies four success fact...

This paper describes the Analyse-Organise-Synthesise methodology of multimedia development. The proposed methodology prescribes a systematic approach to developing multimedia applications. It emphasises reuse of multimedia objects and at the same time addresses quality and productivity of the development process. We illustrate our approach with examples drawn from the use of the MATE system Mul...

An essential outcome of professional practice environments is the provision of high-quality, safe nursing care. To mitigate the quality and safety chasm, nursing leadership at St. Michael's Hospital undertook a strategic plan to enhance the nursing professional practice environment. This case study outlines the development of the strategic planning process: the driving forces (platform); key st...

This paper describes a novel telepresence system which enables users to walk through a photorealistic virtualized environment by actual walking. In this system, a wide-angle high-resolution video is projected on an immersive multiscreen display and a treadmill is controlled according to user’s locomotion. Calibration and motion estimation of a camera system are performed to enhance quality of p...

To protect people against sleep disturbances and to enhance general quality of life, the World Health Organization (Berglund et al. 2000) recommend a maximum sound level of 30 dB (LAeq, 22-06) indoor for continuous background noise with individual noise events not exceeding 45 dB(A). Those recommendations have been adopted and implemented in the Brussels Capital area with a noise management pla...

As healthcare organisations seek to enhance safety and quality in a changing environment, organisational learning practices can help to improve existing skills and knowledge and provide opportunities to discover better ways of working together. Leadership at executive, middle management, and local levels is needed to create a sense of shared purpose. This shared vision should help to build effe...

As healthcare organisations seek to enhance safety and quality in a changing environment, organisational learning practices can help to improve existing skills and knowledge and provide opportunities to discover better ways of working together. Leadership at executive, middle management, and local levels is needed to create a sense of shared purpose. This shared vision should help to build effe...

This paper presents exploratory results on how a data-mining-based tool can be used to enhance the quality of decision-making in a Virtual Enterprise environment. The developed tool is based on the Clustering mining method and implements the K-Means algorithm. The algorithm is explained, its utilization in the proposed model is introduced and the implementation results are presented and stresse...