This paper describes the approach being used to engage stakeholders for the development of the River Manager river systems modelling tool, which is designed to simulate river system hydrology and water management rules for water management planning. River Manager software is being developed to replace three river system models (MSM-Bigmod, REALM, IQQM) that are currently applied in different pa...

The changing trends in information technology have greatly influenced the role of GIS in spatial data management, analysis, processing and presentation. It has evolved from the conventional cartography and image processing to advanced 3D visualization and dynamic graphics tools. Due to this evolving nature of GIS, it has found wide applications in a number of diverse fields. Geophysical explora...

Many organizations today have recognized the need for a project management office (PMO) to achieve project management oversight, control, and support. The PMO’s role is to help both the project manager and the relevant organization to not only understand and apply modern project management practices, but also to adapt and integrate business interests into the organization’s project management e...

Meeting performance targets for IT projects is difficult, and skilled project managers have been identified as a key factor in maximizing the possibilities of success. Our goal in this study was to identify critical behavioural competencies for IT project managers, including competencies necessary for entry-level positions and competencies that distinguish superior performance in IT project man...

This paper presents the distributed virtual address management (VAS) used in the project Shadow. The management is derivated from language level concepts for distributed programming that hide the distributed nature of the execution environment as far as possible. The distributed resource management architecture is based on a decentralized autonomous manager agent architecture that is constructe...

*1 Chief Staff Manager, Space Technology Application Department, Space Systems Division, Integrated Defense & Space Systems and Quality Assurance Department, Nuclear Energy Systems Division, Energy & Environment *2 Chief Staff Manager, Space Technology Application Department, Space Systems Division, Integrated Defense & Space Systems *3 Space Technology Application Department, Space Systems Div...

Despite the clear relevance of the Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) market in world economics and the evident lack of success of software projects, organizations devote little effort to the development and maturity of the software project manager profession. This work analyzes the figure of project manager from the perspective of the Team Software Process (TSP), and it consider...

| The paper observes that current transaction models in databases are too strict for cooperative and long transactions in software engineering. On the other hand, unrestricted concur-rency and data sharing is not desirable either. The paper describes a way to reduce the number of connicts that may arise when several users cooperate to solve a task using a common database. Manual interaction amo...

In this work we describe a dialog system developed into the DIHANA project. This system consists of seven modules: an automatic speech recognizer, a language understanding module, a dialog manager, a module that manages the queries to the database, a natural language answer generator, a text-to-speech converter and, finally, a central communication manager. For the implementation of the system,...