Traditionally, information systems were developed within organizations for use by known audiences for known purposes. Advances in information technology have changed this landscape dramatically. The reach of information systems frequently extends beyond organizational boundaries for use by unknown audiences and for purposes not originally anticipated. Individuals and informal communities can ge...

In recent years software quality has become a matter of high interest especially to software developers, managers and maintainers. Regarding the fact that software is evolving into extremely important part for a company to be competitive in its business, the requirement for the software to be greatly accessible for a company in accomplishing its ambitions means that the software should have a g...

What is a clinical workstation? Evolving technology has provided an increasing variety of tools to help the clinician. Many of these have been developed individually, using diVerent machines in diVerent areas. The concept of the workstation was created to amalgamate these technologies and tools into a single ‘computer’ allowing access to all its diVerent components from a single environment. Th...

The new system focuses on doing what is important rather than what is urgent. It stresses effectiveness rather than simple efficiency as the key to using time management systems to improve the quality of life. In turn, true effectiveness is based on a principle-centred approach that is, on principles which have been revered throughout history and which have been shown to enhance the quality of ...

Evaluating enterprise quality management system operation effectiveness, mining and extracting the fuzzy rules of affecting factors of enterprise quality management system operation effectiveness are important ways to solve practical quality problems and improve quality performance. This study integrates and combines statistical analysis methods of improved entropy method, catastrophe progressi...