Market competition requires continuous improvement in the design and operation of supply chains. Warehouse management is a field of interest for both practitioners and researchers and involves material, information and financial flow management in a highly dynamic environment. Designing and planning a warehouse (distribution centre) involve different levels of decisionmaking, with high levels o...

Evaluation and continuous improvement of software maintenance are key contributors to improve software quality. The software maintenance function suffers from a scarcity of the management models that would facilitate its evaluation, management and continuous improvement. This paper presents an overview the measurements practices that are being introduced for level 3 and higher to the software m...

This paper presents a holistic vision of the risk-based methodologies for Software Risk Management (SRM) developed at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI). SRM methodologies address the entire life cycle of software acquisition, development, and maintenance. This paper is driven by the premise that the ultimate efficacy of the developed methodologies and tools for software engineering is to...

BACKGROUND While integrated health care system has been proved an effective way to help improving patient health and system efficiency, the exact behaviour model and motivation approach are not so clear in poor rural areas where health human resources and continuous service provision are urgently needed. To gather solid evidence, we initiated a comprehensive intervention project in Qianjiang Di...

We introduce a new effective framework to combine computer codes into integrated simulation model. The framework employs MPMD (Multiple Program Multiple Data) approach and each computer code is written with MPI (Message Passing Interface) library. Adopting MPMD approach makes each computer code independent, which leads to the capability for maintenance and improvement of the integrated simulati...

The Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital (OPBG) is a Research and Health Care Institute (IRCCS), organized in four sites located in Lazio Region (Roma Gianicolo, Roma S. Paolo, Palidoro, S. Marinella) and three sites located in Calabria, Basilicata and Sicily respectively. The OPBG as IRCCS, must always continue and reinforce its commitment in the integration of research and clinical practice, and ...