Research Article Ing-Long Wu National Chung Cheng University [email protected] Ya-Ping Hu National Chung Cheng University [email protected] Healthcare organizations are essentially associated with highly knowledge-intensive property, and hospital professionals are key to providing high-quality care to patients. KM-enabled performance for hospital professionals is the major concern of se...

Optimization of turning process is a non-linear optimization with constrains and it is difficult for the conventional optimization algorithms to solve this problem. The purpose of present study is to demonstrate the potential of Imperialist Competitive Algorithm (ICA) for optimization of multipass turning process. This algorithm is inspired by competition mechanism among imperialists and coloni...

The problems which are considered in this article are related to the examination and the choice of appropriate service oriented application, which can be used for process orchestration in conditions of the Grid middleware g-Lite. Our vision for requirements to these applications is presented. On the base of shown characteristics and analyses on the functional capabilities we give some reasons f...

The aim of this paper is to improve our understanding of the nature, extent and importance of knowledge creation, development and commercialisation in developing countries. The article focuses on the process through which “new” knowledge is converted into beneficial socioeconomic outcomes in developing countries. It recognises that a wide range of science and technology capabilities and activit...

The two concepts — human rights and capabilities — go well with each other, so long as we do not try to subsume either concept entirely within the territory of the other. There are many human rights that can be seen as rights to particular capabilities. However, human rights to important process freedoms cannot be adequately analysed within the capability framework. Furthermore, both human righ...

A virtual breeding environment (VBE) is an association of enterprises willing to collaborate in a network to provide goods or services, described by business processes. Two major components of the VBE are an e-catalogue of competences and a repository of business process templates specifying the necessary roles that enterprises should play to participate in collaboration networks for providing ...