New technologies, viewing paradigms and content distribution approaches are about to take the TV/video services industry by storm. Five emerging trends are observable, among which is the worldwide deployment of IP Version 6 (IPv6), that are all related to the next-generation delivery of entertainment-quality video and can be capitalized upon by progressive service providers, telcos, cable opera...

Context: The traditional literature review is a low cost, relatively quick but potentially ineffective method for evaluating tools. Practitioners appear to place a greater emphasis on the practical constraints of an evaluation (e.g. that it is low cost and quick) and the efficacy of the technology to the company, rather than on generic scientific results. By contrast, academia appears to place ...

Knowledge capitalization has become a major economic driver in business today and has created enormous requirements for organizations as they reconsider their goals and adapt their business strategies. However, the definition of knowledge management in an organizational context is a difficult task to realize (Spiegler, 2000). Although knowledge is a critical resource, it is generally poorly man...

In this case study, it has been observed that functional area management within the organization tended to use physical performance signals that suit to the specific requirements of their specific functional areas, and in this process, different functional areas of a common production process ended up using different physical performance signals. The absence of a common performance signal for a...

IT service management is a new, upcoming area of research with several new challenges to cope with. The paper uses a systematic approach to identify new requirements to service management and analyzes some of them more precisely. As a result of the discussion, the introduction of a service management platform is motivated. The architecture of a service management platform is specified as well a...

We present the requirements for case-based design in a software environment to support the early phases in building design and outline an approach to satisfy them. We briefly discuss implementation issues and the larger information management context for the work.

A hydraulic project may be small or large, simple or complex, and single or multiple purposed, and it should provide the functions to accomplish the optimum development of related water and hydropower resources. In many cases, the project will be multi-purposed. For this reason, the investigations may comprise a large number of matters, and some or all of them will influence the selection of th...

As technical division of the Lufthansa Group, Lufthansa Technik and its 30 subsidiaries have to fulfill a wide variety of legislative and normative requirements. To demonstrate and ensure compliance with these requirements, Lufthansa Technik introduced the process-oriented integrated management system IQ MOVE and modeled a wide range of its processes in a plain and simple to understand methodol...

This research studies the characteristics of the Mexican pork sector; adoption status of quality management systems, and product destinations. Ninety six percent of fifty enterprises have fully answered a questionnaire. Ninety percent are small and medium-sized, the rest are large-sized firms. Nineteen percent of them have totally adopted HACCP, sixty three percent are implementing or planning ...