Due to globalization of economies, organizations have started a new way of thinking in projects development. New needs arise on working practices as well as supporting Information and Communication Technologies. This article describes a novel concept of an e-engineering HUB for remote collaboration on engineering partnerships. It offers collaborative project planning services that focus on coll...

An I-Room is an “intelligent room” which can act as a knowledge aid to support collaborative meetings, especially those involving sense-making about the current context, planning and considering options, and decision-making. It can be used to provide an Emergency Response Virtual Collaboration Centre in a Virtual World. The I-Room will provide a generic technology basis for a wide range of pote...

In this paper we propose a new deliberation process based on argumentation and bipolar decision making in a context of agreed common knowledge and priorities together with private preferences. This work is inspired from the supply chain management domain and more precisely by the “Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment” model which aims at selecting a procurement plan in collabor...

This paper presents GRT, a domain-independent heuristic planning system for STRIPS worlds. GRT solves problems in two phases. In the pre-processing phase, it estimates the distance between each fact and the goals of the problem, in a backward direction. Then, in the search phase, these estimates are used in order to further estimate the distance between each intermediate state and the goals, gu...

Process mining has been gaining significant attention in academia and practice. A promising first step to apply process mining in the audit domain was taken with the mining of process instances from accounting data. However, the resulting process instances constitute graphs. Commonly, timestamp oriented event log formats require a sequential list of activities and do not support graph structure...

A large number of papers have been written that deal with path planning in grids. These papers contain a wide variety of techniques and operate under a wide variety of constraints. All of them offer significant improvement over and beyond a basic A* search. But there has been no unified study comparing techniques and measuring the trade-offs implicit in the approaches. While this comparison cou...

That the already vast and ever-increasing amounts of data still do present formidable challenges to effective and efficient acquisition of knowledge is by no means an exaggeration. The knowledge discovery process entails more than just the application of data mining strategies. There are many other aspects including, but not limited to: planning, data preprocessing, data integration, evaluation...

PURPOSE In this study two different pre-planning methods (2D vs. 3D) were compared in respect to the implant quality as judged by volumetric and dose parameters of the treatment plans. The aim of this work was to evaluate the influence of the imaging modalities used for pre-planning purpose to the treatment plan quality. MATERIAL AND METHODS Twenty-four patients treated with HDR multicatheter...

Purpose – The column explores the potential of personal information management (PIM) and reference management. This contribution focuses on collaboration: the issues that need to be addressed in planning, the human component in collaborative information seeking, and issues for research by librarians. Design/methodology/approach – The column is written against the background of research from inf...