This paper discusses the critical role of transportation systems in disaster recovery and the development of any long-term economic effects from earthquakes, based on insights from the Kobe earthquake and other disasters. The occurrence of long-term effects on regional economies has been controversial in the disaster literature and are for the most part ignored in earthquake loss estimation mod...

Investment in information technology (IT) and the strategic benefits derived from successful systems are critical to the large, modern enterprise. Delivering these systems requires talented information systems (IS) professionals and the human capital assets they bring to an employment relationship. However, these relationships frequently fail at inopportune times, to the detriment of the employ...

The Holy Grail of water technology is a full recycle of all wastewater as potable water (or water of a similar quality) after treatment by enhanced separation. Traditional wastewater treatment systems, mainly based on activated sludge treatment, have a high water loss through the sludge produced, generate a large volume of secondary waste and have insufficient quality of the product water. Newe...

IT service delivery is heavily dependent on skilled labor. This opens the scope for errors due to human mistakes. We propose a framework for minimizing errors due to human mistakes in Change Management process, focusing on change preparation and change execution. We developed a tool that brings better structure to the change plan, as well as, helps the change plan creator in developing a plan f...