The synergies, functional effectiveness and integration of KM within an E-Learning environment have attracted little interest for serious research, despite the overarching importance of knowledge acquisition by students for fostering their innovation and creativity. Learners often fail to reach their desired learning objects due to the failure of indexing methods to provide them with a ubiquito...

Definition The management of clinical data for supporting patient care and for supporting retrospective clinical research requires a means to acquire the clinical data and a repository that stores the data and provides the functions necessary for managing them over their lifetime. Typically, patient data are collected ‘‘at the point of care’’ (i.e. onsite where health care is being provided) an...

Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems are widely used in the management of critical infrastructure such as electricity and water distrubution systems. Currently there is little understanding of how to best protect SCADA systems from malicious attacks. We review the constraints and requirements for SCADA security and propose a suitable architecture (SKMA) for secure SCADA comm...

This paper describes recent work on an ongoing project in medical diagnosis at the University of Guelph. A domain on which experts are not very good at pinpointing a single disease outcome is explored. On-line medical data is available over a relatively short period of time. Belief Functions (Dempster-Shafer theory) are first extracted from data and then modified with expert opinions. Several m...

The SCADA system connectivity with several open networks using internet facility brought SCADA platform more vulnerable from attacks/threads. Therefore, the detail security review has been conducted, to find the potential security issues which are residing and warming the SCADA communication and also existing potential security solutions that are used to protect the SCADA communication. However...

introduction: recognition and implementation of knowledge management have an important effect on improving the quality of hospital activities. according to the direct relationship with the society’s health, health and treatment departments need knowledgeable and skillful staff. thus, this research investigated different dimensions of the knowledge management processes in teaching hospitals of s...

Knowledge is considered to be “the information needed to make business decisions”, and so knowledge management is the “essential ingredient of success” for 95 per cent of CEOs [Manchester 1999]. A company’s value depends increasingly on “intangible assets” which exist in the minds of employees, in databases, in files and in a myriad documents. Knowledge management technologies capture this inta...

42 T he newly updated Defense Acquisition Management Framework Chart serves as a training aid and is designed to serve as a pictorial road map of functional activities throughout the Defense Systems Acquisition Life Cycle. The chart is based on the policies in the new Department of Defense (DoD) 5000series documents coupled with “best practices.” Providing the basic information needed to help u...