Recommendations already exist on how to write a structured abstract for the INAHTA Database (http://agatha.york.ac.uk/htahp.htm). The abstract must be written in English. In 392 INTL. J. OF TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT IN HEALTH CARE 18:2, 2002 Best practice in undertaking and reporting HTA Table 15. Data To Be Included in an English Structured Abstract Title: first title in English, then original tit...

Are geographically-distributed teams which exhibit high levels of group maintenance between members successful? We answer this through content analysis of emails from two Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) teams. Our results illustrate that the groups utilize low levels of organizational citizenship behaviors and high levels of positive politeness actions. INTRODUCTION Small groups or team...

The report presents new developments at Georgia Tech’s Music Technology Group. We discuss our new facilities, faculty members, academic programs, and research initiatives, as well as a number of creative activities, workshops and concerts that have recently taken place in the department. We conclude with a brief discussion of several future initiatives.

This paper presents a new clique partitioning (CP) model for the Group Technology (GT) problem. The new model, based on a novel 0/1 quadratic programming formulation, addresses multiple objectives in GT problems by drawing on production relationships to assign differing weights to machine/ part pairs. The use of this model, which is readily solved by a basic tabu search heuristic, is illustrate...

The ROMANCE project aims at building a Repli-cated Object MANagement Conngurable Environment based on Group Technology. Ultimately, we aim to develop a programming environment to support sharing passive replicated data objects regardless of data persistence or durability requirements. ROMANCE objects are distributed and can be accessed from any node in the system (in a location transparent way)...