We surveyed 736 IS professionals in organizations at varying levels of the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) to investigate job attitudes and perceptions. Although anecdotal reports and the scant preliminary empirical studies to-date suggest job attitudes and perceptions improve for employees as organizations climb the CMM ladder, we found evidence of a more complex picture. IS workers reported s...

This paper presents the achievement of a China NSFC project. A technique to calibrate laser tracker using CMM has been developed. A laser tracker with working range of 35m can be calibrated accurately and quickly using a CMM with working range of 1m. Studies have shown that angular errors are the key contributor to measuring errors of laser tracker. A device to measure angular errors of laser t...

This paper presents a novel and fast k-NN classifier that is based on a binary CMM (Correlation Matrix Memory) neural network. A robust encoding method is developed to meet CMM input requirements . A hardware implementation of the CMM is described, which gives over 200 times the speed of a current mid-range workstation, and is scaleable to very large problems. When tested on several benchmarks ...

The capability maturity model (CMM) approach to software process improvement is the most dominant paradigm of organizational change that software organizations implement. While some organizations have achieved various levels of success with the CMM, the vast majority have failed. In this paper, we investigate the assumptions about organizational culture embedded in the CMM models and we discuss...

Activation of neurons in the ventrolateral region of the periaqueductal gray (vlPAG) can elicit a decrease in renal sympathetic nerve activity and blood pressure. The present study investigated whether the vlPAG-evoked sympathoinhibitory response depends on neurons in the caudal midline medulla (CMM). In pentobarbital-anesthetized rats, activation of neurons in the vlPAG evoked a decrease in re...

Risk of cutaneous malignant melanoma (CMM) is increased in sun-exposed whites, particularly those with a pale complexion. This study was designed to investigate the relationship of the melanocortin-1 receptor (MC1R) genotype to CMM risk, controlled for pigmentation phenotype. We report the occurrence of five common MC1R variants in an Australian population-based sample of 460 individuals with f...

The purpose of the study is to explore the concept of corporate memory management (CMM) and put forward an alternative perspective of how corporate memory (CM) can be understood, exploited and enriched. Based on a brief overview of the relevant literature on organizational memory studies (OMS), an initial CMM framework is proposed, which is then empirically explored and revised using the struct...

Objective. The aim of this study was to determine whether pregnancy increases the recurrence risk of cutaneous malignant melanoma (CMM) in women with a history of stage I CMM. Methods. The electronic medical databases of Medline and Embase were explored. All 1084 obtained articles were screened on title and abstract using predetermined inclusion and exclusion criteria. A critical appraisal of r...

We introduce the Coerced Markov Model (CMM) to model the relationship between the lexical sequence of a source language and the tag sequence of a target language, with the objective of constraining search in statistical transfer-based machine translation systems. CMMs differ from standard hidden Markov models in that state sequence assignments can take on values coerced from external sources. G...

This paper presents a new modified Montgomery modular multiplication algorithm based on canonical signed-digit (CSD) representation, and sliding window method. In this modified Montgomery modular multiplication algorithm, signed-digit recoding technique is used in order to increase probability of the zero bits. Also sliding window method is used in order to reduce the multiplication steps consi...