background: quality management is one of the most effective strategies for improving the health systems performance in developed and developing countries. the main goal of this study was identifying the most important aspects of quality management and preparing an appropriate model for health system. method: this research was a comparative study on quality management models in the health system...

Modern business organizations have appreciated the significance of having competitive advantage through the delivery of continuous improvement towards the customers, and being knowledge-oriented. Indisputably, Knowledge Management (KM) plays a key role in the success of Customer Relationship Management (CRM). In this regard, Customer Knowledge Management (CKM) is a newly developed concept that ...

Software systems that are successfully deployed and used seem to always have a longer lifetime than was originally expected. It is also common knowledge that the cost of maintaining and evolving those systems during that lifetime dwarf the initial cost of creating the system. This makes support for self-management in the legacy software arena all that much more important. We are building an inf...

In this paper we briefly describe the CoMo-Kit system which uses knowledge-based techniques to improve workflow management approaches by increasing the flexibility of the work process and by notifying the appropriate team members about changes. Executive Summary the project’s lifetime. Changes happen! Therefore, a project support system has to be able to handle them. The CoMo-Kit system uses de...

the infrastructure of the electricity grid and super grid system in the hitherto industrialized world was to a large extent built up in the decades following world war ii with a peak in investments around 1960-1980. this means that the flotilla of power transformers is now starting to reach projected lifetime of around 40 years. during the last couple of decades there has also been an ongoing d...

A wireless sensor network consists of a large number of distributed independent sensors. One of the major challenges is to use energy conserving routing algorithms that can find paths which consume the minimum energy. Recent researches on maximising the lifetime of WSN, like the online maximum lifetime (OML), and capacity maximisation (CMAX) heuristic were intended to do so. Others applied a ne...

Emerging VLSI technologies, as well as emerging platforms, are giving rise to systems with inherently high potential for runtime failure. Such failures range from intermittent electrical and mechanical failures at the system level, to device failures at the chip level. Techniques to provide reliable computation in the presence of failures must do so while maintaining high performance, with an e...

BACKGROUND Demand for surgery to treat osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip, knee and spine has risen dramatically. Whereas total hip (THA) and total knee arthroplasty (TKA) have been widely accepted as cost-effective, spine surgeries (decompression, decompression with fusion) to treat degenerative conditions remain underfunded compared with other surgeries. METHODS An incremental cost-utility anal...