Decision making (DM) is a knowledge intensive process that demands good management of knowledge to generate a desired process outcome. The KM behavioral patterns that transpire while managing knowledge during DM affect the process outcomes. Therefore, in order to understand KM behaviors to generate a desired process outcome, it is crucial to systematically study the nature of KM behaviors that ...

Topics covered: 1. What is disturbance? 2. Characteristics of disturbances and disturbance regimes 3. Role of disturbance in ecosystems and landscapes 4. Factors affecting disturbances 5. Feedback mechanisms affecting disturbance regimes 6. Interactions among the physical template, biotic processes and disturbance regimes 7. Human effects on disturbance regimes 8. Resource management implications.

Many services in a distributed public network like the Internet require secure communications. Security in communications consists of confidentiality, integrity, authenticity, and non-repudiability. These aims can be achieved with cryptography. Key management plays a fundamental role in secure communications, as it is the basis of all cryptographic functions. This paper describes a pattern lang...

To represent and manage data mining patterns, several aspects have to be taken into account: (i) patterns are heterogeneous in nature; (ii) patterns can be extracted from raw data by using data mining tools (a-posteriori patterns) but also defined by the users and used for example to check how well they represent some input data source (a-priori patterns); (iii) since source data change frequen...

We discuss an analysis pattern for the management of student courses. The pattern describes events such as student registering in course sections, student adding and dropping course sections, grade management, etc. The pattern corresponds to a minimal semantic unit, applicable to a variety of situations. This is a composite pattern that includes two simpler patterns that describe course registr...

This paper addresses the problem of pattern management in the framework of formal concept analysis using restrictions on objects or attributes of a given data set. Patterns are pieces of information/knowledge with a concise description that can be obtained from data using data mining techniques. These can be clusters or bi-clusters, implications or association rules, and so on. Even for relativ...

With the rising of Chinese economy, the Chinese management pattern becomes the focus which takes scholars and managers’ attention to warmly discuss. In this paper, we analyze and summarize Chinese experts and the enterprise’ research on the Chinese management pattern’s innovation. So we hope it can lead more people to make deeper research in this area and promote this academic theory.

The different mobile wireless communication systems that are currently available adopt common solutions for dealing with recurring mobility management problems associated with similar architectural elements. This work extracts and documents patterns that identify such common problems and solutions among second generation systems, for example, GSM-900 and D-AMPS. These patterns are grouped into ...

BACKGROUND Oral cancer varies globally and regionally, and is closely linked with geographical, social, economical, biological, ethnic, dietary and environmental factors. In western countries it accounts for about 2-5% while in the south-east Asia for about 40% of all cancers. In Pakistan it is second commonest tumour after bronchogenic carcinoma in males and breast carcinoma in females. The ob...