The future existence and profitability of nearly all business entities from small privately-held firms to the largest international corporations depend on the judicious acquisition, maintenance, and disposal of capital assets. No concrete definition exists for the term "capital asset," but generally a capital asset has a useful life greater than one year and is expected to earn income sufficien...

(resources) are dynamically discovered and composed into workflows for problem solving, and later disbanded. This gives rise to an increasing demand for provenance, which enables users to trace how a particular result has been arrived at by identifying the resources, configurations and execution settings. In this paper we analyse the nature of service-oriented computing and define a new concept...

This paper presents the design, the prototype implementation and the preliminary evaluation of an enhanced meta-computing environment based on the FEniCS Project and focused on multi-domain multi-physics problems modeled with partial differential equations. It is based on scripting languages and their practices, and on the Service Oriented Architecture paradigm and the associated web services t...

Government on all levels has actively promoted the Community-Oriented Policing and Problem Solving (COPPS) paradigm as a progressive antidote to past reliance on reactive police practices. This paper analyzes the impact of this paradigm on policing, describes examples of programs designed to implement the COPPS paradigm, and assesses some of the gains for our communities that have resulted, as ...

in this paper, different input-oriented ratio-based dea (dea-r-i) models are proposed. by presenting the envelopment-additive-enhanced russell model based on the dea-r-i form, each decision making unit is evaluated and its efficiency score is calculated. also, by presenting the central resource allocation model based on the dea-r-i form, a suitable benchmark for all dmus is proposed by solving ...

One of the biggest challenges faced by most computer science educators is assessing whether a student comprehends programming and robotic design concepts. In this paper, we introduce the benefits of exploring new technologies for learning in the form of LEGO robotics and obtaining problem solving skills. Students use the LEGO (Mindstorms for Schools) Team Challenge kit #9790 in conjunction with...

In the paper, we propose an approach of POM (peculiarity oriented mining) centric multiaspect data analysis for investigating human problem solving related functions, in which computation tasks are used as an example. The proposed approach is based on Brain Informatics (BI) methodology, which supports studies of human information processing mechanism systematically from both macro and micro poi...

Introduction This article critically assesses the development of judicial involvement in offender management drawing both on international literature and on experiences of courts in the UK that have adopted „problem-solving‟ approaches that aim to enhance the „therapeutic‟ potential of court processes. Engaging offenders and encouraging their compliance with community supervision are key probat...

Information models are seen as an important tool within the information systems discipline as well as in non-IS domains. However, modeling is a highly manual task and causes extensive effort. Modeling methods focus only on the creation of models, without giving concrete instructions of an appropriate use of them. An increased efficiency could be achieved if the necessary tasks are solved comple...

Computer-based depression interventions lacking live therapist support have difficulty engaging users. This study evaluated the usability, acceptability, credibility, therapeutic alliance and efficacy of a stand-alone multimedia, interactive, computer-based Problem Solving Treatment program (ePST™) for depression. The program simulated live treatment from an expert PST therapist, and delivered ...