In our research, we investigate design processes of future software systems. Our vision is that software services are provided in a world-wide distributed market and are composed automatically in order to fulfil individual user requests on-thefly. This On-The-Fly Computing (OTF) software provision can be defined and then applied in different domains taking into account constraints of those doma...

A major aspect of complex Enterprise Architectures is the integration of existing heterogeneous IT-systems in a business process oriented way. Based on an empirical study the authors of the paper proved that there is no significant process orientation in information system integration projects today. Among other reasons this is due to deficits in mastering integration methodologies and technolo...

As one of the top issues for CIOs nowadays the recruiting and retention of IT-professionals has received a lot of attention both in practice and research. While companies are in dire need of new strategies and integrated approaches in human resources, research has predominately observed the general attitude of IT-professionals to their work, their individual incentives and consequentially their...

Quality of life, health, and ability are often lost at the same time and most often in one decaying existential movement over 5 or 10 years. This "loss of life" is mostly too slow to be felt as life threatening, but once awakened to reality, it provokes the deepest of fears in patients: the fear of death itself and destruction of our mere existence. The horrible experience of having "lost life"...

BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to investigate nurses' and care workers' experiences of spiritual needs among residents with dementia in nursing homes. Nurses claim to practice holistic nursing. Nevertheless, there is little knowledge about how to recognise spiritual needs in residents with dementia. METHODS The study was conducted using a qualitative method with an exploratory design. Ei...

in this article which deals with the survey and analytic concept of space in vernacular and modern architecture, first the concept of space is explicated generally while it is briefly free of style and orientation. then, it offers explanations of each kind of above mentioned architectures that has been invoked by researchers and intellectuals about art and architecture. then differences of the ...

there is always a meaning concealed behind functional aspects of any physical structure. this covert meaning is tranfered to the user or observer of the phenomena and forms his perception. studying the perception of the visitors towards the visited structure is considered useful in several research fields. in tourism context, visitors’ perception towards visited destination is obliged as a sign...

Sales enablement sensing-as-a-service (SESaaS) is an organisation’s future process management for any sales operation. With expanding base of dynamic customer demands and the adoption multiple technological advancements, there a high possibility that human-centric will be transformed into fully automated form aimed at increasing productivity being able to cater effectively broader base. A revie...