The product line approach is a major reuse concept that has shown concrete commercial results over the past years. Product lines achieve reuse in the functionality and solution space, and thus improve quality, cycle time and cost. They are specifically promising in cases where many variants are produced almost simultaneously, such as in telecommunication systems. Though appealing, the concept i...

BACKGROUND Instead of waiting for challenges to confront hospital management, doctors and managers should act in advance to optimize and sustain value-based health. This work highlights the importance of scenario planning in hospitals, proposes an elaborated definition of the stakeholders of a hospital and defines the influence factors to which hospitals are exposed to. METHODOLOGY Based on l...

Complex software development is a risky job. The number of unsuccessful projects largely surpasses the number of successful developments. Many studies relate this situation to non-technical problems, especially to inadequate project management. This thesis intends to develop a scenario based project management paradigm, which is based on separately describing a software project expected behavio...

In today’s networks where an arbitrary number of service providers needs to dynamically exchange customerand technology-related data, the integrated management of networks, systems and applications is a challenge. Management systems play a strategic role for enabling seamless interworking because they contain the management information that has to be shared between service providers in order to...