This paper explores the phenomenon of EvidenceBased Practise (EBP), especially regarding its potential for the Information Systems (IS) discipline. It reviews the implementation of EBP within the established contexts of the health and medical disciplines, as well as some early stage disciplines such as Librarianship and Software Engineering (SE). In doing so, the necessary EBP infrastructure is...

A real-time operating system (RTOS) is an operating system (OS) intended to serve real time application requests. It must be able to process data as it comes in, typically without buffering delays. Processing time requirements (including any OS delay) are measured in tenths of seconds or shorter. Real-time operating systems have evolved over the years from being simple executives using cyclic s...

The first stage in the development of a surgical image guidance system should be the identification of the desired clinical outcomes. This paper identifies a set of desired clinical outcomes for a laparoscopic image guided liver surgery system. Working backwards from these a set of design goals and system parameters are identified. Knowledge of the important system parameters will allow system ...

The data envelopment analysis (DEA), which is based on mathematical programming, employed to measure the relative efficiency of several homogeneous decision-making units (DMUs) with multiple inputs and outputs. There has been extensive research developing classical DEA models for various forms conditions. For example, ranking such as cross have proposed address shortcomings initial basic models...