Lessons learned systems are knowledge management solutions that serve the purpose of capturing, storing, disseminating and sharing an organization’s verified lessons. In this paper we propose a two-step categorization method to support the design of intelligent lessons learned systems. The first step refers to the categories of the lessons learned processes the system is designed to support. Th...

Many approaches to the feature-interaction problem propose resolving interactions among modular features by priority. However, feature-rich services, like telephony, offer hundreds of features, raising questions of whether analyzing and prioritizing features is feasible. This article categorizes features by their goals and functionalities. We discuss how features, collected from customer-servic...

Healthcare applications require special attention regarding security issues since healthcare is associated with mission critical services that are connected with the well being of life. Security raises special considerations when mobility is introduced in the healthcare environment. This research work proposes a security framework for mobile healthcare systems based on information classificatio...

Optimal control of interdependent epidemics spreading over complex networks is a critical issue. We first establish a framework to capture the coupling between two epidemics, and then analyze the system’s equilibrium states by categorizing them into three classes, and deriving their stability conditions. The designed control strategy globally optimizes the trade-off between the control cost and...

We have witnessed a great interest in ontologies as an emerging technology within the Semantic Web. Its foundation that was laid in the last decade paved the way for the development of ontologies and systems that use ontologies in various domains, including the E-Learning domain. In this article, we survey key contributions related to the development and use of ontologies in the domain of E-Lea...

It is widely acknowledged that suppliers contribute positively to innovation in new product development. However, it remains rather unclear what suppliers actually contribute to innovation. Based on a literature review focusing on 80 articles, and a focus group meeting with strategic purchasing managers, a conceptual framework is developed categorizing different supplier inputs to innovation. T...

This paper is on topic identification, i. e., the construction of useful labels for sets of documents. Topic identification is essential in connection within categorizing search applications, where several sets of documents are delivered and an expressive description for each category must be constructed on the fly. The contributions of this paper are threefold. (1) It presents a framework to f...

PURPOSE Almost half of people age 85 and older who die annually in the United States die as nursing home residents, yet because it is not always clear who is close to death, not all residents who might benefit from end-of-life care receive it. The purpose of this study is to develop a framework for organizing social interactions related to end-of-life care and to characterize the social constru...

To maximize the velocity of business value delivery, Alistair Cockburn talks of having a process that is “barely sufficient.” At Landmark Graphics we developed some guidelines as to what "barely sufficient" means for our various software projects. We examined over 60 projects and observed two primary attributes that influenced the type of process used: complexity and uncertainty. We provide a s...