With the development of modern society, building trade has passed golden period rapid growth. In past few decades, professional level been continuously improving, and efficiency engineering construction developed to a certain extent. However, it cannot be ignored that in context positive developments, adverse effects also have occurred. This requires corresponding reform information management ...

Information systems (IS) outsourcing has grown as a major business phenomenon, and widely accepted as a business tool. Software outsourcing companies provide expertise, knowledge and capabilities to their clients by taking up the projects both onsite and offsite. These companies face numerous challenges including attrition of project members. Attrition is a major challenge experienced by the ou...

background: nursing project management is widely used in different aspects of the society. however, whether the nursing project management can control the infections in the operation room (or) is rarely reported. we evaluated the outcomes of surgical patients after implementing a nursing project management program to provide new scientific ways to manage the or infections. methods: overall, 382...

The use of 4D management tool in construction industry has been growing rapidly in recent years in response to soaring demands on efficient construction management. Successful implementation of this tool in an engineering firm for use in real projects is still challenging. This paper shares the experience on implementing an in-house 4D management tool in a large EPC (Engineering, Procurement an...

American Airlines currently operates in excess of 550 aircraft and flies over 2200 scheduled flights a day to over 160 destinations worldwide. Maintenance planning in a route network of American's magnitude is a complex, decision-intensive task that is managed at the Maintenance Operations Center (MOC) in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The employees in this center are responsible for planning all maintenance...

This paper describes work carried out in the ESPRIT "MIDAS" project to provide for secure management in the context of the ISO standards for network and system management. The intention of the MIDAS work is to make use of security mechanisms which have already been standardised (for example X.509 authentication) and to make these available through a conventional implementation of the CMIP proto...

Network and system maintenance personnel are increasingly mobile. This creates a potential market for a network, system and service management terminal that is highly mobile, which would supplement existing network and system management solutions. This paper presents a generic architectural solution for this problem based on a highly scalable and network-centric approach to development of netwo...

The elements of a pluralist systemic framework for the evaluation of factors affecting software development productivity are discussed. The framework is based on the Multiple Perspectives concept by Linstone, Multimethodology by Mingers and Critical Systems Thinking. The proposed mix of methods complements existing cost estimation techniques by providing deeper understanding of the role of the ...

At the present time, electronic data exchange in construction industry is mainly used for the exchange of information related to technical design, most of the time using proprietary data formats from the CAD systems in use. Planning, control and management activities are very often not supported automatically, and standard models to enable their automatic data exchange are just now coming from ...