This paper offers an approach for governments to harness the information contained in social media in order to make public inspections and disclosure more efficient. As a case study, we turn to restaurant hygiene inspections – which are done for restaurants throughout the United States and in most of the world and are a frequently cited example of public inspections and disclosure. We present t...

Fagan inspections are a structured review of development documents that consists of individual preparation, a meeting and rework by the author of the document. The meeting is used to log the defects found in preparation and to search for more defects. The effectiveness and eficiency of the meeting is typically low as compared to that of the preparation. This paper describes the use of an EMS to...

Inspections are inherent in many steps throughout the management life cycle of municipal infrastructure. Mobile technology has the potential to improve information capture and management for inspections allowing for easier access, review, and increased detail. A plethora of possible technology solutions do exist but with few comprehensive techniques available to industry for adoption and implem...

In today’s environment of shrinking resources, and consistent need for accurate inspections, simulation software is an effective cost cutting tool. CIVA is an advanced NDT simulation software dedicated to modeling ultrasonic (UT), radiographic (RT) and eddy current (ET) inspections without the need for physical test sample or inspection equipment. Each inspection module is comprised of simulati...

accordingly. However, they are not able to build The article presents a possible approach to model management in a knowledge-based system with distributed knowledge. The knowledge based system is designed to automatically generate vision inspections. The proposed model management mechanism extends system reasoning power without increasing system complexity. The model management knowledge is str...

BACKGROUND The implementation of the Clinical Trials Directive 2001/20/EC and the Good Clinical Practice Directive 2005/28/EC fundamentally restructured and harmonized the conduct of clinical trials in Europe. GCP inspections - which affect study sites, laboratories, sponsors and contract research organizations (CRO) alike - make up an important part of these regulations. A common understanding...

To enable cost-effective enforcement of environmental compliance standards, regulatory agencies encourage production firms to voluntarily discover and correct compliance violations. Although such self-regulation activities often bring desired benefits, they create nontrivial challenges. To study this tradeoff, we develop a model that captures the interactions between a regulator and a firm that...

The main objective of software inspections is to find faults in software documents. The benefits of inspections are reported from researchers as well as software organizations. However, inspections are time consuming and the resources may not be sufficient to inspect all documents. Sampling of documents in inspections provides a systematic solution to select what to be inspected in the case res...

For two decades, software inspections have proven effective for detecting defects in software. We have reviewed the different ways sofhyare inspections are done, created a taxonomy of inspection methods, and examined claims about the cost-effectiveness of different methods. We detect a disturbingpattem in the evaluation of inspection methods. Although there is near universal agreement on the ef...

Sewer degradation is mainly a stochastic process. The future condition of sewers can be predicted with models based on condition states. In The Netherlands, the ‘SPIRIT’ model is being developed which combines expert opinion and visual inspections to predict sewer degradation. The statistical method implemented in this model is based on Bayesian statistics. The likelihood function of condition ...