Sustainable product development is currently of concern by scientists within both academia and engineering. Despite existing literature proposed related to detailed aspects for design for sustainability (D4S), the modeling of life cycle driving forces for D4S in different levels remains insufficient. A morphological analysis (MA) approach was applied to explore the strategies in sustainable pro...

Status of this Memo This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Abstract This document analyzes issues involved in the transition of "unmanaged networks" from IPv4 to IPv6. Unmanaged networks typically correspond to home networks or small office networks. A companion paper analyzes out t...

It has been gathering great deal of attention to provide personalized services in the home or in the small office. As a necessary technology for it, person recognition by pressure sensors on a chair is described. It exploits the hipprints of users. Such a method makes it possible to automatically login to a computer when the user sits. The recognition rate reached to 99.6% for 5 people and 98.4...

Purpose – Proposes providing an insight about factors affecting business-to-business ecommerce adoption and implementation in small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), highlighting similarities and differences between Danish and Australian SMEs. Design/methodology/approach – The research is based on a wide literature review, focused on proposing a theoretical model of technological, environment...

Svensk titel: KONTORSARBETE—en explorativ studie om sambandet mellan det arkitektoniska rummet och arbetstillfredsställelse, hälsa och välbefinnande. IV IV Tillägnad mamma & pappa—tack för ALLT Dedicated to mum & dad—thanks for EVERYTHING V V SUMMARY This doctoral thesis examines the office environment's influence on employees' perception of their workplaces, their organizations and their job s...

The increasing cost of energy and the worldwide desire to reduce CO2 emissions has raised concern about the energy efficiency of information and communication technology. Whilst research has focused on data centres recently, this paper identifies office environments as significant consumers of energy. Office environments offer a great potential of energy savings, given that office hosts often r...

Increased personal control and comfort needs of employees triggered the concern among organizations to provide them with an environment and office design, which fulfills the employees’ needs and helps to boost their productivity. The main objective of this study is to find out the relationship between office design and productivity. For this purpose, 31 bank branches of 13 banks were contacted ...

Office automation requires controlled coordination between information management and collaborative problem solving. Often, this entails the cooperation of agents executing diverse tasks in an office environment. Designing cooperating agents for office automation, however, is non-trivial: issues such as agent heterogeneity, communication protocols, context sensitivity, task coordination, and co...

Historically, oral and maxillofacial surgeons have had considerable autonomy in operating their offices. Oral and maxillofacial surgeons have had a singular history of safety, training, and success in outpatient anesthesia in their offices. However, preventable patient morbidity and mortality in private office-based surgical facilities of a variety of professions have brought increased scrutiny...

This study empirically examines the impact of indoor physical environment on academicians’ productivity in different higher education institutes of Khyber Pakhtoonkhawa (KPK) province of Pakistan. The study is based on primary data collected from one hundred and forty four educationists’ of various institutes in Pakistan namely, COMSATS Abbottabad campus, Hazara University, Mansehra campus, UET...