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We focus on an approach to reducing costs of running applications. MIPS, which is a traditional acronym for millions of instructions per second, have evolved to become a measurement of processing power and the CPU resource consumption. The need for controlling MIPS attributed costs is indispensable given the high percentage they involve in the operational IT costs. In this paper we investigate ...

This paper discusses some of the challenges of providing systems management to BT’s operational support systems (OSS). As the OSS evolve to exploit the three-tier distributed architecture, the provision of successful systems management solutions must overcome many problems, including those of scale, scope, functionality, integration, rate of change, and the relative immaturity of available solu...

in this paper, we are going to investigate the growth of the iranian maritime transport with a focus mainly on the north - south transit corridor, review of dry ports in order to support the iranian container terminals at the south ports in order to increase the volume of container storages at the terminals. for the purpose of assessing the outcome of port operational management, the balanced s...

The present work attempts to find the gap between agreement level and adoption level of various supply chain management (SCM) practices in paint companies who are operating in India. An empirical study was carried out with paint companies. Paired samples ttest was used to find out the difference in agreement and adoption level of various SCM practices and multiple regression analysis was used t...

Competence management is a quite recent but important topic addressed by nowadays companies for improving their organization. With examples coming from several industrial projects, we show the difficulty of defining a consistent competence management framework, and exhibit the inconsistencies which can result from an insufficient analysis of this domain. Some guidelines are suggested in order t...

Operational risk is defined as a consequence of critical contingencies most of which are quantitative in nature and many questions regarding economic capital allocation for operational risk continue to be open. Existing quantitative models that compute the value at risk for market and credit risk do not take into account operational risk. They also make various assumptions about ’normality’ and...

There are vast amounts of regularly reported data in the information systems of hospitals, state and federal governments. The increase in accessibility offered by platforms such as the Health Information Exchange (HIE) in New South Wales (NSW) creates a new level of opportunity. Administrative data can also speak to clinical and managerial issues. The capacity to mine these data and use the inf...

IntroductIon This article intends to cover operational-knowledge management (KM) as implemented in the military. In particular, it is based on experience and published examples from the U.S. Army and the IDF (Israeli Defense Forces). It concentrates on the characteristics of operational knowledge as the core type of interest for the military due to the nature of the mission. The proxy of human ...