This paper describes the need for a self-organising Service Level Management (SLM) in future Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). Due to the complexity of SOA environments, self-management and self-organisation are fundamental requirements for an SLM architecture in this context. The SLM architecture presented consists of two types of autonomic managers. Autonomic managers on the service layer...

this study was aimed at developing a method for measuring the relationship between intellectual capital and project manager competencies. intellectual capital consist human capital, structural capital and relational capital. project manager competencies have been evaluated based on ipma competence baseline (icb) and project manager competency development framework (pmcdf) includes knowledge, sk...

Intrinsic parallelism is shown to have application beyond schemata and o-schemata. More general objects called formae are introduced and general operators which manipulate these are introduced and discussed. These include random, respectful recombination. The extended formalism is applied to various common representations and standard operators are analysed in the light of the formalism.

BACKGROUND Health professionals are striving to improve respectful care for women, but they fall short in the domains of effective communication, respectful and dignified care and emotional support during labour. This study aimed to determine women's experiences of childbirth with a view to improving respectful clinical care practices in low-risk, midwife-led obstetric units in the Tshwane Dist...

due to the particular importance of projects in human life and in organizations, proper project management has been always regarded highly by researchers and practitioners. recent advances in technology and fundamental changes in most scientific areas have affected projects and made their nature and environmental circumstances much more complex than in the past. fortunately, in recent years, ma...

In converting an object of one type to another, we expect some of the original object's behavior to remain the same, and some to change. How can we state the relationship between the original object and converted object to characterize what information is preserved and what is lost after the conversion takes place? We answer this question by introducing the new relation, respects, and say that ...

The Facilities Manager occupies a unique position within the lifecycle of a building asset, as he/she is one of the only Architecture/Engineering/Construction (AEC) and Facilities Management (FM) professionals who is in a position to view the product of the entire design and build process and is responsible for the operational phase which incurs approximately five times the initial capital cost...

Recently, PSEE's (Process-Centered Software Engineering Environments) have been investigated as a new architecture of SEE's in which the software processes are explicitly described and drive the user interactions. A typical PSEE is composed of two components: a resource manager and a process manager. The resource manager is responsible for the management and control of all objects manipulated d...

a major reason why many developing nations have not made significant advancement in sustainable development (sd) agenda is the neglect of existing building stock which forms the bulk of built assets. although sustainable development is a universal challenge, it cannot be approached in the same way for all nations, but rather practical response can be defined nationally or locally. this paper re...

In September, the World Health Organization released a statement on preventing and eliminating disrespect and abuse during facility-based childbirth. In addition to this important agenda, attention is also needed for the dignified care of newborns, who also deserve basic human rights and dignified care. In this commentary, we provide examples from the literature and other sources of where respe...