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Simulation is essential when studying manufacturing processes or designing production systems. This project was a real case study which involved a job shop with five similar CNC milling machines. A total of six jobs were performed and each of them consisted of a different set…

Open source has emerged as a widely accepted software development phenomenon which has tremendously brought about a significant paradigm shift from traditional software development methodologies such as top down design and stepwise refinement to an unconventional software development approach by means of collaborative software development…

Creating and sustaining a competitive advantage is a knowledge-based activity and those companies that are aware of knowledge management concepts and utilize it within their organizations have an edge over their competitors. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a major role in developing countries’ growth…

International financial institutions should no longer rely on traditional ways to conduct business. By innovating on legacy platforms, organizations are able to be on the competitive edge. Information is power and managing information or knowledge will ensure profits are maximized and competitive business advantage is…

Evaluations of tools (information retrieval systems, machine learning, speech recognition, machine translation, automatic acquisition of data, etc.) are annually organized throughout evaluation campaigns (TREC, ELRA, ESTER IWSLT, etc.). The building of an ad hoc evaluation corpus in the context of these evaluation campaigns is a…

Our system OSVIRA (Ontology-Based System for Semantic Information Retrieval Visio-conference and Annotation) is devoted to the development of help to annotation and semantic search of multimedia conferencing resources. It is based on the use of ontology associated with dense thesaurus. It allows using multiple ontology…

Intellectual capital of the organization would determine the success of the organization itself if it is well capitalized.  Knowledge sharing is a platform for the organization to further enhance productivity. Furthermore, knowledge sharing is always linked to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) due to their…

We survey actual practices of IT SLM (Service Level Management) in large organizations. The survey is based on a comprehensive analysis framework, called ESLAM (Extended Service Level Analysis Model) that considers (a) service level variables, that are what SLM measures (b) service information system, that…

KM practitioners or managers may sometimes face difficultities when they come to adop definitions to plan for effective KM and information infrastructure in their respective situations to achieve organisational competitive advanatge (CA). This paper is to review and examine the variations and similarities from the…

E-business systems are known for their frequent changes in business requirements, and traditional software development engineering approaches have difficulties in keeping up with this dynamicity. The use of service oriented architecture in software development has become popular as it provides a solution to frequent changes…