Service organizations use quality management systems as a part of their overall strategies to improve business processes and operations management. Nevertheless, how quality management components lead to improvement and whether task conflicts influen...
Recently, citizen involvement has been increasingly used in urban disaster prevention and management, taking advantage of new ubiquitous and collaborative technologies. This scenario has created a unique opportunity to leverage the work of crowds of...
Collecting, integrating, storing and analyzing data in a database system is nothing new in itself. To introduce a current research information system (CRIS) means that scientific institutions must provide the required information on their research ac...
The coordinated control of PM2.5 and O3 pollution has become a critical factor restricting the improvement of air quality in China. In this work, precursors and related influencing factors were utilized to establish PM2.5 and O3 estimation models in...
The number of post-graduate rehabilitation therapists (novice therapists) is increasing due to the growing demand for rehabilitation services in Japan. This study investigated the acquisition status of Japanese novice therapists’ basic clinical...
Web-based idea management systems (IMS) have helped many organisations to adapt their creativity processes to the new way of working in response to the global pandemic. IMS provide a systematic and manageable idea generation and evaluation process in...
The development of technology for manufacturing products and machines carrying out technological operations is closely linked to developing systems for tracking and controlling product and production process parameters. This paper shows how the devel...
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Clear role descriptions promote the quality of interprofessional collaboration. Currently, it is unclear to what extent healthcare professionals consider pharmaceutical care (PC) activities to be nurses’ responsibility in order to obtain best care qu...
The brown rice rate (BRR), milled rice rate (MRR), and head rice rate (HRR) are important indicators of rice milling quality. The simultaneous detection of these three metrics holds significant economic value for rice milling quality assessments. In...
The prediction mechanism is very crucial in a smart factory as they widely help in improving the product quality and customer’s experience based on learnings from past trends. The implementation of analytics tools to predict the production and...
Satellite network resource management and scheduling technology are significant to constructing integrated information networks in heaven and earth. The difficulty in realizing this technology lies in improving resource utilization efficiency while e...
This paper focuses on the load imbalance problem in System Wide Information Management (SWIM) task scheduling. In order to meet the quality requirements of users for task completion, we studied large-scale network information system task scheduling m...
Construction quality is one of the primary management objectives relating to duration and cost for construction projects. Project managers struggle with minimizing duration and cost while maximizing quality for construction projects. In construction...
In the Silurian Dolostone region of eastern Wisconsin, the combination of thin soils and waste application (animal manure, organic waste) has led to significant groundwater contamination, including Brown Water Incidents (BWIs—contamination resulting...
Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are widely used to process sequence-related tasks such as natural language processing. Edge cloud computing systems are in an asymmetric structure, where task managers allocate tasks to the asymmetric edge and cloud c...
Internet of Things (IoT) applications have led to exploding contextual data for predictive analytics and exploration tasks. Consequently, computationally data-driven tasks at the network edge, such as machine learning models’ training and infer...
Quality lifestyle leads to increasing trends in smart cities by offering modern communication and information technologies. Smart cities offer multiple applications with smart management of resources such as smart agriculture, Intelligent transportat...
Society is constantly developing and museums must respond to this. Museums’ main tasks include conservation of humanity’s history, which puts high demands on museum staff. The level of care for cultural heritage depends on the quality of...
The purpose of this research is to study the communication network among the participants in a construction project. The proposed approach contains the solving of the following tasks: identification of the key factors that affect the communication qu...
With the rapid development of port construction and the shipping industry, port water quality issues are of great concern. This is always a challenging task due to the frequent human activities and dynamic processes involved. A parallel intelligent w...
Background: The emergence of “multi-omics” and “multi-parametric” types of analysis based on a high number of biospecimens enforces the use of a great number of high-quality “Biological Materials and Associated Data” (BMaD). To meet the demands of bi...
With the vigorous development of industries such as self-driving, edge intelligence, and the industrial Internet of Things (IoT), the amount and type of data generated are unprecedentedly large, and users’ demand for high-quality services conti...
A successful cloud trading system requires suitable financial incentives for all parties involved. Cloud providers in the cloud market provide computing services to clients in order to perform their tasks and earn extra money. Unfortunately, the appl...
Aircraft fatigue test is a critical step for new aircraft models to obtain certification. The primary task of fatigue test is to detect damage promptly and gather damage data. Therefore, to ensure the timeliness and effectiveness of non-destructive t...
Network Slicing and Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) are vital enablers for achieving 5G and 6G networks. A 5G/6G network can comprise various network slices from unique or multiple tenants. Network providers need to perform intelligent and efficien...
This article aims to present a profile of functional controllers created in German-speaking countries in the context of their competences and tasks for sustainable management and value chain creation. Sustainable chain management requires finding a b...
Building information modelling (BIM) methodology has been implemented in the construction industry, reaching all sectors: multidisciplinary design development; construction planning and monitoring; and building management and maintenance. A complete...
This study addresses the problem of pre-harvest fruit commodity grade prediction in intelligent orchards. To overcome the limitations of conventional post-harvest grading systems, including delayed quality evaluation, the limited representation capab...
Recently, a massive migration of enterprise applications to the cloud has been recorded in the IT world. One of the challenges of cloud computing is Quality-of-Service management, which includes the adoption of appropriate methods for allocating clou...
Water quality monitoring is essential for managing water resources and ensuring human and environmental health. However, obtaining reliable data can be challenging and costly, especially in complex systems such as estuaries. To address this problem,...
Mobile crowdsensing (MCS) is an emerging paradigm that enables cost-effective, large-scale, and participatory data collection through mobile devices. However, the open nature of MCS raises significant privacy and trust challenges. Existing reputation...
Organizations are expected to follow trends and adapt their management to market conditions. In an era of rapid change and an environment that is difficult to predict, this is an extremely complicated task. In order to effectively respond to the need...
Aiming at the complex structure of the space information networks (SIN) and the dynamic change of network topology, in order to design an efficient routing strategy, this paper establishes a SIN management architecture based on Software-defined Netwo...
Water quality prediction is a fundamental and necessary task for the prevention and management of water environment pollution. Due to the fluidity of water, different sections of the same river have similar trends in their water quality. The present...
Shift organizations in automotive manufacturing often rely on manual task allocation, resulting in inefficiencies, human error, and increased workload for supervisors. This research introduces an automated solution using the Kuhn-Munkres algorithm, i...
This study analyzed the jobs of animal-assisted therapy specialists using the Development of a Curriculum (DACUM) technique, a job analysis method for the duties and tasks performed in a specific job. It derived nine duties and 54 tasks through a ver...
Air quality management concerns the assessment, analysis and mitigation strategies associated with ensuring that air is breathable and non-toxic. Successful management is a cognitively intensive task, knowledge-focused and converges multiple sources...
The allocation of tasks among multiple Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) with energy constraints in underwater environments presents an NP-complete problem with far-reaching consequences for marine exploration, environmental monitoring, and under...
Knowledge Management as a strategy to improve the quality of the institutional environment can be related to the coordination of activities that create, store and share knowledge. School Management has to deal with different tasks, such as planning,...
In recent years, the development of deep learning technology has significantly benefited agriculture in domains such as smart and precision farming. Deep learning models require a large amount of high-quality training data. However, collecting and ma...
The current study examined the moderating role of leader–member exchange (LMX) in the associations between workplace loneliness and employees’ perceived task and perceived contextual performance. Specifically, the study explored whether t...
In distributed software development, planning and managing fair and transparent task allocation is both critical and challenging. The objective of this paper is to propose a decentralized blockchain-oriented, transparent task allocation framework to...
Vision processing on traditional architectures is inefficient due to energy-expensive off-chip data movement. Many researchers advocate pushing processing close to the sensor to substantially reduce data movement. However, continuous near-sensor proc...
Many connected devices are expected to be deployed during the next few years. Energy harvesting appears to be a good solution to power these devices but is not a reliable power source due to the time-varying nature of most energy sources. It is possi...
With the spread of compulsory education emerged continuous school management problems, and the quality of school management in compulsory education has attracted a great deal of attention in China. However, the application of information technology i...
Developing nations have the task of effectively managing their external debt. The government is urged to comprehend the decisive component in managing its external debt, despite the varying viewpoints among economists. In addition, the world sees the...
During aircraft flights, combat readiness and the supply system affecting it are essential issues. The basic items of supply during the implementation of tasks are combat assets and aviation fuel. Effective management of the flow of required products...
Inspired by the recent developments of the Internet of Things (IoT) relay and mobile edge computing (MEC), a hospital/home-based medical monitoring framework is proposed, in which the intensive computing tasks from the implanted sensors can be effici...
In partially observable adversarial environments, heterogeneous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms must generate tasks online from noisy observations while respecting platform capabilities, consumable resources, and structural dependencies among ta...
Education has a crucial role to play in helping meet the Sustainable Development Goals, for which the initial training of university teachers, and its evaluation, are all essential. In this context, the authors developed an outdoor work task, consist...
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