Background: Health-care institutions have looked to business for models to respond to the requirement for reform. This has changed the perspective of institutions that were founded on charitable principles, and managed with liberal employment policies and deficit budgeting. Using lesions from...

Presented here are methods for successfully controlling software maintenance activity so that present systems will be more useful and less expensive to support. While it is based on experience at Los Alamos National Laboratory, it is not based on solutions developed and implemented there. Los...

A commercially available knowledge-engineering software development tool has been used to illustrate how regulatory compliance and productivity in the nuclear industry can be improved simultaneously. Given the complex nature of the industry regulatory requirements, organizations that rely...

A commercially available knowledge-engineering software development tool has been used to illustrate how regulatory compliance and productivity in the nuclear industry can be improved simultaneously. Given the complex nature of the industry regulatory requirements, organizations that rely...

In a market economy demands for commodities are met through various technologies and resources. Markets select the technologies and resources to meet these demands based on their costs. Over time, the competitiveness of different technologies can change due to the exhaustion of resources they...