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...

Using a model selection approach, this thesis proposes a constructive data-and-theory-combined procedure to identify model structures in the framework of a linear simultaneous equations system based on observed data. A model structure is characterized by restrictions on the structural...

Das Vorhaben, über das hier zu berichten ist, geht auf eine Anregung des Max-Planck-Instituts fürGesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) im Frühjahr 2003 zurück, die von der VolkswagenStiftung aufgegriffenund als Projekt finanziell gefördert wurde. Ausgangspunkt war die Beobachtung, dass in den...

The institutional governance approach sees national economies embedded in a bundle of non-market types of coordination (e.g. corporate hierarchies, networks, associations and the state). Governance oriented research explores configurations of governance types in sectoral, regional and national...