Practical application of competence management systems in safety critical industries

2011 ◽  
pp. 429-435 ◽  
Author(s):  
N Powell ◽  
D Owen
Keyword(s):  
Management Systems ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Safety Critical ◽  
Competence Management

Benchmarking Untrustworthiness

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 32-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Afonso Araújo Neto ◽  
Marco Vieira
Keyword(s):  
Database Management ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Database Management Systems ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Large Database ◽  
Security Metrics ◽  
High Reward

Benchmarking security is hard and, although there are many proposals of security metrics in the literature, no consensual quantitative security metric has been previously proposed. A key difficulty is that security is usually more influenced by what is unknown about a system than by what is known. In this paper, the authors propose the use of an untrustworthiness metric for benchmarking security. This metric, based on the idea of quantifying and exposing the trustworthiness relationship between a system and its owner, represents a powerful alternative to traditional security metrics. As an example, the authors propose a benchmark for Database Management Systems (DBMS) that can be easily used to assess and compare alternative database configurations based on minimum untrustworthiness, which is a low-cost and high-reward trust-based metric. The practical application of the benchmark in four real large database installations shows that untrustworthiness is a powerful metric for administrators to make informed security decisions by taking into account the specifics needs and characteristics of the environment being managed.

scholarly journals An Approach To E-Workflow Systems With The Use Of Patterns

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-20
Author(s):  
John Ndeta ◽  
Stamatia A. Katriou ◽  
Kerstin V. Siakas
Keyword(s):  
Business Processes ◽  
Workflow Management ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Workflow Management Systems ◽  
Activity Diagram ◽  
Workflow Systems ◽  
Workflow Pattern ◽  
Uml Activity Diagram ◽  
Input Format

Abstract In today’s highly competitive and rapidly changing environment, e-businesses constantly have to modify their business processes, i.e. the flow of documents and tasks in a business also known as workflow. More flexible Workflow Management Systems are required to support these constantly changing processes. In this research a platform independent architecture for the design of e-workflow systems is illustrated. The architecture includes an information pool, namely a Workflow Pattern Repository, which contains patterns, which are repeatable solutions to reoccurring problems, in order to make the system more apt to change and assist the workflow designer/user in defining workflows faster and more accurately. The patterns in the repository are in the form of UML activity diagram templates. A straightforward input format for storing patterns in the repository is provided along with an example of its practical application.

Applying Semantic Web in Competence Management

2011 ◽  
pp. 1084-1104
Author(s):  
Mikko Maukkanen ◽  
Heikki Helin
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
Dynamic Environments ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Flexible Systems ◽  
Semantic Web Technologies ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Building Systems ◽  
Competence Management ◽  
Employee Competencies

Efficient competence management is essential in knowledge-based companies. This chapter describes how the Semantic Web technologies can be used in managing employee competencies. Applying the Semantic Web technologies in the competence management enables building systems that support highly dynamic environments, are extensible as well as interoperable between different application domains, and benefit from the use of machine-accessible semantics. Competence management systems should be available not only for managers, but for all the employees of the company. As companies get larger, it becomes increasingly difficult to manage the knowledge and competencies that their employees have. Utilizing the Semantic Web opens many possibilities for building flexible systems for competence management.

Lessons From Practices and Standards in Safety-Critical and Regulated Sectors

2017 ◽  
pp. 1232-1256
Author(s):  
William G. Tuohey
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Process Improvements ◽  
Engineering Research ◽  
Safety Critical ◽  
Objective Standard ◽  
Develop Software ◽  
Engineering Standards ◽  
Software Engineering Research

Many years of effort have been expended by experienced practitioners and academic experts in developing software engineering standards. Organizations should see it as a positive advantage—rather than as a costly negative necessity—when they are required to develop software to a recognized standard. A genuine, constructive program of measures to ensure compliance with an objective standard will achieve development process improvements that would otherwise be difficult to motivate and bring to fruition. This chapter provides an overview and comparison of a number of software engineering standards specific to safety-critical and regulated sectors. It goes on to describe implications and benefits that flow from these standards. Informed by current software engineering research, suggestions are made for effective practical application of the standards, both at individual project and at organizational level.

Applying Semantic Web in Competence Management

2007 ◽  
pp. 333-257
Author(s):  
Mikko Maukkanen ◽  
Heikki Helin
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
Dynamic Environments ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Flexible Systems ◽  
Semantic Web Technologies ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Building Systems ◽  
Competence Management ◽  
Employee Competencies

Efficient competence management is essential in knowledge-based companies. This chapter describes how the Semantic Web technologies can be used in managing employee competencies. Applying the Semantic Web technologies in the competence management enables building systems that support highly dynamic environments, are extensible as well as interoperable between different application domains, and benefit from the use of machine-accessible semantics. Competence management systems should be available not only for managers, but for all the employees of the company. As companies get larger, it becomes increasingly difficult to manage the knowledge and competencies that their employees have. Utilizing the Semantic Web opens many possibilities for building flexible systems for competence management.

Cultivating virtual communities of practice in KAFKA

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabio Sartori ◽  
Riccardo Melen ◽  
Stefano Pinardi
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Knowledge Modeling ◽  
Computational Tools ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Virtual Communities Of Practice ◽  
Modeling Level

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a framework for cultivating virtual communities of practice in distributed environments. The framework is based on the integration of knowledge artifacts and wearable technologies. Design/methodology/approach The proposed knowledge artifact is based on the correlation between conceptual and computational tools for the representation of different kinds of knowledge. Findings In this way, it is possible to make deeper the collaboration between knowledge seekers and contributors within the community, given that seekers and contributors share, at least in part, design choices at the knowledge modeling level. Originality/value A practical application of the framework has been described, to show its originality with respect to traditional knowledge management systems. In particular, it has been demonstrated how lurking phenomenon inside communities of practice can be significantly reduced. To this aim, opportune indexes have been defined from existing ones in literature.

Ontology-Based Competence Management in Pharmacy

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 94-112
Author(s):  
J. Puustjärvi ◽  
L. Puustjärvi
Keyword(s):  
Resource Sharing ◽  
Database Systems ◽  
New Drugs ◽  
Relational Model ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Data Store ◽  
Competence Management ◽  
Fast Development ◽  
Relational Database Systems

The role of competence management in pharmacy is increasing as healthcare is a field where the fast development of drug treatment and the introduction of new drugs require specialized skills and knowledge that must be renewed frequently. However, two obstacles for the widespread adoption of computer aided competence management in pharmacies exist. First, pharmacies do not have enough resources for maintaining competence management systems. Second, in pharmacies well-functioning competence management requires co-operation with other organizations, such as healthcare authorities and educational institutions, but competence management systems do not support such co-operation. To solve the resource problem, the authors have exploited a community cloud, which enables resource sharing among pharmacies and thus reduces pharmacies’ costs in competence management. To carry out co-operation with other organizations, they have developed a competence ontology which not only specify a shared terminology but also makes up a shared data store for the co-operating organizations. The competence ontology is specified in OWL. Further, to achieve efficiency in implementing the ontology the authors have transformed it into relational model. By means of relational database systems the authors have also achieved additional functionality, such as triggering, in competence management.

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