Hybrid Analysis of the Decision-Making Factors for Software Upgrade Based on the Integration of AHP and DEMATEL

Software is a very important part to implement advanced information systems, such as AI and IoT based on the latest hardware equipment of the fourth Industrial Revolution. In particular, decision making for software upgrade is one of the essential processes that can solve problems for upgrading the information systems. However, most of the decision-making studies for this purpose have been conducted only from the perspective of the IT professional and management position. Moreover, software upgrade can be influenced by various layers of decision makers, so further research is needed. Therefore, it is necessary to conduct research on what factors are required and affect the decision making of software upgrade at various layers of organization. For this purpose, decision factors of software upgrade are identified by literature review in this study. Additionally, the priority, degree of influence and relationship between the factors are analyzed by using the AHP and DEMATEL techniques at the organizational level of users, managers and IT professionals. The results show that the priority, weight value, causal relationship of decision factors of users, managers and IT professionals who constitute the organizational level were very different. The managers first considered the benefits, such as ROI, for organization as a leader. The users tended to consider their work efficiency and changes due to the software upgrade first. Finally, the IT professionals considered ROI, budget and compatibility for the aspect of the managers and users. Therefore, the related information of each organizational level can be presented more clearly for the systematic and symmetrical decision making of software upgrade based on the results of this study.

BANKING SOFTWARE UPGRADE - GENERATING THE GDPR DECLARATION

The purpose of the paper is to present an approach for generating a GDPR declaration from banking software. Modern information technologies are used. The paper presents an approach to upgrading banking software so that the GDPR declaration can be printed quickly and easily, the GDPR declaration form of the banking specialists can be corrected, and it can be monitored which clients have signed the declaration. The proposal can be adapted by any banking software developer.

Review on Technologies Used in Developing a Tool for Automatic Software Upgrades at Data Centers

The fast evolution pace of various technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud Computing and the world moving towards digitalization created an increased need for data centers than ever before. Data centers support a wide range of internet services, including web hosting, e-commerce, and social networking. In recent years huge data centers have been owned and run by tech giants like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc., and these firms are known as Hyper-scalers. Hyper-scalers are the next big thing, ready to fundamentally alter the internet world for data storage through a variety of services supplied by them across all technological domains. The tool for automatic software upgrade focuses on having a seamless upgrade for the devices in the datacenters mainly in huge data centers owned by the hyper-scalers. This paper mainly focuses on the technologies used in developing the tool for automatic software upgrade, an overview of how the tool is developed, and its features. By deploying this tool in the datacenters, it supports them in delivering more efficient services.

Implementation and evaluation of an IV room technology-assisted workflow system integrated within the electronic medical record at oncology infusion center pharmacies

Disclaimer In an effort to expedite the publication of articles related to the COVID-19 pandemic, AJHP is posting these manuscripts online as soon as possible after acceptance. Accepted manuscripts have been peer-reviewed and copyedited, but are posted online before technical formatting and author proofing. These manuscripts are not the final version of record and will be replaced with the final article (formatted per AJHP style and proofed by the authors) at a later time. Purpose To describe the implementation of an IV room technology-assisted workflow (TAWF) system integrated within a health system’s electronic medical record (EMR) and compare the TAWF system’s impact in improving workflow at multiple ambulatory infusion pharmacies. Summary IV room TAWFs help to standardize intravenous admixture operations while incorporating patient safety measures such as ingredient barcode scanning and image capture. The 4 oncology infusion center pharmacies of a large health system implemented a TAWF system integrated within the health system’s EMR software, transitioning to the new TAWF system from an external TAWF system operating outside of the EMR. Considerable planning was required to determine the hardware and workflow processes needed for the new integrated TAWF system to function within pharmacy IV rooms. Several operational challenges were encountered during the initial implementation phase of the project. Frequent occurrence of system malfunctions during the product imaging step was the largest problem, which was overcome by special hardware and a software upgrade. The project also involved an evaluation of the integrated TAWF system after implementation to ensure the pharmacies maintained operational efficiency and patient safety. The evaluation showed that after an initial transition period, the new technology was able to maintain IV admixture efficiency and safety. Conclusion This project and subsequent evaluation showed the operational feasibility, efficiency, and safety of a TAWF integrated within the health system’s EMR software.

Software migration of the CMS ECAL Detector Control System during the CERN Large Hadron Collider Long Shutdown II

During the second long shutdown (LS2) of the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the Detector Control System (DCS) of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Electromagnetic Calorimeter (ECAL) is undergoing a large software upgrade at various levels. The ECAL DCS supervisory system has been reviewed and extended to migrate the underlying software toolkits and platform technologies to the latest versions. The resulting software will run on top of a new computing infrastructure, using the WinCC Open Architecture (OA) version 3.16 and newly developed communication drivers for some of the hardware. The ECAL DCS has been configured and managed from a different control version system and stored with more modern encoding and file formats. A new set of development guidelines has been prepared for this purpose, including conventions and recommendations from the CMS Central DCS and CERN Joint Controls Project (JCOP) framework groups. The large list of modifications also motivated the revision and reorganization of the software architecture, which is needed to resolve and satisfy additional software dependencies. Many modifications also aimed to improve the installation process, anticipating in some cases works for the next long shutdown upgrade.

Failure Analysis and Research of Wing Anti-ice Pressure Release on Civil Aircraft

CAS alert message ‘PSW FAIL’ shows up frequently during civil aircraft test flights. This thesis provides an in-depth study of the problem by describing the fault phenomena and analyzing the fault based on historical data, system principles, and fault tree analysis. For the AT version after IASC 2nd stage software upgrade, pressure release response is triggered on the wing anti-ice valve when unilateral throttle lever is pushed over 40 degrees with both PACKs off and both WAIVs closed. Test flight data will be analyzed and verified. With respect to the flaws of pressure release response, this study optimizes the logic of ECS IASC software by analyzing trigger mechanism, adding pressure release response pre-requisites such as both PRSOV shut and signals off, with no APR mode initiated, and not under single engine startup. The study of the thesis helps to essentially improve the software, avoiding frequent occurrence of the pressure release response, enabling an accelerated production test flight and delivery test flight of Civil aircrafts.

Abstract 15666: Effectiveness of Sharpsense™ Algorithms in Reducing Pause and Bradycardia Detection: Real-world Performance Before and After the Software Upgrade in Confirm Rx™ Insertable Cardiac Monitor

Background: Recent enhancements have been introduced to the Abbott Confirm Rx™ insertable cardiac monitor (ICM) arrhythmia detection algorithms (SharpSense™). This study aims to characterize the real-world performance of SharpSense™ algorithms, in the upgraded ICM devices by comparing device detected pause and bradycardia (brady) episodes before and after the SharpSense™ upgrade. Methods: Confirm Rx™ devices with at least 90 days monitoring each before and after SharpSense™ upgrade were included in the study. Brady and pause episodes were extracted from Merlin.net™ patient care network for evaluation and adjudicated by expert adjudicators. Results: A total of 197 devices were included in the analysis. Devices were implanted for syncope (35%), AF management (33%), and other indications, including cryptogenic stroke and palpitations (32%). The SharpSense™ upgrade significantly reduced the total number of detected episodes by 92% (pause: 93%, brady: 87%) and the rate of transmitted episodes by 73.6% from 50.3 to 13.3 (pause: 34.9 to 6.0, brady: 7.8 to 1.5) episodes per patient-week (p < 0.001). SharpSense™ reduced false positive episodes by 82.8% and 91.5% for pause and brady, respectively. The percentage of devices with at least one false positive episode was reduced from 52% to 35% for pause and from 39% for 20% for brady. The number of devices with false positive rate greater than 1 episode per week was reduced from 39% to 20% for pause and from 23% to 8% for brady. Conclusion: SharpSense™ upgrade resulted in substantial reduction of pause and bradycardia episode detections, false positive detections, and frequency of transmitted episodes for clinic review.