Download or read book User Level Workflow Design written by Anna-Lena Lamprecht and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-09 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The continuous trend in computer science to lift programming to higher abstraction levels increases scalability and opens programming to a wider public. In particular, service-oriented programming and the support of semantics-based frameworks make application development accessible to users with almost no programming expertise. This monograph establishes requirement-centric scientific workflow design as an instance of consequent constraint-driven development. Requirements formulated in terms of user-level constraints are automatically transformed into running applications using temporal logic-based synthesis technology. The impact of this approach is illustrated by applying it to four very different bioinformatics scenarios: phylogenetic analysis, the dedicated GeneFisher-P scenario, the FiatFlux-P scenario, and microarray data analyses.

Download or read book Information Technology and Innovation Trends in Organizations written by Alessandro D'Atri and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines a wide range of issues that characterize the current IT based innovation trends in organisations. It contains a collection of research papers focusing on themes of growing interest in the field of Information System, Organization Studies, and Management. The book offers a multi-disciplinary view on Information Systems aiming to disseminate academic knowledge. It might be particularly relevant to IT practitioners such as information systems managers, business managers and IT consultants. The volume is divided into XIV sections, each one focusing on a specific theme. A preface written by Joey George, president of the Association for Information Systems opens the text. The content of each section is based on a selection of the best papers (original double blind peer reviewed contributions) presented at the annual conference of the Italian chapter of AIS, which has been held in Naples, Italy, on October 2010.

Download or read book Design and Control of Workflow Processes written by Hajo Reijers and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003-04-07 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The motivation behind the conception of this monograph was to advance scientific knowledge about the design and control of workflow processes. A workflow pr- ess (or workflow for short) is a specific type of business process, a way of or- nizing work and resources. Workflows are commonly found within large admin- trative organizations such as banks, insurance companies, and governmental agencies. Carrying out the tasks of a workflow in a particular order is required to handle one type of case. Examples of cases are mortgage applications, customer complaints, and claims for unemployment benefits. A workflow used in handling mortgage applications may contain tasks for recording the application, specifying a mortgage proposal, and approving the final policy. The monograph concentrates on four workflow-related issues within the area of Business Process Management; the field of designing and controlling business processes. The first issue is how workflows can be adequately modeled. Workflow mod- ing is an indispensable activity to support any reasoning about workflows. Diff- ent purposes of workflow modeling can be distinguished, such as system ena- ment by Workflow Management Systems, knowledge management, costing, and budgeting. The focus of workflow modeling in this monograph is (a) to support simulation and analysis of workflows and (b) to specify a new workflow design. The main formalism used for the modeling of workflows is the Petri net. Many - isting notions to define several relevant properties have been adopted, such as the workflow net and the soundness notion.

Download or read book Patient Safety and Quality written by Ronda Hughes and published by Department of Health and Human Services. This book was released on 2008 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nurses play a vital role in improving the safety and quality of patient car -- not only in the hospital or ambulatory treatment facility, but also of community-based care and the care performed by family members. Nurses need know what proven techniques and interventions they can use to enhance patient outcomes. To address this need, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), with additional funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has prepared this comprehensive, 1,400-page, handbook for nurses on patient safety and quality -- Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses. (AHRQ Publication No. 08-0043)." - online AHRQ blurb, http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk/

Download or read book User Interface Design for Mere Mortals written by Eric Butow and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2007-05-09 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: User Interface Design for Mere Mortals takes the mystery out of designing effective interfaces for both desktop and web applications. It is recommended reading for anyone who wants to provide users of their software with interfaces that are intuitive and easy-to-use. The key to any successful application lies in providing an interface users not only enjoy interacting with but which also saves time, eliminates frustration, and gets the job done with a minimum of effort. Readers will discover the secrets of good interface design by learning how users behave and the expectations that users have of different types of interfaces. Anyone who reads User Interface Design for Mere Mortals will benefit from • Gaining an appreciation of the differences in the “look and feel” of interfaces for a variety of systems and platforms • Learning how to go about designing and creating the most appropriate interface for the application or website being developed • Becoming familiar with all the different components that make up an interface and the important role that each of those components plays in communicating with users • Understanding the business benefits that flow from good interface design such as significantly reduced support costs • Gaining invaluable insights into how users behave, including the seven stages of human interaction with computers • Working through case study based, in-depth analysis of each of the stages involved in designing a user interface • Acquiring practical knowledge about the similarities and differences between designing websites and traditional desktop applications • Learning how to define, conduct, and analyze usability testing Through the use of the proven For Mere Mortals format, User Interface Design for Mere Mortals succeeds in parting the veil of mystery surrounding effective user interface design. Whatever your background, the For Mere Mortals format makes the information easily accessible and usable. Contents Preface Introduction CHAPTER 1 Brief Histories CHAPTER 2 Concepts and Issues CHAPTER 3 Making the Business Case CHAPTER 4 Good Design CHAPTER 5 How User Behave CHAPTER 6 Analyzing Your Users CHAPTER 7 Designing a User Interface CHAPTER 8 Designing a Web Site CHAPTER 9 Usability APPENDIX A Answers to Review Questions APPENDIX B Recommended Reading Glossary References Index

Download or read book Service Business Model Innovation in Healthcare and Hospital Management written by Mario A. Pfannstiel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates how to successfully manage and lead healthcare institutions by employing the logic of business model innovation to gain competitive advantages. Since clerk-like routines in professional organizations tend to overlook patient and service-centered healthcare solutions, it challenges the view that competition and collaboration in the healthcare sector should not only incorporate single-end services, therapies or diagnosis related groups. Moreover, the authors focus on holistic business models, which place greater emphasis on customer needs and put customers and patients first. The holistic business models approach addresses topics such as business operations, competitiveness, strategic business objectives, opportunities and threats, critical success factors and key performance indicators.The contributions cover various aspects of service business innovation such as reconfiguring the hospital business model in healthcare delivery, essential characteristics of service business model innovation in healthcare, guided business modeling and analysis for business professionals, patient-driven service delivery models in healthcare, and continuous and co-creative business model creation. All of the contributions introduce business models and strategies, process innovations, and toolkits that can be applied at the managerial level, ensuring the book will be of interest to healthcare professionals, hospital managers and consultants, as well as scholars, whose focus is on improving value-generating and competitive business architectures in the healthcare sector.

Download or read book Neuroimaging Workflow Design and Data Mining written by John Van Horn and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the increasing number of neuroimaging studies appearing yearly in the literature, the need to consider the synthesis of the underlying data into new knowledge and research directions has never been more important. The development of large-scale databases and grid-enabled computing has laid the groundwork for mining these rich datasets beyond the scope of their initial collection. Additionally, meta-analyses of the summary results contained in published research articles have provided a powerful way to explore hidden trends in the neuroscience literature. In each case, the processing of data requires a careful consideration of the individual processing steps involved and how they can be assembled into reliable workflows. In results from published studies, the manner in which data were processed may influence meta-analytic results which can have implications on clinical interpretation. Several efforts now exist that provide tools for use in the construction of data processing workflows. However, careful thought must be given to ensuring appropriate, efficient, optimal, and replicable processing. The results obtained from data-mining and meta-analysis must tell a story about a collection of existing data. Also they must suggest novel and testable hypotheses for further investigation with implications for understanding of the brain in health and disease. Where they do, these new results and interpretations often provide fresh insights into the data that extend beyond the rationale for their original collection. In this volume, we have asked leaders in the field of neuroimaging data mining and meta-analysis to provide their thoughts on methods for efficient workflow design, interoperability with large-scale databases, and to discuss their work in exploring the richness of brain imaging data as well as the literature of published research results.

Download or read book Responsive Design Workflow written by Stephen Hay and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2013 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our industry, everything changes quickly, usually for the better. We have more and better tools for creating websites and applications that work across multiple platforms. Oddly enough, design workflow hasn't changed much, and what has changed is often for worse. Old-school workflow is simply not effective on our multiplatform web. Fixed-width Photoshop comps and overproduced wireframes are no longer the way to design for today's multi-platform web. This book provides a practical approach for "designing in the browser." It shows how to better manage client expectations and development requirements, and offers a method of design documentation.

Download or read book Professional SharePoint 2010 Administration written by Todd Klindt and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 993 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thorough coverage of the improvements and changes to SharePoint 2010 SharePoint 2010 boasts a variety of incredible new features that will challenge even the most experienced administrator who is upgrading from SharePoint 2007. Written by a team of SharePoint experts, this book places a takes aim at showing you how to make these new features work right for you. Offering an in-depth look at SharePoint 2010, the authors focus on how SharePoint functionality has changed from its earliest version to its newest, and they provide you with detailed coverage of all the new features and capabilities. Presents in-depth coverage of the new features and functions of SharePoint 2010 Demonstrates installation, configuration, and upgrading existing SharePoint 2007 servers Discusses architecture and capacity planning, securing and managing site content, and integrating Office clients Details the protocol for handling monitoring, creating backups, and executing disaster recovery Addresses shared service applications, navigation and governance, and business intelligence and reporting services Professional SharePoint 2010 presents a solid understanding of the functionality that SharePoint 2010 provides, which will allow you to see what it can do for you.

Download or read book Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods Verification and Validation Specialized Techniques and Applications written by Tiziana Margaria and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-26 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two-volume set LNCS 8802 and LNCS 8803 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation, ISoLA 2014, held in Imperial, Corfu, Greece, in October 2014. The total of 67 full papers was carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the proceedings. Featuring a track introduction to each section, the papers are organized in topical sections named: evolving critical systems; rigorous engineering of autonomic ensembles; automata learning; formal methods and analysis in software product line engineering; model-based code generators and compilers; engineering virtualized systems; statistical model checking; risk-based testing; medical cyber-physical systems; scientific workflows; evaluation and reproducibility of program analysis; processes and data integration in the networked healthcare; semantic heterogeneity in the formal development of complex systems. In addition, part I contains a tutorial on automata learning in practice; as well as the preliminary manifesto to the LNCS Transactions on the Foundations for Mastering Change with several position papers. Part II contains information on the industrial track and the doctoral symposium and poster session.

Download or read book Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods Verification and Validation written by Tiziana Margaria and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes contributions of the ISoLA 2021 associated events. Altogether, ISoLA 2021 comprises contributions from the proceedings originally foreseen for ISoLA 2020 collected in 4 volumes, LNCS 12476: Verification Principles, LNCS 12477: Engineering Principles, LNCS 12478: Applications, and LNCS 12479: Tools and Trends. The contributions included in this volume were organized in the following topical sections: 6th International School on Tool-Based Rigorous Engineering of Software Systems; Industrial Track; Programming: What is Next; Software Verification Tools; Rigorous Engineering of Collective Adaptive Systems.

Download or read book Building Applications with Windows Workflow Foundation WF written by Michael Stiefel and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2007-06-05 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the eBook version of the printed book. Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) is Microsoft's programming model for building workflow-enabled applications in the Windows operating system. It includes a namespace, a workflow engine, and design tools that can be used with Visual Studio .NET. Workflow is an extremely important type of application that has been difficult to build on the Microsoft platform. Workflow Foundation is a major element of the .NET Framework 3.0 platform that enables application developers to build these types of applications. In Building Applications with Windows Workflow Foundation; Part I: Basics of Windows Workflow Foundation, author, MVP, speaker, and leading consultant Michael Stiefel introduces readers to the basics of Windows Workflow foundation. The other parts of this series include State Machine and Rules-Driven Workflows Advanced Workflow Features Extended Workflow Example All of the “Building Applications with Windows Workflow Foundation” Short Cuts were created with the professional developer in mind. The author’s unique approach is a combination of practical application with just enough understanding of the underpinnings for developers. It is not a book on "workflow plumbing” but a successful approach he has used for many years in consulting and training. Features of this Short Cut series include Demonstrations on how to build practical workflow applications by solving problems that workflow developers will have to solve. Plenty of code that helps demonstrate how to solve the practical problems of building an application. The first three Short Cuts emphasize and illustrate how to build the elements of an application. The fourth Short Cut will pick a different application and illustrate how to build a workflow application with more emphasis on the design strategy and tactics using the problem solutions developed in the first three articles. Providing this information as a Short Cut will enable information to be delivered to developers quickly, more efficiently, and cheaply than could be done in a book, but with the quality of a book rather than the superficial level of most current articles. Table of Contents Why Did Microsoft Create Workflow Foundation? Requirements for Workflow Infrastructure Windows Workflow Foundation Developing Simple Workflows with Visual Studio.NET

Download or read book Human Computer Interaction Handbook written by Julie A. Jacko and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 1469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of a 2013 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award The third edition of a groundbreaking reference, The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook: Fundamentals, Evolving Technologies, and Emerging Applications raises the bar for handbooks in this field. It is the largest, most complete compilation of HCI theories, principles, advances, case st

Download or read book Groupware Design Implementation and Use written by Jesus Favela and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003-09-24 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Groupware, CRIWG 2003, held in Autrans, France in September 2003. The 30 revised full papers presented together with an invited keynote paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 84 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on workspaces and groupware infrastructure, tailoring, groupware evaluation, flexible workflow, CSCL, awareness, supporting collaborative processes, workflow management systems, context in groupware, supporting communities.

Download or read book Mobile Information Systems II written by John Krogstie and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-11-17 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mobile Information Systems II provides a collection of research on the planning, analysis, design, construction, modification, implementation, utilization, evaluation, and management of mobile information systems. The articles focus on the implications of this research in the world of commerce, and address technical issues and constraints on mobile information systems functionalities and design.

Download or read book An Extended Workflow Pattern for Automating User Interface Design and Implementation written by Adam Martin and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: This thesis describes an extension to the workflow design pattern for automating user interface design and implementation in a data collection workflow. Developing data collection forms involves mechanical, time consuming labor that is prone to bugs and yet, unoriginal in nature. The more data collection required in a workflow, the more development, validation and testing will be required. An online workflow engine can be employed by a client web application for executing workflows and automating their input validation. The workflow engine operates on a generic workflow process model in which a workflow management and definition tool can build workflows to be consumed by the client application. The engine allows developers to focus on scale and unit testing, while business stakeholders can design and implement their own processes. A long and mechanical coding project for data collection becomes a matter of high level business requirements gathering.

Download or read book Invariant Probabilities of Markov Feller Operators and Their Supports written by Radu Zaharopol and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-01-28 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers invariant probabilities for a large class of discrete-time homogeneous Markov processes known as Feller processes. These Feller processes appear in the study of iterated function systems with probabilities, convolution operators, and certain time series. From the reviews: "A very useful reference for researchers wishing to enter the area of stationary Markov processes both from a probabilistic and a dynamical point of view." --MONATSHEFTE FÜR MATHEMATIK