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whitepaper Evolving to insight with business intelligence2006-09-11 10:41:38 IBM
  This white paper explains the importance of the IBM information infrastructure in terms of providing the information employees need to help their companies become on demand businesses. Of critical importance to this infrastructure are information services such as business intelligence solutions. IBM offers the widest range of business intelligence solutions along with the most scalable, highest-performance data warehouse software product to help customers meet their need for rapid query responses and in-depth business analysis.   
whitepaper IBM SOA Foundation: providing what you need to get started with SOA2006-03-01 01:01:25
  This white paper discusses how you can implement an SOA that suits your unique business requirements based on IBM SOA Foundation software.   
whitepaper The Citizen Health System (CHS): A Modular Medical Contact Center Providing Quality Telemedicine Services2006-07-11 03:12:28 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  In the context of the Citizen Health System (CHS) project, a modular Medical Contact Center (MCC) was developed, which can be used in the monitoring, treatment, and management of chronically ill patients at home, such as diabetic or congestive heart failure patients. The virtue of the CHS contact center is that, using any type of communication and telematics technology, it is able to provide timely and preventive prompting to the patients, thus, achieving better disease management. This paper presents the structure of the CHS system, describing the modules that enable its flexible and extensible architecture. It is shown, through specific examples, how quality of healthcare delivery can be increased by using such a system.   
whitepaper A Dynamic Programming Framework for Pervasive Computing Environments2006-05-16 01:00:28 University of Texas
  As lightweight sensors and mobile computing devices become ubiquitous, they provide increasing amounts of context information that can be leveraged for a range of uses. This paper presents a novel architecture for managing the resulting context-aware interactions to provide transparent, lightweight decision support for a variety of domain specific applications where the types, locations, and users of pervasive sensors and devices are dynamic and unpredictable. The approach takes the current notion of sensor networks from a unified collecting apparatus to a fluid and information rich environment that is directly accessed by mobile users that move in an information-rich environment.   
whitepaper Grid Service Level Agreements Combining Resource Reservation and Predictive Run-Time Adaptation2006-08-09 01:00:11 University of Leeds
  Resource reservation and performance prediction of execution run-times are key components in delivering timely application services for decision support systems. The provision of Service Level Agreements (SLA) and components to manage tasks such as resource negotiation, monitoring and policing are needed to help meet this requirement. This paper presents an SLA management architecture for use in Grid environments focusing on resource negotiation, monitoring and policing strategies for Grid application services. Included are methods for resource negotiation and generating execution run-time predictions for tracking application progress. Experiments to test the prediction model are presented and compared with a reference execution schedule.   
whitepaper Mitigating financial services risk with Component Business Modeling (CBM)2006-08-29 13:52:10 IBM
  Learn how IBM's Component Business Modeling (CBM) methodology is helping financial institutions take on the make-or-break challenge of managing risk. As they struggle to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley, the USA PATRIOT Act, International Financial Reporting Standards and other industry and governmental regulations, financial institutions are faced with mounting costs. CBM can help these businesses manage these expenses, even while they manage their levels of risk.   
whitepaper Enterprise Business Intelligence: Strategies and Technologies for Deploying BI on an Enterprise Scale2007-01-24 01:00:28 Hyperion
  Since its inception, Business Intelligence (BI) has promised to empower businesses by providing direct access to information they can use to make decisions, create more effective plans, and respond more quickly to problems and opportunities. Eager to reap the full benefits of business intelligence, many businesses now want to transform BI from a departmental to an enterprise-wide initiative.

Read this in-depth report from The Data Warehouse Institute (TDWI) for more information. 		  
whitepaper RFID: Changing Business Dramatically, Today and Tomorrow2006-09-30 01:00:12 SAP AG
  Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology helps today's companies track and control goods as they move through the supply chain. But the broad investments required for RFID-enablement are risky, since standards for the technology are still evolving and there are high costs involved in maintaining unintegrated RFID systems. For more information about the challenges you'll face in adopting and integrating RFID tags, readers, and the hardware and software infrastructure they require, check out this white paper from SAP.

  
whitepaper Management of R&D Projects Under Uncertainty: A Multidimensional Approach to Managerial Flexibility2006-04-20 07:19:00
  This paper describes the practical application of a flexibility-based management approach to new product development, highlighting advantages, and limitations of this methodology. The model is concerned with the resolution of uncertainty over the product development life cycle and deals with technical, market, and cost factors all together. To this end, the authors consider a real options model, which uses multidimensional decision trees, to assess the development process of a high-technology product, namely the Adaptive Optics Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope.   
whitepaper A Life-Cycle Cost Estimating Methodology for Nasa-Developed Air Traffic Control Decision Support Tools2006-04-25 03:49:07
  This paper describes the development of a Life-Cycle Cost (LCC) estimating methodology for air traffic control Decision Support Tools (DSTs) under development by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), using a combination of parametric, analogy, and expert opinion methods. There is no one standard methodology and technique that is used by NASA or by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for LCC estimation of prospective Decision Support Tools. The developed LCC estimating methodology can be visualized as a three-dimensional matrix where the three axes represent coverage, estimation, and timing. This paper focuses on the three characteristics of this methodology that correspond to the three axes.