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As software systems have become increasingly complex and sophisticated, the process of defining requirements for software development has become increasingly demanding and challenging. Still, requirements elicitation is a necessity in any software development project that aims to create solution that will satisfy human and technical needs. There is no unique approach to requirements engineering, and...
Rural women in Bangladesh have limited access to resources and public spheres due to socio-cultural restrictions. Women suffer from severe discrimination, due partly to a lack of access to information. Information and communication and technologies (ICT) are tools that potentially can reach rural women and address their knowledge and information needs. Considering this scenario, the aim of this paper...
Assessing typhoon losses quickly is the foundation to allocate and deliver relief supplies for helping disastrous people pull through difficulties during the process of typhoon and post-disaster immediately. Therefore, a new method for predicting typhoon losses based on back-propagation neural network is presented by using typhoon characters data, historic typhoon loss data, relative geographical...
Many methods have been employed to study Land Use Change (LUC) in different areas, including some new algorithms from Artificial Intelligence (AI) field, such as Case-Based Reasoning (CBR), Artificial Neural Network (ANN), Bayesian Network (BN) and Support Vector Machine (SVM). Applications of some new methods have indicated both advantages and limitations. This paper presents a comparison between...
A series of Public Technological Platforms (PTPs) has emerged in China over the recent years, and has been regarded as R&D alliance. Performance evaluation on PTPs is a necessary and beneficial process, which gives regular feedback to them, and provides guidance to their future work. Based on the mission and function of PTPs in Zhejiang Province, this paper established the index system of performance...
The public technology service platform is an important content in the technological innovation system, in accordance with the requests of system integration, allocation optimization and sharing, in order to integrate a wide range of innovative carriers and resources and provide public innovation services within the region. This paper, Hangzhou Platform of Apiculture Technology Innovation Service as...
This paper based on comprehensive analysis of the voluntary service status in China and combined with the experience building voluntary service platform in Beijing, proposes the solution to informationization of voluntary service-building information-based management system of voluntary service so as to enhance life-cycle management to volunteers, voluntary service organization and voluntary service...
The public sector plays an important function of providing public goods and public services, maintaining public order. The public sector human resources as the executer of duties and the critical factor in public sector. Whether can take the effective management of human resources not only determine the efficiency and service quality of public sector, but also impact on the economic and social development...
Nowadays, many researches are made to estimate some of socio-economic variables in which methods such as regression, time series (ARIMA, AR and etc.), Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) and so on are used. In this paper integrated System Approach and ANN are applied for estimating affects of subsidy on electricity consumption and social welfare. Actual electricity price is estimated by ANN, which has...
Public sector organizations have a typical tall pyramid like organizational structure with centralized powers and multi layered channels of vertical and horizontal communication giving rise to longer processes of decision making. There is little emphasis on employee involvement, personnel development and improvement of working conditions, which adversely affects the team performance. This paper has...
The purpose of this article is to present a case study of an action plan as a service management tool in the Thai public sector. The case will show how the Thai public sector formulates, implements, evaluates, and improves its development plans. In addition, it shows how relevant organizations coordinate and cooperate with one another at national, provincial, and individual team levels. This article...
Recently the rural labors' employment training has increasingly become the government and academic focus. Improving the skill levels of the rural labors has great significance of China's industrial structure adjustment and sound economic development. This article is based on the analysis of the rural household survey data of Tianjin in 2008. Firstly it is to analyze the Status of the rural labors'...
Social unconventional emergencies not only bring disaster to human life and living environment, but also cause losses to the country and the people. What's more, their occurrence tends to cause series of chain reactions and inspire lots of social problems, thus likely to break the social balance, and lead to national instability and social disharmony. In this paper, "concern degree model"...
This paper takes into account the challenges and issues involved in transforming the delivery of public service from a conventional paper based style towards IT based digital system. While the change may be welcome and necessary in the wake of present days needs; executing the transition may not be all that simple and easy to come. This paper brings forth the experience gathered by authors through...
The comprehensive analysis of urban public transport has an important role in promoting the development of urban public transport. Based on the characteristics of urban public transport, following the principles of scientific, integrity, independence and operational, this paper built a comprehensive analysis index system for urban public transport, then the comprehensive evaluation method based on...
After the fall of the Berlin wall, the public administrations in Central and Eastern European countries have had to adapt to an enormous number of changes in a relatively short time. Their civil servants are still facing a constantly changing regulatory framework which needs implementation and enforcement, as well as new demands from the growing private sector and the citizens. These challenges can...
In this paper, Business Process Reengineering is briefly analyzed in theoretical level. An effective methodology as well as Administration and Information Technology matters is described, while the differences to Total Quality Management are highlighted. Moreover, the phases of the BPMS methodology as well as reengineering techniques are explained. It is also presented how BPMS methodology is applied...
Paroxysmal public crisis management reflects operating capability of the government. Knowledge is favorable resource in crisis management, but how to make good use of it is still a cordial knot. Based on the theory of supernetwork, this paper proposes a supernetwork model of knowledge management in paroxysmal public crisis, which consists of three-tiers: knowledge network, personal network and knowledge...
Public service organizations rely on IT systems to fulfill their missions. IT incidents are more and more frequent and the impacts of IT incidents on the organizations are getting more severe. There is a strong need to manage risks on service related IT systems in public service organizations. Risk management process practiced in software development companies cannot be used in public service organizations...
The push toward voting via hand marked paper ballots has focused attention on the limitations of current optical scan systems. Discrepancies between human and machine interpretations of ballot markings can lead to a loss of trust in the election process. In this paper, a style-based approach to ballot recognition is proposed in which marks are recognized collectively rather than in isolation. The...
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