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Several conferences have been regularly organized worldwide each year. The organizing process consists of many major steps including call for papers, paper submission, article reviews, author notification and participant registration. The networking computer system could facilitate managing the activities that involve plenty of remote stakeholders. This paper therefore presents an approach to implementing a conference management system using web service technology fused with the concept of business process modeling to support the workflows of conference management tasks. In this work, the REST protocol is selected for invoking the defined conference managing services, whereas Windows Workflow Foundation is exploited for binding all activities into the process flow. The approach enhances the stateless process to the stateful process. Moreover, the process flow is easily reorganized or customized for the subsequent conferences. The component activities, implemented as a service, within the process flow can be reused as well. The fact that services exchange data through XML standard, the implemented system is platform and language independent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper a study about human error optimization is presented. A discussion about the maintenance or operation management is done. The models of human error were made using a well known technique named Technique for Human Error Rate Prediction (THERP), wisely used in the nuclear area. These models were included in the Probabilistic Safety Analysis (PSA) to evaluate the impact of human error on the frequency of a damage plant states. This paper shows how the optimization of maintenance management is only possible with a global approach and it is not feasible focusing on each task in a particular way. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a new approach for implementing an integrating quality, environment and security management system on the basis of three aspects: process-based approach, risk management and a global monitoring system used as integrating factors to satisfy three important levels of integration, namely, correspondence, coordination and integration. The different steps of the proposed approach cover the whole PDCA (Plan, Do, Check, Act) scheme. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, the authors' intention was to present the results of the research carried out at a modern organization regarding the influence of the attitude towards change, but also of the mentality towards work. They took into consideration the importance of the resources of the organization, also emphasizing the human resources. There is a strong connection, a mutual determination between the general management of the organization and the state of the organizational climate. By applying two standardized questionnaires regarding the attitude towards change and the mentality towards work, valuable information has been obtained, regarding the general state and the state of the influential factors taken into account. By analyzing each factor at a time, we could realize the problems of the organization regarding the analyzed and approached aspects, allowing us to present a series of conclusions and personal proposals to the management team of the organization. We may state that in fact our conclusions and proposals were truly appreciated and were comprised in programmes of remedying the signaled deficiencies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Often, one connotes problem management with a postdelivery process for resolving problems within corrective maintenance. Very seldom, however, one relates it to the testing process within development, evolution and maintenance. In this paper, we propose a model of predelivery problem management. Using the model, we study the industrial status within eight companies situated in Greece. Our results show that all the organizations studied conduct a predelivery problem management process within system testing. However, only three out of eight companies perform it within central integration testing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Supply chain management system satisfies the customer demands through the most efficient use of resources, including distribution capacity, inventory and labor. E-procurement is expected to be integrated with the supply chain management systems, which are analyzed or processed by computers, in a large-scale and dynamic environment. In this type of systems there can be any number of buyers and suppliers at any time. Each supplier may provide necessary products from other suppliers, piece by piece or as a whole. This type of mechanism forms a multi level hierarchy between suppliers. This paper presents MULEP-a MUlti Level E-Procurement system which deploys the procurement process in this hierarchical supplier structure. System is managed by a set of distributed mobile agents which are developed over Java Agent DEvelopment Framework-JADE for platform independence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes a partial implementation of an integrated Quality, Security and Environment management system [1] to deal with the definition of an appropriate global management plan. This implementation is based on the multi-objective influence diagrams [12] which are one of the most commonly used graphical decision models for reasoning under uncertainty with multiple objectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]