Management information systems in health systems agencies: some considerations.

Relevant considerations for the application of Management Information Systems theory (MIS) to public agencies are identified and discussed in this paper. The importance of the agency's environment, both external and internal, reporting structure and personnel makeup is examined. A specific application of these considerations in an MIS developed for the Health Systems Agency of Western New York is presented. Finally, the paper considers the importance of system implementation as well as system design.     

基于DP83640的IEEE1588协议实现方案

IEEE1588精确时钟同步协议能够为网络中的各节点提供高精度的时钟同步,在测量和控制系统中具有广泛的应用前景。本文设计了一种嵌入式环境下两个节点进行同步的IEEE-1588协议实现方案,达到了不低于20ns的同步精度。     

长株潭“两型”社会建设中的长沙市经济社会协调发展研究

以系统工程的观点,应用系统动力学方法,建立了长沙市经济社会协调发展的系统动力学模型。通过分析长沙市经济社会发展问题,为长沙市经济社会协调发展决策制定提供支持。     

Cloud-based smart asset management for urban flood control

Urban flooding, frequently occurring in metropolitan areas, is one of the largest disasters worldwide. Albeit a large number of approaches and Enterprise Information Systems (EISs) have been designed for urban flood control, the ineffective management of physical assets has greatly impeded their deployment. Managing diverse physical assets is critical in urban flood control. Challenges exist in sharing assets and services between agencies, and ensuring real-time and flexible decision supports. This paper proposes a cloud-based asset management platform. Cloud technology is adopted for processing the huge amount of data collected by various physical assets and for providing flexible access interfaces. Service-oriented methods are applied to facilitate the sharing of assets and services and to enable the development of flexible and scalable Decision Support Systems (DSSs). Moreover, the concept of smart asset is introduced for remote real-time data collection, and the corresponding software agent model is developed to wrap these diverse assets, realising the UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) working mode. Finally, a case study on the urban flood control process of Guangqumen Bridge in Beijing is provided to illustrate the asset management processes of the proposed platform.     

Building participatory HIS networks: A case study from Kerala,India

This paper addresses the challenge of developing participatory networks to support the design, development and implementation of Health Information Systems (HIS) in the context of public health in Kerala, India. It is argued given the nature and complexity of HIS, there is the need to bring together our understanding of participation from two streams of development theory and IS design and development. While development theory provides interesting insights on how to enable participatory processes, they tend to not consider technology. Further, traditional participatory design in Information Systems research has its origins in Western workplaces, often quite divorced from the context of public health in developing countries. In trying to combine these two streams of learning, we propose and develop the concept of participatory networks. Drawing upon an ongoing empirical analysis of an action research effort to introduce, scale and sustain Health Information Systems in Kerala, this paper elaborates on the nature of participatory networks that come into play, and the various mechanisms and purposes of participation with the different network partners. In the discussion section, four areas of re-conceptualization of participation in the context of HIS in developing countries are identified: (1) creation of participatory networks; (2) increased context sensitivity; (3) focus on outputs of participation, not just inputs and techniques; and, (4) focus on structural aspects of participation, not just behavioral issues.     

The Causes of Urban Sprawl in Spanish Urban Areas: A Spatial Approach

This paper explores the presence of local spatial interaction on urban development patterns of Spanish urban areas and whether this interaction might be due to the strategic behaviour of neighbouring local governments. Using remote-sensing data from aerial photography and satellite imaging along with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) techniques, it studies urban development patterns across the country with unprecedented detail. The results confirm the main hypothesis that spatial interaction exists in the levels of sprawl between neighbouring municipalities, suggesting that local governments do indeed compete for the creation of new suburban settlement developments, hence promoting excessive urban sprawl.     

Case Studies of Technological Change and Organisational Culture

Abstract

This paper focuses on technology as a central force in shaping cultural and environmental conditions as well as their interrelationships within an organisation. The research was carried out in Systems India Ltd., a subsidiary of Systems Corporation of USA, which is one of the oldest multinational corporations in the world. The two case studies from Systems India Ltd. bring out the ‘role of strategy in technological changes’ and the ‘role of leadership in technological changes.’ The findings of these two case studies when compared with three partner companies in similar industry indicated similar relationship between culture and technological change and organisational culture in Systems India Ltd.     

新的商务模式下ERP系统在石油钻井企业的应用

随着通信技术、计算机技术及先进管理思想的不断发展和广泛应用,电子商务、移动商务和协同商务等商务模式相继出现,传统ERP系统已不能满足企业现有经营管理需求。在新的商务模式下钻井ERP应以企业自身生产经营活动为中心,与企业生产执行系统MES、决策支持系统DSS、供应链管理SCM、客户关系管理CRM、价值链管理VM、知识管理KM、(移动)电子商务、商务智能B I等系统集成,实现与供应商、油田公司、上级部门等外部信息共享,扩展其应用功能,达到企业内外部协同工作,满足企业当前及未来发展需求。     

Monetary convergence to the Euro

This special issue of Economic Systems includes seven papers about various aspects of monetary convergence to the Euro. It includes both policy discussion papers examining a wide range of issues and empirical studies evaluating specific areas of monetary convergence. From a policy strategy view, the selected papers examine the ways of combining the two key objectives of monetary convergence, i.e., price stability and exchange rate stability. In addition, the papers analyze the interplay between monetary policies and financial market stability. The findings provide new insights on monetary policy transmission channels, market equilibrium exchange rates, interest rates pass through effects, the importance of real relative to nominal convergence, and other intricacies encountered on the passage toward the Euro.     

航材供应链管理研究

传统的航材保障中的信息共享和信息技术水平较低,供应链的思想和技术是解决这一问题的途径。航材供应链对传统的航材保障进行一定的业务重组、信息化改造,提高了信息流管理的及时性、准确性,降低了航材经费。利用数据仓库和数据挖掘技术将航材供应链管理信息系统升级为基于数据仓库的决策支持系统,可以满足当前航材预测、辅助决策的需要。     

复杂产品系统自主创新能力动态演化机理及提高途径研究综述

复杂产品系统在产业发展中处于战略性地位,目前我国复杂产品系统的发展与发达国家相比还有很大差距。研究我国企业复杂产品系统自主创新能力动态适应性演化机理,对于我国自主创新战略的实现具有重要的理论和现实意义。     

Who decides the shape of product markets? The knowledge institutions that name and categorise new technologies

We consider naming and categorization practises within the information technology (IT) arena. In particular, with how certain terminologies are able to colonise wide areas of activity and endure for relatively long periods of time, despite the diversity and incremental evolution of individual technical instances. This raises the question as to who decides whether or not a particular vendor technology is part of a product category. Who decides the boundaries around a technology nomenclature? Existing Information Systems scholarship has tended to present terminologies as shaped by wide communities of players but this does not capture how particular kinds of knowledge institutions have emerged in recent year to police the confines of technological fields. The paper follows the work of one such group of experts—the industry analyst firm Gartner Inc.—and discusses their current and past role in the evolution of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software. We show how they make regular (but not always successful) ‘naming interventions’ within the IT domain and how they attempt to regulate the boundaries that they and others have created through episodes of ‘categorisation work’. These experts not only attempt to exercise control over a terminology but also the interpretation of that name. Our arguments are informed by ethnographic observations carried out on the eve of the contemporary CRM boom and interviews conducted more recently as part of an ongoing investigation into industry analysts. The paper bridges a number of disparate bodies of literature from Information Systems, Economic Sociology, the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge, and Science and Technology Studies.     

Issues in management information systems planning

lt has been advocated that management information Systems (MIS) planning is an important activity which an organization must perform in order to achieve organizational goals. In this paper, based on a field study of 131 large organizations, several issues related to MIS planning have been examined. These issues include: the impact of current MIS services on the overall competitive position of an organization; the impact of future MIS capabilities on the long-term competitive viability of the organization; the factors which prompted organizations to develop an MIS plan; the formal business planning processes used for the MIS function; the areas covered in the MIS plan; the main driving force in undertaking the development of a long-term MIS plan; and, the usefulness of the MIS plan in directing the organizational MIS activites.It has been shown that organizations vary significantly on each of these major MIS planning issues.     

分子印迹技术研究及其应用

文章指出分子印迹技术是最近几十年发展起来的化学工程学、生物学以及材料科学综合应用技术,其应用领域越来越广泛,并论述了在药物分析,生化分离,生物传感器技术以及生物催化等领域呈现了广阔的应用前景。     

An Empirical Model of Urban Spatial Development

This paper examines land development patterns by using an integrated approach that combines Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and spatial econometric models. It presents evidence that land development sites are affected by each other, and that any attempt to analyze the land development process without consideration of spatial dependence will most likely yield biased parameter estimates, misleading significant levels, and insufficient estimates of the dependent variable. It is found that spatial lagged variables not only improve model performance substantially, but also reveal the presence of clustering land development. This paper demonstrates that incorporation of spatial statistics is made easier with the application of GIS.     

自动化控制技术在社会生产中的应用探讨

随着我国自动化控制技术的不断发展,自动化控制技术应用的范围也越来越广,其在工业生产、智能建筑、电力系统等领域具有广泛的应用空间。本文通过对自动化控制技术在社会各领域内的具体应用分析,提高技术人员对自动化控制技术的认识水平与重视程度。     

Innovating in the local systems of small medium sized enterprises: the experience of Tuscany

Innovation policies addressed to SMEs in Tuscany (and in Italy as well) have given, so far, a very limited contribution to improving the SMEs performance in terms of competitiveness and technological enhancement. The interpretation the paper attempts to demonstrate is that innovation policies have been designed for a ‘generic’ SME, in a frame of traditional sectors, within administrative areas, whereas successful SMEs are not merely operating in a given sector or area; they are agglomerated in peculiar Spatial Systems of Small Enterprises (SESS). The productive, spacial, social models of functioning of a typical SESS are described in order to:

(i) identify the local mechanism of interdependencies (between firms, labour force and local government), which generates relevant flows of external economies;

(ii) prove that innovation policies have neglected the vital characteristic of the SMEs (their agglomertion in SESSs).

Finally, a new innovation policy for SMEs designed by the Regional Government of Tuscany is presented.     

基于解释结构模型的宜居城市影响因素研究——以信阳市为例

以信阳市为研究对象,运用系统工程中的解释结构模型(ISM),并使用MATLAB软件解决模型建立过程中的矩阵运算困难,绘制出其影响因素的多级有向递阶图,对宜居城市的影响因素关系进行了研究。结果表明:饮食习惯独特、商贸发展繁荣、金融网点密集和城市美誉度高是影响信阳市成为宜居城市的表层影响因素,河南水稻主产区、信阳毛尖产地、旅游景点多、矿产资源丰富、物流枢纽中心、七大防控网、教育机构多、气候宜人、文化底蕴深厚、交通便捷等是中间层的影响因素,历史悠久、地理位置优越则是最深层的影响因素。深层影响因素通过与以上各层影响因素对信阳市的城市宜居性产生决定性影响。     

Jobs requiring a capacity for engineering systems thinking (CEST): Selection using an interest inventory

Systems thinking is recognized as a critical ability for engineers who take a leading role in complex projects. Identifying those engineers with better systems‐thinking capabilities is critical in many projects and organizations and enables organizations and project managers to select and place the most suitable engineers for jobs requiring a Capacity for Engineering Systems Thinking (CEST). However, up until now, no tool aimed at assessing individuals' capacity for engineering systems thinking has ever been developed. This paper presents principles for developing an interest questionnaire aimed at selecting engineers for jobs requiring systems thinking as well as preliminary results regarding the tool's reliability and validity.