PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology最新文献

{"title":"Information technology in using project management methodologies","authors":"Kirit Patel","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2009.5262000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2009.5262000","url":null,"abstract":"The increasing role of project management methodologies in managing large or small projects remains a key challenge for many organisations. In the UK, PRINCE2 is the most used methodology. Its use is prolific in the private and public sectors; while the voluntary sector has yet to catch up. Like most methodologies it offers a set of procedures and guidance on how to implement it to manage projects. However, like many such methodologies it offers little guidance in the way Information Technology (IT) can be utilized to fully exploit its implementation to manage projects. This paper analyses the issues in IT when using project management methodologies to deliver projects. The key issues in managing at strategic and operational levels within these methodologies will be analysed. Is there a link between having an organisational strategy to manage technologies and its effectiveness with in adopted project management methodologies? How is IT managed within the different phases of the project lifecycle when using these types of methodologies? What are the critical success factors which inform the effective management of technology here and are there any inhibiting factors? A case study approach will be used to examine all the above issues.","PeriodicalId":185147,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124443952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Core/periphery structure of the technological network","authors":"C. Weng, Y. Ou, Hsien-che Lai","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2009.5262246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2009.5262246","url":null,"abstract":"By applying a network analytical approach, this paper examines the position of technological network in shaping the contribution of a technology in technological development. Between the core and the periphery of the technological network structure, we argue that technologies which occupy an intermediate position are in propensity to seminal technologies, on the contrary, which occupy a peripheral position are to more tendency to succeed or derivative technologies. We empirically test the patent data of insurance business method and the theoretical implications of the results are discussed.","PeriodicalId":185147,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114623644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Expert identification for multidisciplinary R&D project collaboration","authors":"A. Kongthon, C. Haruechaiyasak, Santipong Thaiprayoon","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261978","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261978","url":null,"abstract":"A large-scale R&D project collaboration requires various areas of expertise, i.e, multidisciplinary, with multiple partners. Such R&D problems include global warming, emerging infectious diseases, and energy issues. One typical approach for identifying a group of expert candidates is to first come up with an initial expert and then use his/her referral to find additional experts. Hence the traditional process relies significantly on humans and their personal interrelationship. However with an increasing in the availability and accessibility of R&D information in electronic forms, one can apply techniques in the fields of information retrieval, natural language processing, and machine learning to automatically retrieve experts and their areas of expertise from such information sources. In this paper, we present an approach based on the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) method to discover experts and their associated areas of expertise from R&D bibliographic data. The LDA method could generate multiple hidden topics underlying the given data set. These topics are representatives for those multiple areas of expertise in which individual experts could be assigned into. As an illustration, we apply our approach to analyze abstracts from Compendex database in the domain of Emerging Infectious Diseases (EIDs). Our approach can help enhance the traditional expert identification process in term of topical coverage and unbiased selection of expert candidates.","PeriodicalId":185147,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116874481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessment of nanoscience and nanotechnology initiatives in India","authors":"K. Akhilesh, Neelima S. Watve","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261814","url":null,"abstract":"Nanotechnology is a new technology which is generating a lot of interest among academicians, practitioners and scientists. Critical research is being carried out in this area all over the world. Governments are creating policy initiatives to promote developments in the nanoscale science and technology developments. Private investment is also seeing a rising trend. Large number of academic institutions and national laboratories has set up research centers that are working on the multiple applications of nanotechnology. Wide ranges of applications are claimed for nanotechnology. This consists of materials, chemicals, textiles, semiconductors, to wonder drug delivery systems and diagnostics. Nanotechnology is considered to be a next big wave of technology after information technology and biotechnology. In fact, nanotechnology holds the promise of advances that exceed those achieved in recent decades in computers and biotechnology. Much interest in nanotechnology also could be because of the fact that enormous monetary benefits are expected from nanotechnology based products. According to NSF, revenues from nanotechnology could touch $ 1 trillion by 2015. However much of the benefits are projected ones. Realizing claimed benefits require successful development of nanoscience and nanotechnology research efforts. That is the journey of invention to innovation has to be completed. For this to happen the technology has to flow from laboratory to market. Nanoscience and nanotechnology research efforts have to come out in the form of new products, new processes, and new platforms. India has also started its Nanoscience and Nanotechnology development program in under its 10th Five Year Plan and funds worth Rs. One billion have been allocated for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Research and Development. The aim of the paper is to assess Nanoscience and Nanotechnology initiatives in India. We propose a conceptual model derived from the resource based view of the innovation. We have developed a structured questionnaire to measure the constructs in the conceptual model. Responses have been collected from 115 scientists and engineers working in the field of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. The responses have been analyzed further by using Principal Component Analysis, Cluster Analysis and Regression Analysis.","PeriodicalId":185147,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117076479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Movement of inventors and the effect of knowledge spillovers on spread of innovation: Evidence from patent analysis in high-tech industries","authors":"M. Hosein Fallah, Piyasi Choudhury","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2009.5262051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2009.5262051","url":null,"abstract":"Over the past decades, many researchers have attributed growth and evolution of new technologies partly to knowledge spillovers among inventors and corporations. Patents and patent citations are considered as indicators of such knowledge transfer as a citing patent acknowledges the prior knowledge embedded in the cited patent. In this paper, the authors examine the effect of knowledge spillovers on patenting behavior of the inventors. In particular, would an inventor moving from one company to another acquire new knowledge and can this knowledge be transferred implicitly through his/her future innovations? The authors attempt to answer this question by studying the patenting behavior of a sample of inventors in high-tech industries from 1990 to 2005. The study shows a positive relationship between inventors' movements to their ability to create patents in patent classes outside the classes they previously patented in. The paper reports the results of this study for inventors in telecommunications, information technology and biopharmaceutical industries throughout the US.","PeriodicalId":185147,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123732819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Analysis of technological learning for China's manufacturing industry","authors":"Yang Ying, Weiwei Wu, Y. Bo","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261815","url":null,"abstract":"Learning mechanisms are needed for enterprises to obtain advanced technology as they constitute the dynamic element of technological capabilities. As a cumulative process, technological learning includes both learning by experience and learning by research and development. This paper aims to construct a two-factor learning curve model based on traditional theory, and China's manufacturing industries are being used to demonstrate the analysis of different aspects of technological learning effects. It is found that the two kinds of learning rates are different across China's manufacturing industries. Especially, high-tech manufacturing industries have higher learning by researching rate than learning by doing rate, while the others have higher learning by doing rate than learning researching rate. The paper makes explanations of the difference and gives an insight into industrial rational allocating recourses into developing learning mechanism.","PeriodicalId":185147,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121991075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Care systematization in pediatric nursing applying case-based reasoning","authors":"M. A. Mendes, Domingos B. G. Santos, Marcia N. S. Kondo, J. Cardenas, Amparito Del Rocío Vintimilla Castro, Pedro Luís Próspero Sanchez","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261745","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261745","url":null,"abstract":"It is very difficult to find and collect nursing diagnoses in hospitals, where various clinical records and procedures are done by hand and manually stored on paper form. This condition impairs the readability of hospital process documents, and the archival method makes the information recovery very slow, which ultimately frustrates the search which could result in important information to improve the decision making process. The aim of this paper is to present an application to help the nurses in the clinical reasoning, keeping their experiences as a collection of cases for future research. The process is to scan diagnoses of pediatric nursing, and insert them into a case database, in a structure that provides for recovery, adaptation, indexing and comparison of cases, to be used to evaluate the effectiveness of the prototype application in handling these cases. This article presents a computational tool for health care support, employing techniques of case based reasoning, whose performance was satisfactory in the location of cases directly related to the presented test case. This fact suggests that the prototype presented is able to recover diagnoses made previously and it is of great importance for decision-making and improvement of diagnoses.","PeriodicalId":185147,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122072492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A novel integrated SEM based on DEMATEL for evaluating technology license income performance","authors":"Yun Ken, Tao Huang, Chih-Hung Wu, Shian-Hung Shiu","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261780","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261780","url":null,"abstract":"This study proposes a novel two stage approach which combines DEcision-MAking Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) with structural equation modeling (SEM) for addressing and identifying the interrelationships of determinants and decision factors that influence or impact technology transfer. In the first stage, DEMATEL analysis is capable of revealing the central components and illustrating the interrelation structure of key factors that influence technology license income. Second, the result of DEMATEL offers SEM for further analyzing technology transfer performance. Research results provide a visualized framework to assist in assessing and predicting technology transfer performance — license income in universities.","PeriodicalId":185147,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125789418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Service value shift based on cultural background of hospitality applied to the japanese “motenashi” service","authors":"Kotaro Nakamura, M. Gotoh","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261789","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261789","url":null,"abstract":"In order to produce sustainable and competitive service, it is important to identify proper competence rooted in the cultural background based on traditional features. Moreover, the service must provide service value shifting in time along with the changes in the needs of customers. This paper show the “motenashi” hospitality cultures as a root of Japanese style service to focus on the host-guest relations and generalize their relations by the anthropological theory of rituals and reciprocity principle as historical point of view at the service for describing the relationship between contemporary services and their cultural backgrounds. Furthermore, based on their considerations of the cultural background, the framework of the degree of customer participation and the level of service needs is applied to real service cases. Results on application to the case of Japanese traditional “motenashi” minded service with heartfelt treating as a major service concept clarify the potential of the framework for considering service business strategy by comparison with their cultural backgrounds.","PeriodicalId":185147,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125870978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Managing embedded software development in a competitive world: A challenge from digital broadcasting","authors":"V. Thorn, D. Probert","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261939","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261939","url":null,"abstract":"Advances in sensor technology and digital signal processing have spawned innovative products in contexts as diverse as the automotive, medical and broadcast industries. These products rely on embedded software to provide enhanced functionality such as data streaming, digital to analogue conversion and display driving. In this sense embedded software can be seen as a powerful enabler for the emergence of new technologies and of the industries in which they are deployed. For technologists, the question of how best to manage the development and commercialisation of the embedded software inevitably arises. Traditionally, techniques used for developing and managing software in general have also been applied to embedded software. However this ignores certain characteristics that are unique to embedded software. In particular it has been argued that dependencies on the physical world mean that embedded software should be treated differently. This paper explores one case from digital broadcasting and reports on the development and management methods used. The challenges faced by the managers are examined in the context of the proposed means of commercialisation. The characteristics of the approaches adopted are compared against those reported in literature, and learning from this experience will be used to assist the development of methods specially tailored to embedded software.","PeriodicalId":185147,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128310656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}