This white paper focuses on Meta-programming which is a discipline of writing programs in a certain programming language that generate, manipulate or execute programs written in another language. In a typed setting, meta-programming languages usually contain a modal type constructor to distinguish the level of object programs (which are the...
BPEL is a comprehensive workflow definition execution language specified in XML. It can be defined as a programming language and executed directly, but is more likely to be automatically generated from Workflow Diagrams. The BPEL language commands are called activities. The white paper details how the activities of a business...
This paper discusses SISCO, the Simulator for Integrated Supply Chain Operations, a Java-based tool that simplifies supply chain simulation model development. SISCO maps supply chain descriptions stored in the XML-based Supply Chain Modeling Language SCML format to a set of supply chain "building blocks" developed with ThreadTec's Silk simulation classes....
Three-time startup veteran and software developer Thomas E. Burns could spend his days writing code. Or he could write a book on branding. Burns founded his first company when he was just 22 years old. Then he joined another company as its first employee. Then the entrepreneurial spirit came calling...
The challenges of Check 21 involve transforming a paper-based system into a digital system in order to make it interactive both internally and externally. This white paper presents a strategy to evaluate and implement the image-viewing component of a Check 21 solution. It contains evaluation criteria, options for programming language...
The FT-55 system is an open architecture, programmable logic controller PLC designed specifically to control rotating/reciprocating machinery and associated process functions. The system is designed with open industry standards for hardware, software and data communications. The control is programmed in a Windows environment utilizing IEC 61131-3 structured text programming language...
Founded in 1981, American Healthways is the largest provider of disease management, care-enhancement, and high-risk health management services in the United States, serving more than 1.4 million people and their physicians. Rapid growth was affecting performance of the company's legacy disease management application, and adding new functionality to adapt to...
In May of this year, web users spent 25 billion minutes on AOL online media (including IM and e-mail); that makes the little yellow running man a gold medal winner.After Nielsen/NetRatings changed its methodology to account for "total minutes" a month ago, the Googlemeister dropped from 1st to 5th, while...
These five products have one thing in common: Each started out as an idea hatched by a mid-level employee — and ended up changing a company or revolutionizing an industry. Post-it Notes Intrapreneurs: Spencer Silver and Art Fry...
A comment from a reader of this blog raises an important point regarding communication within a team. Following the recent post highlighting lessons that Tour De France teams can provide for business teams, a reader pointed out:"At the elite level of cycling, though, everyone is brought back to the pack...
Great minds, support from management, and their own brand of secret sauce helped these teams come up with some of the biggest innovations in recent business history. The Java Development Team at Sun Microsystems ...
High-Tech Crybabies Head for the CribThe Dumbest GenerationGermans may have picked up Mark Bauerlein's recent book "The Dumbest Generation" and read the empirical research he presents and concluded the current "tech savvy" generation may know how to navigate their iPod, iPhone and iBook, but when it comes to activating their...
