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Exploration Games - A Formal Foundation for UML Design Tools
This paper extends the two-player games as used in verification to exploration games to fill this gap. An exploration game can be specified on the basis of a model which contains informally defined conditions as it is often the case with UML models. During a play the game may be...
Tags: Tool, University Of Edinburgh, UML, Games, Programming Languages, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Personal Technology
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Project Plan Template
This is a template for project plan with information about: staff; research income; reports; bristol analyses; return to RAE; submission interface; student/finance enhancements; other enhancements. It also gives information of: business analysis system analysis & design build integration acceptance; and deployment of project.
Tags: Enhancement, Analysis, University Of Edinburgh
Tools & templates 2007-11-16
Towards A Context-Sensitive Distributed Knowledge Management System For The Knowledge Organization
Current Distributed Knowledge Management DKM efforts often consider the general difficult case when the knowledge can be inconsistent. This paper focuses on the particular case when the knowledge in a system is coherent, but at the same time can evolve dynamically. Even if only a small part of an organization's...
Tags: Knowledge Management System, Knowledge, University Of Edinburgh, Strategy, Management
White papers 2005-07-13
Choosing Your Knowledge Management Strategy
This paper surveys a number of different Knowledge Management KM strategies and a range of driving forces for knowledge management activities. The authors then attempted to produce a simple classification tool that will allow us to link the drivers to the KM strategies, using a number of published heuristics. Finally,...
Tags: Knowledge, University Of Edinburgh, Knowledge Management, Business Intelligence, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
White papers 2003-08-15
Intellectual Property Rights, Competition Policy And Innovation: Is There A Problem?
Most of us share the presumption that when markets work well, they ought to be left undisturbed to get on with it. When, however, markets do not work well - when a "Market failure" of some type or other occurs - then there is scope for policy intervention. The case...
Tags: Innovation, Intellectual Property Right, University Of Edinburgh, Intellectual Property, Research & Development, Business Operations
White papers 2004-10-01
Redundancy And Productivity In The Speech Technology Lexicon
Current lexica for speech technology typically contain much redundancy, while omitting useful information. A comparison with lexica in other media and for other purposes is instructive, as it highlights some features we may borrow for text-to-speech and speech recognition lexica. We describe some aspects of the new lexicon we are...
Tags: Lexicon, University Of Edinburgh, Speech Recognition, Advertising & Promotion, Emerging Technologies, Marketing
White papers 2006-06-13
Knowledge Management Operational Plan and Strategic Priorities
This paper outlines ways in which the Knowledge Management strategic planning process is to be freshened up, producing fewer ?Must do milestones? and with quarterly online summaries of progress with each one. The paper sets out the draft proposals for the 2007?2008 Operational Plan associated with the University?s Knowledge Management...
Tags: Milestone, Knowledge, University Of Edinburgh, Knowledge Management, Business Intelligence, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
White papers 2006-09-13
Personal Time Management for Busy Managers
Personal Time Management is about controlling the use of a person's most valuable and undervalued resource. Consider these two questions: what would happen if he spent company money with as few safeguards as he spend company time, when was the last time he scheduled a review of his time allocation?...
Tags: University Of Edinburgh, Time Management, Productivity
White papers
Report of the Marketing Strategy Group
Colleagues across the University identified the need for the discussion of marketing issues leading to improvements in the University's approach and activities in this area. The Principal convened a group of relevant senior officers and the Principal's Strategy Group subsequently endorsed the view that a temporary Marketing Strategy Group be...
Tags: Marketing Strategy, Group, University Of Edinburgh, Marketing Research, Marketing
White papers 2005-11-01
Enterprise Modelling: A Declarative Approach for FBPML
Enterprise Modelling EM methods are well-recognised for their value in describing complex, informal domains in an organized structure. EM methods are used in practice, particularly during the early stages of software system development, e.g. during the phase of business requirements elicitation. The built model, however, has not always provided direct...
Tags: Method, University Of Edinburgh, Enterprise Modelling Method, Tools & Techniques, Operational Planning, Management, Business Operations
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Unemployment Insurance Under Moral Hazard and Limited Commitment: Public Versus Private Provision
This paper analyses a model of private unemployment insurance under limited commitment and a model of public unemployment insurance subject to moral hazard in an economy with a continuum of agents and an infinite time horizon. The dynamic and steady-state properties of the optimum private unemployment insurance scheme are established....
Tags: Unemployment Insurance, University Of Edinburgh, Insurance, Financial Planning, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance
White papers 2004-04-28
Knowledge Management Strategic Plan: "Must Do Milestones" - Rankings 2005
As in 2004, Colleges, EUSA and the Support Groups were invited to rank the "Must do" milestones. In addition, all members of the University community were also able to add their views via the Knowledge Management website. This paper is concerned primarily with the responses from the Colleges, Support Groups...
Tags: Milestone, Knowledge, University Of Edinburgh, Knowledge Management, Business Intelligence, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
White papers 2005-04-22
Strategic Plan - Outline of Contents and Structure
This paper sets out the most recent, more radical, suggestions for the proposed structure of the Strategic Plan 2004-08, and the reasoning behind the proposals stated. The proposals have been considered and approved in principle by PSG on 19 October 2004. The paper also presents a revised outline timetable for...
Tags: Structure, Proposal, University Of Edinburgh
White papers 2004-11-02
Knowledge Management Strategic Plan: "Must Do Milestones" - Rankings
An invitation to rank the "Must do" milestones was distributed to Schools, Colleges and Support Groups at the beginning of April. In addition all members of the University community were also able to add their views via the Knowledge Management website. Responses to the invitation fell into two broad categories:...
Tags: Milestone, Knowledge, University Of Edinburgh, Knowledge Management, Business Intelligence, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
White papers 2004-04-29
Digital Downloads, Copy Code, and U.S. Copyright Law
This paper addresses the legal issues related to digital downloading and technological controls by examining recent cases and the relevant portions of United States Copyright Law. In doing so, the typical defense of "fair use", as well as some of the newer arguments derived from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act,...
Tags: Argument, University Of Edinburgh, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
White papers 2005-01-04
The Long-Run Performance of Mergers and Acquisitions: Evidence From the Canadian Stock Market
This article studies the long-term performance of 267 Canadian mergers and acquisitions that take place between 1980 and 2000, using different calendar-time approaches with and without overlapping cases. The results suggest that Canadian acquirers significantly under-perform over the three-year post-event period. A further analysis show that the results are consistent...
Tags: M&A, University Of Edinburgh, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Finance
White papers 2004-11-09
Lease Terms, Option Pricing and the Financial Characteristics of Property
Traditional and standard discounted cash flow valuation techniques are unable to deal with a variety of options contained in lease contracts. In the UK, the most important embedded option is the upward-only rent review. Lease contracts are freely negotiated between landlord and tenant, and alternative forms of rent review clause...
Tags: Valuation, Financial, Pricing Strategy, Option, University Of Edinburgh, Investment, Finance
White papers 2001-04-01
Conversation As Communication
The tower of Babel collapsed because people could no longer communicate; their speech became so different that no one could understand another. You need to communicate to coordinate your own work and that of others; without explicit effort your conversation will lack communication and so your work too will collapse...
Tags: Conversation, University Of Edinburgh
White papers 2008-01-01

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IBM and University of Edinburgh Use World's Most Advanced Supercomputer to Tackle HIV Virus Before It Infects Human Cells
Researchers at the University of Edinburgh and IBM's (NYSE: IBM) TJ Watson Research Center today announced a five-year joint research project to use supercomputing simulations combined with lab experiments to speed the design of drugs aimed at inhibiting infection by the HIV virus.
Tags: Cell, IBM Corp., supercomputer
Research articles 2008-04-03
Edinburgh joins e-uni consortium.
Dec 19, 2001 The Age ABIX via COMTEX -- The Melbourne-led online university, Universitas 21, has moved a step closer to its 2003 launch. Reports in late 2001 indicate that an agreement has been reached with the University of Edinburgh. Discussions with two elite...
Tags: consortium, Edinburgh, equity, FINANCE, Investment, Thomson Corp., University of Melbourne
Research articles 2001-12-18
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