In the manufacturing industry the step of generating the assembly plans for products is crucial but very time and labour intensive as most of the work has to be done manually. Especially for products with high customisability this means, a new plan is required for every custom order. To reduce...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a framework for cultivating virtual communities of practice in distributed environments. The framework is based on the integration of knowledge artifacts and wearable technologies. Design/methodology/approach The proposed knowledge artifact is...

This paper reports on a decision support system for assigning a liver from a donor to a recipient on a waiting-list that maximises the probability of belonging to the survival graft class after a year of transplant and/or minimises the probability of belonging to the non-survival graft class in...