Collaborative Management System Research Articles

Implementation and Advancement of a Collaborative Zakat Management System in Southern California, the United States; A Case Study of a Hybrid Zakat Cooperative Model

The objective of this study was to assess the state of zakat management in a test region and to subsequently develop the most effective management system. The study, a first of its kind, afforded the opportunity to continually evaluate and adjust zakat management protocols and models and was conducted in a geographic area of the Inland Empire; a region of Southern California, the United States, with a population of approximately 4 million. The initial assessment of institutional management demonstrated that zakat management has taken a low priority within institutions and the existing models were individually autonomous with notable deficiencies in three fundamental areas; collection, handling, and distribution. A centralized model was initially created and assessed, however yielded dismal results. Subsequently, a hybrid cooperative model was ultimately created and tested capitalizing on the respective strengths of both the localized and centralized models. The cooperative element materialized in the syndication between institutions, enabling resources, such as knowledge and funds, to flow between organizations. The notable features of the cooperative model included local application, review, and distribution coupled with a region-wide standardization of policy, procedure, platform, which hinged upon communication. This study determined that a hybrid cooperative model was the optimal zakat management system which would guarantee the right of the zakat beneficiary and payer, who were previously deprived of their respective rights. Suggestions were made in order to further the development of the cooperative zakat model: (1) the continued expansion to include more institutions; (2) the incorporation of social service agencies; (3) systematic communication; (4) training as well as procedural elements to help identify and overcome the most common challenges experienced by administrators. Despite being limited to zakat management; the practical implications of this study could conceivably progress other areas of Islamic institution management.

Development of a Collaborative Interaction Management System (CIMS) For Selected Higher Educational Institutions in the Philippines

Development of a Collaborative Interaction Management System (CIMS) For Selected Higher Educational Institutions in the Philippines

Forest certification and FSC standard initiatives in collaborative forest management system in Nepal

The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) principles and criteria have been implemented in over 80 community forests in Nepal over the last decade. However, the total size of community forests certified under the FSC certification is relatively small (0.1% of the total area of the country), which limits the overall benefits they can provide to the surrounding communities. The national government has instituted the Collaborative Forest Management (CFM) initiative to maintain forest connectivity and give local communities jurisdiction over the nearby forests that they and their ancestor have lived with and managed for many generations. The CFM policies strive to ensure the restoration of large and continuous patches of forest, equitable benefit sharing of forest products and good governance, yet these policies do not certify the forests as sustainably managed, and thus cannot provide increased prices on the international market for products from these forests. Two collaborative forests were assessed in the Tarai region of Nepal to understand how well these community managed forests already follow the FSC principles and where changes must be made for these forests to be certified in the future. Field observations were undertaken, focus group discussions held, and semi-structured interviews carried out in order to understand current management practices in these two collaborative managed forests. Findings showed that the CFM helped improve biodiversity and benefit sharing from the forest amongst the wide range of communities. Collaboratively managed forests and FSC principles were shown to have complementary objectives: to sustain forests, strengthen forest governance and conserve indigenous species and knowledge, and it is argued that these plans can be synchronized for the benefit of both forests and people.

EXTERNAL ENGINE CONCEPT FOR MASTERING THE FRONT END OF INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY PROCESSES

Purpose: The paper presents a new concept of somewhat extreme open innovation which focuses on mastering the front end of innovation and technology is based on a collaborative working environment that helps mainly small- and medium-sized enterprises to attain the knowledge, skills, and culture required to master the front end of innovation. The concept is a sort of "umbrella methodology", a well-defined set of procedures which can be simultaneously adapted to the particular innovation challenge, wherein various methods for problem identification and idea creation can be applied, depending on a company’s needs. It is based on the proactive involvement of the company's employees, supported by an appropriate methodology and external experts via a mix of face-to-face and online activities.
 Methodology: The methodology is based on a collaborative working system (CWS) and learning management system (LMS) principles that help SMEs attain the knowledge, skills, and culture required to master FEI. We also argue that CWS is an efficient approach for addressing SMEs’ inherent limitations related to managing innovation process in open innovation (OI) modus operandi. Additionally, the concept also tackles configurations of organizational settings related to innovation.
 Main Findings: Within the pilot study, positive results were observed regarding the direct innovation result, as well as sustainability. Moreover, it was observed that the presented concept had a positive effect on culture and climate-related to the whole innovation and technology process.
 Implications/Applications: eMIPS has some important advantages. The first is a clear focus on the very first phase of the innovation and technology process, the problem/opportunity phase. By using a flexible methodology, various problems can be addressed. Since the eMIPS concept uses a distance working platform, its additional advantage is related to fostering the OI paradigm, CWS, and LMS, which have significant potential for SMEs. The complementary benefits are related to the organizational aspects of FEI and positive effects on innovation culture.

Secure Collaborative Key Management System for Mobile Cloud Data Storage

Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) is the combination of mobile computing, cloud computing and wireless networks to make mobile thin client devices resource-rich in terms of storage, memory computational power and battery power by remotely executing the wide range of mobile application’s data in a pay-per-use cloud computing environment. In MCC, one of the primary concern is the security and privacy of data stored in cloud. The existing techniques are not efficient to manage secret keys during key generation and key distribution processes. The objective of this project work is to develop a secure collaborative key management system (SCKMS) for mobile cloud data storage by implementing by the cryptographic techniques for file encryption and file decryption, key generation, key encryption, key distribution and key decryption processes. In our proposed methodology, DriverHQ public cloud infrastructure is used for accessing the secure file as Storage as a Service (SaaS) mechanism. For generating the secret key, the proposed work implemented with Pseudo Random Number Generator (PRNG) algorithm, it produces the sequence of random numbers for every time. The keys are distributed using general Secret key Sharing Scheme (SSS). The key pattern matching process is implemented to spilt the secret key into three partitions and sent it to client (mobile devices), cloud server and decryption server. The decryption server key and cloud sever key are mapped with client key. The key shares are grouped together using key-lock pair mechanism and it achieves key integrity during untrusted medium communication. The proposed work also eliminates key escrow and key exposure problems. The files are encrypted and decrypted using Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA) algorithm. The RSA algorithm is more vulnerable against the brute force attack, because of using larger key size. Thus, the proposed SCKMS achieves data confidentiality and data integrity in mobile cloud storage data when compared to existing Key Management System (KMS). The work also reduces encryption & decryption computation and storage overhead in client mobile devices, and minimizes the energy consumption of the mobile devices efficiently.

A governance analysis of Guatemala's first recognized marine protected area: The Wildlife Refuge of Punta de Manabique (RVSPM)

This paper examines governance effectiveness of the Wildlife Refuge of Punta de Manabique (RVSPM), the first recognized marine protected area in Guatemala. The analysis follows the Marine Protected Area Governance (MPAG) empirical framework through the use of incentives (economic, interpretative, knowledge, legal and participative) that evaluate the effectiveness of governance. Our results highlight that strategic alliances between some local communities and NGOs have successfully provided economic and participatory incentives for better management. However, efforts to develop an integrated or collaborative management system that promotes sustainable resource use across all stakeholder groups have failed. As a result, environmental degradation is increasing at an alarming rate, set against a backdrop of declining management effectiveness. Under this scenario, future prospects for governance should revise participatory incentives and strengthen legal incentives, which should be backed by strong political will. In addition, efforts should continue to foster opportunities for regional collaborations as an essential element for improved governance of the RVSPM and as a foundation to effectively manage natural and cultural resources in the wider Mesoamerican Reef region.

Linking Emergency Medical Service Data to Death Records for Opioid Mortality Surveillance

Linking Emergency Medical Service Data to Death Records for Opioid Mortality Surveillance

The impact of CEO transformational leadership on organizational voluntary turnover and employee innovative behaviour: the mediating role of collaborative HRM

Integrating theories of transformational leadership and strategic human resource management, this study examines how transformational leadership of chief executive officers (CEOs) can affect organizational and individual outcomes through the establishment of a collaborative human resource management (HRM) system. Based on data collected from 98 high‐tech companies in China, our research revealed that through the mediating role of collaborative HRM, CEO transformational leadership has an indirect negative effect on organizational voluntary turnover rate and an indirect positive effect on individual innovative behaviour.

On the National Design Standardization Information System in the Building Industry

The national design standardization information system (NDSIS) is guided by users’ needs, with design decision supporting as the core function, and aims to promote the depth and breadth of standardization system in the building industry. The system includes four parts: standardized information database, design decision support system, collaborative management system, and quality control and intelligent retrieval system. NDSIS can improve the accuracy, self-consistency, and timeliness of standardization so as to achieve localized design with a standardized approach. In so doing, it can also promote interdisciplinary integration of architecture and other cutting-edge technologies such as cloud computing, big data analytics and AI technology.

Barriers of knowledge transfer and mitigating strategies in collaborative management system implementations

PurposeAs the dynamics of the external environment of the enterprise continue to increase, the support of information systems for organizational agility becomes increasingly important. Collaborative Management System (CMS) is a new type of information system that can cope with the dynamic changes of the organization. Effective knowledge transfer is the core of the system implementation. The purpose of this study is to explore the knowledge transfer barriers faced by CMS in its implementation process.Design/methodology/approachThrough field interviews with a representative CMS provider, this paper summarizes the barriers of knowledge transfer during CMS implementation into three aspects.FindingsBased on the innovative measures taken by the company and relevant literature, the corresponding mitigating strategies are proposed.Originality/valueThe findings enrich the implementation methodology of agile information systems by exploring the knowledge transfer problem from a novel context. The study also provides a reference for practical implementation to overcome the dilemma of knowledge transfer.

Evaluating the Performance of Quality Improvement Team and their Effect on Service Efficacy Indices in Razavi Subspecialty Hospital

Background: Productivity is one of the main indices in development plans; therefore, the performance of quality improvement team in any hospital that is a step towards the Implementation of a comprehensive quality management may be considered as an appropriate management technique for development of human resources as well as promotion of the hospital efficacy. Objectives: The current study is designed to evaluate the collaborative management method through the performance of quality improvement team in Razavi Hospital. Methods: This study was carried out in Razavi Hospital, Mashhad during 2016 - 2018 focusing on establishment of a collaborative management system and its effect on the hospital service efficacy. It was an interventional and applied research. The target population included all the staff of Razavi Hospital who volunteered to participate the study, and took measures to promote the hospital efficiency after attending the related training workshops. Results: According to the findings, the bed occupancy rate of Razavi Hospital increased from 59.5 percent in 2016 to 62 percent in 2017. Meanwhile, the patient's average length of stay decreased by 2 percent compared with the same period last year. The hospital bed turnover rate also increased from 86.3 times in 2016 to 121 times in 2017. Following the formation of quality improvement team and applying the optimal strategies and methods, especially in medical wards, it was revealed that the patient satisfaction had a significant increase in 2017 comparing to 2016. Furthermore, the job satisfaction (including job promotion, rules and regulations, colleagues, nature of the work, organizational communication and organizational goals) increased by 18.7 percent in 2017 in comparison with 2016 indicating the efficacy improvement at the hospital. Conclusion: Formation of quality improvement team in Razavi Hospital and their activities have led to relative increase in the hospital management efficacy.

Teaching Artists’perception of the collaboration among teaching artists in the cultural and arts education

이 연구는 문화예술교육 전문 인력의 문화예술교육 협업에 대한 인식을 협업태도, 협업 실태, 효과적인 협업 요인의 측면에서 살펴보고, 이러한 협업 인식이 향후 문화예술교육 전문 인력의 창조적 협업 체계 맥락에서 갖는 정책적 시사점이 무엇인 가를 탐색하는데 초점을 두고 있다. 이를 위하여 문화예술교육 협업 프로그램에 참여하고 있는 예술가교사들을 대상으로 설문조사를 실시하였으며, 협업 관련 관계자들을 대상으로 심층 인터뷰를 실시하였다. 분석 요소는 협업 관심과 수요, 협업 실 태, 효과적인 협업요인으로 구성되었는데, 협업 요인으로는 협업태도, 협업자원, 협업 플랫폼, 협업운영체계, 협업성과 기대 등이 포함되었다. 분석결과, 예술가교사의 협업에 대한 관심과 수요, 그리고 협업성과에 대한 기대는 높은 반면에 현재의 협 업 활동 및 정책체계는 상대적으로 취약한 것으로 나타났다. 그 동안 참여한 협업 활동에 대한 예술가교사의 만족도는 보통 수준으로 나타났다. 또한 예술가교사들은 문화예술교육 협업 맥락에서 현행 정책 지원체계는 취약한 측면이 있지만, 향후 문 화예술교육 협업 생태계 조성과 관련하여 문화예술교육정책이 확대될 것으로 기대하고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 예술가교사들은 예술가교사의 협업 태도, 협업 플랫폼, 협업 자원, 협업체계 등 협업 성공요인에 대해 긍정적으로 평가하였다. 또한 요인 분석과 회귀분석 결과, 협업 태도와 협업 자원이 협업 성과에 영향을 미치는 중요한 요인으로 나타났다. 이러한 분석결과를 바탕으로 이 연구에서는 협업문화, 협업자원과 플랫폼, 협업 운영체계 구축을 중심으로 정책적 시사점을 도출하였다.This article is aimed at exploring the teaching artists’perception of the collaboration among teaching artists in the arts education. for the purpose of facilitating the arts education collaboration activities. The teaching artist is considered as a key actor in the collaboration process of the arts education program. The survey research and indepth interview is conducted in order to examine the collaboration demand and attitude of the teaching artists. In addition, the effective collaboration factors are examined in terms of collaboration attitude, collaboration resources, collaboration platforms, collaboration management system, and collaboration outcomes. As a result, the teaching artists are considerably interested in the arts education collaboration programmes. The demand and expectation effect on the arts education collaboration is evaluated high. In addition, the teaching artists recognizes that the policy support programmes will be expanded in the future. However the current level of arts education collaboration system is not unsatisfactory. The policy concerns toward the arts education collaboration is not developed. the satisfaction level on the collaboration experience is an average. According to the factor analysis and regression analysis, the collaboration attitude and collaboration resources are associated with the expectation of the collaboration outcomes. Finally, the article recommends the arts education policy directions for establishing the arts education collaboration system in terms of collaboration culture, collaboration resources and platforms, collaboration management in the future.

Case Management: Transforming Health Care Environment.

Case Management: Transforming Health Care Environment.

Entry Life-Cycle with automatic Change-History & Provenance Tracking in collaborative Semantic Web Content Management Systems as implemented in SOCCOMAS

SOCCOMAS is a ready-to-use Semantic Ontology-Controlled Content Management System (http://escience.biowikifarm.net/wiki/SOCCOMAS). Each web content management system (WCMS) run by SOCCOMAS is controlled by a set of ontologies and an accompanying Java-based middleware with the data housed in a Jena tuple store. The ontologies describe the behavior of the WCMS, including all of its input forms, input controls, data schemes and workflow processes (Fig. 1). Data is organized into different types of data entries, which represent collections of data referring to a particular material entity, for instance an individual specimen. SOCCOMAS implements a suite of general processes, which can be used to manage and organize all data entry types. One category of processes manages the life-cycle of a data entry, including all required for changing between the following possible entry states: current draft version; backup draft version; recycle bin draft version; deleted draft version; current published version; previously published version. current draft version; backup draft version; recycle bin draft version; deleted draft version; current published version; previously published version. The processes also allow a user to create a revised draft based on the current published version. Another category of processes automatically tracks the overall provenance (i.e. creator, authors, creation and publication date, contributers, relation between different versions, etc.) for each particular data entry. Additionally, on a significantly finer level of granularity, SOCCOMAS also tracks in a detailed change-history log all changes made to a particular data record at the level of individual input fields. All information (data, provenance metadata, change-history metadata) is stored based on Resource Description Framework (RDF) compliant data schemes into different named graphs (i.e. a URI under which triple statements are stored in the tuple store). All recorded information can be accessed through a SPARQL endpoint. All data entries are Linked Open Data and thus provide access to an HTML representation of the data for visualization in a web-browser or as a machine-readable RDF file. The ontology-controlled design of SOCCOMAS allows administrators to easily customize already existing templates for input forms of data entries, define new templates for new types of data entries, and define underlying RDF-compliant data schemes and apply them to each relevant input field. SOCCOMAS provides an engine for running and developing semantic WCMSs, where only ontology editing, but no middleware and front end programming, are required for adapting the WCMS to one's own specific requirements.

Evaluation on the Effectiveness and Usability of the Developed Collaborative Interaction Management System

A Collaborative Interaction Management System (CIMS) is a system that potentially provide some assistance to the teachers in managing the student's collaborative interaction in forum discussions. The projected main function of the CIMS is to provide tools that automatically gauge the quality of interaction as reflected in student's individual contributions so as to make it easier for the instructor to make judgments on the effectiveness of the collaborative process. This study aims to assess how effective and usable is the developed CIMS based on the evaluation of faculty and students. The descriptive research design is utilized in this study. The five-point Likert scale is used and the gathered data are statistically interpreted through the utilisation of a weighted mean. The sample population of this study is the one hundred twenty participants coming from the different universities in the area where the survey was conducted. The researcher adopted a survey instrument made by some software specialists. The bases of the instrument are some of the characteristics listed on the software quality model of ISO 9126. These are the functionality, usability and the reliability. Each of these software characteristics is described by some indicators to obtain the responses of the participants. The overall evaluation of the participants displayed the weighted mean of 4.0, thus it can be concluded that the functionality, usability and reliability of the software is very good.

Resilience analysis of service-oriented collaboration process management systems

Collaborative business process management allows for the automated coordination of processes involving human and computer actors. In modern economies, it is increasingly needed for this coordination to be not only within organizations but also to cross organizational boundaries. The dependence on the performance of other organizations should, however, be limited, and the control over the own processes is required from a competitiveness perspective. The main objective of this work is to propose an evaluation model for measuring a resilience of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) collaborative process management system. In this paper, we have proposed resilience analysis perspectives of SOA collaborative process systems, i.e., overall system perspective, individual process model perspective, individual process instance perspective, service perspective, and resource perspective. A collaborative incident and maintenance notification process system is reviewed for illustrating our resilience analysis. This research contributes to extend SOA collaborative business process management systems with resilience support, not only looking at quantification and identification of resilience factors, but also considering ways of improving the resilience of SOA collaborative process systems through measures at design and runtime.

A Framework combining Agile, User-centered design and Service Oriented Architecture approaches for Collaborative Disaster Management system Design

Disaster management is a special type of human complex organisation in which heterogeneous human actors belonging to different authorities collaborate and work together with the shared aim to solve, or at least reduce, the disaster situation. Thus, the collaboration in this case within team members and with other teams operating at the disaster site(s) is very critical and complex; the achievement of the desired goal heavily depends on this collaboration. Interactive and easy to use services in these scenarios are very valuable and necessary as they can improve collaboration, coordination, and communication amongst team(s) to achieve the desired goals. For this purpose, in this paper, we propose a novel design framework for complex disaster management systems. We combine agile characteristics and principles, user-centred techniques and service-oriented architecture paradigm. Our aim is to take into account the needs of the disaster managers in an iterative development process, to improve the human actors' involvement in the design projects, to offer the possibility to accept any changes in order to produce highly usable and interactive service-based collaborative services.

A framework combining agile, user-centred design and service-oriented architecture approaches for collaborative disaster management system design

A framework combining agile, user-centred design and service-oriented architecture approaches for collaborative disaster management system design

Управление стейкходерами в совместных исследовательских проектах

Mechanisms of collaborative project and programme stakeholder management by the example of technological platform “Intellectual energy system” (a tool of state innovation policy) are analyzed. During the research the aspects of collaborative projects stakeholder management, including stakeholder’s diversity, contradictory expectations, geographic fragmentation are considered. Using the open data source, the lack of collaborative project stakeholder management system in Project/Programme of technological platform “Intellectual energy system” development was diagnosed. There is the necessity of revealing to European experience in technological platform collaborative projects implementation, as far as this phenomenon is successfully adopted abroad and facilitates creation of benefits to the diverse number of its stakeholders.

Contribution of Indian Gooseberry (Phyllanthus emblica) to Household Economy in Sri Lanka: A Case Study from Udadumbara Divisional Secretariat

Indian gooseberry, one of the most popular medicinal fruit crops in South and Southeast Asia, has become an important source of income for rural forest dwellers in Sri Lanka. However, very little is known about the role of Indian gooseberry in household economies and its contribution to the local and national economies. To address this issue, we conducted a study in Udadumbara Divisional Secretariat, Sri Lanka to estimate the economic contribution of Indian gooseberry to household incomes and to quantify its dependency level among households with different socio-economic characteristics. The data were collected from 117 households through interviews using semi-structured questionnaires. The results show that Indian gooseberry contributes on average 10.1% of the total household income, which is the third largest share after off-farm income (53.1%) and agricultural income (35.1%). The contribution of Indian gooseberry to the household income increases as other sources of income decrease which results in higher contributions for lower income households (16.4%) and lower contributions for higher income households (2.1%). Indian gooseberry income is significantly and negatively correlated with the agricultural land owned by households and water availability for agriculture and is positively correlated with the time spent for collection. Our results also found that if there is access to other sources of income and higher levels of education, the collectors’ dependences on Indian gooseberry are decreased. Moreover, the study found that Indian gooseberry trees are under a threatened and declining due to the reduction of forest cover and inappropriate management system. Therefore, collaborative management system through partnerships among rural community and the Forest Department is suggested.