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Financial Sustainability And The Imperative For Reform In Investment Organisation In Australia's Local Government , Martin Gold
Financial Sustainability And The Imperative For Reform In Investment Organisation In Australia's Local Government , Martin Gold
Martin L Gold
The losses reported from the so-called sub-prime category, and the collateral damage suffered by some councils, has brought renewed scrutiny of their financial viability and the investment practices which are employed across the local government sector. The diversity of prudential investment standards which currently apply in Australia also suggests that the investment policies expected to deliver optimal economic outcomes for ratepayers require reform. In conjunction with the moves to address the financial sustainability of the sector, this paper argues that reforms are needed to standardise investment powers, empower councils to develop appropriate investment objectives, and to centralise funds management.- 2
Admissible Heuristic Functions For Flow-Shop Problems, Joshua Fan, Graham Winley
Admissible Heuristic Functions For Flow-Shop Problems, Joshua Fan, Graham Winley
Joshua P Fan
No abstract provided.
A Heuristic Search Algorithm For Flow-Shop Scheduling, Joshua Fan, Graham Winley
A Heuristic Search Algorithm For Flow-Shop Scheduling, Joshua Fan, Graham Winley
Joshua P Fan
This article describes the development of a new intelligent heuristic search algorithm (IHSA*) which guarantees an optimal solution for flow-shop problems with an arbitrary number of jobs and machinesprovided the job sequence is constrained to be the same on each machine. The development is described in terms of 3 modifications made to the initial version of IHSA*. The first modification concerns thechoice of an admissible heuristic function. The second concerns the calculation of heuristic estimates as the search for an optimal solution progresses, and the third determines multiple optimal solutions whenthey exist. The first 2 modifications improve performance characteristics of …
Towards A Measure Of Function For Home And Community Care Services In Australia: Part 1 - Development Of A Standard National Approach, Nicholas Marosszeky, Kathy Eagar, Roslyn Poulos, Alan Owen
Towards A Measure Of Function For Home And Community Care Services In Australia: Part 1 - Development Of A Standard National Approach, Nicholas Marosszeky, Kathy Eagar, Roslyn Poulos, Alan Owen
Alan G Owen
No abstract provided.
Towards A Measure Of Function For Home And Community Care Services In Australia: Part 2 - Evaluation Of The Screening Tool And Assessment Instruments, Robert Gordon, Kathy Eagar, Janette Green, Alan Owen, Karen Qunisey
Towards A Measure Of Function For Home And Community Care Services In Australia: Part 2 - Evaluation Of The Screening Tool And Assessment Instruments, Robert Gordon, Kathy Eagar, Janette Green, Alan Owen, Karen Qunisey
Alan G Owen
No abstract provided.
Filter Coordinations For Exploring Multi-Dimensional Data, Mark Sifer
Filter Coordinations For Exploring Multi-Dimensional Data, Mark Sifer
Dr Mark Sifer
No abstract provided.
Xeena For Schema: Creating Xml Documents With A Coordinated Grammar Tree, Mark Sifer, Frithjof Dau, Helen Hasan, Kathryn Crawford, Yardena Peres, Yoelle Maarek
Xeena For Schema: Creating Xml Documents With A Coordinated Grammar Tree, Mark Sifer, Frithjof Dau, Helen Hasan, Kathryn Crawford, Yardena Peres, Yoelle Maarek
Dr Mark Sifer
The vast heterogeneous network that is the World Wide Web requires common languages to facilitate the exchange and display of data and information in many forms. The Word Wide Web Consortium (W3C) developed the extensible markup language (XML) for this purpose. XML documents are produced automatically by applications or manually by users. When users do not produce documents regularly or when document languages are large and complex, manual editing can be a challenge. In these situations, better manual editing facilities that guide users and ease the burden of learning and recalling XML languages are needed. We present an XML editor …
A Strategic Information System Perspective For The Adoption Of E-Commerce In Smes, Sim Lau
A Strategic Information System Perspective For The Adoption Of E-Commerce In Smes, Sim Lau
Dr Sim Kim Lau
No abstract provided.
The Grouping And Prioritizing Of Driving Forces For Ict Adoption By Medical Practitioners: Do These Differ Between Rural And Urban Gps In Australia?, Robert Macgregor, Charles Harvie, Peter Hyland
The Grouping And Prioritizing Of Driving Forces For Ict Adoption By Medical Practitioners: Do These Differ Between Rural And Urban Gps In Australia?, Robert Macgregor, Charles Harvie, Peter Hyland
Associate Professor Peter Hyland
Increasing use of ICT technologies in medical practices has led to a number of studies examining their use in rural as well as urban settings. The purpose of this study is to examine how GPs in rural and urban practice group and prioritise the driving forces for ICT adoption. Correlation and factor analysis was performed on the data sets (198 GPs, 122 Rural - 76 urban) obtained by means of a survey questionnaire. Not only do the results show that the drivers can be 'simplified' from 16 to 2 or 3, but they also show that there are differences both …
The Grouping And Prioritising Of Driving Forces For Ict Adoption By Medical Practitioners: Do These Differ Between Rural And Urban Gps In Australia, Peter Hyland, Charles Harvie, Robert Macgregor
The Grouping And Prioritising Of Driving Forces For Ict Adoption By Medical Practitioners: Do These Differ Between Rural And Urban Gps In Australia, Peter Hyland, Charles Harvie, Robert Macgregor
Associate Professor Peter Hyland
No abstract provided.