In their efforts to streamline the Request for Proposal (RFP) process, many organizations establish a rigid, standardized “one size fits all” RFP process. Does that approach result in the selection of ...

Analyst Insight: Every day, companies create request for proposals (RFPs) as a way to select potential suppliers. The RFP process has become such a mainstay in sourcing that a whole ecosystem of ...

When Augusta's new MaineGeneral hospital opens in the fall of 2013, the $312 million project will showcase not only the latest medical diagnostic and treatment services, but also a new trend in ...

Not many years ago, the idea of collaborative robotics-with a robot and human worker sharing an active workspace-was met by strong skepticism. To ensure the safety of human workers, a variety of ...

Researchers developed a system that streamlines the process of federated learning, a technique where users collaborate to train a machine-learning model in a way that safeguards each user's data. The ...

Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue 83: Advances in Sustainable Port and Ocean Engineering (FALL 2018), pp. 57-61 (5 pages) Aiming at the problem that the intrusion detection method based on ...

Shared decision making (SDM) is a method of care that is suitable for the care of patients with cancer. It involves a collaborative conversation seeking to respond sensibly to the problematic ...

Training a machine-learning model to effectively perform a task, such as image classification, involves showing the model thousands, millions, or even billions of example images. Gathering such ...