ANY SHELTERED WORKSHOPS do not provide actual work. Sheltered workshops often exist to provide a place for handicapped individuals to spend their day engaging in arts and crafts activities that are unsalable. Many sheltered workshops have greenhouses that grow and sell plants and herbs for little more than it costs to buy seed. Most workshops do business on a contract by contract basis where a ...

This volume contains the proceedings of four workshops organized in connection with CAiSE'03, the 15 th instance in the series of Conferences on Advanced Information Systems Engineering. The workshops tradition has always been very active in CAiSE, the aim of workshops being to debate traditional topics in specialized sectors related to advanced information systems engineering, as well as promo...

ABSTRACT Fifty-four clients (13to 52-years-old) in an Appalachian sheltered,workshopww9,re,administered the Slosson Drawing Coordination Test ODCT) and the BeWder Visual Motor Gestalt Test. Twenty-nine Ss were labeled possibly brain damaged by the SDCT, and 17 Ss by the M. Hutt scoring system for the Bender-Gestalt. Two psychologists using all available data and clinical judgment classified onl...

The construction industry has witnessed serious efforts in the last few years through the consideration of the adoption of new procurement systems and production/manufacturing philosophies. However, process maps which can help organisations map their processes into some meaningful structure are still lacking. The product (building) is still the main focus in construction. In the manufacturing i...

Multi-agent systems have been successfully applied to the scheduling problem for some time. However, their use often leads to poorly unsatisfactory disappointing results. A new multi-agent model, called supervisor, customers, environment, producers (SCEP), is suggested in this paper. This model, developed for all types of planning activities, introduces a dialogue between two communities of age...

Additive manufacturing (or 3D printing) opens the possibility of creating new designs and manufacturing objects with new materials rapidly and economically. Particularly for use with polymers and polymer composites, simple printers can make high quality products, and these can be produced easily in offices, schools and in workshops and laboratories. This technology has opened a route for many t...

Much better results in terms of perforniancekost ratio and reliability may be achicvcd if largc machines and structures are replaccd by swarms of smaller ones capablc of co-opcrating on spccificd tasks and negotiating ~ i t h each other what to do next. Armadas of small communication satellites are being dcsigncd to replace largc geostationary units and swarms consisting of hundreds of miniatur...