Toyama Industrial Technology Center

Industrial Engineering at America’s Spaceport Technology Center

This paper provides an overview of the Spaceport Technology Center initiative at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC). The Spaceport Technology Center initiative encompasses a variety of research and development efforts designed to provide safe, cost-effective access to space and to enable extended space exploration. Spaceport technologies are recognized as critically important to achieving the ae...

Stream Systems Technology Center

Although artificial stream restoration for improved fisheries habitat has been in vogue for at least a century, these endeavors have been insufficiently studied, and failures and successes inadequately demonstrated (Hall and Baker 1982, Platts and Nelson 1985, Platts and Rinne 1985, Beschta and Platts 1986, Elmore and Kauffman 1994). The lack of data has occurred at a time when native fish popu...

Language Technology Resource Center

This paper describes the Language Technology Resource Center (LTRC), a U.S. Government website for providing information and tools for users of languages (e.g., translators, analysts, etc.) The LTRC provides information on a broad range of products and tools, and provides a means for product developers and researchers to provide the U.S. Government and the public with information about their wo...

Agent Technology in Industrial Applications

The agent metaphor has become increasingly popular in distributed computing systems. As often with a new paradigm, it is not very clear what the exact meaning is. The meaning and the development of the agent paradigm is therefore discussed in this paper. One motivation for using agents in distributed systems is that, due to the rapid technical development of computing and communication faciliti...

Control technology for industrial robots