Today's manufacturing enterprises are facing increasing pressure due to globalization, uncertainties, and strict regulations, among others. To cope with aforesaid challenges, manufacturing enterprises need to enhance their monitoring and control of enterprise processes (i.e., business processes and associated manufacturing processes) within and across different enterprise levels. This results i...

The past two decades has seen a dramatic increase in the amount of information or data being stored in electronic format. This accumulation of data has taken place at an explosive rate. It has been estimated that the amount of information in the world doubles every 20 months and the size and number of databases are increasing even faster. Data storage became easier as the availability of large ...

Today, a great deal of data is generated in the medical field. Acquiring useful knowledge from this raw data requires data processing and detection of meaningful patterns and this objective can be achieved through data mining. Using data mining to diagnose and prognose heart diseases has become one of the areas of interest for researchers in recent years. In this study, the literature on the ap...

The vision of ubiquitous computing is a network of small, inexpensive, robust processing devices, distributed throughout everyday life. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are an essential part to realize this dream. Sensor Networks can be seen as sources of input, delivering data from the real world into the digital world. Wireless sensors have the advantage of lower installation costs and ease of...

The integrated Rule Orientated Data System (iRODS)[3] is a Grid data management system that organizes distributed data and their metadata. A Rule Engine allows a flexible definition of data storage, data access and data processing. This paper presents scenarios implemented in a benchmark tool to measure the performance of an iRODS environment as well as results of measurements with large datase...