Our goal is to enable a Web user to easily specify distributed data management tasks in place, i.e. without centralizing the data to a single provider. Our system is therefore not a replacement for Facebook, or any centralized system, but an alternative that allows users to launch their own peers on their machines processing their own local personal data, and possibly collaborating with Web ser...

In this paper we examine whether a web search engine can function as a corpus management system, by describing the similarities between corpus query systems and web search engines and we present a prototype implementation of a corpus management system incorporated in a Greek web search engine. We target our research towards the examination of common features that exist among query languages ado...

A general overview of the system architecture for knowledge-based monitoring of in-tegrated networks is presented. A performance oriented model of integrated networksis introduced. A Tra c Control Architecture (TCA) for management and control ofnetwork resources is proposed. The proposed TCA ts into an integrated referencemodel for network management and control. A model for...

A virtual organization (VO) consists of groups of many scientists and organizations from geographically distributed regions that pool their computing and storage resources together in order to achieve some common scientific goal via grid computing. Such collaborations often result in the generation of a vast amount of shared data from experimental apparatus or statistical simulation. In order t...

growth of the petrochemical industry and its products has been followed growth in other sectors of production, use and trade of chemicals at national and regional levels. it is one of the basic industries which are feeder to other industry sectors as the engine of the economy and play a major role in developing countries. with no doubt mismanagement and improper use of chemicals lead to harmful...

Development of Gasoline Engine Management Systems control features Tata Consultancy Services in alliance with a leading Tier-1 supplier has developed control and diagnostic features to be implemented for a Gasoline Engine Management System (EMS) that will be used in a passenger car that meets EU4 emission norms. From the high level requirements provided by the Tier-1 , the control features deve...

To accommodate the rapidly evolving business environments, there is a need for workflow management systems that can activate intra organizational business processes, in an efficient way. In this paper an Agent-Based Workflow Management System (AB-WfMS) is presented with the aim of supporting this issue through the adoption of agent technology. The proposed enterprise architecture has set apart ...

Evaporative cooling system concepts proposed over the past century for engine thermal management in automotive applications are examined and critically reviewed. The purpose of the review is to establish evident system shortcomings and to identify remaining research questions that need to be addressed to enable this important technology to be adopted by vehicle manufacturers. Initially, the ben...

This paper presents an application of the recently developed theory of language-measure-based discrete event supervisory (DES) control to aircraft propulsion systems. A two-layer hierarchical architecture is proposed to coordinate the operations of a twin-engine propulsion system. The two engines are individually controlled to achieve enhanced performance and reliability, as necessary for fulfi...