In this paper, we investigate the modern issues of knowledge management and their impact on our living environment including business practices and health issues. We describe our vision through a highly computerised framework that combines technologies from different disciplines such as knowledge-based systems, database systems and multimedia technologies to support various knowledge management...

The use of expert systems in various disciplines proves an increase in human productivity, financial benefits and a better answer to users needs. There is a need for a development and integration environment that supports knowledge management and expert system construction, but also the debugging and verification as well.

The increasing complexity of technical systems can only be managed by a multi-disciplinary and holistic approach. Besides technical disciplines like aerodynamics, kinematics, etc. cross-disciplines like safety and project management play an immanent role in the Systems Engineering approach. In this chapter, standards from different cross-disciplines are discussed and merged together to elaborat...

Developing application software for embedded systems presents many challenges as a number of constraints need to be optimized such as strict timings, limited power usage and memory utilization. Also, successful embedded application design are the result of the combined inputs from various related disciplines such as control engineering and scheduling theory. In this regard, recycling design exp...

background: this study examined the applicability of trans-theoretical model (ttm) to understand exercise behavior among female college students in hamadan university of medical sciences, iran in 2007. methods: a cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted. the dependent variables analyzed were exercise efficacy expectation, decisional balance (pros and cons). the independent variable was s...

Queueing is an essential element of traffic management, but the only queueing discipline used in traditional UNIX systems is simple FIFO queueing. This paper describes ALTQ, a queueing framework that allows the use of a set of queueing disciplines. We investigate the issues involved in designing a generic queueing framework as well as the issues involved in implementing various queueing discipl...