This paper describes a simulation-based decision support system (DSS) to production control of a stochastic flexible job shop (SFJS) manufacturing system. The controller design approach is built around the theory of supervisory control based on discrete-event simulation with an event–condition–action (ECA) real-time rule-based system. The proposed controller constitutes the framework of an adap...

RuleML is a family of XML languages whose modular system of schemas permits high-precision (Web) rule interchange. The family’s top-level distinction is deliberation rules vs. reaction rules. In this paper we address the Reaction RuleML subfamily of RuleML and survey related work. Reaction RuleML is a standardized rule markup/serialization language and semantic interchange format for reaction r...

Active applications are characterized by the need for expressing, evaluating, and maintaining a set of rules that implement the application’s active behavior. Typically, rules follow the EventCondition-Action (ECA) paradigm, yet oftentimes their actual implementation is buried in the application code, as their enactment requires a tight integration with the concepts and modules of the applicati...

We describe a generic ECA service for implementing behavior using heterogeneous languages in the Semantic Web. The module details and implements our recent work on an ontology and language concept for a modular approach to ECA rules in the Semantic Web. The ECA level provides generic functionality independent from the actual languages and semantics of event detection, queries, and actions.

Maps of apparent electrical conductivity (ECa) of the soil profile are widely used in precision agriculture. A number of ECa sensors are commercially available, each with a unique response function (i.e., the relative contribution of soil at each depth to the integrated ECa reading). Our past research estimated depth to an argillic horizon (i.e., topsoil depth, TD) on claypan soils by fitting e...

Embodied conversational agents (ECA) are often designed to produce nonverbal behavior complement or enhance their verbal communication. One such form of is co-speech gesturing, which involves movements that the agent makes with its arms and hands paired Co-speech gestures for ECAs can be created using different generation methods, divided into rule-based data-driven processes, latter gaining tr...

The carbohydrate component of the enterobacterial common antigen (ECA) of Escherichia coli K-12 occurs primarily as a water-soluble cyclic polysaccharide located in the periplasm (ECA(CYC)) and as a phosphoglyceride-linked linear polysaccharide located on the cell surface (ECA(PG)). The polysaccharides of both forms are comprised of the amino sugars N-acetyl-D-glucosamine (GlcNAc), N-acetyl-D-m...

Passage through the digestive tract exposes Salmonella enterica to high concentrations of bile salts, powerful detergents that disrupt biological membranes. Mutations in the wecD or wecA gene, both of which are involved in the synthesis of enterobacterial common antigen (ECA), render S. enterica serovar Typhimurium sensitive to the bile salt deoxycholate. Competitive infectivity analysis of wec...

We describe how a functional database programming language can be extended with transactions and ECA-rules. Fundamental requirements of such an extension are that the declarative semantics of the language not be compromised, that the syntax of the language not be disrupted unduly, and that impedance mismatch problems be avoided. We deene what we mean by events, conditions and actions and descri...

During the chemotherapy of cancer, drug resistance is the first issue that chemotherapeutic drugs cannot be effectively used for the treatment of cancers repeatedly for a long term, and the main reason for this is that tumor cell detoxification is mediated by GSH (glutathione) catalyzed by GST (glutathione-S-transferase). In this study, a GST inhibitor, ethacrynic acid (ECA), was designed to be...