Integration of process operations involves the coordinated management of operational tasks in a process plant. In the context of chemical process plants, these tasks can be categorised as data acquisition, regulatory control, data reconciliation, process monitoring, fault diagnosis, supervisory control, scheduling and planning. While each of these tasks is responsible for a particular function,...

Collaboration in the information seeking and retrieval environment is common, particularly when the search task is complex and exploratory. Multiple factors such as contextual features and task type can affect users’ query behavior. This paper presents a study investigating the effects of collaboration and task types on users’ query behavior. The study involves two conditions: collaborative sea...

{ Taskkow-oriented programming merges concepts from structured programming, hardware description, and markup languages. A markup language such as XML supports a well-deened schema that can capture the decomposition of a program into a hierarchy of tasks. A hardware description language such as VHDL relies on well-deened and explicit input/output port deenitions to create, at any level of hierar...

It is almost impossible to try to represent and analyze clinical data in the absence of a temporal dimension. The temporal aspect is especially important when automated decision support is used for patient care over substantial periods. This paper emphasizes the crucial role that tasks of temporal reasoning and temporal maintenance play in modern medical information and decision support systems...

In this paper, we consider a set of real-time periodic tasks where some tasks are preferably executed as soon as possible (ASAP) and others as late as possible (ALAP) while still meeting their deadlines. After introducing the idea of preference-oriented (PO) execution, we formally define the concept of PO-optimality. For fully-loaded systems (with 100% utilization), we first propose a PO-optima...

It is almost impossible to try to represent and analyze clinical data in the absence of a temporal dimension. The temporal aspect is especially important when automated decision support is used for patient care over substantial periods. This paper emphasizes the crucial role that tasks of temporal reasoning and temporal maintenance play in modern medical information and decision support systems...

Data orientation is a common design principle in distributed data management systems. In contrast to process-oriented or transaction-oriented system designs, dataoriented architectures are based on data locality and function shipping. The tight coupling of data and processing thereon is implemented in different systems in a variety of application scenarios such as data analysis, database-as-a-s...

Data Intensive Tasks are the tasks whose primary entities are purely data oriented. All the Data Intensive Applications are user defined, and I/O bound. The word count application is considered as a data intensive application. This paper gives a brief analysis of Word Count Program using Dynamic Voltage & Frequency Scaling Governors.

We identify three foundational tasks for clients interacting with Web services, and study how to realise these tasks using major paradigms (WS-*, Semantic Web Services, RESTful APIs and Linked APIs). We identify relative merits of each approach and point out how the combination of resource-oriented services with Linked Data can enable an interoperable ecosystem of Web services.

This study investigates the benefits of e-collaborative and collaborative writing tasks on the perception of Iranian EFL learners in a process-oriented approach. The study involved 74 intermediate Iranian EFL students at Islamic Azad University, Isfahan Branch. They were divided into three groups by random assignment as two experimental groups and one control group. The experimental groups were...