The article deals with the classification of alternative water resources in terms of potential risks which is the prerequisite for incorporating these water resources to the emergency plans. The classification is based on the quantification of risks resulting from possible damage, disruption or total destruction of water resource caused by natural and anthropogenic hazards, assessment of water ...

■ Abstract Sociologists have turned to collective identity to fill gaps in resource mobilization and political process accounts of the emergence, trajectories, and impacts of social movements. Collective identity has been treated as an alternative to structurally given interests in accounting for the claims on behalf of which people mobilize, an alternative to selective incentives in understand...

This article proposes an approach to the generation of guided tours over indexed information resources on user demand. It represents an alternative to more sophisticated hyperdocument generation techniques, in cases where very few is known about resource contents. The information space is modelled as a hypergraph of resource and resource descriptors. A spanning tree of descriptors is extracted ...

This paper sets out to find an alternative to Wickens’ cube in order to better visually represent the different resource pools recruited by complex language processing tasks. The model’s two principal shortcomings, i.e. its inability to visually account for the notion of general resources and the difficulty to visually represent the tasks and their structural proximity, are addressed and compen...

This paper studies the effect of rerouting for augmenting aggregate based resource allocation in the trade-off between overhead and utilization. Aggregation is a common approach used to address the scalability issue in resource allocation. However, resources committed in bulk may be under utilized while other resource requests are being turned down for lack of resources in some shared links. Th...

Efficient satellite resource management and allocation techniques aim at providing reliable real-time service, taking into consideration the scarcity of resources and the large number of handovers. This paper presents algorithms and modules for accurate satellite and beam handover prediction at the SBS. The call is assigned to that path which provides the highest preference factor. Several alte...

The Resource Description Framework and the Resource Description Framework Schema Specification are supposed to be the foundations of the Semantic Web, in that all other Semantic Web languages are to be layered on top of them. It turns out that such a layering cannot be achieved in a straightforward way. This paper describes the problem with the straightforward layering and lays out several alte...

In a recent paper Wei, Liu and Tsai present an ‘‘advanced TOC method for project scheduling under resource constraints’’. In this note we demonstrate that the authors (a) largely ignore the state of the art in resource-constrained project scheduling, (b) do not offer a correct application of the critical chain scheduling concepts, and (c) describe an alternative scheduling approach that is not ...

This document reexamined the URI's identity issue and the debate regarding the nature of "information resource". By making emphasis on the abstract nature of resource and the role of URI as an interface to the web, this article presented an alternative viewpoint about the architecture of the web that would allow us to objectively and consistently treat all kinds of resources. Note, any comments...

The sustainability of primary resources depends on recycling, resource efficiency and the search for alternative materials [...]