COnstruction and Real Estate NETwork (CORENET) is the flagship information technology (IT) project undertaken collaborativel y by various government agencies of Singapore to improve the productivity and performance of the construction and real estate sectors. It is a comprehensiv e network system consisting of a series of IT systems and services that allows seamless and expedient exchange of in...

heat stress is an important and serious threat at work and is a particular concern in outdoor occupational environments. this study aims at comparing heat stress and heat strain at different outdoor groups, examining the protective and adaptive actions which were done by workers and also provi services to them by government or employer to reduce heat load. this cross–sectional study was conduct...

This paper presents the design of an XML-based document flow management system, called XDFM (XML-based Document Flow Management), for increasing efficiency in processing documents in construction projects. X-DFM provides four services via Web Services: the document flow services, content management services, authorization services, and message services. The document flow services are designed b...

Integrated information systems for construction products and information will become an important catalyst of the global construction market. In the frame of the European Union's Technology Transfer Network such a one-stop-shop for the construction industry of Europe has been developed. During 1999, partners from the UK, Finland and Slovenia have been working on a pan-European virtual technolog...

The Ninja project seeks to enable the broad innovation of robust, scalable, distributed Internet services, and to permit the emerging class of extremely heterogeneous devices to seamlessly access these services. Our architecture consists of four basic elements: bases, which are powerful workstation cluster environments with a software platform that simpli®es scalable service construction; units...

Modern applications have become increasingly complex in both function and construction. Commerce websites use inferred user preferences to show relevant merchandise, banking websites implement complex transaction protocols, social networks need to safeguard sensitive user information, and mobile applications incorporate authentication, sharing, and payment mechanisms. Third-party services have ...

We are developing a novel service-based paradigm for dynamic component integration that facilitates the creation of Intelligent Services from COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) components, legacy components, and application frameworks by using techniques such as mediation and adaption or “wrapping”. This framework supports the construction of applications by dynamically integrating these services ...

A web service is modeled here as a finite state machine. A composition problem for web services is to decide if a given web service can be constructed from a given set of web services; where the construction is understood as a simulation of the specification by a fully asynchronous product of the given services. We show an EXPTIME-lower bound for this problem, thus matching the known upper boun...

The treatment of hemimaxillectomy patients include the construction of an interim obturator in the wound healing period. With the aim of simplifying this process, we describe construction of an obturator in a short single visit, in the dental chair with no need for impressions or for laboratory services. The obturator comprises: (i) the surgical obturator and (ii) a hollow light-cured resin bul...

We present a computational origami construction of Morley’s triangles and automated proof of correctness of the generalized Morley’s theorem in a streamlined process of solving-computing-proving. The whole process is realized by a computational origami system being developed by us. During the computational origami construction, geometric constraints in symbolic and numeric representation are ge...