Organizations have long had the need to record and protect the knowledge that is their intellectual capital. However, the primary burden for knowledge management has been borne by individuals. Technological changes make such informal methods inadequate and necessitate the development of knowledge management systems that alleviate the reliance on individuals. In this paper, we describe the Knowl...

The eXtensible Markup Language (XML) has been widely adopted for information exchange across various networks due to flexibility providing common syntax for messaging systems. Excessive use of XML as a communication medium created an aligned interest in the level of security provided for those XML-Based systems. Many security concerns have been tackled by the World Wide Consortium (W3C) creatin...

Building maintenance management involves decision-making under multiple objectives and uncertainty, in addition to budgetary constraints. This paper presents the development of a multiobjective and stochastic optimization system for maintenance management of roofing systems that integrates stochastic condition assessment and performance prediction models with a multiobjective optimization appro...

2.4 Principal Investigators: Professor David Auslander, Department of Mechanical Engineering, U.C. Berkeley (UCB) Professor David Culler, Department of Electrical Engineering, U.C. Berkeley (UCB) Professor Paul K. Wright, Director, Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and the Department of Mechanical Engineering, U.C. Berkeley (UCB) Dr. Yan Lu, Siemens ...

The concept of an “intelligent building” received significant attention from academic, industry and standard development organizations when technically termed a building management system (BMS). Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and their recent development enhanced monitoring and control applications for the building’s areas. This paper surveys and analyzes advantages of the main current and eme...

Until lately, transportation risk management has mostly dealt with natural or man-made accidental disasters. The September 11th tragedy has made transportation operators, as well as shippers and public authorities, aware of a new type of risk, man-made and intentional. Securing global transportation networks has become an important concern for governments, practitioners and academics. In the cu...

the vast amount of information on the World Wide Web is created and published by many different types of providers. Unlike books and journals, most of this information is not subject to editing or peer review by experts. This lack of quality control and the explosion of web sites make the task of finding quality information on the web especially critical. Meanwhile new facilities for producing ...