One of the main challenges in building enterprise applications has been to balance between built-in functionality and domain/scenario-specific customization. The lack of formal ways to extract, distill and standardize the embedded domain knowledge has been a barrier to effective and efficient customization. Ontology may provide, as many would hope, the much needed methodology and standard to ac...

Offloading has emerged as a promising idea to allow handheld devices to access intensive applications without performance or energy costs. This could be particularly useful for enterprises seeking to run line-ofbusiness applications on handhelds. However, we must address two practical roadblocks in order to make offloading amenable for enterprises: (i) ensuring data privacy and the use of trust...

With the advent of Roentgen methods for surveying the bony pelvis have come many new concepts of the architecture of the female pelvis and its relation to the problems of labor. During the last half dozen years the quest for this newer knowledge has received an extraordinary impetus, obviously due to the excellent results in applying these new truths to practical obstetrics. Methods for measuri...

In 2007, the European Commission (EC) commissioned a group of experts to undertake the revision of Report RP91 'Criteria for Acceptability of Radiological (including Radiotherapy) and Nuclear Medicine Installations' written in 1997. The revised draft report was submitted to the EC in 2010, which issued it for public consultation. The EC commissioned the same group of experts to consider the com...

Evolutionary principles are now routinely incorporated into medicine and agriculture. Examples include the design of treatments that slow the evolution of resistance by weeds, pests, and pathogens, and the design of breeding programs that maximize crop yield or quality. Evolutionary principles are also increasingly incorporated into conservation biology, natural resource management, and environ...

This paper examines the interesting problem of designing seating plans for large events such as weddings and gala dinners where, amongst other things, the aim is to construct solutions where guests are sat on the same tables as friends and family but, perhaps more importantly, are kept away from those they dislike. This problem is seen to be NP-complete from a number of different perspectives. ...

This paper highlights some practical techniques for engineering design application development, which are critical to produce maintainable software design. The practices introduced in the paper are the result of long experience working with software development for engineering design applications. They have been recently employed and enhanced during the reconstruction of a well-known software f...

Image storage and retrieval are currently the focus of much research, yet an understanding of such basic issues as thh relationships between text and image, the effects of human processing of images, and the impact that these could have on systems design remains hazy. Many of those concerned with image processing and recognition rely on technological advances in such areas as machine vision to ...

During the last ten years a lot of concepts have emerged from software engineering. Most of them try to formalize and organize software engineering knowledge at a higher level of abstraction, giving code a secondary role. Model Driven Architecture (MDA), putting the concept of the model on the critical path of software development, is about to change this situation, turning the role of models f...