In this study, grouted couplers were used to connect steel bars as an alternative approach the conventional bar lapping method. The aim is avoid congestion problems and reduce required quantity of in order achieve development length practice. Two categories couplers, i.e., short-threaded grout coupler long coupler, nine groups well one group deformed bars, tested under uniaxial tension. total, ...

In steel modular buildings, both inter- and intra-module connections can attract bending moment under the action of lateral loads. The is distributed in accordance with relative stiffness ratios among structural components hence should have sufficient flexural resistance to connecting members be classified as a rigid connection. Typically, (beam-column joints within module) are designed full-st...

In the effort of Governments worldwide to effectively transform manual into electronic services, semantic interoperability issues pose as a key challenge: system-to-system interaction asks for standardized data definitions, codification of existing unstructured information and a framework for managing governmental data in a unified way. Integrating and extending recent developments in Germany, ...

Earth Observation (EO) data plays a major role in supporting surveying compliance of several multilateral environmental treaties, such as UN-REDD+ (United Nations Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation). In this context, land cover maps of remote sensing data are the most commonly used EO products and development of adequate classification strategies is an ongoing research topic....

Prior to conducting business via the Web, business partners agree on the business processes they are able to support. In ebXML, the choreography of these business processes is described as an instance of the so-called business process specification schema (BPSS). For execution purposes the BPSS must be defined in the exact business context of the partnership. Reference models for B2B processes ...

In this paper we propose an organizational model for a multi-agent system developed in the framework of the multi-agent systems’ development platform MAST. This model is based on three major concepts: the roles which constrain the individual agent behaviors, the organizational links that regulate the social exchanges between these agents and the groups which capture the notion of agent aggregat...

The United Nation’s Center for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT) is a standardization body known for its work on UN/EDIFACT and ebXML. One of its most recent developments is UN/CEFACT’s Modeling Methodology (UMM). The UMM standard is used to model inter-organizational business processes in the B2B domain. With the increasing availability of electronic governmental services ...