Nowadays, circa 10% of 7-11 olds turn out to be poor comprehenders: they demonstrate text comprehension difficulties, related to inference making, despite proficiency in low-level cognitive skills like word reading. To improve the reading comprehension of these children, TERENCE, a technology enhanced learning project, aims at stimulating inference-making about stories. In order to design and d...

As has been shown in S. Forrest's seminal work [1], there are Unix processes whose normal behavior can be modeled by a set of characteristic patterns, a pattern being a subsequence of system calls that a process can generate. Well-suited processes are network services such as ftpd or sendmail. Intrusion-detection systems that make use of this observation first need to build the table of charact...

In this paper we present the first part of a project of flexible manufacturing process optimisation in a Slovenian furniture company. In this part we analysed the current state of the manufacturing system by constructing a discrete event simulation model that reflects the manufacturing processes. As the manufacturing process involves about 30,000 subprocesses it is not feasible to manually cons...

In the proposal, a construction project memory process based on the semantic annotation is presented. A project Memory concerns the representation and the identification of the experience acquired during projects realization. The main feature of this approach is that the semantic annotation is used to build a continuous semantic design rationale process. We propose in this paper, a semantic tra...

© Copyright ChE Division of ASEE 2003 Robert Rice received his BS from Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 2000 and is currently working toward his PhD in chemical engineering at the University of Connecticut under the direction of Doug Cooper. His research involves multivariable model predictive control of unstable processes. Danielle Dougherty received a BS from Widener University (1997) and a ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discover a three-step process for building contextual ambidexterity into inter-organizational IT-enabled service processes through developmental interventions. Design/methodology/approach – A longitudinal action research project was conducted. The empirical study consisted of three consecutive developmental interventions to support the collaborative dev...

The need for better integration and higher coordination in order to deliver the envisaged building requirements should avoid problematic situations in which the various professionals are not well informed about the building plans. This situation calls for more cooperative and interactive work practices e.g. at the interface between planning and production. Beside organisational gaps there are a...

Traditional servers account for more than 1.5% of the US electricity use though spend their lives largely underutilized or idle. Because a large portion of power in a data center is due directly or indirectly to servers, power savings in a data center environment can be achieved simply by using lower power hardware in place of these traditional servers. However, deciding which hardware to use i...

(2009) Building an ontology and process architecture for engineering asset management.

Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) professionals typically generate and analyze very few design alternatives during the conceptual stage of a project. One primary cause is limitations in the processes and software tools used by the AEC industry. The aerospace industry has overcome similar limitations by using Process Integration and Design Optimization (PIDO) software to support ...