To gain a leading edge in today’s competitive environment, higher education enterprises are implementing and obtaining International Standard Organisation (ISO) 9001:2000 certification for their quality management system (QMS). In this paper, the use of ARIS (Architecture of Integrated Information Systems) methodology to assist in process understanding when implementing QMS is discussed. Introd...

The design and implementation of cascade reactions is a challenging facet of organic chemistry, yet one that can impart striking novelty, elegance, and efficiency to synthetic strategies. The application of cascade reactions to natural products synthesis represents a particularly demanding task, but the results can be both stunning and instructive. This Review highlights selected examples of ca...

Prominent logics, including quantified multimodal logics, can be elegantly embedded in simple type theory (classical higher-order logic). Furthermore, off-the-shelf reasoning systems for simple type type theory exist that can be uniformly employed for reasoning within and about embedded logics. In this paper we focus on reasoning about modal logics and exploit our framework for the automated ve...

In many practical situations the outputs of a plant are not measured exactly, but are corrupted by quantization errors. Often the effect of the quantization error is neglected in the control design phase, which can lead to undesirable effects like limit cycles and even chaotic behavior once the controller has been implemented. In this paper we present a method based on 11 optimal control that m...

Goal programming (GP) is an important class of multi-criteria decision models widely used to analyze and solve applied problems involving conflicting objectives. Originally introduced in the 1950s by Charnes et al. (1955) the popularity and applications of GP has increased immensely due to the mathematical simplicity and modeling elegance. Over the recent decades algorithmic developments and co...

Ever since 2-party Diffie-Hellman exchange was first proposed in 1976, there have been efforts to extend its simplicity and elegance to a group setting. Notable solutions have been proposed by michael Steiner Gene Tsudik Waidner(in 1996) and Recently G.P.Biswas was proposed a contributory group key agreement protocol for generation of multiparty key and compared with other protocol and satisfac...

To the student, perhaps the most important thing about this book is that it so clearly demonstrates the logical development of the major concepts and facts by experiment, hypothesis, and experiment. Not all aspects of respiration are included, but the basis is established for understanding the others. The manner of expression in this book is far superior to that found in most texts or scientifi...

A formidable array of practical problems must be solved at laboratory level before tolerance induction in organ transplantation can be considered a realistic clinical possibility. I believe it is too early for even tentative human experimentation in this field. However, the work of the last decade has shown unequivocally that even adult animals can readily be rendered tolerant of even exceeding...

Given the result of Herman, we provide a new elementary proof of the fact that the group of diffeomorphisms is a perfect and hence simple group. Moreover, we show that every diffeomorphism can be represented as a product of commutators f = [g1, h1] · · · [gm, hm] where the factors gi and hi can be chosen to depend smoothly on f . The elegance of our approach is due to the fact that we prove smo...

Distributed systems find applications in various fields such as robotics, network security etc. In the field of robotics, we can consider a team of robots working towards a common goal to be a distributed system. A team of robots mapping an area can potentially combine their information to explore a given map more efficiently than a single robot alone. We describe a simple, yet effective approa...