The importance of the maintenance function has increased because of its role in keeping and improving system availability and safety, as well as product quality. To support this role, the development of the communication and information technologies has allowed the emergence of the concept of e-maintenance. Within the era of e-manufacturing and e-business, e-maintenance provides the opportunity...

Enrique Perez Virtual Desk, Avenida de Brasil 17 5-a/b 28020 Madrid E-mail: [email protected] SPAIN Abstract: The paper presents the framework and the main tools for software maintenance (i.e creation and management of versions), developed during the IST project called MECASP (Maintenance and improvement of component-based applications diffused in ASP mode). The specific features and genera...

Difficult airway management and maintenance of oxygenation remain the two most challenging tasks for anesthetists, while also being controversial items in terms of clinically based-evidence to support relevant guidelines in the literature. Nevertheless, different expert groups and scientific societies from several countries have published guidelines dedicated to the management of difficult airw...

Data warehousing is the leading and most reliable technology used today by companies for planning, forecasting, and management A lot has been done in this field regarding design and development of data warehouses and a lot still needs to be done but one area which needs special attention from research community is data warehouse maintenance. A major reason for data warehouse project failures is...

This paper is the first part of a two-part paper that documents a detailed survey of the research carried out on consistency and latency in distributed interactive applications (DIAs) in recent decades. Part I reviews the terminology associated with DIAs and offers definitions for consistency and latency. Related issues such as jitter and fidelity are also discussed. Furthermore, the various co...

Information management is one of the most significant issues in nowadays data centers. Selection of appropriate software, security mechanisms and effective energy consumption management together with caring for the environment enforces a profound analysis of the considered system. Besides these factors, financial analysis of data center maintenance is another important aspect that needs to be c...