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For the modelling of the flood routing in the lower reaches of the Freiberger Mulde river and its tributaries the one-dimensional hydrodynamic modelling system HECRAS has been applied. Furthermore, this model was used to generate a database to train multilayer feedforward networks. To guarantee numerical stability for the hydrodynamic modelling of some 60 km of streamcourse an adequate resoluti...

Over the past years, a number of increasingly expressive languages for modelling constraint and optimisation problems have evolved. In developing a strategy to ease the complexity of building models for constraint and optimisation problems, we have asked ourselves whether, for modelling purposes, it is really necessary to introduce more new languages and notations. We have analyzed several emer...

Recent research has shown that mining and modelling search tasks helps improve the performance of search personalisation. Some approaches have been proposed to model a search task using topics discussed in relevant documents, where the topics are usually obtained from human-generated online ontology such as Open Directory Project. A limitation of these approaches is that many documents may not ...

This report describes the development and use of an online teaching tool giving students exercises in logical modelling, or formalisation as it is called in the older literature. The original version of the site, ‘Logic for Fun’, dates from 2001, though it was little used except by small groups of students at the Australian National University. It is currently in the process of being replaced b...

This paper presents an e-engineering contracting system developed for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) by the EU funded e-HUBs project (“e-Engineering enabled by Holonomic and Universal Broker Services”, IST-2001-34031). As a dedicated service within the Business to Business (B2B) arena, the engineering e-Hub is designed to facilitate the outsourcing of engineering services. The projec...

Note-taking activity was introduced into two types of university courses, a blended learning course and a fully online course, and causal relationships between student’s characteristics such as notetaking behaviour and learning performance were analysed. The objective was to improve learning activities in the online learning environment. Metrics such as personality, information literacy and not...

Sydney Water Corporation has deployed on-line instruments in a three year study of trade waste sites in wastewater networks. The purpose of this study was to ascertain whether target substances could be isolated from the background chemical matrix via online measurements, including online UV-Vis spectroscopy. Several substances were identified and calibrations developed from the spectral data t...

This research argues that information technology (IT) capabilities can be classified in macroand micro-IT capabilities. We propose that IT infrastructure capability (a macro-IT capability) enables the development of social media and e-business technology capabilities (two micro-IT capabilities) to online engage customers and improve the firm’s customer service performance. We test the proposed ...

despite increased availability of online promotional tools for prescription drug marketers, evidence on online prescription drug promotion is far from settled or conclusive. we highlight ways in which online prescription drug promotion is similar to conventional broadcast and print advertising and ways in which it differs. we also highlight five key areas for future research: branded drug websi...