The plating industry is one of the main toxic chemicals consumers, which uses various chemicals, including solvents, acids, bases, cleansers, sophisticated organic ingredients, and metal salts of cadmium, nickel and chromium. Due to the growing production of industrial waste in spite of actions related to these wastes’ management, no comprehensive pattern was introduced at different levels. Thi...

Knowledge intensive applications rely on the usage of knowledge artifacts, called patterns, to represent in a compact and semantically rich way huge quantity of heterogeneous raw data. Due to the specific characteristics of patterns, specific systems are required for pattern management, in order to model, store, retrieve, and manipulate patterns in an efficient and effective way. Several theore...

We have recently proposed a novel approach to distributed management for large-scale, dynamic networks. Our approach, which we call pattern-based management, is based on the methodical use of distributed control schemes. From an engineering point of view, our approach has two advantages. First, it allows for estimating the performance characteristics of management operations in the design phase...

Patterns are concise, but rich in semantic, representation of data. The approaches proposed in the literature and by commercial systems for pattern management usually deal with few types of knowledge artifacts and mainly concern pattern extraction issues. Little effort has been posed in designing an overall framework dedicated to the management of different types of patterns, possibly user-defi...

Learning Management Systems are sophisticated web-based applications that are being engineered today in increasing numbers by numerous institutions and companies that want to get involved in e-learning either for providing services to third parties, or for educating and training their own people. Even though the construction of such systems has been taking place for many years, they are still d...

This paper describes the Object with States content ontology design pattern that allows modeling the different states of an object and the restrictions on such object for its different states. It also presents an example of applying the pattern in a concrete use case in the ALM iStack ontology.

Learning Management Systems are sophisticated web-based applications that are being engineered today in increasing numbers by numerous institutions and companies that want to get involved in e-learning either for providing services to third parties, or for educating and training their own people. Even though the construction of such systems has been taking place for many years, they are still d...