Traditionally, each smart grid technology deployed on the distribution network is treated as a stand-alone application with dedicated equipment, communication capabilities, data management and visualisation systems established. Leveraging the different capabilities of various technologies through integrated communication capabilities, data acquisition and data presentation infrastructure could ...

Background and Objectives: Knowledge Management (KM) has emerged as a pathway towards competitive advantage in current complex industrial environment. The aim of the present study was to explore the relationship between KM effectiveness and various organizational factors including social interactions (trust, communication and coordination), infrastructure factors (structure, information technol...

Received: 15 February 2008 Revised: 24 November 2008 2nd Revision: 16 November 2009 3rd Revision: 10 December 2009 Accepted: 16 December 2009 Abstract This study investigates experts’ assessments of the pertinent factors affecting e-business in developing countries from a theory-based national infrastructure perspective. We surveyed experts (business people, academicians, and officials of gover...

Knowledge-based resources are critical in service sectors for facing the challenges of dynamic markets and helping organizations manage changes in consumer preference. Knowledge application is needed to improve the business process in order to attain superior market-related performance because there is the unperfected imitation coming from causal ambiguity. However, there is a lack of empirical...

A 2D finite-differences time-domain full-wave code is used to simulate the measurements of plasma filaments with fixed frequency O-mode reflectometry. The plasma is modeled by a linear slab plasma plus a Gaussian perturbation propagating in a direction that can vary from poloidal to radial. The plasma background density gradient is chosen in agreement with the steep edge transport barrier of H-...

Software systems must adapt their behavior in response to changes in the environment or in the requirements they are supposed to meet. Despite adaptation capabilities could be modeled with great detail at design time, anticipating all possible adaptations is not always feasible. To address this problem the requirements model of the system, which also includes the adaptation capabilities, is con...

This paper provides a review of municipal infrastructure asset management systems currently available, and discusses the evaluation process of a number of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software systems. The key features, capabilities, and limitations of the evaluated software are presented. The main objective of the paper is to provide infrastructure asset managers with an objective review of...