This paper describes the central features of a system designed for the management of large amounts of application specific knowledge. The Knowledge Manager(KM-I) employs distinct software and hardware processors to implement: 6 A file of general knowledge and an associated reasoning engine 6 A file of specific knowledge and an associated searching engine We present our reasons for believing why...

A search engine was designed and implemented to allow campus faculty and staff to access the Campus Collection of the University Of Maine Museum Of Art. The Campus Collection refers to the subset of the Museum art collection that is available for display on the University of Maine Campus. University faculty and staff can request items from the Campus Collection. With the search engine, users ca...

the present study analizes a trigeneration system based on an internal combustion engine and a steam ejector refrigeration system from an energy point of view.

The aim of the project was to create a computer program--expert system, which will support a doctor when a management for patients with acute coronary syndrome needs to be chosen. The expert system consists of four modules: knowledge base, previous cases database, inference engine and explanation module. Knowledge base was created with support of clinical experts, based on current management st...

Reusable development can promote the productivity of large workflow systems development. However it has not precluded developers from designing workflow system tailoring to users’ specific needs, though workflow management coalition standardized the five kinds of abstract interfaces of workflow enactment service in workflow reference model. Specific business process characteristics are still su...

Trust can be used to measure our confidence that a secure system behaves as expected. We had previously proposed a vector model of trust [1]. In this work we address the problem of trust management using the vector model. We develop a new trust management engine which we call VTrust (from Vector Trust). The trust management engine stores and manages current as well as historical information abo...

NASA and the U.S. Department of Defense are conducting programs which support the future vision of “intelligent” aircraft engines for enhancing the affordability, performance, operability, safety, and reliability of aircraft propulsion systems. Intelligent engines will have advanced control and health management capabilities enabling these engines to be self-diagnostic, self-prognostic, and ada...

This paper describes the development of Tata Nano Engine Management System and the related electrical and electronics architecture. The design criteria for the electrical and electronics architecture are discussed in detail in the body of the paper. When the Nano project was first conceived, the existing low cost car in India was not affordable by common people. The Nano project was targeted fo...

This paper describes the ongoing project to develop a knowledge-engine architecture that is being specified and developed by a Portuguese software development company called Shortcut. The primary goal of this work is create an architecture suitable for use, initially, in a Competence Management System (CMS) but also scalable for later use in more generic forms of Knowledge Management Systems (K...