DUKE ENERGY-CAROLINAS HAS EMBARKED ON A MAJOR INITIATIVE TO IMPROVE THE VISIBILITY AND CONTROL OF ITS DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM. Known as the Remote Operation and Access to the Distribution System (ROADS) project, this initiative will provide Duke’s power-delivery organization with remote access to intelligent electronic devices (IEDs) within distribution substations and out on the feeders they serve...

of these user tasks in actual usage; this, in itself, should be a call for libraries to ask more of their library management systems and, possibly, of their own systems staff, to expose more useful data to the patron. Chapter 6 is specifically about RDA authority records, and how they are created according to the principles of FRAD. After a brief introduction to RDA and how it relates to FRAD, ...

The Controls Middleware (CMW) project was launched over ten years ago. Its main goal was to unify middleware solutions used to operate CERN accelerators. An important part of the project, the equipment access library RDA, was based on CORBA, an unquestionable standard at the time. RDA became an operational and critical part of the infrastructure, yet the demanding run-time environment revealed ...

We describe the use of decision-theory to optimize the value of computation under uncertain and varying resource limitations. The research is motivated by the pursuit of formal models of rational decision making for computational agents, centering on the explicit consideration of preferences and resource availability. We focus here on the importance of identifying the multiattribute structure o...