Integrated Pest Management (IPM) has had a varied history, with different definitions. It has been implemented under an array of different connotations (Lewis et al., 1997). The term was earlier used as ‘‘integrated control’’ by Bartlett (Bartlett, 1956) and was further elaborated on by Stern and co-workers (Stern et al., 1959). In reference to the concept of integrating the use of bio‐ logical...

Management scripts are being used as the major means to realize the powerful concept of management by delegation. Many script delegation frameworks are proposed and experimented with for various network management standards, notably, the SNMP, OSI, and CORBA. More proposals and research are underway. The major problem with these scripting frameworks is that most of these frameworks are, in a se...

---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract — The aim of my paper is to automate the process of whole assembly plants by contributing for speeding up the production, qualitative and costefficient units. Interfacing IPMS with PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) the automobile manufacturing pl...

As integrated circuit fabrication processes continue to increase in complexity, it has been determined that data collection, retention, and retrieval rates will continue to increase at an alarming rate. At future technology nodes, the time required to source manufacturing problems must at least remain constant to maintain anticipated productivity. Strategies and software methods for integrated ...

Cottonball, caused by the fungus Monilinia oxycocci, is an economically important disease on many cranberry marshes in Wisconsin. Cottonball has also been described in the Pacific Northwest and southeastern Canada, but losses in these areas have generally been minor. For reasons that are not known, cottonball has increased in importance in Wisconsin over the past 30 years. In recent years, abou...

This paper focuses on business-to-business contractual relationship in the context of second-generation contract management solutions. In particular, it describes the contract framework developed at HPLabs Bristol, UK. The presented solution is based on the concept of electronic contract, which represents a machine interpretable model for contracts. The contract framework has been designed with...

Results Based Management (RBM) can essentially be termed as a contemporary management philosophy and approach that focuses on the appropriate and timely achievement of relevant goals and objectives through strategic planning, systematic implementation and resource usage, performance monitoring, measurement and reporting as well as systematic utilisation of performance information to improve pol...

In this paper we present the inception of Integrated Knowledge Management (IKM). Knowledge management is entering its new stage, after the delays of its “definitionless”, IT-based period, when knowledge got confused with information, losing thus two decades of fruitful development. Although there now is a significant information overload, killing productivity, creativity and innovation, there c...

A variety of technologies have been developed to index and manage information contained within unstructured documents and information sources. Although often originally developed for textual data many of these information management tools have been applied successfully to imperfectly indexed multimedia data. Ongoing progress in all these technologies is creating opportunities to develop more so...