Development and application of a software product for aquaculture facility design and management planning are described (AquaFarm, Oregon State University©). AquaFarm provides: (1) simulation of physical, chemical, and biological unit processes; (2) simulation of facility and fish culture management; (3) compilation of facility resource and enterprise budgets; and (4) a graphical user interface...

The World Wide Web consortium has developed an Extensible Markup Language (XML) to support the building of better information management infrastructures. The scientific computing community realizing the benefits of XML has designed markup languages for scientific data. In this paper, we propose a XML based scientific data management facility, XDMF. The project is motivated by the fact that even...

The SAFARI-1 reactor is an ageing Material Testing Reactor (MTR) in operation since 1965. It originally operated exclusively as a nuclear research facility but as of the 1990’s its commercial utilization increased significantly to the extent that its continued operation represents a key component of the future commercial endeavors of the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (NECSA). Consequ...

Maintenance Prevention (MP) is an important concept for ensuring reliability and maintainability of manufacturing facilities by providing various information collected during actual operations (MP information) to their design phase. However, in many cases, information collected in the shop floor is not detailed and/or accurate enough to make use of it in the design phase. In this paper, we prop...

this paper presents a design procedure for an adaptive power management control strategy based on a driving cycle recognition algorithm. the design goal of the control strategy is to minimize fuel consumption and engine-out nox, hc and co emissions on a set of diversified driving schedules. seven facility-specific drive cycles are considered to represent different driving scenarios. for each fa...

In this study, a dynamic inexact waste management (DIWM) model is developed for identifying optimal waste-flow-allocation and facility-capacity-expansion strategies under uncertainty and is based on an inexact scenario-based probabilistic programming (ISPP) approach. The DIWM model can handle uncertainties presented as interval values and probability distributions, and it can support assessing ...

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This paper presents OLS2OWL, an ontology repository manager plug-in developed for Protégé 4.0. The tool (1) facilitates search and retrieval over collections of ontologies, (2) supports comparison across terms from different ontologies by providing integrative views; the latter supports weaving and maintaining a dense network of semantic relationships between multiple ontologies, and (3) facili...