The progress of industrialization is accompanied with environmental degradation and developing countries are facing the dilemma between economic growth and environmental protection currently. According to EKC theory, environmental quality will get improved when income exceeds a threshold value. While during this process, different effects work, among which the technological advance play an impo...

Holonic manufacturing is a concept of considerable promise as it can provide the flexibility and responsiveness required by virtual enterprises. However, if this promise is to be realised, two key issues need to be addressed. First, migration strategies must be developed to enable existing manufacturing systems using conventional controller technology to progressively incorporate holonic manufa...

Executive Summary Tomorrow's quality of life is determined by today's innovation power. Therefore, greater insight into innovation processes and how they can be better facilitated is of major strategic value to governments, business* organizations and knowledge institutes. Changes in society today are being driven by both revolutionary scientific and technological discoveries, and the developme...

We describe ongoing work on the modelling, verification, and implementation of Integrated Care Pathways (ICPs) for HIV patients in Scotland. Healthcare knowledge, including existing policies, guidelines, and best practices, is encoded in formal, process-based, workflow models. This is achieved through the use of our logic-based, modelling framework WorkflowFM, which provides high levels of rigo...

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Due to recycling of metals, most foundries have considered themselves as a part of the green technology before the term “green’’ was even coined. But, actually, the foundry industry handles large quantities of processed waste materials and has the potential to emit a large quantity of carbon dioxide and other pollution in atmosphere. This immense pressure not only forcing foundry industries to ...

Within databases employed in various commercial sectors, anomalies continue to persist and hinder the overall integrity of data. Typically, Duplicate, Wrong andMissed observations of spatial-temporal data causes the user to be not able to accurately utilise recorded information. In literature, different methods have been mentioned to clean data which fall into the category of either determinist...

Some results of an on-going research on Holonic Manufacturing Systems are presented. This field refers a collection of methods and techniques seeking to enhance the performance of the manufacturing systems control. The considered approach is derived from a holonic reference model, namely PROSA architecture. Certain additional elements are proposed for the respective method, especially regarding...

Cooperative Management has appeared as a promising paradigm on which Network and System Management (NSM) solutions should be partially or entirely based. This paper proposes a conceptual framework to obtain, from any CIM schemas, NSM frame-based ontologies which can then be used in cooperative management solutions.

An analysis of large transverse momentum data is carried out using local exponents which characterize the dependence of the cross sections on pT and E = (missing mass)2/s. The results of this effective-power analysis allow any model to be critically compared to the data in a simple but meaningful way. Selected models are examined. A survey of the features of the Constituent Interchange Model is...