ALTEX 33(2), 2016 185 – Prof. Njenga Munene, DVC Administration and Finance Egerton – Prof. John Mwangi, DVC Research & Extension – Prof. Charles Muleke, Dean, Faculty of Veterinary Science and Medicine – Dr Ashour K. Khalifa, Ministry of Interior, Equine Department of Police General Security, Tripoli, Libya – Dr Rodi O. Ojoo, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Nairobi – Dr Kirui Gil...

The necessity of interoperability among Petri net tools has led to the development of the PNML (Petri Net Markup Language) standard. By adopting PNML, tools mainly concentrated on modeling activities should generate PNML files to be analyzed by analysis-specific Petri net tools. In this context, we propose an extension to the PNML based on MOF (Meta Object Facility). The implementation of the M...

We presents major extension of the widely used TORQUE Resource Manager. Unlike common resource managers that use queuing approach, our solution uses planning (job schedule construction) and schedule optimization in order to achieve better predictability, performance and fairness with respect to common queue-based approaches. Moreover, additional important features are supported, e.g., so called...

This paper studies issues concerning the application of cooperative information agents to information handling in automation systems. The suggested approach utilizes agent-based layer as an extension to ordinary automation system, thus offering new functions without the need of replacing the existing automation system. The proposed architecture uses agent-based cooperation methods to enable fle...

Foresrry models often ignore spatial relationships between forest srands. This paper isolates the effects of stand interactions in muitlpie-use forestry through a straightforward extension of the single-stand model. Effects of stand interactions decompose into wealth and substitution effects and may cause time-varying patterns of resource use for a forest stand. Simulations illustrate that a st...