this paper presents a new bridge management system (j-bms). it is integrated with a concrete bridge rating expert system that can be used to evaluate the serviceability of existing concrete bridges. the proposed j-bms not only evaluates the performance of bridges, but also offers a rehabilitation strategy based on a combination of maintenance cost minimization and quality maximization. in this ...

A practical Bridge Management System has been developed by the author, which is referred to as the Japanese Bridge Management System (J-BMS) for existing concrete bridges. This paper introduces a newly developed bridge management system for the prestressed concrete (PC) bridges (J-BMS PC version) which is integrated with the PC bridge rating expert system (PC-BREX). The proposed system is able ...

water crisis resource management originates from limited resources has made it essential to study the prioritization of traditional and modern methods of sustainable water resource management. the objective of such studies is to provide a list of prioritized traditional and modern methods of sustainable water resource management. this research aims to study rainwater harvesting method and qanat...

modern business organizations have appreciated the significance of having competitive advantage through the delivery of continuous improvement towards the customers, and being knowledge-oriented. indisputably, knowledge management (km) plays a key role in the success of customer relationship management (crm). in this regard, customer knowledge management (ckm) is a newly developed concept that ...

Singleton [1] is a creational pattern with well-defined semantics ensuring that the instance is always created prior to use. This effectively solves the problem of initialization order when a number of interrelated objects are involved. But the pattern’s destruction semantics is inadequate for several singletons with complex dependencies among them. A Destruction-Managed Singleton complements t...

Intelligent building mainly utilizes the energy instruments to conduct relative effective management, which helps rapidly improve the comfort of usage, prolong the lifetime, improve the efficiency and reduce the energy consumption as possible as it could. Its situation and management will have direct effects on building operation. Improving the completion of management and using advanced scient...