We introduce a Semantic Web-based competence manager system called Competence Manager, which allows managing employee competencies and other relevant resources about a set of topics. The Competence Manager provides flexible operations for both querying the knowledge base, and managing the ontologies. The usage scenarios of the Competence Manager range from intra-organization use to interoperabi...

The president of the Blue Cross Association of America thinks, among other things, that the National Health Service should have 'hospital managers' and an interrelation of its 'private' and 'public' sectors. A review of his contribution to a book suggesting radical remedies.

In this paper, we present details about the SIMATIC Knowledge Manager (SKM), a Textual CBR system that uses existing documents, such as FAQs and other useroriented documentation, and finds the most relevant documents for a given problem description. The major difference of the SKM compared to standard Information Retrieval tools and WWW search engines is that knowledge about the application dom...

1. Introduction The Personal Data Manager (PDM) is a simple database system for personal computers. PDM is intended to provide personal information management capabilities for the large class of personal computer users who are not computer experts, and who have no programming experience. PDM simply attempts to make a personal computer serve as an extension of its user's memory. PDM is based on ...

This paper explains the rule subsystem that is being implemented in the POSTGRES DBMS. It is novel in sev eral ways. First, it gives to users the capability of defining rules as well as data to a DBMS. Moreover, depending on the scope of each rule defined, optimization is handled differently. This leads to good performance both in the case that there are many rules each of small scope and a few...

Storage Resource Managers (SRMs) are middleware components whose function is to provide dynamic space allocation and file management on shared storage components on the Grid[1,2]. SRMs support protocol negotiation and reliable replication mechanism. The SRM standard supports independent SRM implementations, allowing for a uniform access to heterogeneous storage elements. SRMs allow site-specifi...

An environment is a set of name-value bindings, maintained for a particular user, tha t are provided to a process at runtime. This can provide a great deal of flexibility in tai loring the behavior of programs to a particular user's preferences. It can also serve as a simple me ans of interprocess communication. To be useful, however, the environment must take into ac count the natural structur...

The aim of this subtask has been to develop a manager for structured multiblock grids. The focus of the development has been on the block topology, of which the manager should have full control. The manager should also be easy to expand, in particular with new ways to describe the geometry of blocks in the grid. Typically grid generation involves a good deal of trial and error. Consequently the...

Liaison is a workflow management model that supports complex workflows and human resources management. Liaison System is the implementation of the Liaison Model. This paper discusses the architecture of the Liaison Workflow Engine, the core of the Liaison Workflow Management System, which is responsible for controlling workflows. Besides managing and controlling complex workflows and human reso...

Friendliness on user interfaces has been mostly forgot in mobile agent research. In fact the multitude of problems that have to be solved have left this more “simple” piece of the package out of target. However, the success of technology comes also from this important layer in the product development. This paper describes an application that integrates monitoring data from the mobile agents env...