General Report

General Chair's Report

The 18th IEEE International Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE 2009) is held at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, on June 29-30 and July 1, 2009 in the Bernoulli building. The event contributes to the celebrations for the 395 year of establishment of the University of Groningen. WETICE is traditionally organized as a set of autono...

Surgical competence in general surgery assistance: a brief report

General report: session on connections

As a result of a world-wide intensive research activity, a new design concept for structural moment resistant joints has been suggested and implemented in design codes. In the present paper, its background is first briefly described and the main contributions to its development are presented. As a matter of fact, because of the high number of past and ongoing researches, reports and papers devo...

General report TC202: transport geotechnics

Today's needs of urban transportation including roads, railways, airports and harbours demand significant resources for infrastructure development in view of rapid and efficient public and commercial (freight) services. In most cases, authorities have had difficulties in meeting these service demands due to the rapidly growing public, industrial, mining and agricultural sectors in many parts of...

Implementing the Berwick Report in general practice.