Issues in Vendor/Library Relations -- Infrastructure

Issues in health monitoring for intelligent infrastructure

The US Federal Reserve Board has concluded that the failure of civil infrastructure systems to perform at their expected level may reduce the national gross domestic product (GDP) by as much as 1%. Intelligent-infrastructure systems and components hold promise for improving performance with an excellent cost/benefit ratio. A recent National Science Foundation (NSF) workshop demonstrated the sta...

Semantic Relations: Issues and Proposals

Semantic relations are an important element in the construction of ontology-based linguistic resources and models of problem domains. Nevertheless, they remain under-specified. This is a pervasive problem in both Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. Thus, we find semantic links that can have multiple interpretations, abstractions that are not enough to represent the relation richne...

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Highway Infrastructure: Policy Issues for Regions

This paper is one of a series associated with the July 17, 1996, workshop " Designing State-Local Fiscal Policy for Growth and Development. " William A. Testa served as workshop convener and editor. The workshop was first of a series held at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago as part of the 1996-97 project " Assessing the Midwest Economy. " Inquiries should be directed to the Public

GIS for Infrastructure Applications: Progress and Issues

Introduction Geographic information systems date from the 1960s, when the first was developed by IBM under contract to the Canadian Government. That first GIS bears little resemblance to the systems of today, not only because hardware and software have progressed enormously—more importantly, the needs it was designed to satisfy originated in the difficulties humans experience in performing manu...