Resources: Track flows to manage technology-metal supply

An Infrastructure to Manage Resources

One of the more diffuse problems with information technology (IT) is that both users and their IT-supporters and IT-administrators have the feeling that IT leads to more work to be done. Since the boom of the WWW this got even worse. On one hand we have an easy way of making information available, on the other hand we have all the maintainance work with it. The problem is that much of the infor...

Computational Techniques to Manage Natural Resources

To manage the natural resource, many aspect must be treat, because this are evolve all flora and fauna in planet. Mainly, how this management could improve the life quality in present and future, for all species (not just for human begins). In literature, there are three computational challenges in natural resources management: data management and communication; data analysis; and optimization ...

Fostering collaboration to better manage water resources

Good water management is literally vital for the arid and semi-arid regions of the planet. Yet good water management requires multidisciplinary expertise, since one must consider climatic, hydrological, economical and social aspects to make balanced decisions on water usage. We here present SegHidro, a grid portal designed to foster scientific, technical and operational collaboration, as to imp...

Another way to manage supply chains: holonic and multicriteria approach

Using Terminological Knowledge Representation Languages to Manage Linguistic Resources

I examine how terminological languages can be used to manage linguistic data during NL research and development. In particular, I consider the lexical semantics task of characterizing semantic verb classes and show how the language can be extended to flag inconsistencies in verb class definitions, identify the need for new verb classes, and identify appropriate linguistic hypotheses for a new v...