Service management organizations and processes increasingly become standardized and even certified according to ISO/IEC 20000-1, creating detailed knowledge of the IT services rendered. The description of the services in a service catalogue needs to be enhanced beyond the components of IT services to include all contributing organizational units and business processes. An integrated model of th...

The APM Bright Galaxy Catalogue lists positions, magnitudes, shapes and morphological types for 14,681 galaxies brighter than bJ magnitude 16.44 over a 4,180 square degree area of the southern sky. Galaxy and stellar images have been located from glass copy plates of the United Kingdom Schmidt Telescope (UKST) IIIaJ sky survey using the Automated Photographic Measuring (APM) facility in Cambrid...

Epoxy nanocomposites with multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) filler up to 0.3%wt were prepared by shear mixing and good dispersion of the MWCNTs in the epoxy was successfully achieved. The electrical behaviour was characterized by measurements of the alternating current (AC) and direct current (DC) conductivities at room temperature. Typical percolation law behaviour was observed with a low pe...

Phenotypic analysis of gene-specific knockout (KO) mice has revolutionized our understanding of in vivo gene functions. As the use of mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells is inevitable for conventional gene targeting, the generation of knockout mice remains a very time-consuming and expensive process. To accelerate the large-scale production and phenotype analyses of KO mice, international efforts h...

We present a new catalogue of symbiotic stars. In our list we include 188 symbiotic stars as well as 28 objects suspected of being symbiotic. For each star, we present basic observational material: coordinates, V and K magnitudes, ultraviolet (UV), infrared (IR), X-ray and radio observations. We also list the spectral type of the cool component, the maximum ionization potential observed, refere...

Method Sequence prefix() executeSequence() suffix() Abstract Method Facade firstPhase() secondPhase() thirdPhase() . . . lastPhase() facade Method Sequence prefix() suffix() Method Facade firstPhase() secondPhase() thirdPhase() . . . lastPhase() Figure 4: The structure of the Method Sequence pattern using OMT notation. suffix() This method is invoked after the sequence has completed executing. ...

We propose a method, e3service , to reason about satisfying customer needs in the context of a wide choice of multi-supplier ICT service bundles. Our method represents customer needs, their ensuing consequences, and the services that realize those consequences in a service catalogue. This catalogue is then used by a reasoner, which elicits customer needs, computes their consequences, and automa...

These companies have followed two approaches. For the business offering pure personalization to their customers, Mass Customization provided the possibility of improving the efficiency of their process while maintaining the level of personalization. On the other hand, those companies offering a more or less wide product catalogue switched from a catalogue personalization (market segment oriente...

We describe the datos.bne.es library dataset, which makes available the authority and bibliography catalogue from the Biblioteca Nacional de España (BNE, Spanish National Library) as Linked Data. The catalogue contains around 7 million authority and bibliographic records. The records in MARC 21 format were transformed to RDF and modelled using IFLA ontologies. A tool named MARiMBA automatize th...