This study aimed to identify the metal flow in a municipal solid waste (MSW) management system. Outputs of a resource recovery facility, refuse derived fuel (RDF) production facility, carbonization facility, plastics liquefaction facility, composting facility, and bio-gasification facility were analyzed for metal content and leaching concentration. In terms of metal content, bulky and incombust...

We report on our experience in developing a query-answering system that integrates multiple knowledge sources. The system is based on a novel architecture for combining knowledge sources in which the sources can produce new subgoals as well as ground facts in the search for answers to existing subgoals. The system uses a query planner that takes into account different query-processing capabilit...

The success of Nepal's community-based health programmes in promoting maternal and child health has been achieved due to an overall improvement in service delivery facilities and health support systems. This article assesses the progress made by the Government of Nepal in improving health service delivery by introducing three key components: an improved health logistics management, facility-bas...

Recently, interest about intelligence facility surveillance system is increasing for a facility management. In the intelligence facility surveillance system, a shadow improvement technique is very important to analyzing video information. The reason, the facility’s shadow can make video analysis difficult. Previous researches about the shadow improvement are not suitable in facility surveillanc...

The industrialization of the world, increase in population, slow paced city development and mismanagement of the available parking space has resulted in parking related problems. There is a dire need for a secure, intelligent, efficient and reliable system which can be used for searching the unoccupied parking facility, guidance towards the parking facility, negotiation of the parking fee, alon...

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Eugene L. Duke * Marle D. Hewett t Randal W. Brumbaugh David M. Tartt t Robert F. Antoniewicz * Arvind K. Agarwal 5 An automated flight test management system (ATMS) and its use to develop a rapid-prototyping flight research facility for artificial intelligence-based flight systems concepts are described. The ATMS provides a flight test engineer with a set of tools that assist in flight plannin...

Nowadays there is a rise of complexity in most areas of planning, managing and executing modern production systems. One part is the facility management. Processes such as approval and maintenance in the production systems environment are important for modern companies. These processes generate enormous data during the lifecycle of a production system. The approach of self-organisation supports ...

this paper addresses a reliable facility location problem with considering facility capacity constraints. in reliable facility location problem some facilities may become unavailable from time to time. if a facility fails, its clients should refer to other facilities by paying the cost of retransfer to these facilities. hence, the fail of facilities leads to disruptions in facility location dec...