This study aims to overcome the principal problems in the current information-support–platformoriented digital oilfield. These problems include a low utilization efficiency of the software and hardware resources, the high maintenance cost of the system, and limited automatic control. Starting with the existing software and hardware resources and with the current pattern of use of cloud computin...

Working memory, the short-term maintenance and manipulation of information, relies strongly on neural activity in the frontal cortex. Understanding the functional role of this activity is a prerequisite for the understanding of cognitive control mechanisms. Functional imaging studies in human participants have attempted to reveal neural correlates of the subdivision of visual working memory int...

The episodic buffer has been described as a structure of working memory capable of maintaining multimodal information in an integrated format. Although the role of the episodic buffer in binding features into objects has received considerable attention, several of its characteristics have remained rather underexplored. This is the case for its maintenance capacity limits and its separability fr...

Maintenance is a natural and necessary part of the system life cycle and its costs. It is important to control where time and money are spent and what kind of maintenance is performed. For this purpose it is necessary to be able to measure both maintenance, the efforts and costs, and the quality factor maintainability. Such measuring facilitates planning and steering the maintenance work in inf...

In many industrial environments, systems are required to perform a sequence of operations (or missions) with finite breaks between each operation. During these breaks, it may be advantageous to perform repair and replace on some of the system’s components. However, it may not be possible to perform all desirable maintenance activities prior to the beginning of the next mission due to limitation...

Over the course of the past three decades, facilities management has become the subject of an increasing number of research and development efforts. The main objective of the present research was to examine the efficiency of maintenance under alternative maintenance policies and different sources of human resources. The research focused on the maintenance of public hospital buildings in Israel,...

Stateless clusters such as Hadoop clusters are widely deployed to drive the business data analysis. When a cluster needs to be restarted for clusterwide maintenance, it is desired for the administrators to choose a maintenance window that results in: (1) least disturbance to the cluster operation; and (2) maximized job processing throughput. A straightforward but naive approach is to choose mai...

We discuss building digital language resources (such as annotated corpora, lexicons, ontologies, terminologies, tools), which are the main prerequisite for successful communication and information management in the e-society of the 21 century. We give an overview of the main requirements and best practices, and point to necessary steps for creation and maintenance of standardsbased and reusable...