To meet the challenge of the 1990's and beyond there is a need to adopt advanced manufacturing technologies and new manufacturing techniques. In particular, there is a growing recognition of the need to develop a more holistic approach to the organisation of the business and the computer technologies it uses. One label often applied to this approach is CIM (Computer Integrated Manufacturing). T...

A multi-block algorithm and its implementation in two-dimensional finite element numerical model CCHE2D are presented. In addition to a conventional Lagrangian Interpolation Method (LIM), a novel interpolation method, called Consistent Interpolation Method (CIM), is proposed for more accurate information transfer across the interfaces. The consistent interpolation solves the governing equations...

Today many enterprises are forced to produce products which fulfill individual customer requirements. This situation results in an exploding number of variant parts of a product again resulting in a huge number of product data. To meet these new requirements, many enterprises introduced powerful CIM systems. Normally, this leaded to heterogeneous EDP concepts which are characterized by autonomo...

The rapid evolution of internet technologies raises the challenge of satisfying different management technologies and solution features for distributed heterogeneous networks in a unified architecture. The work proposes a novel Web Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) Gateway Enabled Integration Approach for SNMP, CMIP based heterogeneous networks. The solution is based on WBEM Common Information...

The eTelligence project explores and demonstrates various smart energy grid ideas by using modern ICT (information and communications technology). For this purpose, many new and heterogeneous types of smart grid systems have to be developed and integrated, such as a regional energy market, distributed energy management systems, and an advanced metering infrastructure. The future interaction sce...

A common information model (CIM) defines information that is available for sharing among multiple business processes and the applications that support them. These common definitions are neutral with respect to the processes that produce and use that information, the applications that access the data that express that information, and the technologies in which those applications are implemented....

Hardware/software codesign deals with the design, refinement, optimization, and realization of heterogeneous embedded systems. Training the current hardware designers with this novel design paradigm with exploitation of their priori knowledge about RT Level hardware implementation is the main concern of the proposed framework, Cim++. This paper presents the structure of Cim++ which enables C++ ...

Occipital neuralgia (ON) is characterized by severe pain in the occipital region due to an irritation of the occipital nerves. Traumatic injuries, mass or vascular compression, and infective and inflammatory processes could cause ON. The dislocation of a nerve/muscle/tendon, as can happen in malformations such as the Chiari I malformation (CIM), also can be responsible. Usually, headaches assoc...

Whilst the successful alignment of business strategy and IT development is an important topic, there are still few ways that this is possible. The Model Driven Architecture (MDA) shows promise as an approach but is focussed firmly in the IT domain at the level of the Platform Independent and Platform Specific Models. The Computation Independent Model (CIM) is targetted at business users, but th...

Robustness has received too little attention in Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL) analysis in experimental crosses. This paper discusses a robust QTL mapping algorithm based on Composite Interval Mapping (CIM) model by minimising β-divergence using the EM like algorithm. We investigate the robustness performance of the proposed method in a comparison of Interval Mapping (IM) and CIM algorithms usin...