The maintenance of military aircraft is complex and exhaustive, requiring an accurate training program. This process is not fault tolerant and requires certification renewal periodically. Furthermore, the process involves many professionals and resources, requiring phases of maintenance and verification of the tasks. Cooperation between professionals in the overall process is essential and requ...

This study proposes the use of an experimental analogue of natural resource exploitation to evaluate the effects of the real-time displaying of the amount of available resources and the provision of written feedback messages on the resource extraction behavior of participants sharing a common-pool whereby participants are physically and verbally isolated from each other. The experiment involved...

to INFORMS Annual Meeting 2008, October 12-15, Washington, D.C., USA Improving Maintenance Decision-Making in the Finnish Air Force through Simulation Ville Mattila, Kai Virtanen and Tuomas Raivio Systems Analysis Laboratory Helsinki University of Technology P.O.Box 1100, Otakaari 1M FIN-02015 TKK, Finland [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] We use discrete-event ...

Traditionally, optimal preventive maintenance strategies are derived under deterministic and constant rate demand. Using ‘‘option’’, a powerful financial derivative tool to tackle optimization problem under uncertain environment, this paper presents an analytical, option-based cost model for scheduling joint production and preventive maintenance when demand is uncertain. The manufacturing enter...

The question on how individuals allocate resources into maintenance and reproduction is one of the central questions in life history theory. Yet, resource allocation into maintenance on the organismic level can only be measured indirectly. This is different in a social insect colony, a "superorganism" where workers represent the soma and the queen the germ line of the colony. Here, we investiga...

forest management as one of the important source of production is crucial and critical. in taking over the forest resources as one of the most important of natural resources in the world, it is essential to consider local stakeholders to implement forest action plan for forest co-management. therefore, this study aims at achieving to proper management of forests based on evaluating the stakehol...

Lexically rich resources form the foundation to all NLP tasks. Maintaining the high quality of resources is thus a high priority issue. In this paper we exhibit the tools developed at IIT Bombay, for the purpose of creation, enhancement and maintenance of the WordNets, as well as the ones used for NLP tasks that use WordNets directly, like Word Sense Disambiguation. The paper presents online an...

To receive payments under the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program, certain eligibility requirements must be met. One requirement places a limit on the value of “countable resources** of an individual or a couple. Resources are defined in the regulations as cash and any other personal property, as well as any real property, that an individual: -owns; -has the right, authority, or power to...