Future scenarios of organizations envision companies that are organized around a central knowledge base in the form of a network. It is assumed that each company contributes its own expertise and intellectual capital to the network’s knowledge base. This article discusses the use of open content distribution management systems (OCDMSs) in knowledge-intensive fields, such as content production a...

One of the services provided by the High Level Architecture (HLA) Run-time Infrastructure (RTI) is data distribution management (DDM), which aims to make data communication more efficient by sending data to only those federates requiring the data. Several DDM methods, notably region and grid-based, have been proposed and some of them have been implemented in RTI. This paper first briefly discus...

The Workflow Management System AltaVista Works has been extended to be able to process workflows in a distributed, partly even parallel manner. Build-time data are replicated over all participating workflow servers. The distribution of workflow execution is based on migration. Instead of the usual, static pre-partitioning, highly dynamic management of distribution is applied.

Transferring the traditional business model for selling digital goods linked to physical media to the online world leads to the need for a system to protect digital intellectual property. Digital Rights Management(DRM) is a system to protect high-value digital assets and control the distribution and usage of those digital assets. This paper presents a review of the current state of DRM, focusin...

To ensure scalability, efficiency and flexibility of network and systems management platforms of today’s growing networks, distributed management systems are strongly required. A quite commonly proposed simple taxonomy suggests a distinction between centralized, weakly distributed, strongly distributed and cooperative management distribution models. However, it is not yet clearly stated which d...

The management performance of distribution center is based on multi-dimensional and multi-hierarchy factors which include many uncertainties. The goal of this paper is to combine the methods of interval-valued fuzzy evaluation (IVFE) and analytic hierarchy progress (AHP) for evaluating the management performance of distribution center. First, all the single-factors are used to fix the evaluatio...

This paper highlights some aspects of the many facets of electricity distribution system risk assessment – describing the different risk consequence categories which are relevant in the whole risk picture with regards to their characteristics, their type of impact and applicable risk analysis methods. The paper illustrates that distribution system asset management constitutes of a variety of mo...

This study aims at empirically furthering awareness of the organization of interaction in EFL classes. Informed by the methodological framework of conversation analysis, it draws upon a corpus of 52 three-hour naturally-occurring classroom interaction to identify classroom interactional contexts based on the structuring of the pedagogic goals in turn-taking sequences. Conversation analytic proc...