Biological protein materials (BPMs), intriguing hierarchical structures formed by assembly of chemical building blocks, are crucial for critical functions of life. The structural details of BPMs are fascinating: They represent a combination of universally found motifs such as alpha-helices or beta-sheets with highly adapted protein structures such as cytoskeletal networks or spider silk nanocom...

In the field of wildfire risk management the so-called burn probability maps (BPMs) are increasingly used with the aim of estimating the probability of each point of a landscape to be burned under certain environmental conditions. Such BPMs are usually computed through the explicit simulation of thousands of fires using fast and accurate models. However, even adopting the most optimized algorit...

The Advanced Photon Source (APS) was commissioned in 1995 as a third-generation x-ray user facility. At that time orbit control was performed exclusively with broadband rf beam position monitors (BPMs). Since then, emphasis has been placed on incorporating x-ray beam position monitors into the orbit control algorithms. This has resulted in an order of magnitude improvement in long-term beam sta...

Business Process Reengineering has emerged as a model-ing and analysis methodology for making the organization of an enterprise more eecient. For the purpose of reengi-neering, a business process model (BPM) has to be developed , the evaluation of which in almost any case demands simulation. Even for enterprises of moderate size, the BPMs tend to become prohibitively complex, precluding a seque...

Business Process Management Systems (BPMS) facilitate the execution of business processes by coordinating all involved resources. Traditional BPMS assume that these resources are independent from one another, which justifies a greedy allocation strategy of offering each work item as soon as it becomes available. In this paper, we develop a formal technique to derive an optimal schedule for work...

Corporate governance has been heavily criticised, because of governance failures in companies across the globe. In response to these failures, legislative and regulatory changes have been introduced. However, skeptics argue that compliance with these legislative and regulatory acts is costly and time consuming, causing overregulation. Furthermore, many regulatory measures lack business value an...

The Botanical Plant Modelling System (BPMS) [1] [2] is used to simulate the directional reflectance of a barley canopy. The ability of linear BRDF model kernels to describe the directional reflectance of this canopy relatively accurately is confirmed. Rather than accepting this as a (form of) 'validation' of the simple model, a more interesting line is followed whereby the factors controlling t...