The main functional purpose of a water distribution network is to transport water from a source to several domestic and industrial units while at the same time satisfying various requirements on hydraulic response. All the water distribution networks perform two basic operations: firstly the water network needs to deliver adequate amounts of water to meet specific requirements, and secondly the...

Private voluntary standards such as the International Organization for Standardization’s (ISO’s) 14000 series have played an increasingly important role in encouraging corporations to adopt more sustainable business models on their own initiative and not in direct response to governmentally mandated requirements. ISO standards have a number of benefits, including promoting international uniform...

A eCampus security shell architecture was developed and deployed to improve the security of existing university management systems (legacy UMS), integrating innovative eGovernment Standards e.g. the German Electronic Identity Card (GeID), the eGovernment Protocol OSCI and qualified Signatures (QES). 1 Problem and requirements The challenge was to improve the security of an existing university m...

As a context for the work presented here, consider the current significant shift towards largescale courseware developments (e.g., the projects under the Teaching and Learning Technology Programme involving consortia of academic institutions) and contrast these large-scale developments with previous ad hoc developments of small-scale “lessonware”, which is what most of the previous computer ass...

Successful manufacturing system designs must be capable of satisfying the strategic objectives of a company. There exist numerous tools to design manufacturing systems. Most frameworks, however, do not separate objectives from means. As a result, it is difficult to understand the interactions among different design objectives and solutions and to communicate these interactions. The research des...