In the Aggregate Production Planning (APP) the manager considers simultaneously conflicting objectives such as total cost, inventories level, workforce fluctuation, and utilization level of the physical facility and equipment. The goals associated with these objectives may be uncertain in nature. The aim of this paper is to develop a Goal Programming (GP) model where the goals and the right-han...

This contribution presents algorithms, methods, and software for a Grid resource manager, responsible for resource brokering and scheduling in early production Grids. The broker selects computing resources based on actual job requirements and a number of criteria identifying the available resources, with the aim to minimize the total time to delivery for the individual application. The total ti...

Facilities management is a new discipline, an exciting profession that embraces many essential areas of the built environment. The last two decades have witnessed a significant growth in the profession to the extent that there is the need to be clear on its roles both in the industry and organisation. This study looks at the role of facilities management in the procurement of a facility. It tri...

The Facilities Manager occupies a unique position within the lifecycle of a building asset, as he/she is one of the only Architecture/Engineering/Construction (AEC) and Facilities Management (FM) professionals who is in a position to view the product of the entire design and build process and is responsible for the operational phase which incurs approximately five times the initial capital cost...

In the public-private management complex building, “high convenience” and “synergistic effect” between uses were highly evaluated by building manager questionnaire. addition, inefficiency in facility was “the shape of is complicated crowded”. this study, spatial composition buildings quantitatively analyzed from evaluation operation actual usage, issues clarified.

The query facility, which will be called OQL’ in the following, satisfies a practical need. The Objectivity/DB Persistent Object Manager, which is used at CERN in several projects for its low-overhead support of object persistency, provides as its sole way to dynamically query data without writing a specialized application program a facility called SQL++. The query language of this facility has...

Metadata repository systems store metadata in the form of models and meta-models. In this paper we introduce a general architecture of a OMG MOF (Meta Object Facility) repository system and describe its modules. In addition, we examine the architectures of several existing MOF repositories such as MDR (MetaData Repository), EMF (Eclipse Modeling Framework), dMOF (product name, not abbreviation)...

Purpose Fifty to 80% of pregnant women suffer from low back pain (LBP), a condition commonly treated by doctors of chiropractic (DC). Holzer Clinic, an Appalachian integrative health facility with 140 multispecialty physicians, utilizes both conventional prenatal and chiropractic care for their pregnant patients. This study assessed the feasibility to conduct a prospective case series of LBP pa...

This paper describes the initial design of a device to support the management of medication in a community care environment. From requirements identified through ethnographic study, the proposed medication manager offers an interface that reduces confusion for the residents of the care facility whilst also supporting the learning of self-management skills required for independent living. The pr...