An important premise of most of the contemporary methods for developing Software and Information Systems is that a good understanding of the application domain is essential for a comprehensive definition of its requirements. However, when these methods are applied to the enterprise context, it is very unclear what an application domain means. To solve this problem, we elaborate the notion of bu...

GOAL is a multi-agent programming language based on the BDI paradigm. It is a logic-based language that supports modular agent design based on established software engineering principles and interaction with environments using an environment interface standard (EIS). GOAL recently won the Multi-Agent Programming Contest (MAPC), where two teams consisting of ten agents play against each other in...

Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) is recognized to be a powerful and noninvasive technique to test the integrity of protective coatings on memorials, but commercial EIS systems are rather costly though versatile devices. This paper describes a low cost and portable EIS system that is based on a compact digital signal processor (DSP) board and embeds the potentiostatic function so tha...

Enterprise information systems (EIS) often employ relational database systems to store their content. At the same time, XML constitutes the dominant standard for data exchange as well as for the hypertext level of webenabled EIS. Thus, the integration of XML with relational database systems to allow the storage, retrieval, and update of XML documents is of paramount importance in the context of...

In 1966, both of us came to the Communicable Disease Center (now the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC» as newly commissioned officers in the US Public Health Service. We were initiated into the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) and immediately were immersed in the EIS course, which facilitated our metamorphosis from bedside clinicians into enthusiastic, if inexperienced, epidem...

The revised draft follows release of an original draft supplemental EIS in 1999 and a final proposed EIS in 2000. Environmental Defense and other conservation organizations submitted extensive comments on each of these documents dated June 24, 1999 and October 10, 2000. Included with these comments were extensive expert reports and supplemental documents. Except for the minor revisions to these...

The rapid changes in today’s socio-economic and technological environment in which the enterprises operate necessitate the identification of new requirements that address both theoretical and practical aspects of the Enterprise Information Systems (EIS). Such an evolving environment contributes to both the process and the system complexity which cannot be handled by the traditional architecture...

Information technology plays a significant role in a global organization. Senior executives of these organizations need constant and timely access to global information for making decisions. This information originates in different places worldwide for a global organization and needs to be organized before it can be used for decision-making. The organization and management of global corporate d...

Polarization, solution-separator, charge transfer, and diffusion resistances of clean and used separator electrode assemblies were examined in microbial fuel cells using current–voltage curves and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). Current–voltage curves showed the total resistance was reduced at low cathode potentials. EIS results revealed that at a set cathode potential of 0.3 V di...

We report an electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) based method to measure the doping level of conducting polymers. Using EIS the Faradaic current and the capacitive charging current can be separated without relying on any unverifiable assumptions. We demonstrate the method for three types of conducting polymer thin films that are the basis for many commercial applications (poly(3,4ethyl...