for more than a decade, academic libraries have been wrestling with the thorny issue of managing the acquisition of electronic resources. where are we in the continuum from paper lists to vendor-designed management systems? this paper takes a look at several in-house initiatives around the country, commenting on the successes and failures of the homegrown programs built to track. update and man...

Resources allocated to software maintenance constitute a major portion of the total lifecycle cost of a system and can e€ect the ability of an organization to react to dynamic environments. A major component of software maintenance resources is analyst and programmer labor. This paper is an experimental evaluation of how the Human Information Processing (HIP) model can serve as a framework for ...

This paper presents an availability optimization of an engineering system assembled in a series configuration, with redundancy of units and corrective maintenance resources as optimization parameters. The aim is to reach maximum availability, considering as constraints installation and corrective maintenance costs, weight and volume. The optimization method uses a Genetic Algorithm based on bio...

This paper formulates a bilevel compromise programming model for allocating resources between pavement and bridge deck maintenances. The first level of the model aims to solve the resource allocation problems for pavementmanagement and bridge deckmaintenance, without considering resource sharing between them. At the second level, the model uses the results from the first step as an input and ge...

Seamounts represent ocean features whose potential for biological resources has been largel) o\erlooked. The recent discover) of abundant fish resources in the southern Emperor Seamounts region, however, has led lo fisheries development and exploitation. We have little understanding of basic biological and population characteristics such as recruitment patterns, age distribution, the stock-recr...

This paper focuses on how language resources (LR) for translation (hence LR4Trans) feature, and should ideally feature, within a corporate workflow of multilingual content development. The envisaged scenario will be that of a content management system that acknowledges the value of LR4Trans in the organisation as a key component and corporate knowledge resource.

There are three general classes of threat to biodiversity at the gene level: 1) extinction, which results in complete and irreversible loss of genes; 2) hybridization, which may cause re-arrangement of co-adapted genes and loss of adaptability to local conditions, and 3) reduction of genetic variability within populations. While extinction avoidance is a fundamental management objective and hyb...

Today’s, the transportation facilities such as terminals, street, bridge, etc, represent the major investment in highway network. Every year tremendous resources should be invested to maintain these facilities. Among them, the Bridge Management System (B.M.S.) has been necessitated by large imbalance between extensive bridge repair and maintenance needs and limited available budget. So the main...