In an e-service environment, workflow involves not only a single organization but also a number of business partners. Workflow inter-operability is therefore an important issue for workflow enactment in such an environment. In this paper, we introduce a novel concept of workflow views as a fundamental support for E-service workflow inter-operability and for controlled visibility by external par...

The problems of inter-operability are acute for manufacturing applications, as applications using process specifications do not necessarily share syntax and definitions of concepts. The Process Specification Language developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology proposes a formal ontology and translation mechanisms representing manufacturing concepts. When an application becom...

Repair of congenital heart disease in the presence of high pulmonary pressure has always been a contentious issue. Pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) is considered important for establishing operability in these patients. However, PVR estimation is not always accurate and cannot solely be relied upon to make critical decision of operability. Clinical examination, chest X-ray, and echocardiogra...

Most offshore wind farms are bottom-fixed at sites with less than 50 m of water depth. For deeper waters, floating platforms economically viable and, for many countries that have steep continental shelves, this is the only option developing farms. If energy being harvested far in deep waters (more 200 depth and hundreds km from coast), one possible alternative use Floating Production Storage (F...

Non-square process control systems, with fewer inputs than the controlled outputs, are quite common in chemical processes. In these systems, it is impossible to control all measured variables at specific set points and many of the outputs are controlled within an interval. The objective of this paper is to introduce a multivariable Operability methodology for such non-square systems to be used ...