Mb describe the design and implementation of a constraint management facility for our active object-oriented database system called Jasmine/A. The facility includes integrity constraints, events/triggers, and constraint rules. The facility enables the user to handle both interobject and intraobject constraints, to define both primitive and composite events, and to populate databases with values...

The Korean government has strived to secure a disposal site for the safe management of radioactive waste since the early 1980s. The 249 th meeting of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) held in September 1998 established the “National Radioactive Waste Management Policy”, which aims at completing the construction of a Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste (LILW) disposal facility by 2008,...

Productive operation of a large computer network serving multiple user facilities in conjunction with several host sites requires the use of network management. As treated here, network management includes an array of such methods as communication systems management, problem management, change management, and inventory management. In this paper the use of some of the management techniques is de...

Purpose The recent research trend of building information modelling (BIM) involves interoperability and issues pertaining to the design, construction, operations, and maintenance phases of a building. However, few researchers are concerned with problems encountered in the last two phases of the building life cycle. Since BIM has been widely used in the design and construction phases, further ex...

In industry and big organisations facility management has become a managing tool of more and more importance. In times of decreasing profit rates and harder competition every company is forced to develop better strategies for resource and facility management. In this context the questions arise: What is facility management, what offers GIS and how can Geographic Information Systems improve faci...

Agent-based collaborative decision support is a methodology of utilizing domain specific intelligent systems, interacting in a common environment, to partner with one or more human decision makers to reach a consensus solution to a complex problem. An example is the recently developed Collaborative Infrastructure Assessment Tool (CIAT) that provides a collaborative planning facility management ...

In general, except when quoting the article being reviewed and/or other sources and in footnotes, the uppercase identifiers “Thimerosal,” “Merthiolate,” and “Thiomersal” will be used interchangeably throughout this review, with preference being given to “Thimerosal” because these are/were trade names, even though the active mercury-containing ingredient in vaccines is, in most cases, the ethylm...

HERD Vol. 3, No. 2 WINTER 2010 • HEALTH ENVIRONMENTS RESEARCH & DESIGN JOURNAL 3 “Health care projects are very complex, and extensive planning is required to deliver them. Hundreds of participants, thousands of products and systems, and tens of thousands of decisions must be orchestrated on the path to nal completion” (Burgun, Sprague, Stein, & Atkins, 2008, p.119). Healthcare construction may...

BACKGROUND Master facility lists (MFL) maintain an important standard (unique identifier) in country health information systems that will aid integration and interoperability of multiple health facility based data sources. However, this standard is not readily available in several low and middle income countries where reliable data is most needed for efficient planning. The World Health Organiz...

Facility management (FM) or technical property management is an approach to operate, maintain, improve and adapt buildings and infrastructures of organizations. A FM project requires the cooperation of many actors from different domains so it has to be automated in a constrained collaborative environment. This paper proposes a new approach for ontology change management applied on facility mana...