This paper is a progress report on our work to create an open, flexible infrastructure to support virtual organisations through knowledge fusion technology. Knowledge fusion refers to the process of locating and extracting knowledge from multiple, heterogeneous on-line sources, and transforming it so that the union of the knowledge can be applied in problemsolving. When applied in enterprise-to...

a Virginia Tech Dept. of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, 215 Randolph Hall Blacksburg, VA 24061, United States, [email protected] (Corresponding Author) b Virginia Tech Dept. of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, 215 Randolph Hall Blacksburg, VA 24061, United States, [email protected] c Virginia Tech Dept. of Computer Science, 2202 Kraft Drive Blacksburg, VA 24060, United States, [email protected] ...

Kraft wood pulping is the predominant process used in the pulp and paper industry for its versatility and insensitivity to variations of wood supply. In this work, a deterministic model has been developed for a Kraft Pulping Process of Eucalyptus by combining intrinsic kinetic equations (Lignin, Carbohydrates) and it is used to investigate the effects of process conditions on the extent of deli...

Lignin is a precursor of humus, and by-product the pulp paper industry. This study investigated synthesis soil conditioning materials from industrial lignins (kraft, soda sulphite), through ammoxidation. The were characterized ammoxidized in 1 L Parr reactor at 80 °C, 10 barg, for 4 h, with 7 wt% ammonia lignin reaction mixture. A plant trial assessment products was conducted over four weeks. N...

Xylans were selectively removed from paper grade pulps by nitren extraction in order to produce dissolving pulps. The impact of nitren charge on the removal of hemicelluloses was demonstrated for a birch and mixed softwood kraft pulp. The 95% purity level could easily be reached for the birch kraft pulp. Softwood glucomannans were almost insoluble under the investigated extraction conditions ap...

KRAFT is an agent architecture for the integration of heterogeneous information systems. The focus in KRAFT is on the integration of knowledge in the form of constraints. In this article we describe the architecture from an ontological perspective. We start by introducing the agent architecture and illustrate its application in the telecommunication-network design. We then describe how we asses...

We try to clarify the relations between quiver varieties of type A and Kraft-Procesi proof of normality of nilpotent conjugacy classes closures.