Knowledge discovery and management using various advancedtechniques,e.g.data\text\web\multimediamining, computational neuroscience, ontology, and corporate search engine, inengineeringdesignandmanufacturinghasemerged as a very new research area. Engineering design and manufacturing professionals are eager to enhance their information processing and knowledge management capabilities by adopting ...

While on the onehandunresolved security issues pose abarrier to the widespread adoption of cloud computing technologies, on the other hand the computing capabilities of even commodity HW are boosting, in particular thanks to the adoption of *-core technologies. For instance, the Nvidia Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) technology is increasingly available on a large part of commodity h...

As service companies increasingly occupy a significant place as drivers of economic growth, there is a pressing need to understand their peculiarities in order to facilitate their effectivemanagement and governance. One important areawhere this kind of understanding is lacking is knowledge management (KM). Although KM has become a key value driver for all types of organizations, there has been ...

Over the last number of decades much research work has been done in the general area of video and audio analysis. Initially the applications driving this included capturing video in digital form and then being able to store, transmit and render it, which involved a large effort to develop compression and encoding standards. The technology needed to do all this is now easily available and cheap,...

Water diversions that extract fresh water for urban, industrial, and agricultural uses, as well as export to southern California, are prevalent throughout the Sacramento–San Joaquin watershed. Many water diversions are fitted with fishexclusion screens designed to prevent fish from entrainment (i.e., being drawn in). The impact of fish screens on the behavior of migrating juvenile fishes remain...

introduction in the wastewater treatment industry, the general attentionis mostly paidto the effluent quality standards. regardless of energy consumption, the treatment plants have been designed based on experience rather than the latest scientific findings.the treatment plants are considered as a part of energy equipment which largely consumed electrical energy.thus, electricity is the great p...