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With the accelerated development of Internet-of-Things (IoT), wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are gaining importance in the continued advancement of information and communication technologies, and have been connected and integrated with the Internet in vast industrial applications. However, given the fact that most wireless sensor devices are resource constrained and operate on batteries, the communication...
This paper describes the significance of the emergency rescue industry standardization, analyze the problems of China's emergency rescue industry and industry standardization, according to The four stages of disaster management [1]: prevention, preparedness, response, reconstruction, enhances social integration and rescue capabilities of the six areas ability. A new fourteen industrial system model...
This paper first provides a look back at the last 10 years of security events that have shaped the electric power industry, then it provides a commentary on the current state of security in the North American Electric Utility sector. This paper does not only point out the issues, but also concludes with practical information on how to physically and electronically secure electric power systems. These...
Building information modelling (BIM) is only a tool in the procurement of a building, but it is changing the way the whole process is undertaken. Having a single model which is used by all disciplines requires a different management structure and by consequence a restructuring of the resources required to complete a project.These changes are encompassed in Integrated Practice and more recently Integrated...
Compliance management (CM) is the management process that an organization implements to ensure organizational compliance with relevant requirements and expectations. Compliance auditing (CA) is a child-process of CM where compliance rules and policies are individually checked against the organization to determine the level of compliance achieved by the organization. In this paper, we arrange organizational...
This is an introduction to the proceedings of the MWS 2007 workshop held at EDOC 2007. It first explains the motivation for and background of the workshop. Then, it contains a short description of the keynote, each long and short peer-reviewed paper, and the discussion session "impact of various execution environments on middleware for web services". After the closing statements, MWS 2007...
The Open Distributed Processing Reference Model (ODP-RM) provides viewpoints and abstract infrastructure guidelines that can be used for a basis for enterprise architecture, especially for an inter-enterprise architecture. The ODP-RM does not prescribe methodology for modeling itself, but provides common vocabulary and focus for description. This paper performs a brief analysis of the ODP-RM (and...
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