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Status Report of the Inter-Laboratory Task Force on Remote Operation
In February 2000, the International Committee for Future Accelerators
initiated a study of a new model for international collaboration on a future
large accelerator project, the Global Accelerator Network. The study is based
on a model of a facility, which is remote from most of the collaborating
institutions. It is designed, built and operated by a collaboration of equal
partner institutions distributed around the world. According to this model, the
expert-staff from each laboratory remains based at their home institution but
continues to participate in the operation of the machine after construction.
This report summarizes the conclusions of the Task Force on Remote Operation,
which investigated the general and technical implications of far-remote
operations.Comment: 32 pages, PDF, report of ICFA sponsored task forc
Applying Formal Methods to Networking: Theory, Techniques and Applications
Despite its great importance, modern network infrastructure is remarkable for
the lack of rigor in its engineering. The Internet which began as a research
experiment was never designed to handle the users and applications it hosts
today. The lack of formalization of the Internet architecture meant limited
abstractions and modularity, especially for the control and management planes,
thus requiring for every new need a new protocol built from scratch. This led
to an unwieldy ossified Internet architecture resistant to any attempts at
formal verification, and an Internet culture where expediency and pragmatism
are favored over formal correctness. Fortunately, recent work in the space of
clean slate Internet design---especially, the software defined networking (SDN)
paradigm---offers the Internet community another chance to develop the right
kind of architecture and abstractions. This has also led to a great resurgence
in interest of applying formal methods to specification, verification, and
synthesis of networking protocols and applications. In this paper, we present a
self-contained tutorial of the formidable amount of work that has been done in
formal methods, and present a survey of its applications to networking.Comment: 30 pages, submitted to IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorial
An Intelligent Help-Desk Framework for Effective Troubleshooting
Nowadays, technological infrastructure requires an
intelligent virtual environment based on decision processes.
These processes allow the coordination of individual elements
and the tasks that connect them. Thus, incident resolution
must be efficient and effective to achieve maximum
productivity. In this paper, we present the design and
implementation of an intelligent decision-support system
applied in technology infrastructure at the University of Seville
(Spain). We have used a Case Based Reasoning (CBR)
methodology and an ontology to develop an intelligent system
for supporting expert diagnosis and intelligent management of
incidents. This is an innovative and interdisciplinary approach
to knowledge management in problem-solving processes that
are related to environmental issues. Our system provides an
automatic semantic indexing for the generating of
question/answer pairs, a case based reasoning technique for
finding similar questions, and an integration of external
information sources via ontologies. A real ontology-based
question/answer platform named ExpertSOS is presented as a
proof of concept. The intelligent diagnosis platform is able to
identify and isolate the most likely cause of infrastructure
failure in case of a faulty operation
Appraisal of Cashless Policy on the Nigerian Financial System
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has been active in the inauguration of policies and schemes to foster the
implementation of the cashless policy in Nigeria. However the current transition to cashless economy raises
a lot of concerns with no substantial evidence yet to justify its implementation. This study was carried out in
order to appraise the implementation of the cashless policy since its introduction into the Nigerian financial
system in 2012 and also to examine the persistent challenges facing its implementation. In view of the above
stated objective, primary data were collected with the aid of the questionnaire, which was randomly
administered to 120 respondents ranging from First Bank, Zenith Bank and United Bank for Africa. The
banks were selected based on their total assets and the information collected covered the activities of the
CBN and that of these banks towards implementation of the cashless policy from 2012 till date.The data
collected were presented and analyzed with the aid of the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS)
using descriptive statistics and one-sample t-test. The results led to the conclusion that despite the need to
operate cashless transactions dominating the modern Nigerian economy, the cashless policy will have the
desired impact only if a lot is done to ensure the implementation of an effective cashless system
CBR and MBR techniques: review for an application in the emergencies domain
The purpose of this document is to provide an in-depth analysis of current reasoning engine practice and the integration strategies of Case Based Reasoning and Model Based Reasoning that will be used in the design and development of the RIMSAT system.
RIMSAT (Remote Intelligent Management Support and Training) is a European Commission funded project designed to:
a.. Provide an innovative, 'intelligent', knowledge based solution aimed at improving the quality of critical decisions
b.. Enhance the competencies and responsiveness of individuals and organisations involved in highly complex, safety critical incidents - irrespective of their location.
In other words, RIMSAT aims to design and implement a decision support system that using Case Base Reasoning as well as Model Base Reasoning technology is applied in the management of emergency situations.
This document is part of a deliverable for RIMSAT project, and although it has been done in close contact with the requirements of the project, it provides an overview wide enough for providing a state of the art in integration strategies between CBR and MBR technologies.Postprint (published version
An analysis of the application of AI to the development of intelligent aids for flight crew tasks
This report presents the results of a study aimed at developing a basis for applying artificial intelligence to the flight deck environment of commercial transport aircraft. In particular, the study was comprised of four tasks: (1) analysis of flight crew tasks, (2) survey of the state-of-the-art of relevant artificial intelligence areas, (3) identification of human factors issues relevant to intelligent cockpit aids, and (4) identification of artificial intelligence areas requiring further research
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