George M. Low trophy NASA's quality and excellence award, 1992. Application guidelines: Large business

The George M. Low Trophy is awarded to current NASA contractors, subcontractors, and suppliers in the aerospace industry who have demonstrated sustained excellence and outstanding achievements in quality and productivity for three or more years. The objectives of the award are to increase public awareness of the importance of quality and productivity to the Nation's aerospace program and industry in general; encourage domestic business to continue efforts to enhance quality, increase productivity, and thereby strengthen competitiveness; and provide the means for sharing the successful methods and techniques used by the applicants with other American enterprises. Information is given on candidate eligibility for large businesses, the selection process, the nomination letter, and the application report

George M. Low Trophy NASA's Quality and Excellence Award, 1992. Application guidelines: Small business

Guidelines are given for the selection of small business candidates for the George M. Low Trophy, NASA's Quality and Excellence Award, 1992. Topics covered include candidate eligibility, the selection process milestone schedule, the nomination letter, and the application report

Expert system verification and validation study. ES V/V guidelines/workshop conference summary

The intent of the workshop was to start moving research on the verification and validation (V&V) of knowledge based systems (KBSs) in the direction of providing tangible 'products' that a KBS developer could use. In the near term research will focus on identifying the kinds of experiences encountered during KBS development of 'real' KBSs. These will be stored in a repository and will serve as the foundation for the rest of the activities described here. One specific approach to be pursued is 'benchmarking'. With this approach, a KBS developer can use either 'canned' KBSs with seeded errors or existing KBSs with known errors to evaluate a given tool's ability to satisfactorily identify errors

NASTRAN general purpose interface requirements document

This NASTRAN (NASA STRuctural ANalysis) General Purpose Interface Requirements Document (IRD) defines standards for deliverables required of New Capability Contractors (NCCs) and relates these deliverables to the software development cycle. It also defines standards to be followed by NCCs for adding to and modifying the code in the NASTRAN software system and for adding to and modifying the four official NASTRAN manuals: The NASTRAN Theoretical Manual, the NASTRAN User's Manual, The NASTRAN Programmer's Manual, and The NASTRAN Demonstration Problem Manual. It is intended that this General Purpose IRD shall be incorporated by reference in all contracts for a new NASTRAN capability

Reviews

Steve McDowell and Phil Race, 500 Computing Tips for Trainers, London: Kogan Page, ISBN: 0–7494–2675–6. Paperback, 160 pages, £15.99

AdaNET Dynamic Software Inventory (DSI) prototype component acquisition plan

A component acquisition plan contains the information needed to evaluate, select, and acquire software and hardware components necessary for successful completion of the AdaNET Dynamic Software Inventory (DSI) Management System Prototype. This plan will evolve and be applicable to all phases of the DSI prototype development. Resources, budgets, schedules, and organizations related to component acquisition activities are provided. A purpose and description of a software or hardware component which is to be acquired are presented. Since this is a plan for acquisition of all components, this section is not applicable. The procurement activities and events conducted by the acquirer are described and who is responsible is identified, where the activity will be performed, and when the activities will occur for each planned procurement. Acquisition requirements describe the specific requirements and standards to be followed during component acquisition. The activities which will take place during component acquisition are described. A list of abbreviations and acronyms, and a glossary are contained

Position paper on realizing smart products: challenges for Semantic Web technologies

In the rapidly developing space of novel technologies that combine sensing and semantic technologies, research on smart products has the potential of establishing a research field in itself. In this paper, we synthesize existing work in this area in order to define and characterize smart products. We then reflect on a set of challenges that semantic technologies are likely to face in this domain. Finally, in order to initiate discussion in the workshop, we sketch an initial comparison of smart products and semantic sensor networks from the perspective of knowledge technologies

Professional Development for Conservators in the United States: Report of the Directors' Retreat for the Advancement of Conservation Education

Provides a compendium of ideas and suggestions that aim to better define and effectively advance the profession of conservation

The Duty to license software in a dominant market position : the essential facility doctrine

Tutkielma käsittelee tietokoneohjelmistojen pakkolisensiointia määräävässä markkina-asemassa. Tutkielman erityisenä näkökulmana aiheeseen on se, onko Euroopan unionin oikeuden mukaan tietokoneohjelmistojen pakkolisensiointi määräävässä markkina-asemassa mahdollista ja jos on, niin mitkä tekijät vaikuttavat immateriaalioikeuksien pakkolisensiointivelvoitteeseen. Tutkielma jakautuu viiteen pääjaksoon, joista ensimmäisessä esitellään tutkimusongelma sekä tutkielman rakenne tarkemmin. Toisessa pääjaksossa kuvataan yleisellä tasolla tekijänoikeuden pääperiaatteita, tietokoneohjelmistojen tekijänoikeussuojaa sekä tietokoneohjelmistoihin liittyviä erityispiirteitä että ilmiöitä. Kolmas jakso sisältää kuvauksen määräävän markkina-aseman väärinkäytöstä Euroopan unionin toiminnasta tehdyn sopimuksen 102 artiklan mukaan. Neljäs pääjakso käsittelee pakkolisensiointia määräävässä markkina-asemassa. Jakso jakaantuu neljään alajaksoon, joista ensimmäisessä alajaksossa tarkastellaan immateriaalioikeuden ja kilpailuoikeuden vastakkainasettelua. Toinen alajakso sisältää kuvauksen niin sanotusta olennainen toimintaedellytys-opista (”the essential facility doctrine”) sekä siitä, kuinka immateriaalioikeuteen liittyvät tapaukset tulisi tulkita tämän opin mukaan. Kolmannessa alajaksossa tarkastellaan Euroopan unionin oikeuskäytäntöä ja sitä kuinka olennainen toimintaedellytys-oppi on kehittynyt oikeuskäytännössä immateriaalioikeuksien osalta. Neljäs alajakso sisältää erityisiä huomioita pakkolisensioinnista, kun kyseessä ovat immateriaalioikeudet. Tutkielman viides ja viimeinen pääjakso sisältää johtopäätelmän siitä, voidaanko määräävässä markkina-asemassa oleva yhtiö velvoittaa myöntämään lisenssi tietokoneohjelmistoonsa sekä esitetään joitakin aiheeseen liittyviä avoimia kysymyksiä jatkotutkimusten kannalta. Tutkimuksessa käydään läpi aiheeseen liittyvää lainsäädäntöä ja oikeuskäytäntöä sekä aiheesta tuotettua oikeustieteellistä kirjallisuutta, joiden perusteella pyritään tulkitsemaan millä edellytyksin immateriaalioikeuksia voidaan pakkolisensioida. Tutkimuksen mukaan olemassa olevan oikeuskäytännön valossa määräävässä markkina-asemassa oleva yhtiö voidaan velvoittaa lisensioimaan tietokoneohjelmistoja tiettyjen edellytysten täyttyessä

Leveraging legacy codes to distributed problem solving environments: A web service approach

This paper describes techniques used to leverage high performance legacy codes as CORBA components to a distributed problem solving environment. It first briefly introduces the software architecture adopted by the environment. Then it presents a CORBA oriented wrapper generator (COWG) which can be used to automatically wrap high performance legacy codes as CORBA components. Two legacy codes have been wrapped with COWG. One is an MPI-based molecular dynamic simulation (MDS) code, the other is a finite element based computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code for simulating incompressible Navier-Stokes flows. Performance comparisons between runs of the MDS CORBA component and the original MDS legacy code on a cluster of workstations and on a parallel computer are also presented. Wrapped as CORBA components, these legacy codes can be reused in a distributed computing environment. The first case shows that high performance can be maintained with the wrapped MDS component. The second case shows that a Web user can submit a task to the wrapped CFD component through a Web page without knowing the exact implementation of the component. In this way, a user’s desktop computing environment can be extended to a high performance computing environment using a cluster of workstations or a parallel computer