At this stage of human society, companies must adapt to the latest information technologies in order to improve customer satisfaction and reduce costs. So I felt that by addressing electronic commerce portals I will be able to make effective demonstration of the new ways of relating to the...

Often, Business Intelligence Systems (BIS) require historical data or data collected from var-ious sources. The solution is found in data warehouses, which are the main technology used to extract, transform, load and store data in the organizational Business Intelligence projects. The...

Due to their numerous advantages, combined cycle power plants (CCPPs) have become an important technology for power generation. The part played by CCPPs on the power generation market includes frequent start-up/shutdown operations which must be optimized by means of innovative strategies, such...

In this paper we discuss an object oriented description of bond graph models of hydraulic components by means of the unified modeling language Modelica. A library which is still under development is briefly described and models of some standard hydraulic components are given for illustration. In...