Technical Architecture

1994 ◽  
pp. 166-244
Author(s):  
Michael K. Bourke
Keyword(s):  
Technical Architecture

Collaboration platforms in water management

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
C. E. Hidaka ◽  
H. R. Kolar ◽  
R. P. Williams ◽  
P. G. Hartswick ◽  
S. B. Foong
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Effective Management ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
The World ◽  
Technical Architecture ◽  
Multiple Levels ◽  
Collaboration Platforms

In many parts of the world, management of water resources and infrastructures is fragmented between agencies at multiple levels – state, provincial, and local – and sometimes between functions within individual agencies. Consequently it is often impossible to take a holistic view of the issues at hand to enable effective management of the resource or infrastructure – either because of the overhead of managing the coordination required, and/or because of politics between the different stakeholders. In their work for IBM, the authors created a concept of an information technology (IT)-enabled “collaboration platform” that integrates different water data sources with IT tools to enable multiple entities to maintain and share a “common operating picture.” This greatly assists with coordination and reduces politics to manageable levels. In this paper, the authors describe the collaboration platform and its benefits by reference to examples of such platforms in use, and propose a reference technical architecture for creating collaboration platforms.

scholarly journals Inequalities in the Exercise and Continuity in Building Engineering in Spain. Factor Analysis Including Gender Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 5514
Author(s):  
Irantzu Recalde-Esnoz ◽  
Daniel Ferrández ◽  
Carlos Morón ◽  
Guadalupe Dorado
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Agenda 2030 ◽  
Technical Architecture ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Building Engineering ◽  
New Jobs

The building sector is one of the most relevant at world level in view of the percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) concerned, as well as the number of new jobs created. Nevertheless, it is a completely male-dominated industry. Different institutions and organisms, such as the Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals, struggle to reduce gender inequality in different environments, including the working one. Aligned with these goals, this study provides the data exploited from the first survey regarding gender inequality within the professionals of the building engineering field in the Spanish population as a whole. This survey was developed in 2018 by the Spanish General Council of Technical Architecture and it was sent to its members. The sample involved 1353 cases. For this data mining, bivariate analyses were conducted in order to subsequently carry out a factor analysis and the socio–demographic composition of the dimensions found. Results exposed statistically meaningful differences in the eyes of women and men about those factors which facilitate practice and continuity in the profession. The most relevant conclusions drawn from the factor analysis reflect the existence of three factors: (1) work competences, (2) social capital and (3) physical appearance and being a man, dimensions in which women and men’s opinion was unevenly distributed.

scholarly journals Affordances-Based Brand Relations: An Inquire on Memetic Brands on Instagram

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 205630512110213
Author(s):  
Alessandro Caliandro ◽  
Guido Anselmi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Brand Communities ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Global Brands ◽  
Technical Architecture ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Compositional Changes

In this article, we argue that, in an era of platformization of culture, social media users tend to relate with brands through modalities that are more informed by platforms’ affordances (i.e., by the technical architecture of and participatory cultures thriving on social media platforms), rather than shared systems of values and meanings promulgated within brand communities or influencers’ fandoms. Our argument grounds on an analysis of 757,776 Instagram posts related to six global brands, through which we show how users create branded content by following and reproducing a memetic logic. Drawing on our empirical results and Limor Shifman’s theory of Internet memes, we introduce the notion of memetic brands. Memetic brands are collections of branded social media posts, which derive from a standard branded template that repeats from user to user with small compositional changes at every iteration and on top of which users attach expressions of their vernacular creativity. In the process, memetic brands vehiculate a hypersignification, that is, an implicit discourse on fluid and situational consumption. Through the concepts of affordances-based brand relations and memetic brands, the article contributes (from a theoretical and methodological point of view) to the emerging literature on platformization of culture.

Open network quality of service and bandwidth control: Use cases, technical architecture, and business models

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. Brunetti ◽  
Kanti Chakrabarti ◽  
Alina M. Ionescu-Graff ◽  
Ramesh Nagarajan ◽  
Dong Sun
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Service ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Use Cases ◽  
Open Network ◽  
Technical Architecture ◽  
Bandwidth Control ◽  
Network Quality

Dynamic Federal Collaborative Development Method for Heavy Military Vehicles

2014 ◽  
Vol 548-549 ◽  
pp. 1504-1509 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Ji ◽  
Wei Yan Chai ◽  
Gan Xin Xue ◽  
Ge Yang Li
Keyword(s):  
Development Environment ◽  
Collaborative Development ◽  
Development Method ◽  
Development Platform ◽  
Military Vehicles ◽  
Collaborative Environment ◽  
Technical Requirements ◽  
Technical Architecture ◽  
Business Function ◽  
Cross System

According to the business characteristics and technical requirements of heavy military vehicles digital collaborative development, the paper proposes the dynamic federal collaborative development method for heavy military vehicles. To realize the method, the key is constructing the three-tier dynamic federal collaborative development environment. So the paper focuses on the research of the business, function and technical architecture of dynamic federal collaborative development environment. Applying the Web Service-Based cross-system collaborative flow controlling method and developing the integrated middleware, the three-tier federal collaborative environment realizes tightly integration. Finally, the application demonstration of a type-product inter-enterprise collaborative development based on the developed digital collaborative development platform verifies the effectiveness and feasibility of the method.

scholarly journals Bottlenecks, Modules, and Dynamic Architectural Capabilities

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carliss Y. Baldwin
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Technical System ◽  
Maximum Effect ◽  
Organizational Boundaries ◽  
Value Capture ◽  
Technical Problems ◽  
Technical Architecture ◽  
Complex Technical System ◽  
Technical Systems

How do firms create and capture value in large technical systems? In this paper, I argue that the points of both value creation and value capture are the system’s bottlenecks. Bottlenecks arise first as important technical problems to be solved. Once the problem is solved, Then the solution in combination with organizational boundaries and property rights can be used to capture a stream of rents. The tools a firm can use to manage bottlenecks are, first, an understanding first of the technical architecture of the system; and, second, an understanding of the industry architecture in which the technical system is embedded. Although these tools involve disparate bodies of knowledge, they must be used in tandem to achieve maximum effect. Dynamic architectural capabilities provide managers with the ability to see a complex technical system in an abstract way and change the system’s structure to manage bottlenecks and modules in conjunction with the firm’s organizational boundaries and property rights.

scholarly journals Planets: Integrated Services for Digital Preservation

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 88-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Farquhar ◽  
Helen Hockx-Yu
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Reference Model ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Digital Preservation ◽  
Integrated Services ◽  
Open Archival Information System ◽  
Technical Architecture

The Planets Project is developing services and technology to address core challenges in digital preservation. This article introduces the motivation for this work, describes the extensible technical architecture and places the Planets approach into the context of the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Reference Model. It also provides a scenario demonstrating Planets’ usefulness in solving real-life digital preservation problems and an overview of the project’s progress to date.

scholarly journals Towards a Functional and Technical Architecture for e-Exams

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nour El Mawas ◽  
Jean-Marie Gilliot ◽  
Maria Montesinos ◽  
Marine Karmann ◽  
Serge Garlatti
Keyword(s):  
Technical Architecture

scholarly journals Technical Architecture of Enabling Body of Knowledge System for Effective Learning and Information Dissemination

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-62
Author(s):  
Liang-Jie Zhang ◽  
Jia Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Service Oriented Architecture ◽  
Heterogeneous Data ◽  
Well Performance ◽  
Services Computing ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Urgent Task ◽  
Technical Architecture ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Delivery Platform

In the current era of knowledge explosion, many fields are witnessing a tremendous amount of research and practice reported on a regular basis. How to help people effectively and efficiently study state-of-the-art knowledge in a specific field has become an urgent task yet highly challenging. On top of the Internet as an unstructured knowledge base, this paper reports the design and development of a Body of Knowledge portal (BoK), which can be used as a novel learning environment. Leveraging the key technologies of services computing (Web 2.0, Web services and Service-Oriented Architecture), a BoK provides a uniform gateway for researchers and practitioners to seamlessly study and organize knowledge from heterogeneous data sources. A service-oriented knowledge delivery mechanism is key to a BoK centered on configurable delivery protocols. As services computing having evolved as the foundational discipline supporting modern services industry, the authors used the field as an example to illustrate the technical architecture that enables the establishment of BoK in services computing. Information dissemination of BoK on mobile delivery platform is explored as well. Performance data analysis is also reported on the BoK infrastructure.

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