Integrated Model Driven by Agent-Based Water End-Use Forecasting to Evaluate the Performance of Water and Wastewater Pipeline Systems

2016 ◽  
Vol 142 (10) ◽  
pp. 04016035 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yihong Liu ◽  
Fu Sun ◽  
Siyu Zeng ◽  
Kevin Lauzon ◽  
Xin Dong
2011 ◽  
Vol 89 (3) ◽  
pp. 317-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Binxin Li ◽  
Daniel Majonis ◽  
Peng Liu ◽  
Mitchell A. Winnik

We describe the synthesis of an end-functionalized copolymer of N-(2-hydroxypropyl)methacrylamide (HPMA) and N-hydroxysuccinimide methacrylate (NMS) by reversible addition–fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization. To control the polymer composition, the faster reacting monomer (NMS) was added slowly to the reaction mixture beginning 30 min after initating the polymerization (ca. 16% HPMA conversion). One RAFT agent, based on azocyanopentanoic acid, introduced a –COOH group to the chain at one end. Use of a different RAFT agent containing a 4-amino-1,8-naphthalimide dye introduced a UV–vis absorbing and fluorescent group at this chain end. The polymers obtained had molecular weights of 30 000 and 20 000, respectively, and contained about 30 mol% NMS active ester groups.


Author(s):  
Ingo Zinnikus ◽  
Christian Hahn ◽  
Klaus Fischer

In cross-organisational business interactions, integrating different partners raises interoperability problems especially on the technical level. The internal processes and interfaces of the participating partners are often pre-existing and have to be taken as given. This imposes restrictions on the possible solutions for the problems which occur when partner processes are integrated. The aim of this chapter is the presentation of a three-tier framework for managing and implementing interoperable and crossorganizational business processes. Thereby the authors want to fill the gap currently existing between processes defined on a strategic level and executed models. We describe a solution which supports rapid prototyping by combining a model-driven framework for cross-organisational business processes with an agent-based approach for flexible process execution. We show how the W3C recommendation for Semantic Web service descriptions can be combined with the model-driven approach for rapid service integration.


2007 ◽  
Vol 9 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 195-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Themis Palpanas ◽  
Pawan Chowdhary ◽  
George Mihaila ◽  
Florian Pinel

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