This work covers the design and implementation of a Microsoft Excel-based simulation program intended to estimate helicopter reliability. The simulation program is written in Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and will ...

In recent years, mobile devices (e.g. cell phones, PDAs, and notebooks) have had a high increase in their networking, computational and storage power. The mobile nature of these devices causes a new set of problems not ...

This thesis presents NetTraveler, a Database Middleware System for Wide Area Networks that is designed to efficiently run queries over sites that are either mobile clients or enterprise servers. NetTraveler is designed to ...

This thesis presents a novel infrastructure which allows the Web Service-Based Wireless Alarm Monitoring and Data Acquisition System for Pharmaceutical Plants (WAMDAS) to be a more portable, reliable, secure, and robust ...

This dissertation presents a novel approach to sharing situational awareness among a group of geographically dispersed mobile networked devices. We divide our efforts into two parts: getting the information to the right ...

This work presents the implementation of a system to improve the availability of excel based data specifically the FMEA and FMECA data used by the US Army RAM Engineering and System Assessment group by creating a web based ...

Public health offcials, hospital directors, and other professionals related with health disciplines have to track and report disease outbreaks that affect populations around the world. Often, the data comes in reports and ...

Electric energy networks provide the necessary energy to carry out daily operations in education, health care, commerce, entertainment, defense, and government. Smart grids (SG) have been proposed as a mechanism to ...

Social networks have become a very important means to facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, news, and opinions on many topics. They also provide real-time information on sales, marketing, politics, ...

Typical IT infrastructures used in manufacturing companies such as pharmaceutical plants are based on enterprise servers, with vast capacities for large data sets, managed with relational database systems, with powerful ...