Oregon State University Libraries took advantage of ILL requests submitted through ILLiad to pilot a "just-in-time" (purchase on demand) program for loans. Robust assessment of the pilot program allowed for a data-driven decision on final program status. The assessment plan included solicitation of patron feedback which helped define success of...
The U.S. Air Force models many naturally occurring
phenomena. To validate such models, an automated data
collection system is used. Since validation is dependent
upon correct data, an inexpensive method to detect
erroneous data was investigated. The method uses a Wiener
filter to predict values one sample in advance. If...
This monograph provides information to companies in the forest products industry about the process of implementing a Just-In-Time (JIT) management system, including JIT purchasing and JIT manufacturing. In addition, this monograph illustrates the impact of JIT on organizational accounting and productivity. Many authors have suggested that today's globally competitive marketplace...
Recent advances in diagnostic expert systems have been limited by the crucial Knowledge Acquisition Problem: to bring expert heuristics into logical, conditional rule forms useful for computer aided diagnosis. Some automatic systems with potential biomedical relevance that do acquire knowledge are reviewed here, and analyzed from the standpoint of possible...
MIDAS is an application framework for remote data acquisition and visualization that allows dynamic reconfiguration of its constituent components. There are three types of reconfiguration, namely, component replacement, component interposition and component deletion. A two-phase protocol to maintain the consistency of the system during reconfiguration is described. MIDAS has a...
A method for real time in-flight prediction of the ground impact point of an indirect fire projectile is investigated. The method investigated is comprised of a combination of an impact point predictor and an extended Kalman filter state estimator based on modified linear theory. The modified linear theory model is...
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
Document-based educational information systems require systematic
acquisition efforts that must be conscientiously undertaken to build an
information system and to keep it current. These acquisition efforts
can be influenced by several variables. The major thrust of this
research was to investigate one of these variables, namely...