The oil and gas industry is known for its rapid technological advancements and the complexity of its operations, increasingly relying on data-intensive management. As subsea projects-from exploration to decommissioning-become more complex and data-driven, integrating knowledge management (KM)...

An integrated assessment (IA) model combines knowledge from very different disciplines in view of a practical problem. Most models developed so far are rather monolithic in the sense that it is difficult to combine components from different models for purposes of new assessments. We propose to...

The European steel industry is exposed to a very competitive market. Manufacturing high quality flat steel products demands highly skilled personnel, excellent plant technology, suitable plant maintenance, good quality of raw material, suitable automation systems, proper set points for control...

The formulation of complex planning models, such as linearprogramming (LP) systems, is a difficult task that enjoys little supportby current decision support systems tools. It is hypothesized thatcurrent artificial intelligence technology is insufficient to buildgeneralized formulation tools...

A number of DSS for supporting decisions by more than one person have beenproposed. These can be categorized by spatial distance (local vs. remote),temporal distance (meeting vs. mailing), commonality of goals (cooperationvs. bargaining), and control (democratic vs. hierarchical)....

Most large systems development efforts proceed in a top-down fashion where initialspecifications and requirements are incorporated into a high-level design, followed byprograms based on this design. However, a major part of the software life-cycle effort isdevoted to maintenance. While several...