Hypermedia integration of information resources for nuclear plant operations
- Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States). School of Nuclear Engineering
- Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
Computer hypermedia technologies offer significant possibilities for integrating data, information, and multifaceted knowledge resources abounding in existing and next-generation nuclear plant operations. A hypermedia system may be viewed as a set of nodes and links allowing nonlinear access to plant information residing in computers regardless of format. The process of accessing information in hypermedia systems is known as navigation. After a review of the state of the art, quantitative criteria are presented for the development of hypermedia databases and a fuzzy graph-based methodology for navigating the large information spaces involved in nuclear plant operations. In the developed methodology, membership functions embodying context-dependent criteria provide application-specific tools for navigation. The methodology is illustrated through numerical examples and a Hyper-Card-based prototypical system for monitoring special material in a next-generation nuclear reactor.
- OSTI ID:
- 500913
- Journal Information:
- Nuclear Technology, Vol. 119, Issue 1; Other Information: PBD: Jul 1997
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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