The AIMS Project
AIMS stands for Assets and Infrastructure Management System - a software decision-support framework that aids the effective recording, management and analysis of any data pertaining to the various stages in the lifecycle of any asset.
AIMS is an open-ended, scalable, domain-independent (i.e., can be used for any infrastructure movable/immovable asset) software framework.
The Frequently Asked Questions document gives information about the most common aspects of this Software.
A Glossary has been prepared that gives information about the terminology used.
In order to guide the User, a Best Practices document has also been created.
A set of General Tips for the prospective User is available - a must read for every User!
A new User, can walkthrough the step-by-step instructions given in the Getting Started Guide (which is a part of the AIMS Help - Caution: this is a 2.2 MB zipped file), before entering fresh information into the AIMS Software.
The overview document gives a bird's eye view of what AIMS is and how it can be used.
The AIMS structure describes the broad syntax that is used in creating the decision-support framework.
The scheme details the topology, organisation, security and inter-connections of the AIMS knowledge-base, and how the framework is domain-independent.
The Standards Compliance Document describes the requirements of Standards (IAEA Safety Standard Series, “Maintenance, Surveillance and In-service Inspection of Nuclear Power Plants” Safety Guide No. NS-G-2.6) and how the Assets and Infrastructure Management System (AIMS) Software Framework is designed to meet them.
There is also a PowerPoint Presentation about AIMS which you can download here.
Currently developed in Visual Prolog, the AIMS decision-support framework will be ported later to collate knowledge that is distributed (both geographically and in storage) and target multiple devices across the Web.
There is also a Research Note comparing the computational concepts of Microsoft Software Update Services (SUS) Server® and the fully distributed AIMS software.
A new document titled "AIMS Database Structure in SQL", has been added in which I describe the steps required and taken to convert the Prolog databases of AIMS into SQL Tables. The necessity, advntages and features of this conversion are also described in this document.
You can view some of the code snippets that are constituents of the AIMS project.
