Open Access Same-time Information System OASIS is an internet based Electronic Bulletin Board It is used by energy suppliers and utilities to communicate and negotiate/reserve transmission line capacity for the delivery of energy from power plants to local distribution companies An ARES must provide both the energy and its delivery to the utility See Retail Wheeling, below
Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (http: //www oasis-open org) is an international, not-for-profit consortium that designs and develops industry standard specifications for interoperability based on XML
Acronym for Optical-Acoustic Submersible Imaging System, an instrument developed for 3-D acoustic tracking of zooplankton with concurrent optical imaging to verify the identity of the insonified organisms OASIS also measures in situ target strengths of freely swimming zooplankton and nekton of known identity and 3-D orientation The system consists of a 3-D acoustic imaging system (Fish TV), a sensitive optical CCD camera with red-filtered strobe illumination, and various ancillary oceanographic sensors See Jaffe et al (1998)
An electronic posting system for transmission access data that allows all Transmission Customers to view the data simultaneously, as required and defined in FERC Order 889
Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards Their home site is http: //www oasis-open org/ The DTD repository they sponsor is at http: //www XML org
A consortium of companies and individuals that collects and publishes XML specifications, DTDs, and schemas By standardizing specifications, OASIS hopes to advance the open interchange of documents and structured information objects