In this article, the author reviews the concept "social support" from western and eastern perspective, and the concept of adult child caregiver, finally analysize several cases from social support perspective.

Component-based Software Development (CBSD) isbased on the idea of developing software systems by selecting appropriate off-the-shelf components and integrating them under a specified architecture. Such an approach prevents a software developer from having to reinvent the wheel, reduces software development cost and time, and promotes flexibility and maintainability. In this paper, we describe the application of CBSD in developing a system for automated inter-library loans between the libraries of two major universities of Singapore. Currently, interlibrary loan (ILL) is a cumbersome and manual process. Our system helps promote resource-sharing and interoperability and reduces the difficulties involved in the current manual loan system between libraries. Specifically, we describe the CBSD approach, present the design and implementation of the MILLS (Managing Inter-library Loan Services) system, and describe how MILLS was developed taking the CBSD approach into consideration. The lessons learnt from this case should be of value to software developers.

As the key design characteristics of warship, reliability, maintainability, and supportability (RMS) are crucial to the successful completion of warship missions. To enrich the RMS design and analysis methods of warship equipment, this paper focuses on the voyage of warship propulsion system, and builds a theoretical model of RMS integrated assessment system for warship on the basis of multi-agent technology, so as to indicate how successfulness of the mission warship propulsion system is dynamically related to equipment and supporting resources. Furthermore, Anylogic is used as a platform to develop a RMS simulation system for warship propulsion system in the mission of voyage. By changing the RMS parameters of warship propulsion system and repeating the simulation of voyage, important factors are identified for the improvement of probability of mission completion success, which is of great military significance.