We are attempting to develop an autonomous personal robot that has the ability to perform practical tasks in a human living environment by using information derived from sensors. When a robot operates in a human envir...
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We are developing an autonomous personal robot with the ability to perform practical tasks in a human environment based on information derived from image sensors and a knowledge database. In its adjustment to a human ...
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Sustainable success of service oriented applications relies on capabilities to manage possible service failures. To substitute a failed service with some other equivalent service is unavoidable in recovering a suspend...
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It is well-known that the natural phenomenon of an earthquake is unpredictable both in time and intensity. Consequently, the damages on human constructions produced by an earthquake are also unpredictable. The aim of ...
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(纸本)9780889867178
It is well-known that the natural phenomenon of an earthquake is unpredictable both in time and intensity. Consequently, the damages on human constructions produced by an earthquake are also unpredictable. The aim of this paper is to classify the structural and architectural damages suffered after an earthquake. The interest is obvious for several reasons such as public safety, economical recourses management, infrastructure and urban planning. In this paper a new classification method based on artificial neural networks is proposed. A set of 200 accelerograms were used. Two artificial neural networks, one for each type of damages, have been proposed. The neural network is a Back Propagation one with a supervised learning scheme for the training process. Correct classification rates up to 94.5% and 93.5% for the structural and architectural damages, respectively, are achieved.
Teaching engineering and technology subjects involves conveying understanding of abstract information structures and processes such as complex telecommunications protocols, complex mathematical concepts, and data stru...
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Teaching engineering and technology subjects involves conveying understanding of abstract information structures and processes such as complex telecommunications protocols, complex mathematical concepts, and data structures. These are multidimensional and can be difficult to grasp quickly. Supported by a Hewlett-Packard (HP) technology for Teaching grant, the School of engineering and technology at National University has embarked on a project to enable students to grasp these complex concepts more quickly and easily, using continuous dialog among students and instructors as the structures are first introduced and then examined from multiple perspectives through real-time interaction among students, small groups, and instructors. HP Wireless Tablet PCs are used to discuss and experiment with diagrams and processes in realtime. This allows combining lectures and problem-solving sessions into a single class session. Our hypothesis is that: 1) an in-depth learning of theory is accomplished, and 2) student engagement is enhanced. Presentation of theory by the instructor is integrated with application while the theory is still in the student's short-term memory. Students no longer have to wait for a separate session such as a recitation session to apply the concepts. This approach often takes less time. In addition to accelerating the learning process, expert instructors find this approach more rewarding as students grasp new concepts more quickly. Analysis of data captured from both students and instructors are presented to support our hypotheses, and our results are compared with similar research carried out by other universities. In addition, the level of interaction enabled by the use of HP Tablets in on-line classes is discussed. The best teaching tools available in existing on-line teaching platforms are compared with the additional tools available in on-site courses when every student has a wireless Tablet PC and specific recommendations are made to on-line teachi
In today's Web environment, many enterprises decide to implement and publish their applications on the Internet using Web services technology. In many cases, a single service is not sufficient to fulfill the user&...
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In today's Web environment, many enterprises decide to implement and publish their applications on the Internet using Web services technology. In many cases, a single service is not sufficient to fulfill the user's request. To solve this problem, services should be combined together. Therefore, composition of Web services is one of the recent critical issues. A number of approaches have been presented, to tackle this problem. In this paper, we categorize these approaches into four categories (workflow-based, AI-planning based, syntactic-based, and semantic-based). Then, we compare these approaches based on some criteria (like QoS, scalability, and correctness). Investigation of that classification will help researchers who are working on service composition to deliver more applicable solutions.
Existing informationsystems often lack support to crisis and emergency situations. In such scenarios, the involved actors often engage in ad hoc collaborations necessary to understand and respond to the emerging even...
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(纸本)9783540928300
Existing informationsystems often lack support to crisis and emergency situations. In such scenarios, the involved actors often engage in ad hoc collaborations necessary to understand and respond to the emerging events. We propose a collaboration model and a prototype aiming to improve the consistency and effectiveness of emergent work activities. Our approach defends the requirement to construct shared situation awareness (SA). To support SA, we developed a collaborative artifact named situation matrixes (SM), which relates different situation dimensions (SD) of the crisis/emergency scenario. A method was also developed to construct and evaluate concrete SM and SD. This method was applied in two organizations' IT service desk teams, which often have to deal with emergency situations. The target organizations found our approach very relevant in organizing their response to emergencies.
Since many organizations recently decide to implement and publish their applications over Internet, the number of Web services has dramatically increased. In many cases, a single service is not sufficient to respond t...
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Since many organizations recently decide to implement and publish their applications over Internet, the number of Web services has dramatically increased. In many cases, a single service is not sufficient to respond to the user’s request. In order to tackle this problem, services have to be combined together. Therefore, composition of Web services is one of the recent critical issues. Several approaches have been presented, to tackle this problem. In this paper, we classify these approaches into four categories namely Workflow-based, AI-planning based, Syntactic-based, and Ontology-based. Then, we describe and compare these approaches using some criteria (like QoS, scalability, and correctness). The overall results indicate that some AI-planning and Ontology based approaches like HTN-DL and WSMO satisfy most of the criteria.
Web services are the preferred standards-based way to realize service oriented architecture (SOA) computing. A problem that has become one of the recent critical issues is automated composition of Web services. A numb...
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Web services are the preferred standards-based way to realize service oriented architecture (SOA) computing. A problem that has become one of the recent critical issues is automated composition of Web services. A number of approaches have been proposed to resolve the problem. However, discovery and composition of Web services have been neglected by majority of those approaches. In this paper, we propose an approach called AIMO, based on AI-planning and Web service modeling ontology (WSMO), which are adapted and extended to tackle the mentioned problem. Moreover, we propose a translator to provide interaction between WSMO and AI-planning. We start with presenting the AIMO architecture which shows all components of the proposed approach. Finally, a simple case study is designed to test some components of AIMO. The preliminary results of the test demonstrate that our approach provides an applicable solution.
Open source software which serve as key components of critical infrastructures in the social life are still ever-expanding now. We focus on the quality problems of open source software developed under open source proj...
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