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Smart Lighting Systems are designed to conserve energy without compromising the user's visual comfort. The system incorporates Smart Android Application (App) and communication technologies to adjust light intensities as per the user comfort and behavior, employing the smart sensors. This paper presents implementation of a Smart App for smart lighting system based on the location of the individual...
Most of the township level administration buildings of Taiwan are out-aged or fail to meet the needs of residents due to population pressure. Some of the township administration buildings were rebuilt or relocated once those were aged or overcrowded. This research is thus aimed to understand the factors that affected the satisfaction of the users and staffs of a township. As well the Delphi method,...
Regulatory authorities of e.g. the automotive, avionic, or railway domain pose high requirements concerning safety assurance activities. One activity known from requirements engineering (RE) is requirements traceability. We propose a model-based methodology to facilitate trace link visualization over several levels of abstraction and different viewpoints. This intuitive visualization concept allows...
Largely-spaced facilities such as school buildings are commonly used as evacuation areas for people and their families whose homes were afflicted by a strong earthquake or a devastating typhoon. In order to ensure the safety of the public, the government uses structural assessment techniques to monitor the structural integrity of these facilities periodically. Presented in this paper are two parameters...
This paper presents the result of the work achieved in the frame of three successive European Projects, which aimed to build an innovative system to assist security managers in the crisis preparation, training and management phases. The iterative approach of the consortium is presented, as well as the results. A novel interactive and shared Common Operational Picture is proposed which has been validated...
Code-generation environments have emerged as a new mechanism for building software systems in a systematic manner. At their core, model-driven engineering technologies such as model-to-model and model-to-text transformations are effectively used to build generation engines. However, due to the complexity of model-to-model and model-to-text transformation scripts, which is exacerbated as they are composed...
Data visualisation with high expressive power plays an important role in code comprehension. Recent visualization tools try to fulfil the expectations of the users and use various analogies. For example, in an architectural metaphor, each class is represented by a building. Buildings are grouped into districts according to the structure of the namespaces. We think that these unique ways of code representation...
The state of the art rigid object recognition algorithms are based on the bag of words model, which represents each image in the database as a sparse vector of visual words. We propose a new algorithm to select informative features from images in the database. which can save the memory cost when the database is large and reduce the length of the inverted index so it can improve the recognition speed...
Project vision is a key commodity in building a team with a common outlook. Drawings are a common tool in sharing vision, so a more disciplined and reproducible approach to this medium could be of significant value across families of project work. Moving from disposable discussion guide sketches and incompletely defined high-quality paintings to a methodology in line with other media like UML diagrams...
Image categorization plays an important role in the field of image retrieval and automatic annotation. Most existing algorithms adopted the low-level visual features to represent an image and the well-known Bag-of-words model followed by the SVM classifier was employed to fulfill the classification task. In this paper, instead of using the traditional low-level visual features, we employ the perception...
This paper presents 'The Sensitive Tapestry', an interactive installation using body-input as a nontraditional user interface. The technical basis for this kind of media-enabled environment is a thermal imager that captures the activities in public areas at a large scale. The installation has been developed as a prototypical example in architectural education at the ETH Zurich, Science City. The aim...
At the first International Workshop on Advanced Software Development Tools and Techniques, four emerging trends in academic tool building were evident. First, tools are increasingly constructed on the basis of external code, reusing, for instance, existing frameworks and integrated development environments. Second, researchers often choose dynamic languages such as Smalltalk to implement prototype...
The objective of the 2nd international workshop on advanced software development tools and techniques (WASDeTT) is to provide interested researchers with a forum to share their tool building experiences and to explore how tools can be built more effectively and efficiently. This workshop specifically focuses on tools for software maintenance and comprehension and addresses issues such as tool-building...
In 3D computer graphics, it has been an important issue to describe a virtual object realistically and show it in a physically correct manner. Unlike the virtual reality(VR), the augmented reality (AR) is an environment containing virtual and real objects simultaneously. However, the difference in motion between the virtual and real objects is obvious, which makes it hard for AR to be realistic and...
It's necessary to discuss the topology model of digital images for integrating remote sensing and geographic information system in higher levels. Based on cellular complex theories, a hierarchical image representation is presented that maintains both raster and vector representations of an object inside a same data structure and to translate between spatial concepts in image understanding and mining...
The UEML approach is comprising an ontological approach to representation of modeling languages; innovative ideas are i) ontology is not fixed but evolve, ii) ontological analysis outcome is a standardized meta-model of a language, mapping abstract syntax artifacts on ontological artifacts, Hi) automated mechanisms for understanding similarities between language constructs can be applied. The paper...
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