PILOT: design and capabilities

Design and Capabilities of PILOT

Figure 1. PILOT telescope, enclosure and tower INTRODUCTION PILOT (The Pathfinder for an International Large Optical Telescope) is a 2.4m optical/infrared telescope, proposed for Dome C on the Antarctic Plateau, with target first light at the end of 2012.

Design Agents with Negotiation Capabilities

INTRODUCTION Agents are viewed as the next significant software abstraction, and it is expected they will become as ubiquitous as graphical user interfaces are today. Multi-agent systems have a key capability to reallocate tasks among their members, and this may result in significant savings and improvements in many domains, such as resource allocation, scheduling, ecommerce, etc. In the near f...

The Architecture and Design of Organizational Capabilities

This paper considers how ideas from evolutionary theory in general, and Sidney Winter in particular, can be fruitfully combined with ideas from Herbert Simon and the Carnegie tradition on de-composability and cognitive limits. Rather than focusing on any one individual issue, this paper outlines a research programme on the architecture and design of organizational capabilities. Such a programme...

Capabilities and Limitations of Energy Optimization Tools in Architectural Design Phase

Optimization tools as a method have gained vast application to achieve best results in reducing buildings’ energy consumption. In this paper optimization tools in conjunction with energy simulation software, as a powerful mechanism in design phase are studied. This is an applied research in nature and evaluates the capabilities and limitations of optimization algorithms in the beginning of the ...

Influence of sustained accelerations on certain pilot-performance capabilities.