System prototyping in the COBRA project

Robot-Assisted Rapid Prototyping for Ice Sculptures

Ice has long been used by humankind for practical purposes, and more recently for artistic purposes as well. Nowadays, the field of ice construction is becoming more commerically relevant, with increased interest in ice tourism and specifically ice hotels. As a result, there is a market for automating ice construction, and building detailed structures that would otherwise require a significant ...

Cobra-Head Stone in Single-System Ureterocele

An Intelligent Broker for Context-Aware Systems

We describe Context Broker Architecture (CoBrA) – a new architecture for supporting context-aware systems in smart spaces. Our architecture explores the use of Semantic Web languages for defining and publishing a context ontology, for sharing information about a context and for reasoning over such information. Central to our architecture is a broker agent that maintains a shared model of the co...

Software Quality Assurance in a Project Based on Rapid Evolutionary Prototyping Methodology

In this paper we discuss Software Quality Assurance (SQA) issues in the environment of an information system project, based on rapid evolutionary prototyping. The information system project provides a specialized software support for a sophisticated human resources management system in educational departments of Argentine provinces. This paper presents a general structure of this project and be...

Prototyping a Vibrato-Aware Query-By-Humming (QBH) Music Information Retrieval System for Mobile Communication Devices: Case of Chromatic Harmonica

Background and Aim: The current research aims at prototyping query-by-humming music information retrieval systems for smart phones. Methods: This multi-method research follows simulation technique from mixed models of the operations research methodology, and the documentary research method, simultaneously. Two chromatic harmonica albums comprised the research population. To achieve the purpose ...