This paper describes some of the considerations involved in the development of an intelligent integrated vehicle health monitoring system from a "top-down", systems perspective.

In this survey (functional) compositions of weighted tree transformations computable by weighted extended top-down tree transducers are investigated. The existing results in the literature are explained and illustrated. It is argued, why certain compositions are not possible in the general case, and 3 informed conjectures provide an insight into potentially 3 new composition results that extend...

We extended the work of Anderson et al. (in press) by modeling how people learn from “over-the-shoulder” instructions – instructions given immediately after actions were executed – while participants were working on a AntiAir Warfare Coordinator (AAWC) task. Specifically, we modeled the incremental top-down influence of instructions on the visual search process. We constructed a model that firs...

Motivated by the strong experimental evidence of large νμ −ντ neutrino oscillations, we study existing constraints for related μ − τ flavor violation. Using a general bottom-up approach, we construct dimension-6 effective fermionic operators whose coefficients encode the scale of new physics associated with μ−τ flavor violation, which is a piece in the puzzle of the origin of neutrino oscillati...

Biocomputing is a broad field of research encompassing any area at the intersection of computing and biology. Bacterial biocomputing is a branch of biocomputing focused on generating bacterial strains with useful logical and sensing functions, using chemical, electrical, or physical input or output signals. Significant advances have been made in the last decade; however, there are major obstacl...

Collaboration with citizens and users plays an increasing role in the transformation of public services towards new forms of production and delivery. Thus there is a need to modernize the civil service to accelerate innovation in governments, as civil servants will also have an important role to play. Digital civic engagement platforms can provide a more attractive and accessible means for part...

The age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the main cause of blindness among people over 50 years in developed countries and there are 150 million people affected worlwide. This disease can lead to severe loss central vision and adversely affect the patient’s quality of life. The appearance of drusen is associated with the early AMD, so we proposed a top-down methodology to detect drusen in ...

The Shark Reef Marine Reserve in Fiji is an ecotourism project designed to protect a small reef patch and its fauna while preserving the livelihood of local communities. It involves the local communities by using a participatory business planning approach to Marine Protected Area management, generating income through diver user fees, distributed to the local villages that have exchanged their t...