Nature-inspired algorithms are a very promising tool for solving the hardest problems in computer sciences and mathematics. These algorithms are typically inspired by the fascinating behavior at display in biological systems, such as bee swarms or fish schools. So far, these algorithms have been applied in many practical applications. In this paper, we present a simple particle swarm optimizati...

We studied the use of two types of graphic information visualization to support human operators performing tasks using enterprise resource planning systems (ERP). We compared the original display design of a commercial ERP system with a prototype information visualization design. A simulated supply chain was used to test the hypothesis that graphical visualization can improve the performance of...

Simple programming and monitoring tools had to be developed to control the NIST RoboCrane to accommodate crane operators. The programmed move instructions are generated by an off-line graphic animator, and the data files are transferred through the internet. The data are of neutral text format and any robot controller with the proper interpreter can understand them. The controller operation can...

Collinearity diagnostics are widely used, but the typical tabular output used in almost all software makes it hard to tell what to look for and how to understand the results. We describe a simple improvement to the standard tabular display, a graphic rendition of the salient information as a ‘‘tableplot,’’ and graphic displays designed to make the information in these diagnostic methods more re...

This study employed WebAccess software to construct a remote graphic surveillance system, which was developed differently from previous remote monitoring systems. Advantech WebAccess is a web system structure, thus, it can reduce the time required for building a web server, and the system can be developed online or locally. Remote monitoring can be realized by downloading directly from a remote...

This software is a simulator of security system developed with Java and providing a graphic interface built with Java Swing. This simulator is bound to be used to check an existing system or a system being currently devised. A security system is represented by a logigram. A logigram consists of events linked by rules. The rules stand for triggering links between the events. The simulator provid...

The purpose of this study is to determine which 3D viewers should be used for the display of interactive graphic engineering documents, so that the visualization and manipulation of 3D models provide useful support to students of industrial engineering (mechanical, organizational, electronic engineering, etc). The technical features of 26 3D visualization software programmes (viewers, publisher...

This paper describes a exible visualization architecture based on software agents, which enables the abstraction and reuse of rendering strategies. Using a reication of the rendering environment, the system is able to add new rendering strategies (such as distributed rendering or progressive rendering) to an existing pipeline, without any modication of the other components (controls componen...

Technological evolution has paved the way for a variety of small dynamic maps. The increasing use of the Internet and WWW has played a major role in the dissemination of map applications. Interactive map animations open a new way of thinking when visualizing spatial data. This paper focuses on the presenta-tion of the temporal dimension of spatial phenomena on dynamic maps. The proposed methods...

Flexible display has been attracting attention in the research field of next generation display in recent years. And polymer is a candidate material for flexible displays as it takes advantages including transparency, light weight, flexibility and so on. Rolling process is suitable and competitive process for the high throughput of flexible substrate such as polymer. In this paper, we developed...