In this paper, we describe the framework created for implementing AI-based animations for artificial actors in the context of IVE (Intelligent Virtual Environments). The minMin-HSP (Heuristic Search Planner) planner presented in [12] has been updated to deal with 3D dynamic simulation environments, using the sensory/actuator system fully implemented in UnrealTM and presented in [10]. Here, we s...

Diffusion of ICTs created the issue of an enormus quantity of old computers to be discarded (e-Waste). Sustainable dismantle is becoming a global enviromental emergency. In this scenario, Trashware movement is spreading worldwide to give to computers the correct time of obsolescence and to face the ecological problem related to e-waste. Workgroups aim to profitably reuse discarded computers as ...

Humans derive many utilitarian benefits from the environmental services of biotas and ecosystems.Yet ecosystem, species and genetic levels is increasingly lost from agricultural landscapes mainly due to maximisation of production [1,2]. The genetic variability is a result of several forces including mutation, recombination and gene flow. Allele frequencies are altered by natural selection and b...

An enterprise operating in the mining industry sector is constantly influenced by external and internal enviromental factors, and changes of these factors may increase the risks to its performance. Trying to decrease the risks to a reasonable minimal level, there appears also a demand to establish some changes in the internal control system – to refuse some irrelevant and inefficient control pr...

When a vehicle equipped with an artificial vision system enters or exits a tunnel, the camera may temporarly suffer from reduced visibility, or even get completely blind due to quick changes in enviromental illumination. This paper presents a vision-based system that detects approaching tunnels entrances or exits. The proposed system allows other ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems) to act...

Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. 1. Purpose. The purpose of this manual is to provide guidance in enviromental engineering for coastal shore protection projects. 2. Applicability. This manual applies to all field operating activities that have responsibility for environmental impact studies related to coastal shore protection projects. 3. Discussion. This manual summarize...

We consider a new model for groundwater ow. The model diiers from previous models in that the saturation-pressure relation is extended with a dynamic term, namely the time derivative of the saturation. The resulting model equation is of nonlinear degenerate pseudo-parabolic type. We give a rigorous analysis of travelling wave solutions and the local behaviour near fronts. Part of this analysis ...

We present a simplified model of a coupled planetary geosphere-biosphere, with two evolving species coupled through a single enviromental variable. The species do not compete directly, but instead compete through, and can evolve their effect on, this environmental parameter. The model produces an evolutionary arms race, with each species evolving extreme behaviour to counteract the other. The r...

This paper presents an alternative method to predict the temperature profile in a spatial point of the interior of a refrigerated container with the aim of improving the logistics of perishable goods. A SISO gray-box model in which the organic heat is represented by a non-linear feedback system and the cooling process represented by a linear system is proposed. Parameter adaptation and predicti...