The purpose of this paper is to conceptualize a futureoriented human work environment and organizational activity in deep mines that entails a vision of good and safe workplace. Futureoriented technological challenges and mental images required for modern work organization design were appraised. It is argued that an intelligent-deep-mine covering the entire value chain, including environmental ...

There is currently a gap in the technology covering the rapid establishment of control after a reconfiguration in a Reconfigurable Manufacturing System. This gap involves the detection of the factory floor state and the communication link between the factory floor and the high-level software. In this paper, a thin, hardware-supported Middleware Management System (MMS) is proposed and its design...

Artificial intelligence technology has developed significantly in the past decades. Although many computational programs are able to approximate many cognitive abilities of Homo sapiens, the intelligence and sapience level of these programs are not even close to Homo sapiens. Rather than developing a computational system with the intelligent or sapient attribute, I propose to develop a system c...

Tutoring systems are computer-based learning systems. In order to be “intelligent” they must present “humanlike” tutoring capabilities. Tutoring systems should be able to adjust the content and delivery to students’ characteristics and needs by analyzing and anticipating their effective responses and behaviors. There is ongoing research to improve the effectiveness of dialogue and feedback for ...

The rapid growth experienced by many cities has created huge pressures on their traffic and transport systems. One common solution consists of increasing the number of roads available, but is not always the most appropriate. The application of Information and Communications Technologies enabling more efficient and effective use of the existing transport infrastructure is necessary (also known a...

The next stage of the home networking environment is supposed to be ubiquitous, where each piece of material is equipped with an RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tag. To fully support the ubiquitous environment, home networking middleware should be able to recommend home services based on a user’s interests and efficiently manage information on service usage profiles for the users. Therefo...

Context awareness drives adaptability of pervasive computing systems both in virtual and physical environments that change dynamically. This paper presents a context awareness management framework based on intelligent software agents. The fundamental element of this framework is our RAP (Resources, Actors, Policies) context model which defines two ways for context information representation: se...

Thermal stability and pressure-dependent changes are key to molecular crystals their properties. The determination of thermal properties from ab initio methods is, however, a challenging task. While the low-frequency phonon spectrum related intermolecular vibrations remains difficult describe, Quasi-Harmonic Approximation (QHA) also induces for significant volume deviation, which makes behavior...

The ever increasing use of World Wide Web in the existing network, results in poor performance. Several techniques have been developed for reducing web traffic by compressing the size of the file, saving the web pages at the client side, changing the burst nature of traffic into constant rate etc. No single method was adequate enough to access the document instantly through the Internet. In thi...

The work reported in this paper is motivated by the fact that there is a need to apply autonomic computing concepts to parallel computing systems. Advancing on prior work based on intelligent cores [36], a swarm-array computing approach, this paper focuses on ‘Intelligent agents’ another swarm-array computing approach in which the task to be executed on a parallel computing core is considered a...