Creativity is recognizable only in a given context thereby making its definition elusive. In design, creativity in a domain may depend on characteristics of the process or the product, or both. In this paper, we argue that a better understanding of creativity can occur by focusing on the conditions that allow for creative acts. With respect to design research, we believe that it would be most p...

This paper describes ongoing effort in developing an anthropomorphic arm/hand manipulation system as part of the German Humanoid Research Project SFB588. This project aims at building a humanoid robot that assists humans in everyday service tasks. The manipulation part of this project has to deal with a service environment and to cope with the wide variety of objects and activities encountered ...

The boundary between the network edge and the front-end servers of the data center is blurring. Appliance vendors are flooding the market with new capabilities, while switch/router vendors scramble to add these services to their traditional transport services. The result of this competition is a set of ad-hoc technologies and capabilities to provide services at the network edge. This paper desc...

This article addresses the challenges and capability gaps confronted by public administrations concerning digital transformation use of novel tools in context land use, facilities urban services planning. The present state planning management processes Finland is introduced reflected through experimental piloting conducted two Finnish cities. Participatory action research design methodology was...

This paper studies the performance of a wireless sensor network (WSN) with cognitive radio (CR) capabilities to gather information about structural health monitoring (SHM) of buildings in case of seismic activity. The system performance is evaluated in terms of energy consumption and average packet delay using a discrete event simulator. In order to efficiently use the resources of the network ...

This paper describes part of a research project that looks into the potential and challenge of using the Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) open standard building information model in fire engineering design. In particular the paper describes work undertaken to share building geometry and other information with the Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) fire simulation model. A commercially available bui...