The coordination of cooperative agents involved in rescue missions is an important open research problem. We consider the RoboCup Rescue Simulation (RCS) challenge, where teams of agents perform urban rescue operations. Previous approaches typically cast such problem as separate single-team allocation problems. However, different teams have complementary capabilities, and therefore some kind of...

A table-top exercise on ‘Monitoring a large-scale cross-border contamination in the aftermath of a nuclear accident’ was organized within the FP7-project PREPARE with the focus on the long-term emergency monitoring including transboundary and transnational aspects. From the detailed and content-rich answers from all participants of the table-top exercise, it can be concluded that competent pers...

Indoor localization in smoke conditions is one of the EU GUARDIANS [1] project goals. When smoke density grows, optical sensors such as laser range finders and cameras cease to be efficient. Zigbee sensor networks provide an interesting approach due to the fact that radiofrequency signals are propagated easily in such conditions. Moreover, they permit having an alternative communication infrast...

One of the most challenging issues in manual assembly lines is to achieve the best balance of workloads. There are many analytic approaches to solve this problem, but they are often neglected, since they are time-consuming and require high level engineering skills. Fashion bags packaging lines must comply with a number of different products with low production volumes, while the organization of...

Enterprise computing (EC) is the recognition that to effectively utilize and disseminate information within an entity (university, corporation, government agency, etc.) it will be necessary to design and develop integrated distributed computing environments that allow all types of existing and future systems to interoperate. In EC, there are legacy, COTS, database, and new client/server applica...

Objective: Fitness trackers are appealing in public health intervention programmes aimed at promoting physical activity, but it is unclear whether tracker use leads to behaviour change soldiers. This programme evaluation investigated the effects of fitness usage on goal-setting, self-monitoring and activity behaviours soldiers participating a 6-month pilot promotion focused improving sleep, nut...

Introduction: Time is an essential category in the Emergency Department. The phone call duration, with person who's calling, should be optimal order to make sound decisions. If due a wrong number it made as shorter possible. Objective: We aimed show how long conversations caller lasted, for calls that were qualified having connection. Method. used electronic database (194/94) 2009. data put spr...

The article is devoted to investigating the specific of information Kyiv region’s local media conducive for authority cases reaction ordinary peasants grain procurement campaign 1932–1933 as a key mechanism organization Holodomor in Ukraine. research strategy based on contextual analysis different materials against broad background Holodomor, well territorial and chronological representation ne...

In this paper, a new monitoring alert system for air pollution emergencies is proposed. The proposed can perform quality to provide real-time alerts of an individual event. uses two image analysis techniques, namely pixel recognition and haze extraction, video fire smoke detection. process divided into daytime nighttime analyses, which involve the red-green-blue (RGB) gray scale images. images ...