In this paper, we describe a repository for architectural 3D-CAD models which is currently set up at the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB), Hannover as part of the larger German PROBADO digital library initiative: The proposed PROBADO-framework is integrating different types of multimedia content-repositories and adding features available in text-based digital libraries. A...

Reuse of available databases can support database design and reverse engineering of databases by allowing design decisions to be derived from existing databases This article proposes a method for reusing databases similar to the approach used in case based reasoning Similar databases or similar parts of databases are rst determined We then discuss the information to be reused and how it can be ...

In this article, we present a cross-layer design scheme for 802.16-2005 system. The cross-layer design includes both MAC and PHY and is implemented through platform-based methods. In this design, we discuss how the cross-layer design affects radio resource management efficiency and system timing by examining system throughput. As for the platform-based design, we present a method that enables d...

An important issue in research on human-machine cooperation concerns how tasks should be dynamically allocated within a humanmachine team in order to improve team performance. The ability to support humans in task allocation decision making requires a thorough understanding of its underlying cognitive processes, and that of relative trust more specifically. This paper presents a computational a...

the objective of this review to be submitted in two independent parts, for steel frames and for rc frames, is to compare their structural performance with respect to the proposed n2-method, and so also of the consequent convenience of using pushover methodology for the seismic analysis of these structures. a preliminary investigation is presented on a pushover analysis used for the seismic perf...

the present study sets out to integrate the performance-based seismic design approach with the connection topology optimization method. performance-based connection topology optimization concept aims to simultaneously optimize the size of members and the type of connections with respect to the framework of performance-based seismic design. this new optimization concept is carried out for unbrac...

We develop an agent-based modeling and simulation approach to study the impact of product consumption strategies on the temporal dynamics of recommender systems’ performance. We model the product consumption strategy by decomposing it into two parts: recommender system’s item ranking strategy and consumers’ item selection strategy. Our simulation results show that consumers’ selection strategy ...

This paper describes a method to build artificial societies that can dynamically expand themselves from bottom-up, in order to cope with environmental changes. This method is then applied to model the evolutions through the first stages of human societies, inspired by social science theories.

Role-based collaboration (RBC) is proposed to support improved human collaboration through more usable human-computer interfaces. To satisfy the objectives of RBC, new practical tools are required. Role-based chatting is a typical instance of role-based collaboration. To design a role-based chatting tool involves almost all the fundamental problems of RBC. This paper presents the design problem...

Representing human decisions is of fundamental importance in agent-based models. However, the rationale for choosing a particular human decision model is often not sufficiently empirically or theoretically substantiated in the model documentation. Furthermore, it is difficult to compare models because the model descriptions are often incomplete, not transparent and difficult to understand. Ther...