The increasing capabilities of robot systems enable new fields of practical applications for individual robots as well as multi-robot systems. But for some application scenarios like a fire or earthquake disaster current robots are still too limited to act fully autonomously in the disaster area. To overcome these limitations we consider a heterogeneous team of humans and robots complementing e...

Data Warehouse technology addresses business process analysis. However, it ignores upstream decision-making like formulating policies and policy enforcement rules. We provide a requirements engineering approach for building an integrated data for all types of decisions in an organization. To do this, we develop a two level generic platform with the bottom level having generic models of decision...

In human health and life sciences, researchers extensively collaborate with each other, sharing biomedical and genomic data and their experimental results. This necessitates dynamically integrating different databases or warehousing them into a single repository. Based on our past experience of building a data warehouse called GEDAW (Gene Expression Data Warehouse) that stores data on genes exp...

Recently, Data Warehouse has proven to be a powerful technology for the integration of heterogeneous data into a multidimensional repository for decision-support analysis. The complex ETL (extraction, transformation and loading) process and the aggregation-intensive queries are affected by a sequence of domain specific NFRs (Non Functional Requirement). This advocates the use of service oriente...

Data Warehouses typically are building blocks of decision support systems in companies and public administration. The data contained in a data warehouse is analyzed by means of OnLine Analytical Processing tools, which provide sophisticated features for aggregating and comparing data. Decision support applications depend on the reliability and accuracy of the contained data. Typically, a data w...

Atrium is a popular architectural feature utilized widely by building designers and owners to bring various benefits such as adequate daylight, circulation spaces and surfaces for landscape applications. But atrium problems in tropical climates such as excessive daylight, glare and high temperature, which lead to increase building energy demand, have been reported. Atrium has been used with var...

ASRS is usually installed in a factory or warehouse to increase storage capacity, floor space utilization, labor productivity in storage operations and stock rotations etc. ASRS systems are custom-planned for each individual application, and they range in complexity from relatively small mechanized systems that are controlled manually to very large computercontrolled systems that are fully inte...