Solving many actual safety problems in atomic, electrotechnical, space, railway and oil industries as well as in science takes noncontact optical measurement technologies with micron resolution and productivity from 500 to 100 000 meas./s. We have developed, implemented and tested in real workshop and outside conditions some novel optical measuring systems, which are operating successfully in m...

This article describes the need of using Protocol Engineering techniques to study current telecontrol protocols and this way improve their performances by setting them up or changing for others, such as standardised ones (testing their implementations). Keyword: Substation and Distribution Automation, Protocol Engineering, Testing

Previous studies have shown that after being trained on A-B and A-C match-to-sample tasks, adults match not only same-class Band C stimuli (equivalence) but also BC compounds with sameclass elements and with different-class elements (BC-BC) . The assumption was that the BC-BC performances are based on matching equivalence and nonequivalence relations (equivalenceequivalence) . The present study...

This research has objective to develop a model of key performance indicators (KPI) measurement in higher education institution. The proposed model is based on combination between AHP, trend analysis and comparative data.. KPIs are determined as description of key success factors related to institution sustainability. These KPIs are chategorized into academic, research and supporting KPI. Each K...

A new and simple greenhouse crop transpiration model enabling predictions from outdoor conditions is presented and the parameters involved are discussed with respect to different types of greenhouse-crop systems. This transpiration model was validated against experimental data measured in a soil-less tomato crop cultivation in Avignon in summer conditions, when the greenhouse is open, and early...

1. The paper presents brief descriptions of various cell suppression software packages, focussing on availability, costs, platforms, and the underlying methodology. The systems performances will be compared with respect to information loss, and computing time requirement; other key qualities of the software will be discussed.

The X-ray satellite BeppoSAX 1 , a major programme of the Italian space agency with participation of the Dutch space agency, was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral on April 30, 1996. After a 2 months period devoted to engineering check out that confirmed the nominal functionality of the satellite and the scientific payload, we have performed a series of observations of celestial objects ...

For millennia, music has been a performance-based artform open to continuous variation and reinterpretation. More recently however, industrialisation has allowed for the mass-production of sound recordings, in turn bringing conjecture about the changed nature of music reception in society. This article reflects on related practice-based work by its authors and examines aspects of music producti...

We present a diagnosis system which combines the outputs of several classifiers performing local generation on the French Telephone Network. This data fusion process takes into account alarms occurring at different times and space locations. This allows to considerably improve upon the performances of a previous diagnosis system which relies only on local decisions.

In this paper we address the issue realizing efficient and equitable utilization of limited resources by collective decision of interacting heterogeneous agents. There is no presumption that collective action of interacting agents leads to collectively satisfactory results without any central authority. How well agents do for it in adapting to their environment is not the same thing as how sati...