Existing activity recognition approaches in the smart home domain suffer from poor human activity models. Combining expertise from cognitive ergonomics and ubiquitous computing, we discuss the hard technical challenges to address when leveraging a realistic model of human activity. We present the architecture of a prototype smart home system that we are developing and show the gap that exists b...

The increasing amount and complexity of data used in predictive data mining call for new and flexible approaches based on hybrid intelligent methods to mine the data. This paper proposes a formal description for integrated data structures of Hybrid Intelligent Systems and the specification language HISML based on the open XML standard, introduced to fill the gap between simple soft computing mo...

Brazilian neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis defends his plans to show off a thought-directed exoskeleton at the World Cup By K. Servick A few of these molecules are clearly important, but just how many? Lasers, superconductors, and gamma rays now fill the time of extraordinary facility By R. Stone FEATURES 1076 MINORITY VOICE Richard Tapia has prepared generations of minority students for academi...

Coal gangue produced during coal production not only poses a serious threat to the ground environment but also imposes economic burdens on mine. The partial-filling mining (PFM) method proposed in this paper can make full use of and is great significance prevention control water disasters at working face. specific process used implement first divide face into several narrow faces then fill fill...

“Mine Backfill, An Operator’s Guide” is an extension of the electronic book on CD-ROM entitled “Mine Backfill 1998”, which was prepared for the CIM’s (Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy, and Petroleum) centennial celebrations in 1999. Discussions with many operations revealed that there was an industry need for a backfill guide for front-line operator training and as a reference manual fo...

Safety is a legal requirement of mining industry. Effective safety measurements and risk management can serve the mine administration to lessen dangers recognized in mine. Autonomous technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) Machine Learning (ML) models have been integrated with industry ensure safe working environment since decade ago form fully unmanned workfaces robots. These autono...

Differential SAR Interferometry (D-InSAR) is an effective tool in monitoring land subsidence because of its greater coverage area and better resolution of height change. A series of Japanese Earth Resources Satallite-1 (JERS-1) images from 1992 to 1998 has been used in monitoring the mine subsidence in the test site of this study, one of the important coal mining areas in China. D-InSAR procedu...