Geographic information is commonly disseminated and consumed via visual representations of features and their environmental context on maps. Map design inherently involves generalizing reality, and one method by which mapmakers do so is through the use of symbols to represent features. Here we focus on the challenges associated with supporting mapmakers who need to work together to reach consen...

Agile software development of short iterative cycles offers an opportunity for rapid, visible and motivating software process improvement (SPI). The agile principles suggest the regular reflections of agile project teams for improving the efficiency and adaptation of the process. However, current literature provides little support or empirical evidence for conducting such improvement efficientl...

This work considers model synthesis and validation in controller design. The problem we are interested in is to derive a formal model of a controlled automation system from a semi-formal description of the uncontrolled plant and various requirements concerning the plant and the processes of the controlled system. These requirements are formulated on many different abstraction levels, partly emp...

In this paper, the combination of equalization and turbo decoding is studied. In the iterative decoding of a product code in block turbo coding system, the equalization process is performed within the iteration loop. The present study aims to investigate the decision feedback equalizer (DFE) incorporated in the iterative decoding. Simulation results show that the more severe the channel interfe...

a systematic way is presented for the construction of multi-step iterative method with frozen jacobian. the inclusion of an auxiliary function is discussed. the presented analysis shows that how to incorporate auxiliary function in a way that we can keep the order of convergence and computational cost of newton multi-step method. the auxiliary function provides us the way to overcome the singul...

in this paper, we present gauss-sidel and successive over relaxation (sor) iterative methods for finding the approximate solution system of fuzzy sylvester equations (sfse), ax + xb = c, where a and b are two m*m crisp matrices, c is an m*m fuzzy matrix and x is an m*m unknown matrix. finally, the proposed iterative methods are illustrated by solving one example.