Human capital is of paramount importance in the ICT industry. This paper analyses one of the elements which underlies effective management of human assets: performance assessment. This analysis uses the development of a common standard based on the tasks and processes outlined in People CMM, the standard in human resource management designed by the Software Engineering Institute. This framework...

Human capital is of paramount importance in the ICT industry. This paper analyses one of the elements which underlies effective management of human assets: performance assessment. This analysis uses the development of a common standard based on the tasks and processes outlined in People CMM, the standard in human resource management designed by the Software Engineering Institute. This framework...

This paper deals with human presence detection by using a receding horizon estimator based on computer vision results. The visual position estimation problem is formulated into a nonlinear constrained optimization problem in the image plane. A global model combining the behavior of the human motion and the camera model is used to estimate the evolution of the visual features on a past finite ho...

This work presents GeoVisual Interface an interface for visual queries in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). GeoVisual Interface is the upper level module of a complete visual query system architecture. It allows users to formulate queries using visual elements (i.e. spatial objects from a visualization area, from the database schemas or from a geographic entity metaphor) and spatial operato...

With the advances in multimedia technology and the popularization of the Internet, it is now possible to access a large number of image or video repositories (visual databases) distributed throughout the world. To facilitate such access, a challenging problem is how the capability of each database can be adequately summarized to enable the query distributing server to perform an intelligent sel...

The current research demonstrates a system that employs relatively simple learning mechanisms to construct mappings between structure in visual scenes, and the grammatical structure of sentences that describe those scenes. These learned mappings allow the system to processes natural language sentences in order to reconstruct complex internal representations of the visual scenes that those sente...

NASA’s two Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) have successfully demonstrated a robotic Visual Odometry capability on another world for the first time. This provides each rover with accurate knowledge of its position, which allows it to autonomously detect and compensate for any unforeseen slip encountered during a drive. It has enabled the rovers to drive safely and more effectively in highly-sloped...

every firm learns through firm specific methods. this learning process is operationalized by firm’s knowledge management practices. therefore, knowledge to result in successful learning should be assisted by a combinative framework which can enhance a firms’ absorptive capability. this in turn will play a decisive role for achieving competitive advantage. current literature in strategic managem...