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We present a sport skill classification using time series motion picture data, focused on table tennis. We do not use body nor skeleton model, but use only hi-speed motion pictures, from which time series data are obtained and analyzed using data mining methods such as C4.5 and so on. We identify internal models for technical skills as evaluation skillfulness for forehand stroke of table tennis, and...
Application dependability issues depend on increasingly sophisticated activities during operation time for deployment, upgrade, scaling out/in and reactions to various failures. Traditional approaches to improving application dependability focus on artifact-oriented troubleshooting and improvements. In this paper, we present an approach using process models to represent and analyze operations with...
This paper discusses some practical issues relevant to facilitated conceptual modelling (CM). We consider facilitated CM as a process of undertaking CM primarily in facilitated workshops attended by a group of stakeholders. Facilitated workshops are a common practice in some fields of operational research (OR), System Dynamics (SD) and Problem Structuring Methods (PSM). The associated benefits of...
The purpose of this research is to examine a multilevel approach to property hedonic models. Because individual properties are nested within neighborhoods within a city, a multilevel method is used to develop hedonic models. The author analyses several statistical and substantive reasons for explicitly modeling individual properties as belonging to neighborhoods. The reasons include spatial dependencies,...
This study illustrates the importance of assessing and accounting for time heterogeneity in longitudinal social network analysis. We apply the time heterogeneity model selection procedure of [1] to a dataset collected on social tie formation for university freshman in the Netherlands by [2]. Within the context of analyzing selection effects for smoking homophily to understand the implications of tobacco...
To provide a broader education for Operational Research PhD students in the UK, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council funds the National Taught Course Centre for Operational Research (NATCOR). This is an initiative led by six UK universities and includes a one-week, residential simulation module taught for the first time in July 2009. We describe the background to NATCOR, summarize...
The ability of learning English of Chinese students needs to improve. It is essential to explore the method of learning English. In the pager, using the data warehouse to solve the problem. The data warehouse stores the fact table and the dimension tables. Before the data Loading into the DW, deal with the data using ETL tools. In this paper, design the system architecture of the English learning...
In order to better grasp the development trend and study the development path of service industry, this paper built ARIMA forecasting mode based on related statistical data from 1978 to 2008 to predict the service industry development of Sichuan Province, and analyze the forecast results.
Rural poverty reduction is highly concerned with social equality and the building of a harmonized society. Great achievements have been made for poverty reduction in rural China in the last decade. Anti-poverty investment under different project models, however, seems to have different results. By adopting quantitative approaches, and based on the field survey sample data of counties, villages and...
Using order processing system simulation can help the analysis and realization of workflow management, scheduling and decision of distribution center and the optimization of system configuration; it can also judge whether the system can meet its quick-response design requirements and examine the practicability of system indicators. By using Extend module, this paper established a dynamic model of...
One of the most important reasons for poor performance on the basic education ICT projects is due to the lack of a systemic framework, which is used to identify the essential factors and their relationships during the project, the systemic framework is important especially for those cross-sector projects, such as the projects of ICT tests in Shanghai rural schools. Maturity Model frameworks were created...
This paper is based upon a case study. Gillard Associates completed the refurbishment of the first of three 1960psilas student accommodation blocks at Atlantic College, Wales in late summer 2008. The refurbishment was predicted to possibly achieve Code for Sustainable Homes level4, through the use of a combination of Archicad BIM and Ecotect Building Performance simulation software.The Cardiff School...
The ability of economic data analysis is very important to information major students in economic and economic universities. However, mastering the skill of economic data analysis is not easy to them. The design and construction of a teaching model based on schema theory in economic data analysis curriculum is described, and then it is applied to information major students. The teaching result shows...
Pattern Oriented Modeling (POM) is an approach to bottom-up complex system analysis which was developed in ecology and for agent-based complex systems. This paper proposes a pattern-oriented agent-based simulation (POABS) approach to analyze agent-based complex system. We apply POABS to a history simulation domain to analyze a particular family line with more successful candidates in the civil service...
Public choice theory can better explain lower input-output efficiency of higher education and lower allocative efficiency of higher educational resources in different provinces of China, and modified quadriform model based regression analysis and discriminant analysis can better distinguish input- output efficiency of different educational units and important associated characters of high efficiency...
We have investigated a technique for recognising faces invariant of facial expressions. We apply multi-linear tensor algebra, which subsumes linear algebra, to analyse and recognise 3D face surfaces. This potent framework possesses a remarkable ability to deal with the shortcomings of principle component analysis in less constrained situations. A set of vector spaces can be used to represent the variation...
Developing sustainable urban environments is complex as it requires consideration of interacting social, economic and environmental sustain ability factors. The task is made even more difficult by the wide variety of stakeholders (e.g. planners, architects, businesses and the public) that may be involved in the process and the lack of a common language for all to understand. This paper describes a...
Building on the extensive research in Virtual Reality (VR), we are proposing a new dynamic prototype for modelling and simulating carbon emissions in a virtual village called VIRVIL. VIRVIL is a simulated settlement for the assessment of the impact of low and zero carbon technologies and measures in the built environment. The prototype will focus on the impact on the community as a whole, as well...
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