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Adapting systems to the changes of their ubiquitous environments is a complex task. The autonomic computing was proposed as a solution to tackle this complexity. It brings a system with self-management capabilities to dynamically adapt itself to context. We are interested in the architectural adaptation approaches of autonomic applications which follow the MAPE-K loop process. During the execution...
Emergent changes are common in large engineering projects and in such dynamic project environments planning and documentation work are often deprioritized in favor of actionable decisions. Previous research has failed to look at the planning and documentation problem as a sociotechnical system as it relates to project managers' and engineer's practical work. In this article, a single case study approach...
The assessment of travel time reliability for segments and routes is a rapidly advancing frontier. The increasing availability of probe data is making it possible to monitor reliability in real-time based on individual vehicle data as opposed to ex-post-facto based on averages. This paper examines metrics that can be used to monitor reliability based on probe data. The merits of traditional metrics...
On October 5, 2015, El Faro, a cargo ship heading to San Juan, Puerto Rico, foundered in the Atlantic Ocean off the Bahamas due to Category 4 Hurricane Joaquin. Thirty-three crew members remain missing. The captain cut south of the storm, due to the rare occurrence of such storm systems traveling south, but ended up sailing straight into the high winds and seas in the area, a situation that had a...
Medical tourism is a domain rich of data that are stored in many hundreds of data sources. Many of these sources should be used during the development of tourism information systems. That is why, it is very important to create a referential model that represents the medical tourism in Tunisia. The e-tourism ontology provides a way to achieve integration and interoperability through the use of shared...
Enterprise systems engineering (ESE) is a multidisciplinary approach that combines traditional systems engineering (TSE) and strategic management to address methods and approaches for aligning system architectures, system development and system implementation with enterprise business rules, enterprise strategic objectives and enterprise capabilities within diverse complex subsystems. ESE therefore...
Itinerary planning is consequential process and time consuming process for travelling agencies which need to be done conscientiously to gratify the user requisites. The satisfaction level of users can be incremented by getting the itinerary in the customized manner by amassing the details from the users itself. There will be more encumbrance of processing the huge search space will occur where the...
We address collaborative decision in the Multi-Agent Consistency-based online learning of relational action models. This framework considers a community of agents, each of them learning and rationally acting following their relational action model. It relies on the idea that when agents communicate, on a utility basis, the observed effect of past actions to other agents, this results in speeding up...
Autonomous driving has shown the capability of providing driver convenience and enhancing safety. While introducing autonomous driving into our current traffic system, one significant issue is to make the autonomous vehicle be able to react in the same way as real human drivers. In order to ensure that an autonomous vehicle of the future will perform like human drivers, this paper proposes a vehicle...
With the increasing amount of renewable and difficult-to-forecast generation units, Transmission System Operators (TSO) are facing new challenges to operate the grid properly. Indeed, given the intrinsic variability and limited predictability of most renewable generations, the application of the conventional and deterministic N-1 method becomes very costly. Therefore, a new approach is needed for...
Scrum is a cyclical project management technique whereby members of a development team work together to define product development strategies in pursuit of a common objective in an adaptable and incremental manner. We have found that Scrum is a promising approach for exposing students to project management of undergraduate engineering projects. But, the technique is not used often in undergraduate...
Teaching Computer has led to the design of an educational model that is increasingly making use of market practices linked to business corporations. Within this scenario, a practical and dynamic learning system is being fostered that allows simulations to be carried out in real contexts through problem resolution. Based on constructivist theories, PBL (Problem-Based Learning) is a teaching method...
Ensuring satisfactory results by using problem-based learning in education in the Computing area is challenging. Faithfully maintaining the philosophy of PBL requires not only full compliance with its principles but also that its processes are managed efficiently. To facilitate the adoption of PBL, especially as to managing its processes, this article puts forward a framework based on Demig's PDCA...
We propose a learning-from-demonstration approach for grounding actions from expert data and an algorithm for using these actions to perform a task in new environments. Our approach is based on an application of sampling-based motion planning to search through the tree of discrete, high-level actions constructed from a symbolic representation of a task. Recursive sampling-based planning is used to...
We studied two teams of senior engineering students in a mechanical and aerospace engineering capstone design course for four months to learn about their self-regulation strategies while immersed in an authentic classroom environment. The first team, which consisted of six students, were designing a patient lift system to be used by a semi-paralyzed lady in the local community. The second team, which...
Undergraduate engineering students are often taught to create their engineering résumés early in their academic careers as part of first-year composition or technical writing classes. Often, these classes are not taught by engineering faculty, and few resources exist for engineering-specific résumé development. A corpus of 31 engineering résumés was collected, representing engineers across experience...
This paper describes our experience using entrepreneurial clients to teach a Project Management course. Although the majority of students are currently Marketing & Management Communication Students, Engineering and Computer Science Design students also participate, and learn from the multidisciplinary teams formed for the coursework. The course focus is first and foremost on project management...
A survey we conducted a few years ago concluded that higher education teachers should have the following competences: interpersonal, methodological, communicative, planning and management, teamwork and innovation. The authors of this work belong to the Institute in charge of the lecturer-training program at our university, which is basically a technical one. In order to improve our training program,...
Plan and take into account the whole picture of the course before it starts, must be a prerequisite for the instructors. At the Tecnológico de Costa Rica, a problem related to course planning has been identified it is the low detail of the courses planing, associated with the relation between the content and the competences, evaluations and learning objectives, there is not a logical flow on the courses...
This study aims at exploring the mechanism of information planning in continuous speeches and discourses. The main focus is on how information planning is signaled via advance prosodic prompting and indexing. Recently it has been identified that a perceivable prosodic projector with its intended projection (as opposing to prosodic highlight associated key information) form a crucial information unit...
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