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Real-time strategy (RTS) games hold many challenges in the creation of a game AI. One of those challenges is creating an effective plan for a given context. Competitive game AIs have struggled to adapt and create good plans to counter the opponent strategy. In this paper, a new scheduling model is proposed regarding planning problems on RTS games. This problem consists of solving a multi-objective...
Traditional production systems are enhanced by cyber-physical systems (CPSs) and Internet of Things. As kind of next generation systems, those cyber-physical production systems (CPPSs) are able to raise the level of autonomy of its production components. To find the optimal degree of autonomy in a given context, a research approach is formulated using a simulation concept. Based on requirements and...
In normal conversation, the meanings of data, information and knowledge can often be used interchangeably. At some level of approximation, these three terms are near enough the same. In the domain of computing and in particular the topic known as artificial intelligence, to accept this generalisation is to lose some resolution in a plausible model of the origin of thought. This paper offers an interpretation...
A vast body of research has been exploring the effectiveness of Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL) in second language teaching and encouraging the incorporation of MALL into pedagogical practice (Bárcena, E. et al 2015, Kukulska-Hulme et al. 2015). Paradoxically, however, pre-service teachers tend to be unfamiliar with the benefits of using of mobile devices in language teaching and learning...
University campuses are comparable to cities, despite the differences in dimension and kind of structures. The Smart City model can be scaled and adapted to them in order to create a Smart Campus. In this framework the research project SC2 is based on an integrated Smart planning in order to reach this goal. The strength of the project is its methodological approach characterized by 5 key points:...
Town Administrations are increasingly facing the challenge to identify smart planning actions to reduce the cities' energy demand by improving the efficiency of the urban energy systems. Buildings play an important role in this regarding both the demand and supply energy. In this scenario, the neighborhood or district scale seems to be the most appropriate to implement a multi-disciplinary approach...
Situational Method Engineering aims at constructing methods adapted to a given situation, either by a construction from a set of predefined method components or by a customization of an existing method using different techniques: configuration, extension, reduction, and so on. However, these techniques are still limited in practice, as considered complicated and heavy to implement. In this paper,...
Context: Organizations act in highly competitive markets, which forces them to be flexible. Constantly changing business requirements require flexible business processes. Case Management Model and Notation (CMMN) supports modeling run-time flexibility of partially structured business process models, but does not fully specify the control flow. Objective: The goal is to develop a planning algorithm...
This paper presents a planning framework to find the minimum storage sizes (power and energy) at multiple locations in distribution networks to reduce curtailment from renewable distributed generation (DG), specifically wind farms, while managing congestion and voltages. A two-stage iterative process is adopted in this framework. The first stage uses a multi-period AC optimal power flow (OPF) across...
In this paper, we develop effective solutions for enabling mobile sensing/data collection in community IoT deployments where sensing/communication coverage is intermittent and varying. Specifically, we address the optimized upload planning problem, i.e. determine optimal schedules for upload of gathered information to enable timely data collection in dynamic settings. We develop a two-phase approach...
Perception and expectation of citizens is an important factor in urban settlement, planning and management. Hence, there is a need of a participatory citizen centric planning of urban settlement based on spatial data. These perception and expectation may be represented in terms of emotions. Determining Urban Emotions is an approach which can be used to map different types of emotions associated with...
Joint architecting, design, and simulation of operational-functional requirements and scenarios on the one hand and system functionality and technological requirements on the other hand is a common challenge in systems engineering. We propose a model-based systems engineering approach that addresses this challenge. The confusion between operational and functional behavior stems from systems engineers'...
In this paper, methods of controlling of working hours and increasing its efficiency, means: formalized algorithm of software development project modified Gantt chart and software prototype for controlling working hours, are described.
One application of robotics is to assist humans in the achievement of tasks they face in both the workplace and domestic environments. In some situations, a task may require the robot and the human to act together in a collaborative way in order to reach a common goal. To achieve a collaborative plan, each agent (human, robot) needs to be aware of the tasks she/he must carry out and how to perform...
Every conversation has its own goal, which is changed depending on the situation. The dialog supporting system should recognize the changes and react to them. In order to help in implementing this system, we propose a model of dynamic planning based on the situation. In order to achieve the separation of concerns, the system architecture is structured in three tiers. For describing the situation and...
Worldwide 1.3 billion people remain without electricity and 2.7 billion are still cooking on inefficient stoves. In remote rural village communities, need to develop and improve lives. Smart villages (SV) capture many of the benefits of urban living while retaining aspects of rural life and ensuring development at the national level. This enables villagers to attain healthy and fulfilling lives, achieve...
The paper demonstrates prototype of system that is capable of suggesting optimal touring plans which are composed of various points of interest (POI) and take travelers' preferences and context into account. It systematically collects and analyzes information on thousands of tourists attraction areas and geographical nodes of Japan Railway (JR) train stations together with concurrent weather information,...
The growth in popularity of Agile methods plus a dissatisfaction of Government agencies with traditional software development methods have stimulated the adoption of Agile Methods. The action research approach was used in this work to assess the implementation of a process for the Management of Agile Development Demands - whose original acronym in Portuguese is 'GeDDAS' - for a software factory in...
Conceptual modeling, code automation and reduction of error propagation have motivated software development teams to use ontologies. The lack of methodologies and guidelines to associate ontologies and development software can interfere in the development time, as well as in the software quality. This paper proposes an agile process for ontology based software, called OntoSoft Process, bringing together...
This paper discusses the application of Bézier-Splines for the approximation of circuits for user-centric route planning. We draw splines in a normalised coordinate system and use provided geo-data to transform them onto a map. We then determine sampling points on the transformed curve where navigation occurs.
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