Ecological Interface Design (EID) is a recent philosophy for designing visual displays for human-machine interfaces that advocates displaying the higher-order relations and properties of a work domain so that adaptive ...

Global warming, greenhouse gas emissions, and product waste have serious impact on the balance of land, ocean, and air temperature. Environmentally conscious consumers and environmental protection legislation have been ...

Throughout a product's lifecycle, multiple stakeholders interact with each other to generate large amounts of disparate information about it. All of modern product development, particularly, in Original Equipment Manufacturers ...

The design and analysis of buildings require a high level of collaboration and coordination among the disciplines of architecture, engineering, and construction. Efficiencies can be gained through the sharing of data ...

We focus on three main frameworks: (1) we investigate configuration control and coordinated tracking for nonholonomic and Lagrangian multi-agent systems; (2) we introduce systems with switching equilibria, develop control ...

In this paper, we discuss the first application of recently developed L1-adaptive control methods for the closed-loop control of anesthesia delivery during surgery. Our initial objective, described herein, is to design ...

The vehicle routing problem with shipment pick-up and delivery with time windows (VRPPDTW) is one of the core problems that is addressed by a package delivery company in its operations. Most often, this problem has been ...

Semidefinite relaxation (SDR) is a powerful tool to estimate bounds and obtain approximate solutions for NP-hard problems. This thesis introduces and studies several novel linear and nonlinear semidefinite relaxation models ...

The properties of polynomially computable neighborhood functions are also examined. The global verification of several problems is proven to be NP-complete. These results are extended to show that polynomially computable ...

Although GPS-based travel data has been studied by many mainly for automated travel mode detection, the area of activity mode detection during harvest still remains an open technical challenge. This thesis proposes and ...