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 ...

Material handling is an important component of Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMSs). Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) are commonly employed for this function. Efficient use of AGV systems requires proper routing and ...

The algorithms reported here have led to a software toolkit that simulates both applications. The results of this dissertation are not only of practical value for the nano-CEMMS, but also of theoretical interest to the ...

An activity-interest model was developed and implemented in a program called CITY INFO-PLUS, which represents information via boundary objects in a dynamic contextual manner. This application demonstrates a way for ...