Semiautomatic Rule Assist Architecture Modeling

Evolutionary Approaches for Automatic 3D Modeling of Skulls in Forensic Identification

Photographic supra-projection is a complex and uncertain process that aims at identifying a person by overlaying a photograph and a model of the skull found. The more accurate the skull model is the more reliable the identification decision will be. Usually, forensics are obliged to perform a manual and time consuming process in order to obtain the model of the scanned forensic object. At least...

A Service Dependency Modeling Framework for Policy-Based Response Enforcement

The use of dynamic access control policies for threat response adapts local response decisions to high level system constraints. However, security policies are often carefully tightened during system design-time, and the large number of service dependencies in a system architecture makes their dynamic adaptation difficult. The enforcement of a single response rule requires performing multiple c...

Thermal Behavior of Domed Roofs, Case Study: Historical Dome-Shaped Roofs of Isfahan

Controlling musical emotionality: an affective computational architecture for influencing musical emotions

Emotions are a key part of creative endeavours, and a core problem for computational models of creativity. In this paper we discuss an affective computing architecture for the dynamic modification of music with a view to predictably affecting induced musical emotions. Extending previous work on the modification of perceived emotions in music, our system architecture aims to provide reliable con...

Incorporating Shading Losses in Solar Photovoltaic Potential Assessment at the Municipal Scale

Recently several algorithms have been developed to calculate the solar photovoltaic (PV) potential on the basis of 2.5D raster data that can capture urban morphology. This study provides a new algorithm that (i) incorporates both terrain and near surface shadowing effects on the beam component; (ii) scales down the diffuse components of global irradiation; and (iii) utilizes free and open sourc...