Text: Recently, Minagawa proposed a knowledge refinement method for crack diagnostic expert system. The inference engine was constructed for a reciprocal network based on min-max composition algorithm. The knowledge refinement function was installed into the engine by using the concept of back propagation algorithm. First the inference and refinement method are applied to the rule-base system f...

Most information visualization systems incorporate little or no specific support for collaboration. Yet, collaboration has been identified as a means to deal with the increasing amount and complexity of information available to analysts. Re-implementing existing applications to fully incorporate our current understanding of computer supported cooperative work could be exhaustive, time consuming...

Old machines often breakdown unpredictably increasing your expenses through maintenance costs and lost production. In the present era various modern technologies are been emerging in field of manufacturing which proven to be disruptive. For established industries their machine tools sometimes it is difficult cope up with current scenario. Hence retrofitting an term where improvisation old setup...

Given the current climate emergency and ambitious targets of carbon emissions reduction, retrofitting strategies on existing buildings typically include reducing energy demand, decarbonising power supply, addressing embodied stored in materials. This latter point redefines role engineers transitions towards a sustainable construction sector, being they responsible for designing low impact, neut...

How can we take householders from being disengaged passive energy consumers towards being highly motivated retrofitting energy saving masters? In this paper the ”Power law of engagement model for energy saving” is introduced, which breaks down the process of engaging householders into 8 defined stages. The model is based on the householder’s level of engagement and commitment, but applies Fogg’...

Sustainable HCI has seen a large growth in the amount of research taking place in the field. However, are we taking the most effective route to generating sustainable sustainability? In the Sustainable HCI community, a large focus of the research has been on persuasive psychological techniques to change individuals’ behaviours to be sustainable. Nevertheless, individual behaviour change has lim...

Component & connector architecture description languages (C&C ADLs) provide hierarchical decomposition of system functionality into components and their interaction. Most ADLs fix interaction configurations at design time while some express dynamic reconfiguration of components to adapt to runtime changes. Implementing dynamic reconfiguration in a static C&C ADL by encoding it into component be...