Digitizing heritage monuments is a process of spatial data acquisition, geometry modelling, digital archiving and web-based representation. Moreover, there are several survey and digitizing techniques working and developing such as traditional manual methods, topographic methods, photogrammetric methods and scanning methods. The most popular on application and developing is 3D laser scanning te...

There has been increased research interest in systems composed of multiple autonomous mobile robots exhibiting collective behavior. Groups of mobile robots are constructed, with an aim to studying such issues as group architecture, resource conflict, origin of cooperation, learning, and geometric problems. As yet, few applications of collective robotics have been reported, and supporting theory...

Museums need an interactive data collection and visualisation tool for their artefacts. This paper describes a study in which we enable access to Chinese and Japanese cultural heritage information from two history museums, the National Palace Museum in Taiwan and the Tokugawa Art Museum in Japan. Results from these museum databases were used to develop a prototype system to demonstrate advanced...

"Each one of us has two heritages, a "vertical" one that comes to us from our ancestors, our religious community and our popular traditions, and a "horizontal" one transmitted to us by our contemporaries and by the age we live in. It seems to me that the latter is the more influential of the two, and that it becomes more so every day. Yet this fact is not reflected in our perception of ourselve...

In the context of two relevant examples of intangible cultural heritages, such as music and theater, this paper presents an innovative approach to online fruition of live performances. Our proposal aims at adding both interactivity and multi-layer fruition to traditional Web viewers, as well as a way to manipulate and create new media. The premise to reach these goals is digitizing a number of ...

The paper discusses the utilization of three-dimensional cellular automata employing the twodimensional totalistic cellular automata to simulate how simple rules could emerge a highly complex architectural designs of some Indonesian heritages. A detailed discussion is brought to see the simple rules applied in Borobudur Temple, the largest ancient Buddhist temple in the country with very comple...

A field experiment was performed to investigate the effect of several variables on helping behavior, using the express trains of the New York 8th Avenue Independent Subway as a laboratory on wheels. Four teams of students, each one made up of a victim, model, and two observers, staged standard collapses in which type of victim (drunk or ill), race of victim (black or white) and presence or abse...

In the past decade surgery of the esophagus has made tremendous strides, not only in the field of carcinoma but also in the numerous other conditions to which this organ is heir. Diseases of the esophagus fall not only into the realm of the surgeon but into that of the general practitioner, the internist, the pediatrician, the anesthetist, the roentgenologist and the otorhinolaryngolist as well...

W present three approaches to evaluating a publicly detailed, high-stakes, high-risk decision made by an heir-claimant to the estate of Larry Hillblom. The first two approaches are standard: a decision tree focusing on risk aversion and a multiperiod consumption model that highlights the effects of forgone consumption. In the third approach, we embed several Nash bargaining games into the decis...

We study generalized amalgamation properties in simple theories. We state the definition of generalized amalgamation in such a way so that the properties are preserved under interpreted theories. To deal with the properties, new notions of generalized types and generalized Morley sequences are introduced. We consider several sub-hierarchies of simple theories that affect generalized amalgamatio...