In terms of ecology, economy and society, the development of public transportation networks is a major issue. Essentially the transportation of hazardous materials can have negative impact on human health and the environment quality. The urban networks must increase their quality in terms of punctuality and vehicle frequency to improve its attractiveness while decreasing the management cost. In...

Tutoring systems are computer-based learning systems. In order to be “intelligent” they must present “humanlike” tutoring capabilities. Tutoring systems should be able to adjust the content and delivery to students’ characteristics and needs by analyzing and anticipating their effective responses and behaviors. There is ongoing research to improve the effectiveness of dialogue and feedback for ...

Pesticides are the basis for defending against major biological disasters and important for ensuring national food security. Biocompatible, biodegradable, intelligent, and responsive materials are currently an emerging area of interest in the field of efficient, safe, and green pesticide formulation. Using nanotechnology to design and prepare targeted pesticides with environmentally responsive ...

A computer-based distance learning system should interact with students, adapt to the needs of individual students, support interaction with teachers and other students, and be easy to author. The Advanced Distance Education (ADE) project is developing specialized applications of World Wide Web technology in order to meet these objectives. ADE combines Web browsers and servers with intelligent ...

Many Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) have been developed to add adaptivity and intelligence to e-learning systems. Intelligent agents are widely used in ITSs due to their characteristics such as modularity and facilitation of intelligent mechanism implementation. At the same time development of agent based ITS is complicated and methodological support is needed to enable industrial adoption ...

Global logistics aim to optimize and control the material/product flow and the information flow so that materials/products can be moved at a desired pace, in a proper fashion and at the right volume. The production processes in the medical equipment manufacturing industries are highly automated and dynamic and the orders are customized. This study presents an intelligent global logistics system...

In this paper, we present a Web-based intelligent tutoring system, called BITS. The decision making process conducted in our intelligent system is guided by a Bayesian network approach to support students in learning computer programming. Our system takes full advantage of Bayesian networks, which are a formal framework for uncertainty management in Artificial Intelligence based on probability ...

This paper presents an intelligent Information (course materials) Management System, (called AnyServer) which can serve as an Web based Learning platform (WLP) and enable course educators to easily manage and organize their teaching materials into conceptual and semantic associations among “pieces-wise of knowledge” and publish their materials in web in a “well-organized” format. Our platform i...

the ability to discover services in mobile ad hoc network (manet) is a major prerequisite. cluster basedcross layer intelligent service discovery for manet (cbisd) is cluster based architecture, caching ofsemantic details of services and intelligent forwarding using network layer mechanisms. the cluster basedarchitecture using semantic knowledge provides scalability and accuracy. also, the mini...

Cellulose is the most abundant biomass material in nature, and possesses some promising properties, such as mechanical robustness, hydrophilicity, biocompatibility, and biodegradability. Thus, cellulose has been widely applied in many fields. "Smart" materials based on cellulose have great advantages-especially their intelligent behaviors in reaction to environmental stimuli-and they can be app...