iii DEDICATIONS To my parents, who are every thing for me. iv ABSTRACT Ever increasing complexity of software systems, and distributed and dynamic nature of today's enterprise level computing have initiated the demand for more self aware, flexible and robust systems, where human beings could delegate much of their work to software agents. The Semantic Web presents new opportunities for enabling...

according to specificity of practice hypothesis, availability of visual information during practice induces performance decrement in no-vision transfer test. one hypothesis is that full vision as a dominant source of information prevents the processing of other sensory sources, in which case, weakened vision may reduce dominance of vision over other sensory sources. the aim of the current study...

The eight-point scheme is the simplest and fastest scheme for estimating the fundamental matrix (FM) from a number of noisy correspondences. As it ignores the fact that the FM must be singular, the resulting FM estimate is often inaccurate. Existing schemes that take the singularity constraint into consideration are several times slower and significantly more difficult to implement and understa...

Non-technological innovation is an important element of firms’ innovation activities that both supplement and complement technological innovation, i.e. the introduction of new products and new processes. We analyse the spread of nontechnological innovation in firms, their relation to technological innovation, and their effects to firm performance and success with product and process innovation,...

The Mission Operations Directorate (MOD) at the Johnson Space Center (JSC) has put in place a Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) technological framework for the development and execution of the Flight Production Process (FPP). This framework has provided much added value and return on investment to date. This paper describes a vision for a model based Decision Support System (DSS) for the d...

where x is a complex variable and A(x) a square matrix of dimension n the entries of which are formal meromorphic power series. Write A = x(A0 +A1x+ · · ·) (A0 6= 0) for the series expansion of A, where the coefficients are matrices over a subfield K of the field of complex numbers. There exists a basis of n formal solutions of the form (see, e.g. Turritin, 1955; Wasow, 1967) yi(t) = etzi(t) (i...

In this research is presented a method for technological capabilities assessment in a company in transformer industry. Used and discussed criteria in this technique are merely developed to assess technological capabilities in transformer industry. Based on literature, technological capabilities in transformer industry are divided into three main categories: production capability, development an...

As their name suggests, “projection-vision systems” are systems that utilize a projector, generally as their display, coupled with some form of camera/vision system for input. Projection-vision systems are not new. However, recent technological developments, research into usage, and novel problems emerging from ubiquitous and portable computing have resulted in a growing recognition that they w...

Convergence of the real or virtual stereoscopic cameras is an important operation in stereoscopic display systems. For example, convergence can shift the range of portrayed depth to improve visual comfort; can adjust the disparity of targets to bring them nearer to the screen and reduce accommodation-vergence conflict; or can bring objects of interest into the binocular field-of-view. Although ...