The built environment has an important role to play in supporting human health as part of everyday living. While this is increasingly recognised in a burgeoning inter-disciplinary body of literature, there is ongoing difficulty in defining the most effective built environment interventions that support human health. This paper proposes a way forward. We suggest three domains where planning can ...

Ada 95 passive partitions, containing passive library units, provide the means to distribute data within a network of workstations. This paper shows how passive partitions can be implemented via distributed shared virtual memory (DSM). DSM provides the logical view of a portion of memory shared between physically distributed workstations within a network. In this paper, we relate design issues ...

The proliferation of software application in daily operations is undeniably deep-rooted and intertwined with every fabric of life. Complicated as software systems are, they evolve in much the same manner as the chaotic world of their creator. Yet no one complains about the shortcomings of these heterogeneous software systems created by unassociated developers that were never meant to interopera...

This work researches the problem of semantic interoperability in a web environment, and investigates a conceptual approach that tailors the semantics of the shared data to that of the end user. The aim is to develop a semi-automatic integration tool that assists users to build a conceptual layer above the shared data that takes into account the users perception on the data. In addition, users s...

Networks are becoming much more complicated in their support of ubiquitous computing. For example, broadband mobile communications, wireless ad-hoc networks, IPv6, and so on. Technology is moving towards mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs), which create temporary networks. The use of mobile devices for composing MANETs is growing, and it is necessary to provide agent service for them. In this paper...

A learning environment to support mechanical reasoning and understanding of simple machines for middle school and high school students is presented, along with results of an evaluation of its effectiveness in student learning. Based on recommendations from literature on instructional frameworks and cognitive aspects of mechanical reasoning, SIMALE (the Simple Machines Learning Environment) was ...

Our research on a conceptual model for scienti c data analysis concludes that traditional computational and environmental support is insu cient. We believe an integrated system that provides users with the ability to manage data, processes, and experiments as well as program data analysis tasks is necessary. In this paper the scienti c data analysis process in global change research is analyzed...

componentsThe CME architecture is illustrated in Figure 4.Abstract components, introduced in bold italics inthe text, are the first-order open-points of the CMEarchitecture. Each plays a distinct role in realizingthe extraction/composition cycle. These compo-nents are described by their APIs (applicationprogramming interfaces), and their implementationsdepend onl...

This paper presents QSUP, a programming environment enhanced with measurement facilities. Its prime aim is to support preserving software quality standards by the programmers. QSUP offers low level information (raw metric data), as well as high level information such as advice in natural language on quality improvement of the project or a particular routine. The environment presented in this pa...

C-VISions is a networked multi-user 3D virtual environment that allows users to interact with each other and learn experientially and collaboratively in simulation and articulation-oriented virtual worlds. The capabilities of virtual worlds can be more fully exploited if the freedom to create new worlds is given to the users. This paper describes the development of a graphical user interface (G...