Current United States military chemical protective ensembles do not provide for feeding, removing body wastes, or ensuring the hygiene of troops operating in a contaminated environment. As part of a nuclear-biological-chemical life support demonstration program, systems were developed to provide these capabilities. The nutrient system consisted of foods packaged in tube dispensers and a deliver...

H owever, despite the increasing availability of data, many challenges continue to hinder effective use of law enforcement data and knowledge, in turn limiting crime-fighting capabilities of related government agencies. For instance, most local police have database systems used by their own personnel, but lack an efficient manner in which to share information with other agencies [7–9]. More imp...

Mobile information and communication technologies (m-ICT) are increasingly prevalent in today’s organizations and in people’s personal lives more generally. A wide range of devices are used: mobile phones of varying capabilities, PDAs, Blackberries, laptops and tablet computers as well as application specific devices (e.g. the ruggedized devices used by UPS and FedEx delivery personnel). These ...

Automated visual surveillance systems are required to emulate the cognitive abilities of surveillance personnel, who are able to detect, recognise and assess the severity of suspicious, unusual and threatening behaviours. We describe the architecture of our surveillance system, emphasising some of its high-level cognitive capabilities. In particular, we present a methodology for automatically l...

Program Executive Office Ground Combat Systems (PEO GCS) manages the development, systems integration, acquisition, testing, fielding, modernization and sustainment of the U.S. Army’s ground combat systems to provide world-class, affordable and relevant capabilities to soldiers and marines. Systems include the Abrams main battle tank, Bradley Family of Vehicles (FoV), self-propelled howitzers, ...

This paper presents the THOMAS architecture, specially designed to model open multi-agent systems, and its application in the development of a multiagent system for managing and planning surveillance routes for security personnel. THOMAS uses agents with reasoning and planning capabilities. These agents can perform a dynamic self-organization when they detect changes in the environment. THOMAS ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is on a mission: to strengthen law enforcement’s computer forensic capabilities throughout the United States. How are we fulfilling such a sweeping and ambitious mandate? Through an innovative initiative entitled the Regional Computer Forensic Laboratory (RCFL) Program. RCFLs provide much needed computer forensic expertise and training to thousands of l...

The purpose of this study is to apply the method of hybrid multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) to select public relations personnel for tourism industry in Taiwan. Fuzzy Delphi method, which can lead to better criteria selection, is used to modify criteria. Considering the interdependence among the selection criteria, analytic network process (ANP) is then used to obtain the weights of the...

This present study aims to compare how service brand preference influence service perceived value, customer satisfaction and loyalty in different countries—Japan and China. Moreover, this study purposes to explore whether countries’ image affect service brand preference of customer. Two customer surveys which were practiced in Japan and China were conducted to examine moderation hypotheses, whi...