-.J WPI was one of four colleges and universities awarded NASA grants for student design and development of an improved glove for space suits. This paper traces the design, development and testi ng of the WPI prototype glove. Test results showed that the glove did not significantly limit hand and finger motion when pressurized at 8 psi, except in the spherical grip mode. This project demonstrat...

We study the interaction between a group of agents who exert costly effort over time to complete a project, and a manager who chooses the objectives that must be met in order for her to sign off on it. The manager has limited commitment power so that she can commit to the requirements only when the project is sufficiently close to completion. This is common in projects that involve design or qu...

The Cloud computing becomes an innovative computing paradigm, which aims to provide reliable, customized and QoS guaranteed computing infrastructures for users. This paper presents our early experience of Cloud computing based on the Cumulus project for compute centers. In this paper, we introduce the Cumulus project with its various aspects, such as design pattern, infrastructure, and middleware.

1 Bill Lovegrove, Department of Physics and Engineering, Bob Jones University, Greenville, SC, 29607 [email protected] 2 Don Congdon, Department of Physics and Engineering, Bob Jones University, Greenville, SC, 29607 [email protected] 3 Stephen Schaub, Department of Computer Science, Bob Jones University, Greenville, SC, 29607 [email protected] Abstract One of the first devices connected to the Int...

The Design Associate is intended to be an interactive environment that supports decision-making, performance evaluation, design-record management and knowledge acquisition tasks. The system is speci cally intended to handle the design of complex, physical structures, such as ships and planes, among others. Two key di culties characterize this class of design problems: (1) Design goals depend on...

The Rhone-Alpes hadrontherapy facility project ETOILE is based on production of up to 400 MeV/amu carbon and 220 MeV proton beams using earlier CERN synchrotron design ”PIMMS”. The accelerator complex has necessitated several design studies relevant to the technical specificities of ETOILE, in support to cost evaluations. These studies are described and concern the optics of the low, medium and...

This paper describes an ongoing research at the step of the development of the SisPro project, a web-based environment for distributed architecture/engineering/construction teamwork. The project aims at the improvement teamwork performance allowing participants to team up and cooperate in projects by interacting remotely in a virtual environment. The SisPro environment takes advantage of inform...

Since 1965, the Naval Ship Engineering Center (NA VSEC) and the Naval Ship Research and Development Center (NSRDC), sponsored by the Naval Ship Systems Command, have been actively involved in developing and using computer facilities for the design and construction of naval ships. The overall goals of this effort, known as the Computer-Aided Ship Design and Construction (CASDAC) project, have be...

203 Marco J. Castaldi is an Assistant Professor in the Earth & Environmental Engineering Department at Columbia University. He received his B.S. ChE from Manhattan College and M.S. and Ph.D. ChE from the University of California, Los Angeles. Prior to joining Columbia University, he worked in industry for 7 years researching and developing novel catalytic reactors. His teaching interests lie in...

suffering from disorder and chaos, tehran is a city capable of introduced as one of the most beautiful cities in the world for its historical and geographical capacities. unfortunately, in the modern era and after the islamic revolution when urban development destiny started to depend on engineers due to their increasing authority in urban management, culture role was undermined and tehran unde...