In our contribution we would like to present some details concerning an Internet-based inventory on Planning Support Systems (PSSs). PSS refers to the diversity of geotechnology tools, which are primarily developed to support planning processes both in terms of derivation and evaluation of alternative futures. These details concern the aim, context, rationale, set-up and first tentative results...

This paper describes the design and evaluation of a novel mechanism to develop research proposals and distribute funding: Creativity Greenhouse (CG). Building on an established funding sandpit mechanism for co-located participants, communication technologies and structures were designed to support similar activities at-a-distance. Given a particular topic, selected academic participants collabo...

In the current research, productivity of CO2 photoreduction has been boosted by performing reaction in an innovative photocatalytic reactor, which allows for operation up to 20 bar. A set photocatalysts were used, including three types pristine TiO2, i.e., one commercially prepared (Evonik P25), home-prepared flame spray pyrolysis (FSP), and obtained hydrolysis TiCl4 (TiO2exCl), a bare thermo-e...

Aromatic hydrocarbons are rated amongst the most important classes of compounds with regard to the formation of photo-oxidants in the lower atmosphere. A recent theoretical study [1] using a trajectory model approach estimated the aromatic hydrocarbons to be responsible for about 40 % of the anthropogenic ozone formation in north-western Europe, their contribution to the total nonmethane hydroc...

Mimesis theory is one of the primitive skill of imitative learning which is regarded as an origin of human intelligence because imitation is fundamental func tion for communication and symbol manipulation When the mimesis is adopted as learning method for humanoids loads for designing full body behavior would be decrease because bottom up learning approaches from robot side and top down teachin...

Interventions of central, top-down planning are serious limitations to the possibility of modelling the dynamics of cities. An example is the city of Paris (France), which during the 19th century experienced large modifications supervised by a central authority, the 'Haussmann period'. In this article, we report an empirical analysis of more than 200 years (1789-2010) of the evolution of the st...

This paper introduces a symbolic time series representation using monotonic sub-sequences and bottom up segmentation. The representation minimizes the square error between the segments and their monotonic approximations. The representation can robustly classify the direction of a segment and is scale invariant with respect to the time and value dimensions. This paper describes two experiments. ...

Because of high variation in mountainous areas, rainfall data at different spatiotemporal scales may yield potential uncertainty for network design. However, few studies focus on the scaling effect on both the spatial and the temporal scale. By calculating the maximum joint entropy of hourly typhoon events, monthly, six dry and wet months and annual rainfall between 1992 and 2012 for 1-, 3-, an...

this paper demonstrates a preliminary investigation of geometry, function and its relation to dfx principles, namely dfm (design for manufacturing). this is the starting point for research on the development of an expert system that assesses design goals along dfx principles in a feature-based cad environment. there is a need for a deeper level of understanding of the relationship between geome...

The continued scaling of the CMOS technology has led us into the deep submicron regimes where design is not limited by the functionality on a chip but is constrained with its power consumption. In this paper, we present some widely used techniques for static and dynamic power minimisation in modern VLSI circuits. These techniques are applicable on the different stages of the system design, star...