Introduction Specialty store retailers of private label apparel (SPAs) operate large scaled stores that present a different atmosphere than conventional department stores. Large apparel shops located in city centers offer consumers the comfort and pleasure of shopping, with layout design changing as swiftly as the inventory turnover, which includes a wide variety of products. The shopping envir...

We adopt a form of group communication, called channeled multicast, for active rooms and other scenarios featuring strict real-time requirements, inherently unreliable communication, and a continuously changing set of context-aware autonomous systems. In our approach, rooted in multi-agent and team programming, coordination and cooperation are supported via “social awareness” and overhearing; a...

Intelligent rooms are responsive environments in which human activities are monitored and responses are generated to facilitate these activities. Research and development on intelligent rooms currently focuses on the integration of multiple sensor devices with pre-programmed responses to specific triggers. Developments in intelligent agents towards intrinsically motivated learning agents can be...

was adopted, although the climatic factor has remained constant, the incidence of the disease has been almost negligible. One of the causes of the high mortality was found to be the advanced stage in which the patients came to hospital; indeed quite a good many of them were received in either a moribund or an unconscious state. The first thing that was done, in consultation with the consulting ...

contamination control, reversible attachment is a concern. Particles on the floor that are not completely contained or trapped onto a surface will eventually, through air movement and vortices, become re-suspended into the air. Previous studies have shown that transfer of contamination by people walking across floors has one of the highest re-dispersal factors7. One of the measures commonly emp...

The utilisation of University teaching space is notoriously low: rooms are often unused, or only half full. We expect that one of the reasons for this is overall mismatch the sizes of rooms and the sizes events. For example, there might be an excess of large rooms. Good space planning should match the set of rooms to the set of events whilst taking account of the pedagogic requirements of the i...