The Multi-function Control and Display Unit (MCDU) has been identified as a source of issues pilots have transitioning to glass cockpits. Several aircraft manufacturers and avionics vendors have committed to replace the MCDU with graphical user-interfaces in the next generation of commercial aircraft. A cognitive task analysis of pilot-MCDU interaction, described in this paper, has identified t...

Character recognition systems can contribute tremendously to the advancement of the automation process and can improve the interaction between man and machine in many applications, including office automation, cheque verification and a large variety of banking, business and data entry applications. The main theme of this paper is the automatic recognition of hand-printed Arabic characters using...

As the business scenarios are changing rapidly, it is the time to automate all the process management especially in IT/ITES sector. The automation will help an organization to find out optimal and effective business process. It also help to improve process, restructure process and make the entire process so robust that it can manage the conflict and according to market or economical changes it ...

Original scientific paper The main function of industrial automation networks (IANs) is to monitor and control processes. In general, the sensor nodes utilize batteries as an energy source to control processes. The clustered IAN aims at maximizing the lifetime of the sensor node by improving the energy efficiency. The proposed system is targeted for utilization of the long distance wireless tra...

In this paper, we describe a system for correcting grammatical errors in texts written by non-native learners. In our approach, a given sentence with syntactic features are sent to a number of modules, each focuses on a specific error type. A main program integrates corrections from these modules and outputs the corrected sentence. We evaluated our system on the official test data of the CoNLL-...

Building Energy Asset Score (Asset Score), developed by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), is a tool to help building owners and managers assess the efficiency of a building’s energy-related systems and encourage investment in cost-effective improvements. The Asset Score uses an EnergyPlus model to provide a quick assessment of building ene...

So I am relieved to say that the Reserve Bank has no role in developing or enforcing accounting standards, though we do of course have to produce our own accounts consistent with the relevant standards. It may interest you to know in this context that the Reserve Bank has itself made the change to IFRS, and will present its 2005/06 accounts on this basis in the Annual Report later this year, ju...