Markets for nutrient trading, water quality and other ecosystem services are rapidly emerging across the world. A critical need is to improve the relationship between farmers’ decisions and their impact on natural resources. One of the basic requirements that links buyers and sellers of ecosystem services is an agreed upon unit of trade and a way to measure it. We develop an agent-based model (...

In recent years there has been a growing interest in developing Ambient Intelligence based systems in order to create smart environments for user and environmental monitoring. In fact, higher-level monitoring systems with vital information about the user and the environment around him/her represents an improvement of the quality of care provided. In this paper, we propose an architecture that i...

The business plan is one of the essential tools for companies to attract investors and raise venture capital. Getting a business plan "investor ready" in that context means that it has to be professionally prepared such that it answers all questions of potential investors. This, however, requires in-depth knowledge of a typical investor's expectations and viewpoints, a type of knowledge which i...

A Model-Based Development (MBD) Framework is proposed in this brief-paper. The paper motivates the need for integrating automotive control system development activities and describes engineering roles in such an environment. It also outlines the features of an integrated development environment designed to support these roles.

This paper discusses in detail important analysis and design issues emerged during the development of an agent-based transportation e-market. This discussion is based on concepts coming from the AMCIS methodology and the JADE framework. The AMCIS methodology is specifically tailored to the analysis and design of cooperative information agent-based systems, while it supports both the levels of t...

Robotic hands differ in kinematics, dynamics, programming, control and sensing frameworks. Their common character is redundancy, which undoubtedly represents a key feature for dexterity and flexibility, but it is also a drawback for integrated automation since it typically requires additional efforts to seamlessly integrate devices, particularly robotic hands, in industrial scenario. This paper...

The focus of this work is on the design of ontologies to support the exchange and sharing of information among applications dealing with moving objects. This application area ranges from fleet management systems to the monitoring of the users of mobile phones to provide location-based services. The use of ontologies for interoperability purposes has been long-praised; here, we focus on the comp...

Event-based Integration (EBI) is an promising technology for constructing large software architectures. It can integrate concurrent, heterogeneous components in dynamic software architecture. This paper discusses our experience in integrating a set of off-the-shelf components to create an event-based software architecture development environment. We discuss the benefits and obstacles of integra...

How to Cite this Article: Ademuyiwa AO, Mosaku SK, Ogbolu RE, Oshodi YO, Bode CO. Assessment of Parents’ Satisfaction with Paediatric Surgery Services at a Tertiary Hospital in South West Nigeria: A Quality Control Check. Ann Med Health Sci Res. 2017;7:42-46. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, whic...

Designing an Interactive Learning Environment (ILE) requires work within a multi-disciplinary team [9]. In this paper, we describe the designing process of the ILE AMBRE, the purpose of which is to teach methods. We show how, based on didactic work, we chose to represent the expert knowledge to be taught to the learner through Artificial Intelligence techniques. We also describe how we adjusted...