We are developing an Internet platform called MediaTeam that provides a marketplace connecting media content consumers to communities of media content creators. The platform is enabled by our method for automated assembly of virtual project teams. Media creators use the automated team assembler to quickly identify and team with collaborators. The team assembly platform factors in how the skills...

in this paper, by investigating the common weights concept and dea models with nonlinear virtual inputs/outputs, we introduce a model for evaluating the decision making units with nonlinear virtual inputs and outputs based on the common weights.

This paper proposes a systematic method of creation and application of a virtual factory. Basic definition of a of virtual factory is first given , followed by its foundation principles and architectural overview, and then a systematic method based on object technologies is proposed to create the virtual factory. Specially, for a real manufacturing environment, a corresponding virtual factory c...

Virtual Patients are computer-based simulations of a clinical encounter where the user plays the role of a healthcare provider while receiving in-context instruction. This unique pedagogical approach enables active case-based learning for learners. Academic institutions around the world have developed high-quality virtual patients using many different authoring and playback technologies. Howeve...

Virtual articulatory targets are a concept to explain the different trajectories of primary and secondary articulators during consonant production, as well as the different places of the tongue-palate contact depending on the context vowel, for example in [igi] vs. [ugu]. The virtual targets for the tongue tip and the tongue body in apical and dorsal plosives are assumed to lie above the palate...

purpose: discuss application of virtual reality in self-propelled agricultural machine test; Method: analyze current farm environment, establish 3D virtual scenario of a farm, construct a virtual reality system combining physical engine, mechanical kinematics and dynamics, and simulate whole performance of the self-propelled machine based on virtual reality; Result: the agricultural mechanical ...

Primary efforts to create virtual humans have been in the production of computer generated ergonomically correct objects that look like humans. Although there has been concern with essential human factors, absent are the metrics of human relatedness, or the ability to assess the degree to which a virtual human elicits human emotions. We discuss the potential application of attachment theory as ...

Virtuality is the property of computer system with the potential for enabling a virtual system (operating inside the computer) to become a real system by encouraging the real world to behave according to the template dictated by the virtual system. Virtual phenomena like virtual memory, network switching, virtual teams, virtual reality and virtual organization may change our way to work and per...

Cellular manufacturing (CM) is one of the most important subfields in the design of manufacturing systems and as a recently emerged field of study and practice, virtual cellular manufacturing (VCM) inherits the importance from CM. One type of VCM problems is VCM with alternative processing routes from which the route for processing each part should be selected. In this research, a bi-objective ...