prisons come at great cost to society and still result in inmates disassociated from society. incarceration is however our primary forms of punishment; therefore we need to define the purpose of punishment to be integrated into our goals for prisons. prison architecture is a complex area of study, the classification proposed in this paper can be an important research tool by taking into conside...

Semantic segmentation requires a detailed labeling of image pixels by object category. Information derived from local image patches is necessary to describe the detailed shape of individual objects. However, this information is ambiguous and can result in noisy labels. Global inference of image content can instead capture the general semantic concepts present. We advocate that high-recall holis...

Some time ago, I was asked by an executive from a leading information storage and management company to facilitate a workshop on the design of customer touchpoints. Given high-technology enterprises’ reputation of focusing more on technology and product architecture than on the architecture of the customer-company interface, I welcomed the opportunity. This article is a result of my research an...

A hardware and software architecture suitable for a safety-critical steer-by-wire systems is presented. The architecture supports three major failure modes and features several safety protocols and mechanisms. Failures due to component failures, software errors, and human errors are handled by the architecture and safety protocols. A test implementation using replicated communication channels, ...

Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) tools play an important supporting role in IT management of organizations to align their IT infrastructure to actual business needs. The continuously measurement and observation of each layer in an enterprise architecture is critical in order to achieve an holistic view about the EA operation. This paper describes a concept how to exploit and extend the ...

Value networks are one of the main forms of value creation today. Suppliers, manufacturers and customers form a dynamic collaboration structure. Networks and companies alike are always subject to external and internal influences which require changes in the way things are done. To make sure that the required changes take their intended effect, they have to be implemented on all levels of the en...

The Fractal Process-Asset (FPA) model has been proposed as an approach for identifying business processes and defining relationships between them in an enterprise. This paper reports on a project of applying the model in a Higher Education Institution enterprise. The goal of this project is twofold. One is to design a process architecture that provides a holistic view on the major business proc...

Energy consumption of data centers increased continously during the last decades. As current techniques for improving their energy efficiency are usually limited to one type of data center components, it is difficult to employ them for a holistic optimization which may utilize synergies between all components. This paper introduces architecture and working principles of the novel energy managem...

Software architectures capture the most significant properties and design constraints of software systems. In our research work we intended to propose architecture for a reengineering tool. So, this paper will present a survey of techniques that have been proposed a comprehensive technique for design reengineering tool, here emphasize only how basic steps and architecture (extractor) for compre...