During the last several decades, the importance of materials processing in the control of microstructure and materials properties has been recognized and, accordingly, the materials engineering community has dedicated much effort to studying the physics of the process. These endeavors have provided an understanding of the phenomena which are relevant. However, a paradigm shift is taking place i...

An essential factor adversely affecting the performance of construction projects is the improper handling of materials during site activities. In addition, paper-based reports are mostly used to record and exchange information related to the material components within the supply chain, which is problematic and inefficient. Generally, technologies (such as wireless systems and RFID) are not bein...

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In this paper, an adaptive e-Learning System based Intelligent Agents, IAELS, is proposed. The design concept is to use intelligent agent community to help the learners finding out the adapting courses and learning path. The system analyzes the causes of ineffective learning by portfolio and test-portfolio, and then provides personal courses to remedy learners’ learning difficulties through the...

The initiatives known as the Intelligent Vehicle Highway System (IVHS) of the early 1990's, of the Automated Highway System and the Intelligent Transportation System of the middle 90's, and now USDOT's Intelligent Vehicle Initiative of 1998, have all created a climate for rapid advance in ground vehicle communication and control technology. An industry such as that of aerospace lighting, with i...

This chapter emphasizes integration of the Semantic Web technologies in intelligent learning systems by giving a proposal for an intelligent learning management system (ILMS) architecture we named Multitutor. This system is a Web-based environment for the development the e-learning courses and for the use of them by the students. Multitutor is designed as a Web-classroom client-server system, o...

This chapter emphasizes integration of the Semantic Web technologies in intelligent learning systems by giving a proposal for an intelligent learning management system (ILMS) architecture we named Multitutor. This system is a Web-based environment for the development the e-learning courses and for the use of them by the students. Multitutor is designed as a Web-classroom client-server system, o...

This paper gives an overview of the legal consequences of a new EU framework regulation on food contact materials which includes controls on active and intelligent packaging. Recent developments in active and intelligent packaging systems are described, two examples of which aim at achieving improvements in quality and safety of food products. The first one is an on-command preservative-releasi...