Conditioning and ventilating open office spaces requires innovations as new buildings aim to be more intelligent, energy efficient and healthy. This paper explores the possibility of using a localized airflow to divide an open cubicle office into zones without partition walls. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model was used to simulate localized airflow in a cubicle office and both the energy...

Optimal algorithms are derived for safisficing problem-solving search, that is, search where the goal is to reach any. solution, no distinction being made among differ-ent solutions. This task is quite different from search for best solutions or shortest path solutions. L:onstraints mav be placed on the order in which sittes may be searched. This paper treats salisficing searches through partia...

As electronic devices become more and more pervasively integrated in our daily routine, security concerns start to become evident. In the last years, there has been an increasing interest on the topic of security in smart environments. One of the most challenging environments regarding security are smart offices due to the high number of potential users, devices and spaces, and the diversity of...

This paper describes an experiment to test the media space concepts developed at Rank Xerox EuroPARC in a “real world” setting, that is a distributed product development organization within a large multinational corporation. We installed two types of media space connections: a focused dial up video-phone for engineering problem solving between designers in England and the shop floor of a factor...

Recent empirical investigations have indicated that the majority of occupants in office buildings would appreciate contact with the external environment, especially in cities where the climate is mild for part of the year. Supported by the possibilities of adaptive thermal models, the design of naturally ventilated buildings has been elaborated since the decade of 1990s. More communal areas rat...

Little is known of the patterns of physical activity, standing and sitting by office workers. However, insight into these behaviours is of growing interest, notably in regard to public health priorities to reduce non-communicable disease risk factors associated with high levels of sitting time and low levels of physical activity. With the advent and increasing availability of indoor tracking sy...

Optimal algorithms are derived for safisficing problem-solving search, that is, search where the goal is to reach any. solution, no distinction being made among differ-ent solutions. This task is quite different from search for best solutions or shortest path solutions. L:onstraints mav be placed on the order in which sittes may be searched. This paper treats salisficing searches through partia...

Background In the area of Electronic Contracting and Virtual Company Formation within Supply-Chains there has been little research or development work. During this paper we will outline the European Union sponsored project SUPPLYPOINT (ESPRIT 27007) which addresses the issues of panEuropean electronic trade links for business-to-business and business-to-public body electronic commerce. This wil...

Using measurements of Mg  609.78 and 624.94 Å lines from the Coronal Diagnostic Spectrometer (CDS) on board SOHO, we seek to examine the variation of line width and line ratio in regions far off-limb at the Northern pole of the Sun. It is found that above ≈1150′′ the ratio of the two coronal Mg  resonance lines reduces to values that might be expected for a more radiatively dominant excitatio...