there are many evident that people are more interested in walking in attractive urban spaces and inappropriate physical and psychological condition can reduce their presence in a remarkable amount. the current research investigates the influence of physical design and psychological elements and their criteria on selective physical activity and specifically walking in urban public spaces. howeve...

functions in landscape design include values in design and management process to satisfy moral and environmental needs that current attitudes see that as open space design by natural and man-made elements, while the basic intellectual layers related to human as the principles of environmental design have been forgotten. human urban knowledge seeks to meet in health, biological, psychological, s...

Software decay is a phenomenon that plagues all software systems in general, and object oriented systems in particular. Existing approaches fail to effectively address this problem because of their informal nature. We overcome the main deficiencies of other approaches, with the help of two innovations: encapsulation of correlated structural anomalies and machine processable patterns for restruc...

Traditional programming language design approaches center around theoretical and performance-oriented evaluation. Recently, researchers have been considering more approaches to language design, including the use of quantitative and qualitative user studies to evaluate how different designs affect users. In this paper, we argue for an interdisciplinary approach that incorporates many different m...

The challenge of dynamic environment requires managing business processes with the ability to adapt to changes and to collaborate in activities. As a promising technology to process management, agent technology with its flexible, distributed and intelligent features has been studied in numerous studies. However, most existing approaches are special and ad-hoc. They have not looked much into the...

Approaches to teaching “Introduction to Programming” vary considerably. However, two broad categories may be considered: product oriented vs process oriented. Whereas, in the former the final product is most significant, in the latter the process for achieving the final product is also considered very important. Process oriented programming courses strive to equip students with good programming...

Process-oriented systems such as scientific workflows and business processes can be designed and implemented based on advanced transaction models or other formal models for concurrent distributed systems. Advanced transactional modeling approaches trade the classic benefits of isolation and atomicity properties for long lived transactions, giving it the ability of being applicable in systems th...

Brain tumor segmentation from Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) is an important task to measure tumor responses to treatments. However, automatic segmentation is very challenging. This paper presents an automatic brain tumor segmentation method based on a Normalized Gaussian Bayesian classification and a new 3D Fluid Vector Flow (FVF) algorithm. In our method, a Normalized Gaussian Mixture Model...

Testing is one of the important and indispensable activities of software development life cycle. Software testing makes sure that the developed software satisfies all the customer requirements and executes without error. More researches in the field of software testing are carried out in academic as well as in industry so as to improve the testing process. As there is a major shift in the softw...