Concept mapping is a tool to assist in strategic planning that allows planners to work through a sequence of phases to produce a conceptual framework. Although several studies describe how concept mapping is applied to various public health problems, the flexibility of the methods used in each phase of the process is often overlooked. If practitioners were more aware of the flexibility, more pu...

Road extraction from high resolution remote sensing imagery is very important for many applications such as GIS data updating, transportation management and city planning. In this paper we propose a semi-automatic multi-stage method to extract roads from high resolution remote sensing imagery based on multi-features. The proposed method contains two main steps, i.e. segmenting original image wi...

Under the present European directive concerning common rules for the internal market in electricity, distribution companies are not allowed to own Distributed Generation (DG) but encouraged to include it as a planning option to defer investment in traditional grid reinforcements. Distribution system operators (DSOs) have used the provision of capacity contracted to DG as a viable alternative un...

The uses of road map in daily activities are numerous but it is a hassle to construct and update a road map whenever there are changes. research on Automatic Road Extraction (ARE) was explored to solve the difficulties in updating road map. The research started with using Satellite Image (SI), or in short, the ARESI project. A Hybrid Simple Colour Space Segmentation and Edge Detection (Hybrid S...

The paper deals with the problem of planning movements of two hand-arm robotic systems, considering the possibility of using the robot hands to remove potential obstacles in order to obtain a free access to grasp a desired object. The approach is based on a variation of a Probabilistic Road Map that does not rule out the samples implying collisions with removable objects but instead classifies ...

1 Due to the availability of GPS sensors in a variety of everyday devices, GPS trace-data is becoming 2 increasingly abundant. One potential use of this wealth of data is to infer, and update, the geometry 3 and connectivity of road maps, using what are known as “map generation” or “map inference” 4 algorithms. These algorithms offer a tremendous advantage when no existing road map data is 5 pr...

1 Due to the availability of GPS sensors in a variety of everyday devices, GPS trace-data is becoming 2 increasingly abundant. One potential use of this wealth of data is to infer, and update, the geometry 3 and connectivity of road maps, using what are known as “map generation” or “map inference” 4 algorithms. These algorithms offer a tremendous advantage when no existing road map data is 5 pr...