We propose a form of group communication, called channeled multicast, for active rooms and other scenarios featuring strict real-time requirements, inherently unreliable communication, and a continuously changing set of contextaware autonomous systems. In our approach, rooted in multi-agent and team programming, coordination and cooperation are supported via “social awareness” and overhearing. ...

Hospitals can be confusing environments for patients and their family members to navigate, especially when they are feeling exhausted, stressed, overwhelmed, or all of the above. When they need help in their rooms, inpatients often resort to the only resource they are aware of: the call bell. Nurses are frequently called to perform non-nursing tasks, such as ordering food, changing room tempera...

In this workshop we will explore how the experience of smart conference rooms can be broadened to include different contexts and media such as context-aware mobile systems, personal and professional videoconferencing, virtual worlds, and social software. How should the technologies behind conference room systems reflect the rapidly changing expectations around personal devices and social online...

This paper deals with the evaluation of different simulation approaches to kitchen ventilation modelling. Multi-zone, CFD and zonal approach are discussed. The investigation moves its steps from the analysis of a controlled ventilation system intended for individual and collective housing. The question of natural ventilation being able of ensuring ventilation rates consistent with acceptable in...

Differential 2.2μm (K-band) luminosity functions are presented for a complete sample of 1570 nearby (Vgsr ≤ 3000 km/s, where Vgsr is the velocity measured with respect to the Galactic standard of rest), bright (K ≤ 10 mag), galaxies segregated by visible morphology. The K-band luminosity function for late-type spirals follows a power law that rises towards low luminosities whereas the K-band lu...

Data warehouse systems integrate data from heterogeneous sources. These sources are autonomous in nature and change independently of a data warehouse. Owing to changes in data sources, the content and the schema of a data warehouse may need to be changed for accurate decision making. Slowly changing dimensions and temporal data warehouses are the available solutions to manage changes in the con...

Puerperal mastitis is a potentially serious illness among lactating women which traditionally has been thought to be associated with primiparity, stress, improper nursing technique, and incomplete emptying of the breast. However, none of these putative associations has been examined analytically in recent years. Further, the incidence of mastitis in the United States has not been estimated sinc...

This article reports how strongly boundary roughness predicts impressions of spaciousness. In one experiment, 16 rooms with fractal walls were created in CAD simulations and 49 respondents rated the rooms in terms of spaciousness. In a second experiment, 16 respondents rated spaciousness for an additional 12 rooms with different wall systems. Fractal rooms with rough walls were judged as being ...

In this article, we examine an overlooked issue in research on school discipline: in-school suspension. Using data collected through observational methods, present a detailed description and analysis of two suspension rooms. These rooms operated prominent, racially diverse middle schools large urban district. Applying critical theories race social exclusion, reveal the ways that constituted dee...