Copyright is held by the author/owner(s). TEI’14, Feb 16 – Feb 19, 2014, Munich, Germany. Abstract The paper investigates how robust layered subsumption is acting both digitally and through functionality embodied in the material of a building system of architecture. We describe a building system with embedded computational control over the building process, with the purpose of arguing how layer...

The fast deployment of wireless networks and mobile technologies and the significant increase in the number of mobile device users have created a very strong demand for new innovative mobile commerce applications and services. Since mobile advertising is one of the important subjects in mobile commerce, studying and developing mobile advertising solutions becomes a hot research and business top...

Smart wheelchairs that can detect and avoid obstacles have been developed with the goal of serving as mobility aids for persons with disabilities who find standard power wheelchairs difficult or impossible to use [58]. By improving mobility and autonomy, they have the potential to improve the health of populations ranging from the severely disabled to the growing numbers of aging people [13]. W...

Building design is a complex process because of the number of elements and issues involved and the number of relationships that exist among them. Adding sustainability issues to the list increases the complexity of design by an order of magnitude. There is a need for computer assistance to manage the increased complexity of design and to provide intelligent collaboration in formulating acceptab...

Currently, electrical energy is one of the primary needs in everyday life. Almost every device used for daily life uses electric power. However, lack user awareness electronic devices can cause monthly electricity bills to be out control, both in-office and residential areas. To improve efficiency use offices housing, we designed a management system control consumption so that it does not excee...

In recent years, intelligent building systems have become standard in residential buildings as well as commercial buildings. This chapter presents a novel system for controlling such buildings using natural user interfaces. Due to advanced logic, it is capable of identifying people occupying defined areas and recognizing their gestures. The system cooperates with a Domatiq System – Intelligent ...

-The paper describes a systematic approach to design and development of software for intelligent manufacturing systems. The approach is based on a multilevel, general object-oriented model of intelligent systems. Current methods and software design and development tools for intelligent manufacturing systems either stress particular components of intelligence (e.g., high-level domain expertise, ...

Intelligent navigation systems can significantly improve the evacuation of civilians in urban emergencies by providing dynamic directions to the evacuees as the hazard spreads. In this paper, we propose two distributed and adaptive systems for building evacuation. The first system, called intelligent evacuation system (IES), is composed of a wireless network of static decision nodes (DNs) insta...

This chapter addresses the challenge of building or authoring an Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS), along with the problems that have arisen and been dealt with, and the solutions that have been tested. We begin by clarifying what building an ITS entails, and then position today's systems in the overall historical context of ITS research. The chapter concludes with a series of open questions an...