The aim of the panel session is to clarify issues involved in software evolution, but more particularly, to identify and explore promising solutions and research directions, in order to identify strategic goals for the research community and solution visions for practitioners. By evolution, we mean a stage of software lifecycle where the software undergoes substantial changes and this also incl...

A road map for the long term development of the partial element equivalent circuit (PEEC) method is presented. Emerging areas are pointed out together with a solution strategy. Special attention is given to speed up approaches, mesh generation, and time domain stability. The purpose with the road map is to facilitate a unified development of the method into an electromagnetic modeling method su...

The aim of this research paper is to formulate a road map for implementation of lean techniques within SMEs product development (PD) teams, identifying barriers to change and explaining possible drivers for successful implementation. The research methodology necessary to develop the road map – the IPID cycle – is a combination of different approaches. It combines a literature review, an initial...

In the recent years a number of novel, automatic map-inference techniques have been proposed, which derive road-network from a cohort of GPS traces collected by a fleet of vehicles. In spite of considerable attention, these maps are imperfect in many ways: they create an abundance of spurious connections, have poor coverage, and are visually confusing. Hence, commercial and crowd-sourced mappin...

|This paper describes a path planning and control structure for an autonomous vehicle. The system consists of the following tasks: A route planning module generates a route leading from a starting point to a destination point using static information from a digital map. The sensor fusion module interprets sensor observations from a number of dissimilar sensors in order to detect and identify al...

This article describes a component named GeoPIS. With this component it is possible to visualise geographic and attributive data from Road database (BCP) which is used by Slovenian road administration. The component is an upgrade of their business information system, which includes BCP. by adding geographic dimension. Geographical data can significantly improve understanding of road attributive...

This paper describes a robust method for extracting a compressed, digitised road map using GPS data. This is a useful tool for many applications, both autonomous and nonautonomous, such as localisation, prediction, task planning and collision avoidance. The motivation behind this application is to provide a small representation of the digital map so that it can be used in low power, low memory ...

Automatic change detection and data updating is a very important issue for keeping the temporal accuracy and currency of spatial data sets. Road networks are one of the most important parts of geographic database. Firstly two kinds of new algorithms for detecting feature changes that is buffer detection (BD) algorithm and double-buffer detection (DBD) algorithm are illustrated in detail. The co...