Smart Cities require reliable means for managing installations that offer essential services to the citizens. In this paper we focus on the problem of evacuation of smart buildings in case of emergencies. In particular, we present an abstract architecture for situation-aware evacuation guidance systems in smart buildings, describe its key modules in detail, and provide some concrete examples of...

This paper presents a model for Flexible Interactive Guidance System (FIGS) that provides people with instructions about natural tasks. The model is developed on the basis of a phenomenological analysis of human guidance and illustrated by a system that gives directions in geographical domains. The instructions are provided through a dialog adapted both in form and content to user's needs. The ...

Objective of the Research This study proposes a model and research method focusing on the “Development of a System for Preparing and Analyzing Transcripts on Career Counseling and Job Placement (hereinafter referred to as “Careetalk”)” that analyzes the characteristics and processes of career counseling from the perspective of counseling technique. Additionally, this study utilizes Careetalk to...

As developing axons navigate, they exhibit various behaviours: extending and branching, pausing, changing direction, retracting. Now, the Slit protein has been discovered to have striking positive and negative effects on axon growth and guidance.

This book gives an account of studies made by the New Zealand Council for Educational Research. It describes the organization of education in New Zealand and the way this organization works out in practice and thus shows the general setting into which all educational and vocational guidance in the country must be fitted. After a short account of the types of school available and numbers to be f...

measures aimed at bringing the hospital medical staffing structure into balance over the next 10 earss' This initiative has been endorsed by the Central Committee for Hospital Medical Services and the Hospital Junior StaffCommittee. If the proposals are agreed implementation will start on 1 January 1987 and will result in major changes to the junior hospital doctors' career structure. This stud...