Road networks are important for modelling the urban geographic environment. It is necessary to determine the spatial relationships of road intersections when using maps to help researchers conduct virtual urban geographic experiments (because a road intersection might occur as a connected cross or as an unconnected bridge overpass). Based on the concept of using different map layers to organize...

This article presents a new methodology for detecting road network and planning the path for vehicle motion using road map and satellite/aerial images. The method estimates road regions from based on network models, which are created from road maps and satellite images on the basis of using image-processing techniques such color filters, difference of Gaussian, and Radon transform. In the case ...

This paper discusses the geometric correction of measured historical maps and the evaluation of accuracy with case studies on Silk Road maps, “Innermost Asia” and “Serindia,” made by Aurel Stein about 100 years ago, and Beijing maps, “Complete map of Peking, Qianlong period,” made about 250 years ago. The former case study deals with maps that cover thousand kilometers, and we delivered the err...

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 fifth Iranian national congress on the biology of addiction was held in 22-24 June 2011 in Tehran University of Medical Sciences with over 100 valuable oral and poster presentations and over 300 participants. One of the main sessions of the congress was devoted to a national strategic planning and Iranian Drug Control Head Quarter (DCHQ) introducing the first national executive road map on ...

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...