{"title":"MobiNET: A framework for supporting Java mobile application developers through contextual inquiry","authors":"O. O. Samuel","doi":"10.1109/ICASTECH.2009.5409746","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASTECH.2009.5409746","url":null,"abstract":"From a developing world perspective, mobile phone is the primary technology for the majority of people and will be for the foreseeable future. It will be their connection to the internet, their communication tool, school book, vaccination report, photo album and many other things. Despite this reality, relatively few mobile applications exist. However, a tool to support the programming of mobile applications can significantly impact and improve programmer's productivity and software quality. In this paper, we develop a concept for a mobile tooling framework that extends the Netbeans integrated development environment (IDE) for mobile programming. Mobile Tools for Netbeans (MobiNET) design would support the development of mobile applications for various mobile phones. We evaluate Netbeans as a development took and drawing from insights gained in interviews with mobile software developers, conceptualize MobiNET. A working prototype is discussed and evaluated.","PeriodicalId":163141,"journal":{"name":"2009 2nd International Conference on Adaptive Science & Technology (ICAST)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129198067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Measurements of collaboration efforts in the new product development","authors":"J. Ferreira","doi":"10.1109/ICASTECH.2009.5409701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASTECH.2009.5409701","url":null,"abstract":"The research efforts on collaboration have expanded greatly in the past decade. In spite of attention to questions of collaboration, no consensus has emerged on how to measure collaboration or even what constitutes collaboration. This paper uses data from a Portuguese design company to study the collaboration among the stakeholders during the development phase of a new product, using three scenarios. One with traditional information process established, a second with new information flow to promote collaboration and a third scenario with a collaborative IT tool to support the process. The study is performed based on email related project messages exchanged and individual questionnaires.","PeriodicalId":163141,"journal":{"name":"2009 2nd International Conference on Adaptive Science & Technology (ICAST)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124063708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Throughput considerations of cross-talk free single plane self routing switching fabric","authors":"Nthabiseng G Manthoko, B. Nleya, T.J Mosenthal","doi":"10.1109/ICASTECH.2009.5409733","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASTECH.2009.5409733","url":null,"abstract":"Wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM ) based all-optical networks have since become the promising solution to the unprecedented increasing demands for bandwidth. However the continued use of electronic switch architectures/routers serves as bottlenecks solely because of the impairment between switching capability and transmission speeds as the earlier continues to lag quite significantly. In a bid to reduce switch bottlenecks, switch architectures that blend both horizontal expansion and vertical stacking of optical Banyan networks are seen to be the ultimate solution. However the resultant structures (horizontally expanded and vertically stacked switch architectures) are usually quite expensive because of the hardware redundancy required in order to guarantee the minimal to non-blocking property. High quality of service (QoS) consistency may also be compromised due to the presence of crosstalk contributed by the directional couplers (DCs) which themselves are the elementary building blocks of such architectures. In this paper we focus on evaluating the overall delay across such switching architectures.","PeriodicalId":163141,"journal":{"name":"2009 2nd International Conference on Adaptive Science & Technology (ICAST)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127645022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A simple self-timed implementation of a priority queue for dictionary search problems","authors":"A. Muhtaroğlu, Omer Berat Sezer","doi":"10.1109/ICASTECH.2009.5409749","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASTECH.2009.5409749","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a sparse priority queue suitable for reporting the results from a sequence database search, using a self-timed protocol. The prioritization is simplified through an insertion sort scheme with no greater/less than logic. The resulting implementation promises to be compact, fast, and suitable for the specified application area. The architectural design has been validated on a prototype platform with Altera Cyclone II Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA).","PeriodicalId":163141,"journal":{"name":"2009 2nd International Conference on Adaptive Science & Technology (ICAST)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130857917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Motion control and stabilization of a Skid-Steering Mobile Robot","authors":"Chunling Tu, G. Qi, B. V. van Wyk, Shengzhi Du","doi":"10.1109/ICASTECH.2009.5409706","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASTECH.2009.5409706","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, motion control and stabilization of a 4-Wheel Skid-Steering Mobile Robot (4WSSMR) are studied. A ratio controller which has been successfully applied in the chemical industry is designed to limit the vehicle lateral skid. Motion stability is guaranteed by generating an appropriate steering action (driving bias in left and right wheels) according to the states of the vehicle. A model free High Order Differential Feedback Controller (HODFC) cooperates with the ratio controller for motion control. In the proposed model-free scheme vehicle states used by the ratio controller and HODFC are estimated by high order differential (HOD) observer. Different road surface scenarios with varying frictional coefficients are designed to test performance and the ability to reject disturbances and noise. Trajectory tracking simulation results show that the proposed is robust to uncertainties and performs well even if some parameters are unknown.","PeriodicalId":163141,"journal":{"name":"2009 2nd International Conference on Adaptive Science & Technology (ICAST)","volume":"222 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134440171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bo Xing, F. Nelwamondo, Kimberly Battle, Wen-jing Gao, T. Marwala
{"title":"Application of artificial intelligence (AI) methods for designing and analysis of reconfigurable cellular manufacturing system (RCMS)","authors":"Bo Xing, F. Nelwamondo, Kimberly Battle, Wen-jing Gao, T. Marwala","doi":"10.1109/ICASTECH.2009.5409694","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASTECH.2009.5409694","url":null,"abstract":"This work focuses on the design and control of a novel hybrid manufacturing system: Reconfigurable Cellular Manufacturing System (RCMS) by using Artificial Intelligence (AI) approach. It is hybrid as it combines the advantages of Cellular Manufacturing System (CMS) and Reconfigurable Manufacturing System (RMS). In addition to inheriting desirable properties from CMS and RMS, RCMS provides additional benefits including flexibility and the ability to respond to changing products, product mix and market conditions during its useful life, avoiding premature obsolescence of the manufacturing system. The emphasis of this research is the formation of Reconfigurable Manufacturing Cell (RMC) which is the dynamic and logical clustering of some manufacturing resources, driven by specific customer orders, aiming at optimally fulfilling customers' orders along with other RMCs in the RCMS.","PeriodicalId":163141,"journal":{"name":"2009 2nd International Conference on Adaptive Science & Technology (ICAST)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133764925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lessons learned from developing state-of-the-art control electronics (PCBs) to be manufactured in medium volume","authors":"J. Weber, Andrea Rehkopf, Thomas Schmidt-Behounek","doi":"10.1109/ICASTECH.2009.5409729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASTECH.2009.5409729","url":null,"abstract":"Today there is a growing trend towards increasingly complex and intelligent embedded electronics systems. To implement a desired system there is often no suitable hardware platform available on the market. This contribution illustrates the lessons learned from a joint project of a mid-cap company and a university to develop several PCBs (printed circuit boards) for industrial control purposes. This contribution focuses not so much on general technical problems with regard to PCB design because these are covered well by the existing literature. Instead specific problems are addressed that are relevant for rather small, resource-restricted companies with manufacturing quantities for a board in the hundreds range and multi-year lifecycles. Structured according to a practically-proven development sequence, some generally applicable potential pitfalls and previously undocumented problems are shown. This kind of production volume is very relevant because it applies to almost all industrial applications as well as e.g. in-field evaluations of consumer electronics.","PeriodicalId":163141,"journal":{"name":"2009 2nd International Conference on Adaptive Science & Technology (ICAST)","volume":"309 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115443766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Olumuyiwa Bamidele Alaba, M. Nicolae, R. Dobrescu, Olalere. A. Abass, D. Popescu
{"title":"Educational platform for process controlling via Internet","authors":"Olumuyiwa Bamidele Alaba, M. Nicolae, R. Dobrescu, Olalere. A. Abass, D. Popescu","doi":"10.1109/ICASTECH.2009.5409699","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASTECH.2009.5409699","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an educational platform which offers to students the possibilities to connect remotely via Internet to Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) which will control, practically, any virtual process. In this way, several expensive resources like PLCs or powerful computers which simulate complex processes can be shared at distance and improve their time management. The processes simulated on computers have the great advantage of flexibility and it is free of dangerous events. Any person logged on a server can have a profile and load a script with his own process or a template one and start to control it with a real PLC. The process can be simulated in any program like Matlab or LabView. The interface between the real PLC and the virtual process running on a computer will be realized by an adaptor which emulates in real-time the signals from the simulated process. The adaptor has programmable analog/digital I/O with galvanic isolation and it can be easily configured from a web application in order to suit the simulated process.","PeriodicalId":163141,"journal":{"name":"2009 2nd International Conference on Adaptive Science & Technology (ICAST)","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116523122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis of merge criteria within a watershed based segmentation algorithm","authors":"Tobias Grosser, O. Hellwich, A. Wendemuth","doi":"10.1109/ICASTECH.2009.5409715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASTECH.2009.5409715","url":null,"abstract":"The watershed transform is a very powerful segmentation tool which guarantees closed contours. In this paper the watershed transform is used for the segmentation of a very simple image consisting of a circle, a rectangle and a background region. The ability of different merge criteria to find these major structures based on the highly over-segmented watershed transform for different signal to noise ratios (SNR) is analyzed. Special focus is given to the compensation of prior merge probabilities induced by the topology of the over-segmented watershed images. Herby a relative performance increase of 5.1% to 23.5% is achieved for the different merge criteria.","PeriodicalId":163141,"journal":{"name":"2009 2nd International Conference on Adaptive Science & Technology (ICAST)","volume":"157 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122658889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Advancing regulation retrieval with profiling, controlled vocabularies and networked services","authors":"T. Cerovsek","doi":"10.1109/ICASTECH.2009.5409716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASTECH.2009.5409716","url":null,"abstract":"An approach to advanced ‘information retrieval’ (IR) of regulations-one based on analyzed engineering information-seeking behavior, and profiling of users and content-is presented. A development methodology and a conceptual and technical solution for regulation retrieval enabling sharing of services, content and users were developed. Iterative Survey-Test (ST) prototyping was used in a test-bed project for networked regulation retrieval with semantic services, federated indexing, structural parsing and searching, supported by controlled vocabularies, and distributed user-profiling, thus enabling end-users to create, modify and transfer profiles between portals with a common WSDL. The solution is important for providers and users of regulations.","PeriodicalId":163141,"journal":{"name":"2009 2nd International Conference on Adaptive Science & Technology (ICAST)","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116346723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}