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Relaxed Steering towards Oriented Region Goals

Ronan Boulic

This paper extends the funnelling behavior to offer a low-cost flexible guidance of mobile entities towards a circular region goal with the guarantee of enforcing an orientation within a predefined tolerance interval. The key requirements are the same as t ...

Springer-Verlag New York, Ms Ingrid Cunningham, 175 Fifth Ave, New York, Ny 10010 Usa2008

Transformation of the 2001 Swiss SAM from ETH Zürich to GEMINI-E3 format

Marc Vielle, André Sceia

This paper describes the methodology used to transform the 2001 Swiss SAM devised at ETH Zürich and align it to the requirements of the GEMINI-E3 model which is based on the GTAP database. ...

2007

Impact of Galileo on the Road Sector

Pierre-Yves Gilliéron

This presentation describes the main ITS (Intelligent Trasnportion Systems) services and their requirements in positioning. Different types of navigation systems are presented with a focus on satellite-based systems and the potential of Galileo with value ...

2007

Adaptive civil engineering structures

Bernard Adam

Most civil structures are passive and static. They are designed according to serviceability and safety requirements. When subjected to actions, they generally deflect in a passive manner. For example, they do not adapt actively to external loading. A more ...

EPFL2007

Computer-assisted Cognition: Using Wireless Sensor Networks to Assist the Monitoring of Agricultural Fields

Jacques Panchard

We use a decision-support system for agriculture based on a wireless sensor network, in order to understand how scientists solve a typical problem that requires environmental data (such as soil moisture, temperature, etc.). Subjects use an existing interfa ...

2007

Data security in location-aware applications: an approach based on RBAC

Maria Luisa Damiani

Data security in a mobile context is a critical issue. Over the last few years a new category of location-based services, the Enterprise LBS (ELBS), has emerged focusing on the demands of mobility in organisations. These applications pose challenging requi ...

2007

SEAM in Business: A Systemic Method for Understanding Stakeholders’ Needs in Value Networks

Alain Wegmann

Understanding stakeholders’ needs is necessary to design requirements for organizations and IT systems. We present a systemic modeling method to identify and categorize stakeholders within value networks, to analyze the relationships between these value ne ...

2006

Requirements for an orientation and calibration standard for digital aerial cameras and related sensors

Jan Skaloud

Though the ISPRS has had standardization on its agenda for a long time the progress was slow and the output of completed document is still limited. The reasons are manifold: lack of awareness of standardization, necessary alignment with the standardization ...

2006

Innovative design and multi-objective optimization of hybrid reverse osmosis and multi-stage flash desalination plants

François Maréchal, François Vince

The purpose of this work is to develop a decision support tool, which will systemically assess the advantages of hybrid desalination configurations (integration between thermal and membrane technologies) by investigating and optimizing these configurations ...

2006

Integrated ELM modelling

Richard Pitts

This paper presents a short overview of current trends and progress in integrated ELM modelling. First, the concept of integrated ELM modelling is introduced, various interpretations of it are given and the need for it is discussed. Then follows an overvie ...

2006