Gisli THORSTEINSSON University of Iceland Tom PAGE Loughborough University Brynjar OLAFSSON University of Iceland Abstract: Craft was established in Iceland in the beginning of 1900 as a specific subject aimed at general education. The pedagogical framework was based on Danish school Sloyd. Different curricula focusing on craft were developed until …
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Senior Citizen Service Management Using WebAging System
Victor POPA, Liliana CONSTANTINESCU, Carmen ROTUNĂ National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics – ICI, Bucharest 8-10 Averescu Avenue, Bucharest 1, Romania Abstract: The paper presents the WebAging system, designed and developed to provide a single access point to Web services for elderly persons. The system uses semantic technology …
Read More »A Usability Assistant for the Heuristic Evaluation of Interactive Systems
Costin PRIBEANU National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics – ICI Bucharest 8-10, Averescu Avenue, Bucharest 1, Romania Abstract: The increasing demands for usable interactive systems in the context of limited project budgets bring in front the need for faster and cheaper evaluation methods. Heuristic evaluation is a kind …
Read More »A Recognition Algorithm for a Class of Partitionable Graphs that Satisfies the Normal Graph Conjecture
Mihai TĂLMACIU, Elena NECHITA, Gloria-Cerasela CRIŞAN University of Bacău, Department of Mathematics and Informatics 8 Spiru Haret, Bacău, Romania Abstract: A graph is normal if admits a clique cover and a stable set cover so that every clique may intersect every stable set. The Normal Graph Conjecture says that every …
Read More »On Quadratic Internal Model Principle in Mathematical Programming
Neculai ANDREI I C I Bucharest (National Institute for R & D in Informatics) Center for Advanced Modeling and Optimization 8-10 Averescu Blvd. 011455 Bucharest 1, Romania e-mail: nandrei@ici.ro Abstract: We show that for continuous mathematical programming problems every optimization algorithm must encapsulate implicitly or explicitly a quadratic internal model …
Read More »Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithms for Decision-Making in Reconfiguration Problems Applied to the Electric Distribution Networks
J. E. MENDOZA, L. A. VILLALEIVA, M. A. CASTRO Escuela de Ingeniería Eléctrica, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso P.O. Box 4059, CHILE E. A. LOPEZ Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica, Universidad de Concepción 160-C, CHILE Abstract: In this work the performance of three multiobjective optimization techniques based on evolutionary programming, applied …
Read More »Evolutionary Approach for the Containers Bin-Packing Problem
Ryan KAMMARTI LACS, Ecole Nationale des Ingénieurs de Tunis Tunis – Belvédère. Tunisie Imen AYACHI LACS, Ecole Nationale des Ingénieurs de Tunis Tunis – Belvédère. Tunisie LAGIS, Ecole Centrale de Lille Villeneuve d’Ascq, France Mekki KSOURI LACS, Ecole Nationale des Ingénieurs de Tunis Tunis – Belvédère. Tunisie Pierre BORNE LAGIS, …
Read More »An ACO Algorithm for Optimal Capacitor Banks Placement in Power Distribution Networks
Dinu Călin SECUI, Simona DZIŢAC, Gabriel Valentin BENDEA University of Oradea Romania Ioan DZIŢAC Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad & Cercetare Dezvoltare Agora (R&D Agora) Oradea, Romania Abstract: This paper aims to present and apply an algorithm based on Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) for optimal allocation of capacitor banks in …
Read More »Monitoring System for Co-generative Power Plants
Ion MICIU1, Florin HĂRŢESCU2 1 IPA SA – Automation Engineering; 169 Calea Floreasca, 14495 Bucharest, Romania ionmiciu@ipa.ro 2 I C I Bucharest (National Institute for R & D in Informatics) 8-10 Averescu Blvd. 011455 Bucharest 1, Romania flory@ici.ro Abstract: Electric power systems are an integral part of the way of …
Read More »Outer Feedback Correction Loops in Particle Filtering-based Prognostic Algorithms: Statistical Performance Comparison
Marcos E. ORCHARD1, Felipe A. TOBAR1, George J. VACHTSEVANOS2 1 Electrical Engineering Department, University of Chile Av. Tupper 2007, Santiago, Chile 2 School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology 777 Atlantic Drive, Atlanta GA 30332, USA Abstract: This paper presents, analyzes, and evaluates two different approaches for …
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