Integrated sensor systems and data fusion for homeland protection
The chapter addresses the application of data and information fusion to the design of integrated systems in the Homeland Protection (HP) domain. HP refers to the broad civilian and military effort...
View ArticleDigital kinships: Intergenerational locative media in Tokyo, Shanghai and...
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View ArticleAn analysis on the utilisation of health information technology to support...
Chinese Medicine (CM) has become increasingly demanding globally. Recent World Health Organisation traditional and complementary medicine strategy of integrating CM to Western Medicine (WM) indicates...
View ArticleA decision support toolkit for climate resilient seaports in the Pacific region
Seaports are vital logistics hubs for regional and global supply chains, none more so than in the Pacific context where ports act as important socio-economic nodes that promote the exchange and flow of...
View ArticleEvidential networks for decision support in surveillance systems
The chapter is devoted to the development of an automatic knowledge-based information fusion system that supports the decision making in a reliable, timely and consistent manner. The context is...
View ArticlePredicting extinction of biological systems with competition
The chapter develops a practical algorithm for forecasting an extinction event in a biological system with interaction of species. The problem is cast in the framework of a stochastic multiple-predator...
View ArticleWorking with siblings and how to survive them
"The most effective sibling partnerships don't merely acknowledge their differences; they actually celebrate them". This chapter contrasts our experiences working with two groups of second generation...
View ArticleSelling celebrity:the inherent tension between journalism and public...
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View ArticleA pinch of ethics and a soupçon of home cooking: Soft-selling supermarkets on...
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View ArticleLips in language and space: Imaginary places in James Dawson's Australian...
Exploring the links between concepts of space and place, Spatiality and Symbolic Expression focuses on the ways in which cultural expression occurs. With a view to identifying commonalities, chapters...
View ArticleDeveloping a sense of space: Working with three-dimensional objects
The ability to make sense of the three-dimensional world we live in is crucial for human existence and technological advancement. Spatial thinking and reasoning is found to play a crucial role in...
View ArticleTowards quality-oriented architecture: Integration in a global context
This paper introduces an architectural framework for developing systems of systems, where the development plants are geographically distributed across different countries. The focus of our ongoing work...
View ArticleInnovation in offsite manufacturing in the field of housing: A case study...
The purpose of this paper is to apply the Bourdivian concepts of field, habitus, and capital as theoretical lenses to examine the Australian housing construction sector. Specifically, we demonstrate...
View ArticleA box particle filter for stochastic and set-theoretic measurements with...
This work develops a novel estimation approach for nonlinear dynamic stochastic systems by combining the sequential Monte Carlo method with interval analysis. Unlike the common pointwise measurements,...
View ArticleDesigning the twenty-first century urban park: design strategies for a...
With 2014 considered the hottest year on record, the implication of climate change on the liveability of cities is becoming ever more apparent. Accordingly, the role of open space is emerging as a...
View ArticleSpatio-temporal architecture-based framework for testing services in the cloud
Increasingly, various services are deployed and orchestrated in the cloud to form global, large-scale systems. The global distribution, high complexity, and physical separation pose new challenges into...
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