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Development of cooperative behavioural model for autonomous multi-robots system deployed to underground mines
(2015)
The number of disasters that occur in underground mine environments monthly all over the world cannot be ignored. Some of these disasters for instance are roof-falls; explosions, toxic gas inhalation, in-mine vehicle ...
Enabling visually impaired people to use touch screen phones
(2015)
Most mobile applications are not designed for visually impaired people. The concept of universal design is not adopted by most application developers. Therefore, interaction between a visually impaired user and the mobile ...
Fast, realistic terrain synthesis
(2015)
The authoring of realistic terrain models is necessary to generate immersive virtual environments for computer games and film visual effects. However, creating these landscapes is difficult - it usually involves an artist ...
RFI monitoring for the MeerKAT Radio Telescope
(2015)
South Africa is currently building MeerKAT, a 64 dish radio telescope array, as a pre-cursor for the proposed Square Kilometre Array (SKA). Both telescopes will be located at a remote site in the Karoo with a low level of ...
Visually querying object-oriented databases
(1997)
As database requirements increase, the ability to construct database queries efficiently becomes more important. The traditional means of querying a database is to write a textual query, such as writing in SQL to query a ...
Exploiting persistence in CASE technology
(1997)
A Design Workbench has been built for Napier88 [MBC+94] as part of the natural progression towards developing better product systems and improving software construction tools. The system includes a Metamodeller (enabling ...
Analytical differentiation by computer using a Symmetrical List Processor
(1972)
The Symmetrical List Processor SLIP; developed by Professor Joseph Weizenbaum of MIT, was implemented with considerable modifications and additions on the University of Cape Town computer. A package to perform automated ...
An Estelle compiler
(1988)
The increasing development and use of computer networks has necessitated international standards to be defined. Central to the standardization efforts is the concept of a Formal Description Technique (FDT) which is used ...
Ubiquitous intelligence for smart cities: a public safety approach
(2017)
Citizen-centered safety enhancement is an integral component of public safety and a top priority for decision makers in a smart city development. However, public safety agencies are constantly faced with the challenge of ...
Natural language interface to relational database: a simplified customization approach
(2016)
Natural language interfaces to databases (NLIDB) allow end-users with no knowledge of a formal language like SQL to query databases. One of the main open problems currently investigated is the development of NLIDB systems ...