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Domain specific languages (DSL) are abundant in software development. They are languages with a constrained feature set aiming to improve the productivity of a programmer creating programs for a particular domain. Since they are tailored to a specific domain, domain experts have an easier time reading and writing programs in such a DSL as well.Even though the practice of creating DSLs is widely used, there is still a lot of room for improvement. ...

Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) play a central role in transportation management and operations. The traditional view of deploying intelligent communication technology (ICT) as supporting tool to improve both individual vehicle operations. There is therefore the need to promote contacts, communication, and cooperation between private and academic sectors to further incentivize joint research and development, and to facilitate the ...

The increasing adoption of maintenance information management systems for maintenance decision support by industry has facilitated the collection of large volumes of maintenance data. Apart from enhancing maintenance decision support in aspects such as task planning or resource allocation, the data could assist decision makers identify the focal root causes of recurrent equipment failures. In this way, more effective strategies may be formulated ...

The control of a supply chain becomes more and more complex. The actions and operations of the different parties need to be coordinated in order to control the supply chain in an efficient way. The concept of 'Intelligent Product' can play an important role in this challenge. The intelligent product searches actively for the needed services offered by (intelligent) resources. The Holonic Manufacturing Execution System developed at K.U.Leuven ...

The Multi-layer Pyramidal Growing Networks (MPGN) are memory structures based on multidimensional numbered information spaces (Markov, 2004), which permit us to create association links (bonds), hierarchically systematizing, and classification the information simultaneously with the input of it into memory. This approach is a successor of the main ideas of Growing Pyramidal Networks (Gladun, 2003), such as hierarchical structuring of memory that ...

Probability estimation of machine usages is an essentialtask to the development of an intelligent device/environment.In this paper, we propose a generic framework to the taskusing the sliding window technique and incremental featureselection. The methodology is applied to a real-life datasetof office printers and the performances of different standardclassifiers in supervised learning are compared. We concludethat Logistic Regression (LR) ...

The notion of an intelligent product places suitability for integration firmly on the research agenda. Indeed, this paradigm aims for coordination and integration on a scale that is unseen until today. Note that this applies particularly where it concerns the core businesses of companies. For that reason, this paper presents a novel concept, the intelligent being, as a vehicle to achieve suitability for integration. The concept is applied to ...

This paper describes an integrated approach for modeling transport infrastructure and optimising transport in urban areas. It combines the benefits of a multi-agent system, real time traffic information, and traffic forecasts to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions and offer flexible intermodal commuting solutions. In this distributed approach, segments of different modes of transport (e.g. roads, bus/tram routes, bicycle routes, pedestrian paths) ...

When tourists are at a destination, they typically search for information in the Local Tourist Organizations. There, the staff categorizes tourists’ profile and restrictions. Combining this information with their up-to-date knowledge about the local attractions, weather and public transportation, they suggest a personalised route for the tourist agenda. This paper presents an intelligent routing system for a Personalised Electronic Tourist Guide ...