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Optimizing of Consumption Energy in Smart building
No full textIntelligent technologies have advanced significantly over the past two decades and have integrated with cities to enhance citizen lives. Additionally, the amount of energy consumed varies depending on the weather, the number of occupants, and the type of building—commercial, residential, or administrative. In contrast, the citizen must make a trade-off between the building's environmental impact, comfort levels, and energy use. In this essay, we'll suggest a smart model that enables management, control, and regulation of energy usage in accordance with a set of standards. As a result, this approach enables real-time calculation, regulation, and optimization of energy usage as well as comfort for the occupants. As a result, the person can learn about their energy consumption without having to read electricity measurements or wait for a billing cycle. Additionally, this method enables energy resource conservation and increases system output even during periods of high demand
An indoor navigation model and its network extraction
No full textWe propose a navigation model for indoor environments that combines a 3D geometric modeling of buildings with connection properties of spaces and semantic elements such as openings and installations. The model is an extension of the IndoorGML standard navigation module with a twofold benefit: the extension facilitated the data import from the international standard CityGML and introduced the semantics of various fixtures in indoor space of buildings making the navigation model more suitable for human needs. Several experiments have been conducted by extracting networks from CityGML data and performing a comparison with other network construction techniques. The second contribution of the paper is an algorithm for the automatic extraction of the navigation network. Such an algorithm is a hybrid solution between medial axis approaches and visibility graph approaches. Normally, medial axes approaches are a good representation of human navigation in narrow corridors, especially to avoid obstacles, but introduce distortions in open space. On the other hand, visibility approaches work better in open spaces. In our extraction technique, the resulting network takes advantages of both approaches and better mimics human beings’ navigation in indoor environments
Bluetooth beacons based indoor positioning in a shopping malls using machine learning
No full textThe adoption of Bluetooth beacon technology demonstrates a broad interest in indoor positioning technology because of its low cost and ease of use. Bluetooth beacons usually have an accuracy of fewer than 4 meters. The use of machine learning (ML) leads to results with greater accuracy compared to using traditional filtering methods. In this paper, we provide indoor localization based on Bluetooth beacons using several different ML techniques. We used ML algorithms to locate customers' devices in shopping malls. The extra-trees classifier and k-neighbors classifier found the device with greater than 90% accuracy. Other algorithms were able to determine the location with less accuracy. The results also showed that Bluetooth technology is a valid solution to find the data used to analyze the spatial-temporal behavior of individuals
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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