A revised introduction to the english edition : Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz's theory, practice, and purposeless -- The sociological law of retrospection : the law of revolutionary retrospection as a consequence of economic materialism -- The golden age, state of nature, and development in...

A hybrid framework, that can be used in face recognition applications, to enhance system recognition efficiency and speed by extracting the most efficient features of face images is proposed. The proposed framework is based on features obtained using Histograms of Oriented Gradients (HOG)...

In the last two decades, the indoor positioning systems (IPS) have attracted many researchers because of the great importance in many pervasive applications. Different techniques have been developed for IPS, a method that fingerprints the Received Signal Strength (RSS) of WLAN at specific places...

Purpose Asset inventory is an essential part of any building asset management system and is needed by such functions as condition assessment and deterioration prediction. Previous studies in asset management systems have suggested the use of one of the many standard construction classification...

Purpose Current facility management (FM) practices are inefficient and ineffective, partially because of missing information and communication issues. Information and communications technologies (ICT) are asserted to provide a promising solution for managing and operating facilities. However,...