Author:Erinosho, MF; Akinlabi, ET; Pityana, Sisa LDate:2016Ti6Al4V alloy is a well-known material for biomedical application due to the very excellent corrosion resistance it possessed. Cu has an excellent antimicrobial property and stabilizes the immune system of the body activities. In this present ...Read more
Author:De Beer, Morris; Kleyn, EG; Wolff, H; Otte, JRDate:1991This paper summarises the full scale accelerated research done during the past six years with the Heavy Vehicle Simulator (HVS) belonging to the Roads Branch of the Transvaal Provincial Administration (TPA). The research concentrated on the ...Read more
Author:Dlamini, Thandokuhle M; Eloff, JHP; Venter, HS; Eloff, MM; Henha Eyono, RPS; Mosola, NNDate:Sep 2017This paper investigates how to effectively stop an attacker from using compromised user credentials to gain authorized entry to systems that they are otherwise not authorised to access. The proposed solution extends previous work to move ...Read more
Author:Rosman, Benjamin SDate:Nov 2014An agent continuously performing different tasks in the same domain has the opportunity to learn, over the course of its operational lifetime, about the behavioural regularities afforded by the domain. This paper addresses the problem of ...Read more
Author:Ramotsoela, TD; Hancke, GP; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Oct 2020There has been an increasing number of attacks against critical water system infrastructure in recent years. This is largely due to the fact that these systems are heavily dependent on computer networks meaning that an attacker can use ...Read more
Author:Winschiers-Theophilus, H; Chivuno-Kuria, S; Kapuire, GK; Bidwell, NJ; Blake, EDate:2010In this paper, we explore the concept of participatory design from a different viewpoint by drawing on an African philosophy of humanness -Ubuntu-, and African rural community practices. The situational dynamics of participatory interaction ...Read more
Author:Van Huyssteen, ElsonaDate:Mar 2018The thesis, Being, becoming and contributing in (and through) Planning, provides an overview and reflection on an innovative narrative-based enquiry into personal and professional work-life experiences of planning practitioners. It is aimed ...Read more
Author:Booth, R; Meyer, TDate:Jul 2012In this paper the authors present a brief overview of belief change, a research area concerned with the question of how a rational agent ought to change its mind in the face of new, possibly conflicting, information. The authors limit themselves ...Read more
Author:Booth, R; Meyer, TDate:Aug 2011In this paper the authors present a brief overview of belief change, a research area concerned with the question of how a rational agent ought to change its mind in the face of new, possibly conflicting, information. The authors limit themselves ...Read more
Author:Marom, O; Rosman, Benjamin SDate:Feb 2018A key challenge in many reinforcement learning problems is delayed rewards, which can significantly slow down learning. Although reward shaping has previously been introduced to accelerate learning by bootstrapping an agent with additional ...Read more
Author:Rens, G; Ferrein, ADate:Sep 2013We consider online partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) which compute policies by local look-ahead from the current belief-state. One problem is that belief-nodes deeper in the decision-tree increase in the number of states ...Read more
Author:Piketh, SJ; Swap, RJ; Anderson, CA; Freiman, MT; Zunckel, M; Held, GDate:Jan 1999The Ben Macdhui High Altitude Aerosol and Trace Gas Transport Experiment (BHATTEX) was started to characterize the nature and magnitude of atmospheric, aerosol and trace gas transport paths recirculation over and exiting from southern Africa ...Read more
Author:Pratt, Lawrence E; Matheus, Jana; Klein, RDate:Dec 2023Electroluminescence (EL) images enable defect detection in solar photovoltaic (PV) modules that are otherwise invisible to the naked eye, much the same way an x-ray enables a doctor to detect cracks and fractures in bones. This paper presents ...Read morecbnd
Author:Mouton, Francois; Teixeira, M; Meyer, TDate:Nov 2017As the nature of information stored digitally be- comes more important and confidential, the security of the systems put in place to protect this information needs to be increased. The human element, however, remains a vulnerability of the ...Read more
Author:Bhagwat, G; Gray, K; Wilson, SP; Muniyasamy, Sudhakar; Vincent, SGT; Bush, R; Palanisam, TDate:Aug 2020The ubiquitous presence of plastic litter and its tending fate as marine debris have given rise to a strong anti-waste global movement which implicitly endorses bioplastics as a promising substitute. With ‘corporate social responsibility’ ...Read more
Author:Stander, Johan N; Landwehr, Gregory BDate:Nov 2017This presentation explains the importance of benchmarking microscale codes, its setup, and results achieved. Future work is also touched on.Read more
Author:Kruger, Carel P; Hancke, GPDate:Jul 2014The use of commercial off-the-shelf components for implementing Internet of Things devices has become a common practice amongst researchers and solution providers. IOT solutions, based on the Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone and BeagleBone Black, ...Read more
Author:Hawes, Nomashaka BN; Johannes, PT; Hlangothi, P; Mturi, George AJDate:Oct 2019Bitumen emulsions are the most commonly used bituminous products for roads in Southern Africa because they are relatively inexpensive to apply, in comparison with hot bituminous binders. Although there have been great strides taken in the ...Read more
Author:Kemp, Lana; De Saxe, Christopher C; Berman, Robert P; Steenkamp, Anton JDate:Jul 2019The Smart Truck or Performance-Based Standards (PBS) pilot project in South Africa has been running since 2007, and currently comprises approximately 280 vehicles operational in seven provinces, spanning fourteen different industries or ...Read more
Author:Helbig, M; Engelbrecht, APDate:Jun 2013When algorithms solve dynamic multi-objective optimisation problems (DMOOPs), benchmark functions should be used to determine whether the algorithm can overcome specific difficulties that can occur in real-world problems. However, for dynamic ...Read more