Extending the Civilization Axis Line:The 2008Olympic Venue Designs

On July 14, the 2008 Summer Olympic Venue Design Competition concluded with a U.S.-China joint venture scooping the first prize. The event was held for the conceptual designs of two major venues for the Games ?the Olympic Green and the Wukesong Culture and Sports Center. A total of 87 plans were submitted since the contest was opened in April, 54 for the Olympic Green and 33 for the Wukesong Center.San Francisco-based Sasaki Associates won the top prize for the Olympic Green which was designed in partnership with Tianjin

Some Considerations about Fuzzy Logic Based Decision Making by Autonomous Intelligent Actor

The article presents an approach toward an implementation of a fuzzy logic-based decision-making process by Autonomous Intelligent Actor (AIA) (© A. Tserkovny), when an input information is defined for its “strategic targeting” by a human operator in terms of a fuzzy incident geometry, whereas its “tactical” behavior (a navigation in space) is directed by fuzzy conditional inference rules. For implementing both elements of AIA decision-making a fuzzy logic [1] for formal geometric reasoning with extended objects is used. This fuzzy logic based fuzzification of axioms of an incidence geometry and a predicate apparatus [2] for AIA space orientation are also presented. The approach, offered in the article, extends predicates of a counter positioning of two objects and their mutual navigation into their fuzzy counterparts. The latter allows AIA to make certain “tactical” decisions.

New Test Light Spectrum Design for L/U-Band Extended Optical Fiber Line Testing System

This paper describes a new design for the test light source of an L/U-band extended optical fiber line testing system and the side-band suppresser ratio of the test light should be more than 70 dB.