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...AirportSim aids an airport manager interested in efficiency to distribute resources throughout a model airport, balancing cost with customer satisfaction. The AirportSim application is made up of a number of user-manipulable simulation objects that define the airport...

... using physical pucks on a sensing table. Bottlenecks in the work flow are shown as an animation based simulation. Estimated cost/profits, throughputs, and lead time can also be presented in charts. Users can discover problems, examine hypotheses, and...

... screen, the workbench can immediately present the impact of parameter changes on the QoS (Quality of Service) as well as cost, and helps users to find an optimum design that balances between cost and performance. This system utilizes the TUI platform...

... about 1.1 GigaBytes total. It was printed and exhibited as a mural approximately 7 feet high by 26 feet wide. The materials cost was almost nothing, except a lot of paper and ink.

... and optical sensors that "take a peek" inside the biological activity of living plants, and explore their use as low-cost sensors and thought-provoking educational tools for children and museum exhibits. (Source:...

... safety sensor for vehicles. This transceiver and antenna mounted to the driver-side car door could prevent dangerous and costly traffic accidents or personal injury to bicyclists and other motor vehicles. We are currently building a longer-range version...

... is a large scale trend: as the world-system reaches its limitations (depletion of natural resources, expected end of low-cost labour, the end of the ideology of liberalism, the fading of desire, etc.), capitalism relaunches its machinery by pushing back...

... than the substance, and we can imagine producing an important wall-covering in all kinds of circumstances at very low cost. Other projects described above can be included in this category.

... of the overall task. Workers were paid one cent each via Amazon's Mechanical Turk distributed labor tool. The total labor cost to create the bill, the artwork being created, and the reproductions available for purchase (to charity) are all $100. The work...

... creative subversive agendas. The website Loophole4All.com promoted the sale of real identities of anonymous companies at low cost to democratize the privileges of offshore businesses. This performance generated international media attention, engaged an...