As global standards evolve on WPAN mobility, engineering design becomes more challenging for sensor nodes that form WPAN groups at random based on data sensing and acquisition (application) profiles. As sensor node pl...
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As global standards evolve on WPAN mobility, engineering design becomes more challenging for sensor nodes that form WPAN groups at random based on data sensing and acquisition (application) profiles. As sensor node platforms typically have computation blocks that can handle a minimal set of instructions (8 bit microcontrollers and less) and are greatly constrained (8KB static firmware footprint and 64KB RAM), the clear challenge in supporting multi-applications (and hence multi-radios) to enhance the sensor 's functionalities is the implementation of different radio and application profile stacks on the embedded system. The main design bottlenecks are system architecture optimization for multi-radio stacks, application-driven PHY/MAC emulation in the 8KB static firmware and of course, ensuring low power and high battery life. Our studies indicate that overcoming these embedded systems engineering bottlenecks in sensor node designs involves rethinking a few standards and raising the need to have new standards in the IETF LoWPAN WG. On this paper, we would like to show the need to introduce a new protocol in the LoWPAN WG derived from overcoming some of the sensor node design bottlenecks in seamless pervasive indoor environments.
Wireless sensor networks are often densely deployed for environmental monitoring applications. Collecting raw data from these networks can lead to excessive energy consumption. Thus using the spatial and temporal corr...
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(纸本)9783540730897
Wireless sensor networks are often densely deployed for environmental monitoring applications. Collecting raw data from these networks can lead to excessive energy consumption. Thus using the spatial and temporal correlations that exist between adjacent nodes we appoint a few as representative nodes that perform in-network aggregation. This reduces the total number of transmissions. Our distributed scheduling algorithm autonomously assigns a particular node to perform aggregation and reassigns schedules when network topology changes. These topology changes are detected using cross-layer information from the underlying MAC layer. We also present theoretical performance estimates and upper bounds of our algorithm and evaluate it by implementing the algorithm on actual sensor nodes, demonstrating an energy-saving of up to 80% compared to raw data collection.
Businesses collect and keep large volumes of customer data as part of their processes. Analysis of this data by business users often leads to discovery of valuable patterns and trends that otherwise would go unnoticed...
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(纸本)9781424401956
Businesses collect and keep large volumes of customer data as part of their processes. Analysis of this data by business users often leads to discovery of valuable patterns and trends that otherwise would go unnoticed and that can lead to prioritization of decisions on future investments. The majority of tools currently available to business users are typically limited to computing summary statistics, simple visualization and reporting of data. More complex tools that could offer possible explanations for observations, discover knowledge, or allow making predictions are usually aimed at an academic audience or at users who are highly trained in analytics. However, it is business users with little experience in analytics who require access to tools that allow them to easily model customer behavior and build future scenarios. In this paper we present a tool we developed for business users to perform advanced analysis on customer data.
This paper introduces a Neural-Fuzzy (NF) modeling structure for offline incremental learning. Using a hybrid model updating algorithm (supervised/unsupervised) this NF structure has the ability to adapt in an additiv...
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(纸本)9781424401956
This paper introduces a Neural-Fuzzy (NF) modeling structure for offline incremental learning. Using a hybrid model updating algorithm (supervised/unsupervised) this NF structure has the ability to adapt in an additive way to new input-output mappings and new classes. data granulation is utilised along with a NF structure to create a high performance yet transparent model that entails the core of the system. A model fusion approach is then employed to provide the incremental update of the system. The proposed system is tested against a multidimensional modeling environment consisting of a complex, non-linear and sparse database.
Decision Support systems have been utilised since 1960, providing physicians with fast and accurate means towards more accurate diagnoses, increased tolerance when handling missing or incomplete data. In this paper an...
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(纸本)9781424401956
Decision Support systems have been utilised since 1960, providing physicians with fast and accurate means towards more accurate diagnoses, increased tolerance when handling missing or incomplete data. In this paper an integrated intelligent framework has been developed for the analysis/diagnosis of Wireless Capsule Endoscopic Images. The proposed system extracts texture features from the texture spectra in the chromatic and achromatic domains for a selected region of interest from each colour component histogram of images and utilises an advanced neural network in a multiple classifier scheme. The preliminary test results support the feasibility of the proposed methodology.
We present first some general remarks on challenges faced by modern information technology, notably when a human being is a relevant factor. These challenges are mainly related to inherent difficulties in solving some...
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(纸本)9781424401956
We present first some general remarks on challenges faced by modern information technology, notably when a human being is a relevant factor. These challenges are mainly related to inherent difficulties in solving some "meta-problems", in particular broadly perceived decision making. We assume, on the one hand, business intelligence related perspective, augmented with elements of Web intelligence, to fully use all available tools and resources. On the other hand, we assume a human centric computing perspective in the spirit of, for instance, Dertouzos's ideas. First, we present a brief account of modern approaches to real world decision making, emphasize the concept of a decision making process that involves more factors and aspects like: the use of own and external knowledge, involvement of various "actors", aspects, etc., individual habitual domains, non-trivial rationality, different paradigms. As an example we mention Checkland's deliberative decision making (which is an important elements of his soft approach to systems analysis). After an analysis of specifics and difficulties encountered in many real world decision-making situations, we strongly advocate the use of computer based decision support systems. First, we briefly review the history of decision support systems, and then present a popular classification, starting from data driven to Web based and inter-organizational. We indicate that decision support systems should incorporate some sort of "intelligence", and we first briefly mention some views of what intelligence may mean in this concept, and then assume some more pragmatic, though limited, view of intelligent decision support systems. We indicate possible advantages of using elements of fuzzy logic and soft computing, notably, Zadeh's computing with words to be able to somehow merge the ideas presented like: human centric computing, decision making processes, intelligent decision support, etc. Finally, we present an example of implementation in whi
The majority of healthcare workers in hospitals continue to record, access and update important patient information using paper charts. Disparate patient data (clinical information, laboratory results and medical imag...
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(纸本)9781424401956
The majority of healthcare workers in hospitals continue to record, access and update important patient information using paper charts. Disparate patient data (clinical information, laboratory results and medical imagery) is entered by different caregivers and stored at different locations around the hospital. This is a cumbersome, time consuming process that can result in critical medical errors such as documents being mislaid or prescriptions being misinterpreted due to illegible handwriting. Hospitals everywhere are moving to integrate health data sources using Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems as well as taking advantage of the flexibility and speed of wireless computing to improve the quality and reduce the cost of healthcare. We are developing a mobile application that allows doctors to efficiently access accurate real-time patient information at the point-of-care. The system can assist caregivers in automatically searching through very large repositories of previous patient cases as increasingly large hospital databases are making manual searches of such information unfeasible. The system performs computational prognosis by providing decision support for pre-screening of medical diagnosis. A presenting patient's symptoms can be input to a portable device and the application can quickly retrieve the most similar profiles with known diagnoses from large databases which can be used to compare treatments, diagnosis, test results and other information.
systems should be self-predicting. They should continuously monitor themselves and provide quantitative answers to What...if questions about hypothetical workload or resource changes. Self-prediction would significant...
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Supervisory Control and dataacquisition (SCADA) systems are widely used to meet the ever-increasing technological demands for monitoring and control of distributed system. An intelligent simulator is designed to enha...
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(纸本)9728865619
Supervisory Control and dataacquisition (SCADA) systems are widely used to meet the ever-increasing technological demands for monitoring and control of distributed system. An intelligent simulator is designed to enhance the conventional SCADA system. The new architecture can be exploited to develop integrated systems for complex distributed system management, performance prediction, fault detection and optimized operation.
data mining approaches have been widely applied in the field of healthcare. At the same time it is recognized that most healthcare dataseis are full of missing values. In this paper we apply decision trees, Naive Baye...
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