We are interested in all sorts of tool-support, which help the designer of a pervasive application in different stages of the development process, such as task and requirements analysis, conceptual design, prototyping...
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(纸本)9781605588353
We are interested in all sorts of tool-support, which help the designer of a pervasive application in different stages of the development process, such as task and requirements analysis, conceptual design, prototyping and evaluation. We are looking for contributions that will help to address the following questions: • What are the past experiences and future expectations of designers and developers that use tools for support? • What exactly are the benefits and the shortcomings of available tools? • What are the open issues and challenges for the next few years? The workshop will feature presentations of research results, experiences of past and ongoing work, and a forum for participants to address a predefined set of focus questions.
A high level of reliability is a significant requirement for using wireless sensor networks in industrial environments. Model-based evaluation is usually applied in conventional systems to estimate the reliability. In...
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The IEEE 802.15.4 standard for LR-WPAXs is becoming a de-facto standard for Wireless Sensor Xetworks (WSXs) applications in industrial fields. In this paper, we evaluate the latency performance of the IEEE 802.15.4 pr...
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A high level of reliability is a significant requirement for using wireless sensor networks in industrial environments. Model-based evaluation is usually applied in conventional systems to estimate the reliability. In...
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A high level of reliability is a significant requirement for using wireless sensor networks in industrial environments. Model-based evaluation is usually applied in conventional systems to estimate the reliability. In contrast, for analyzing sensor networks, these methods are hardly tested and proven due to the unique properties of that kind of network. This paper presents a first model-based approach to quantitatively assess the reliability of sensor networks. Based on an abstract model of a sensor network, the degree of detail with respect to the characteristic aspects of sensor networks is increased in a stepwise manner. If network topologies are taken into account, analytical methods fail and the assessment of reliability measures has to be done numerically. Finally, a Monte Carlo Simulation is conducted to also cover dynamics in the topology. In conclusion, this paper shows that, by knowledge of link probabilities and lifetime distributions of single sensor nodes, model-based analysis may be used to estimate reliability measures of sensor networks.
Radial or pincushion distortion problem of the wide angle charge-coupled device (CCD) camera is an important issue in the image calibration in case of close-up photography of real scene. We designed the auto-extractio...
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(纸本)9781601321190
Radial or pincushion distortion problem of the wide angle charge-coupled device (CCD) camera is an important issue in the image calibration in case of close-up photography of real scene. We designed the auto-extraction method of the warping points in the calibration algorithm of the image acquired by the wide angle CCD camera. Proposed method extracts the distortion point by the wide angle CCD camera, using the threshold value of the histogram of the horizontal and vertical pixel lines. This processing step can be directly applied to the original image of the wide angle CCD camera output. Proposed method results are compared with hand-worked result image using the two wide angle CCD cameras having different angles (90° and 120°) with the difference value of the result images respectively. Experimental results show that proposed method can allocate the distortion-calibration constant of the wide angle CCD camera regardless of lens type, distortion shape and image type.
Automatic font-written Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is highly desirable for numerous modern information technology (IT) applications. Reliable font-written OCR's for Latin scripts are readily in use since l...
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(纸本)9781424455614
Automatic font-written Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is highly desirable for numerous modern information technology (IT) applications. Reliable font-written OCR's for Latin scripts are readily in use since long. For cursively scripted languages, that are the mother tongues of over one fourth of the world population, such OCR's are however not available at a robust and reliable performance. In this regard, the main challenge is the mandatory connectivity of characters/ligatures (i.e. graphemes) that has to be resolved simultaneously upon the recognition of these graphemes. Among the various approaches tried over decades, Hidden Markov Models (HMM)-based OCR's seem to be the most promising as they capitalize on the ability of HMM decoders to achieve segmentation and recognition simultaneously similar to the widely used HMM-based automatic speech recognition (ASR). Unlike ASR's, what is missing in HMM-based OCR's is the definition of a rigorously founded features vector capable to robustly achieving minimal "font type/size-independent" (omnifont) word error rates comparable to those realized with Latin scripts. Here comes the contribution of this paper that introduces such a sound features vector design, and experimentally shows its superiority in this regard.
We investigate avenues for the exchange of information (explicit communication) among deaf and dumb mobile robots scattered in the plane. We introduce the use of movement-signals (analogously to flight signals and bee...
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(纸本)9783642108761
We investigate avenues for the exchange of information (explicit communication) among deaf and dumb mobile robots scattered in the plane. We introduce the use of movement-signals (analogously to flight signals and bees waggle) as a mean to transfer messages, enabling the use of distributed algorithms among robots. We propose one-to-one deterministic movement protocols that implement explicit communication among asynchronous robots. We first show how the movements of robots can provide implicit acknowledgment in asynchronous systems. We use this result to design one-to-one communication among a pair of robots. Then, we propose two one-to-one communication protocols for any system of n >= 2 robots. The former works for robots equipped with observable IDs that agree on a common direction (sense of direction). The latter enables one-to-one communication assuming robots devoid of any observable IDs or sense of direction. All three protocols (for either two or any number of robots) assume that no robot remains inactive forever. However, they cannot avoid that the robots move either away or closer of each others, by the way requiring robots with an infinite visibility. In this paper, we also present how to overcome these two disadvantages. These protocols enable the use of distributing algorithms based on message exchanges among swarms of Stigmergic robots. They also allow robots to be equipped with the means of communication to tolerate faults in their communication devices.
Reputation systems are very useful in large online communities in which users may frequently have the opportunity to interact with users with whom they have no prior experience. Recently, how to enhance the cooperativ...
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Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing(OFDM) is the key component of many emerging broadband wireless access *** resource allocation in OFDM uplink,however,is challenging due to heterogeneity of users' quality...
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Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing(OFDM) is the key component of many emerging broadband wireless access *** resource allocation in OFDM uplink,however,is challenging due to heterogeneity of users' quality of service requirements,channel conditions,and individual resource *** formulate the resource allocation problem as a non-strictly convex optimization problem,which typically has multiple global optimal *** propose a reduced primal-dual algorithm,which is distributed,requires simple local updates,and probably globally converges to a global optimal solution under easily satisfied sufficient technical *** performance of the algorithm is studied through a realistic OFDM simulator based on field *** with the previously proposed standard primal-dual algorithm,the reduced algorithm decreases the total number of iterations by 80%and the variance by 85%.
We discuss the need for bidirectional coupling of network simulation and road traffic microsimulation for evaluating Vehicular Ad Hoc networks (VANETs) in a simulation framework. As the selection of a mobility model i...
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