Community Health Information Tracking System using Short Message Service (chitSMS) is an extension of CHITS which is a system that stores health records of patients in the barangay. Another project incorporated a mobi...
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Image processing, specifically extracting regions of interest, being a costly operation would benefit from a method of storing its output region and input image data in a database for future querying so as to prevent ...
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Current methods in mapping the availability of WiFi networks, such as crowdsourcing platforms (e.g. Project BASS and CoverageMap) and dedicated wardriving, face limitations in terms of data recency, volume, and cost-e...
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Enabling robots to seamlessly operate as part of smart spaces is an important and extended challenge for robotics R&D and a key enabler for a range of advanced robotic applications, such as AmbientAssisted Living ...
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In disaster situations communication and power infrastructure could be damaged, disrupting their associated services. This could delay relief efforts and cost more lives. In situations where connections are damaged an...
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Many applications for inter-vehicular communication require a very specific test situation in order to be evaluated during a real world experiment. However, in the currently prevailing free-flow experiments the intend...
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(纸本)9781605587370
Many applications for inter-vehicular communication require a very specific test situation in order to be evaluated during a real world experiment. However, in the currently prevailing free-flow experiments the intended situation for the application may not occur in sufficient frequency to provide statistically significant results. In this paper, we argue that the existing experimental approach should therefore be complemented with coordinated experiments. This allows to specifically create the desired test situation. We present a methodology for such controlled experiments. The key to those experiments is the exact coordination of the participating cars' movements as well as a detailed control over all used soft- and hardware. To illustrate this methodology, we have performed an experiment with two cars that simultaneously approach an urban intersection and measured the radio transmission ranges with and without a road side unit. The results show that cars equipped with communication technology can inform their drivers about the approaching other cars up to ten seconds before a possible accident at such an intersection.
Fuel-efficient driving is difficult in unknown or complex environments. To aid the driver with this task, we present a novel method of tactical route optimization by calculating a short-term fuel-reduced velocity prof...
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(纸本)9781424483310
Fuel-efficient driving is difficult in unknown or complex environments. To aid the driver with this task, we present a novel method of tactical route optimization by calculating a short-term fuel-reduced velocity profile. This profile is based on knowledge of location-dependent velocity profiles that are collected by the vehicles over time and shared with other vehicles. To determine a fuel-efficient velocity profile, we first split the planned route into segments. We cluster the historical velocity profiles within each segment using a Dynamic Time Warping algorithm, obtaining classes of velocity profiles and their probabilities. We construct a transition graph between velocity profile classes from adjacent segments and calculate the most probable path through the next segments ahead. This path represents the most likely future velocity profile under the assumption that the driver behaves like previous drivers on the same segment. Given the constraints defined by this profile, we calculate the fuel-reduced velocity profile with help of a shortest-path algorithm in a vehicle-specific fuel-consumption graph. First results in an urban environment indicate possible fuel savings of about 8.3% compared to the most probable profile.
Most research on network recovery has been centered around two common assumptions regarding failure characteristics: Failures do not occur simultaneously and failures do mostly strike links. Even this may be the chara...
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Most structured design methods claim to address the needs of hard real-time systems. However, few contain abstractions which directly relate to common hard real-time activities, such as periodic or sporadic processes....
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Most structured design methods claim to address the needs of hard real-time systems. However, few contain abstractions which directly relate to common hard real-time activities, such as periodic or sporadic processes. Furthermore, the methods do not constrain the designer to produce systems which can be analyzed for their timing properties. In this article we present a structured design method called HRT-HOOD (Hard Real-Time Hierarchical Object Oriented Design). HRT-HOOD is an extension of HOOD, and includes object types which enable common hard real-time abstractions to be represented. The method is presented in the context of a hard real-time system life cycle, which enables issues of timeliness and dependability to be addressed much earlier on in the development process. We argue that this will enable dependable real-time systems to be engineered in a more cost effective manner than the current practice, which in effect treats these topics as performance issues. To illustrate our approach we present a simple case study of a Mine Drainage Control System, and show how it can be designed using the abstractions presented in the article.
Advances in directory services, caching and replication, and multicasting technologies promise to improve the speed and robustness of the Web's infrastructure. This article examines the technical issues of two imp...
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Advances in directory services, caching and replication, and multicasting technologies promise to improve the speed and robustness of the Web's infrastructure. This article examines the technical issues of two important approaches - Caching and replication.
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