Web personalization becomes essential in industries and specially for the case of users with special needs such as visually impaired people. Adaptation may very much speed up the navigation of visually impaired people...
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Web personalization becomes essential in industries and specially for the case of users with special needs such as visually impaired people. Adaptation may very much speed up the navigation of visually impaired people and contribute to diminish the existing technological gap. This work is the first stage of a web mining process carried out in discapnet: a website created to promote the social and work integration of people with disabilities where slow navigation has been detected. Based on observation in-use where behaviours emerge applying a web mining process to server log data, we designed a system to generate user navigation profiles and adapt to the web site through link prediction. Two approaches for user profiling were implemented: a global system built based on the complete database and a modular approach carried out discovering the navigation profiles within different zones. Although both approaches are effective, the modular approach outperforms. When 25% of the navigation of the new user has happened the designed system is able to propose a set of links where nearly 60% of them (2 out of 3) is among the ones the new user will be using in the future. This will definitely make the navigation easier saving a lot of time.
The use of social media involves employing web and mobile technologies to support interactive dialogue and mediate human communication. With the influence of social media in political, economic, and recreational field...
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Slime mould Physarum polycephalum is a single cell that is visible by the unaided eye. When spanning sources of nutrients the slime mould builds a network of protoplasmic tubes which is sometimes considered to be opti...
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Slime mould Physarum polycephalum is a single cell that is visible by the unaided eye. When spanning sources of nutrients the slime mould builds a network of protoplasmic tubes which is sometimes considered to be optimal in terms of the minimization of metabolite transportation time and distance away from repellents. Previously we have shown that the slime mould is efficient in imitating the formation of man-made road networks in major countries, where major urban areas are sources of nutrients. We used a similar approach to grow slime mould on a three-dimensional template of the Moon to speculate on potential colonisation scenarios. The slime mould imitated the propagation of colonisation in an exploratory mode, i.e. without any definite targets. Additional transportation hubs/targets were added after the initial network was formed, to imitate the development of colonies in parallel with slime mould growth. We provide analyses of proximity graphs representing colonisation networks and support the findings with Physarum-inspired algorithms to inform supply chain design. We speculate on how living Physarum, or its incorporation into a polymer hybrid material, can be used as a wearable smart wetware based on laboratory experiments interacting with chemical components.
Vehicular Ad-Hoc NETworks (VANETs), a pillar for the Internet of Vehicles, aim to improve road safety by preventing and reducing traffic accidents. While VANETs offer a great variety of safety and infotainment applica...
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Vehicular Ad-Hoc NETworks (VANETs), a pillar for the Internet of Vehicles, aim to improve road safety by preventing and reducing traffic accidents. While VANETs offer a great variety of safety and infotainment applications, there remain a number of security and privacy challenges, such as, user profiling and vehicle tracking, which, must be addressed. This paper contributes with a framework to address security and privacy issues in VANETs. The proposed framework consists of i) an inter-domain authentication system able to provide a near realtime certificate status service, ii) a mechanism to quantitatively evaluate the trust level of a CA and establish a on-the-fly interoperability relationship, and iii) a privacy enhancing model that addresses privacy in terms of linkability.
Data generation is a key issue in big data benchmarking that aims to generate application-specific data sets to meet the 4V requirements of big data. Specifically, big data generators need to generate scalable data (V...
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V-Sense is a vibrotactile interface that encourages children with severe or profound cognitive, sensory and physical impairments to move. The interface makes use of touch, in particular vibrations, as a supportive fun...
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(纸本)9781450328807
V-Sense is a vibrotactile interface that encourages children with severe or profound cognitive, sensory and physical impairments to move. The interface makes use of touch, in particular vibrations, as a supportive function to motivate users' actions. Specifically, we propose a vibrotactile interface on the arm and around the shoulder using the saltation perceptual illusion to induce movement of the corresponding joint. In this paper we describe the design principles of the interface and the proposed experimental design to evaluate it. Copyright 2014 ACM.
Robots operating in household environments need to interact with food containers of different types. Whether a container is filled with milk, juice, yogurt or coffee may affect the way robots grasp and manipulate the ...
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(纸本)9781479969357
Robots operating in household environments need to interact with food containers of different types. Whether a container is filled with milk, juice, yogurt or coffee may affect the way robots grasp and manipulate the container. In this paper, we concentrate on the problem of identifying what kind of content is in a container based on tactile and/or visual feedback in combination with grasping. In particular, we investigate the benefits of using unimodal (visual or tactile) or bimodal (visual-tactile) sensory data for this purpose. We direct our study toward cardboard containers with liquid or solid content or being empty. The motivation for using grasping rather than shaking is that we want to investigate the content prior to applying manipulation actions to a container. Our results show that we achieve comparable classification rates with unimodal data and that the visual and tactile data are complimentary.
Network Virtualization paves the way for sharing the physical infrastructure with many service providers and enables resources in physical substrate network being applied and provisioned as a form of Virtual Network(V...
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(纸本)9781479948109
Network Virtualization paves the way for sharing the physical infrastructure with many service providers and enables resources in physical substrate network being applied and provisioned as a form of Virtual Network(VN).However,there exist many obstacles in applications of this *** problem of VN embedding is commonly considered the most difficult one of *** existing research only considers the case of how to embed VN *** user demands on Virtual Network are dynamically changing,how to efficiently reconfigure VN to adapt to changing demand is challenging *** this paper,our objective is to find way for optimally reorganize VN that already embedded on VN in a cost sensitive way to meet the changed *** address this problem by proposing a cost sensitive VN reconfiguration approach.A heuristic VN reconfiguration algorithm with virtual node and virtual link migration and swapping strategy is *** validate and evaluate the given algorithms by conducting experiments in high fidelity emulation *** evaluation results show that the proposed approach can effectively reconfigure VN while minimizing cost and fragmentation of *** comparing our algorithms with others,the given reconfiguration algorithm outperforms existing solutions.
We introduce a real-time system for recognizing and tracking the position and orientation of a large number of complex real-world objects, together with an articulated robotic manipulator operating upon them. The prop...
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(纸本)9781479969357
We introduce a real-time system for recognizing and tracking the position and orientation of a large number of complex real-world objects, together with an articulated robotic manipulator operating upon them. The proposed system is fast, accurate and reliable and yet does not require precise camera calibration. The key to this high level of performance is a continuously-refined internal 3D representation of all the relevant scene elements. Occlusions are handled implicitly in this approach and a soft-constraint mechanism is used to obtain the highest precision at a specific region-of-interest. The system is well-suited for implementation on Graphics Processing Units and thanks to a tight integration of the latter's graphical and computational capability, scene updates can be obtained at framerates exceeding 40 Hz. We demonstrate the robustness and accuracy of this system on a complex real-world manipulation task involving active endpoint closed-loop visual servo control in the presence of both camera and target object motion.
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