Internet of Things (IoT) is a new technological revolution which brings many advantages to its users. However, IoT devices and sensor nodes in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have limited resources, such as energy, me...
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Dementia is the main cause of disability in elderly populations. It has been shown that the risk factors of dementia are a mixture of pathological, lifestyle and heritable factors, with some of those being provably mo...
Dementia is the main cause of disability in elderly populations. It has been shown that the risk factors of dementia are a mixture of pathological, lifestyle and heritable factors, with some of those being provably modifiable. Early diagnosis of dementia and approaches to slow down its evolution are currently the most prominent management methodologies due to lack of a cure. For that reason, a plethora of home-based assistive technologies for dementia management do exist, with most of them focusing on the improvement of memory and thinking. The main objective of LETHE is prevention in the whole spectrum of cognitive decline in the elderly population at risk reaching from asymptomatic to subjective or mild cognitive impairment to prodromal Dementia. LETHE will provide a Big Data collection platform and analysis system, that will allow prevention, personalized risk detection and intervention on cognitive decline. Through the subsequent 2-year clinical trial, the LETHE system, as well as the respective knowledge gained will be evaluated and validated. The scope of the current paper is to introduce the LETHE study and its respective novel platform as a holistic approach to multidomain lifestyle intervention trial studies. The present work depicts the architectural perspective and extends beyond state-of-the-art guidelines and approaches to health management systems and cloud platform *** Relevance — Patient Management Systems as well as lifestyle management platforms have significant clinical relevance as they allow for remote and continuous monitoring of patients' health status. LETHE aims to improve patient outcomes by providing predictive models for cognitive decline and patient adherence to the multimodal lifestyle intervention, enabling prompt and appropriate medical decisions.
The advent of industrial robotics and autonomous systems endow human-robot collaboration in a massive scale. However, current industrial robots are restrained in co-working with human in close proximity due to inabili...
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One of the important decisions for mitigating the risk from a sudden onset disaster is to determine the optimal location of relevant facilities (e.g., warehouses), because this affects the subsequent humanitarian oper...
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(纸本)9781665476621
One of the important decisions for mitigating the risk from a sudden onset disaster is to determine the optimal location of relevant facilities (e.g., warehouses), because this affects the subsequent humanitarian operations. Researchers have proposed several methods to solve the facility location problem (FLP) in disaster management. This paper considers a stochastic FLP where the goal is to minimize the expected time required to provide service to all affected regions when travel times are stochastic due to uncertain road conditions. The number of facilities to open is constrained by a certain maximum budget. To solve this stochastic optimization problem, we propose a hybrid simulation optimization model that combines a simheuristic algorithm with a survival analysis method to evaluate the probability of meeting the demand of all affected areas within a time target. An experiment using a benchmark set shows our model outperforms deterministic solutions by about 8.9%.
A decision tree is an easy-to-understand tool that has been widely used for classification tasks. On the one hand, due to privacy concerns, there has been an urgent need to create privacy-preserving classifiers that c...
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In recent years, deep learning-based video manipulation methods have become widely accessible to masses. With little to no effort, people can easily learn how to generate deepfake videos with only a few victims or tar...
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Breast cancer is a significant global healthcare challenge, particularly in developing and underdeveloped countries, with profound physical, emotional, and psychological consequences, including mortality. Timely diagn...
Breast cancer is a significant global healthcare challenge, particularly in developing and underdeveloped countries, with profound physical, emotional, and psychological consequences, including mortality. Timely diagnosis and accurate treatment are crucial in addressing this issue. We propose the utilization of a feature selection technique to identify the most relevant features from among all features for breast cancer diagnosis, and show that Genetic Algorithms are impressive for this task. The study compares the results of GA with no selection and an alternative method, Principle Component Analysis (PCA). Three machine learning models, all based on supervised learning with data split into training and test data, are employed for binary classification using the selected feature subset. The evaluation metrics employed encompass accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score. Among the selected models, Random Forest demonstrates the most favorable outcomes, achieving an accuracy score of 0.96, precision score of 0.96, recall value of 0.98, and an F1-score of 0.97. These results underscore the effectiveness of GA in feature selection for breast cancer diagnosis. Consequently, the integration of Genetic Algorithms (GA) with Random Forest showcases the superior performance among the evaluated models.
We study the blind calibration problem of uniform linear arrays of acoustic vector sensors for narrowband Gaussian signals, and propose an improved, asymptotically optimal blind calibration scheme. Following recent wo...
ISBN:
(数字)9781509066315
ISBN:
(纸本)9781509066322
We study the blind calibration problem of uniform linear arrays of acoustic vector sensors for narrowband Gaussian signals, and propose an improved, asymptotically optimal blind calibration scheme. Following recent work by Ramamohan et al., we exploit the special (block-Toeplitz) structure of the underlying signals' spatial covariance matrix. However, we offer a substantial improvement over their ordinary Least Squares (LS)-based approach: Using asymptotic approximations we obtain Optimally-Weighted LS estimates of the sensors' gains and phases offsets. We show via simulations that our estimates exhibit near-optimal performance, with improvements reaching more than an order of magnitude in the mean squared estimation errors of the calibration parameters, as well as in directions of-arrival estimation.
To teach a software development group project course can be a challenging task. Several large-scale surveys on students' engagement indicate that computerscience rates lower than average in many of the major benc...
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ISBN:
(数字)9781728166384
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(纸本)9781728166391
To teach a software development group project course can be a challenging task. Several large-scale surveys on students' engagement indicate that computerscience rates lower than average in many of the major benchmarks. This paper presents a framework that consist of a variety of factors for setting up software development project courses for computerscience bachelor students at Frankfurt University of appliedsciences in their final year. Groups of 3 to 6 students have to develop an executable system for an existing realistic problem by going through all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). The paper presents the advantages and disadvantages as well as the dependencies between the various factors. Special emphasis is paid on the impact of these factors on students' work and learning motivation. The paper is concluded with a short review of the proposed teaching strategy and the results received.
Quiz shows and apps have enjoyed great popularity in recent years, which increases the demand for fresh question sets. We investigate how to derive such sets automatically from the Wikidata knowledge graph. Utilizing ...
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