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Business-Oriented Evaluation of the PaaSage Platform
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015)
Cloud computing is an efficient and cost effective realization of the utility function principle. Over the last years, a vast pool of choices for businesses has been created. This diversity of cloud infrastructures, ...
Adaptive emergency scenery video communications using HEVC for responsive decision support in disaster incidents
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015)
This study proposes a unifying framework for m-Health video communication systems that provides for the joint optimization of video quality, bitrate demands, and encoding time. The framework is video modality and infrastructure ...
CogniMouse: On detecting users' task completion difficulty through computer mouse interaction
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2015)
This paper presents a method for analyzing users' computer mouse interaction data with the aim to implicitly identify task completion difficulty while interacting with a system. Computer mouse motion streams and users' ...
Breath and sweat analysis as a tool for medical diagnostics
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015)
A wide spectrum of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) is continuously produced in the human body and released through breath and sweat, thereby revealing important medical information. The variety of the analytical ...
Towards a back-end framework for supporting affective avatar-based interaction systems
(CEUR-WS, 2015)
Avatar-based systems provide an intuitive way of interact-ing with users in the context of Ambient Abisted Living (AAL). These systems are typically supported by a diverse set of services for, e.g., social daily activities, ...
Driving Autopilot with Personalization Feature for Improved Safety and Comfort
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015)
Self-driving cars are gaining momentum despite the number of considerable technical and human factor issues that remain controversial. Human acceptance and trust of an automated vehicle to transport people in traffic ...
Adaptive real-time HEVC encoding of emergency scenery video
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015)
This paper proposes the use of an adaptive HEVC encoding framework for the wireless transmission of real-time emergency scenery video. The goal of the proposed approach is to adapt HEVC encoding methods and parameters so ...
SensoMan: Remote management of context sensors
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2015)
Sensor networks that collect data from the environment can be utilized in the development of different context-Aware applications bringing in sight the need for data collection, management and distribution. Boards with ...
HARPA: Solutions for dependable performance under physically induced performance variability
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015)
Transistor miniaturization, combined with the dawn of novel switching semiconductor structures, calls for careful examination of the variability and aging of the computer fabric. Time-zero and time-dependent phenomena need ...
Characterization and analysis of a web search benchmark
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015)
Web search as a service is very impressive. Web search runs on thousands of servers which perform search on an index of billions of web pages. The search results must be both relevant to the user queries and reach the user ...