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Open AccessDistributed versus centralized computing of coverage in mobile crowdsensing
The expected spatial coverage of a crowdsensing platform is an important parameter that derives from the mobility data of the crowdsensing platform users. We tackle the challenge of estimating the anticipated ...
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Farming and Automation. How Professional Visions Change with the Introduction of ICT in Greenhouse Cultivation
With this contribution, we would like to contextualize an IoT and Artificial Intelligence project in the current work practices of greenhouse growers. The project follows the user-centered design process in th...
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Open AccessGuidelines for research and design of software for children with ASD in e-health
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neuro-developmental disorder that results in narrow interest and impairments in communication and social relationships. Usually, unknown contexts generate anxiety and frustr...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
WoA: An Infrastructural, Web-Based Approach to Digital Agriculture
The Agritech project is a large Italian project funded with the National Recovery and Resilience Plan to contribute, among other objectives, to the digitization of Agriculture in Italy and to the implementatio...
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Open AccessQuantum capacity analysis of multi-level amplitude dam** channels
Evaluating capacities of quantum channels is the first purpose of quantum Shannon theory, but in most cases the task proves to be very hard. Here, we introduce the set of Multi-level Amplitude Dam** quantum ...
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Capturing Play Activities of Young Children to Detect Autism Red Flags
The use of IoT devices to monitor activities of users is an establi...
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Static Dataflow Analysis for Soft Real-Time System Design
Synchronous (deterministic) dataflow (SDF) has been extensively used to model flow constraints of digital signal processing (DSP) applications executed on (hard) real-time (RT) operating system (OS). Modern in...
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Auto Regressive Integrated Moving Average Modeling and Support Vector Machine Classification of Financial Time Series
With cloud computing offering organizations a level of scalability and power, we are finally at a point where machine learning is set to support human financial analysts in FOReign EXchange (FOREX) markets. Tr...
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Sensorized Toys to Identify the Early ‘Red Flags’ of Autistic Spectrum Disorders in Preschoolers
The observation of the games in children affected by autistic spectrum disorders is an important and widely used diagnostic method, which, at the state of the art, is conducted in a clinic with the direct obs...
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Collaborative Service Discovery in Mobile Social Networks
Mobile social networking is a recent paradigm arisen from the wide spread of mobile and wearable devices. Based on the short-range communication interfaces of these devices it is possible to establish opportun...
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Open AccessAn artificial patient for pure-tone audiometry
The successful treatment of hearing loss depends on the individual practitioner’s experience and skill. So far, there is no standard available to evaluate the practitioner’s testing skills. To assess every pra...
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UAVs and UAV Swarms for Civilian Applications: Communications and Image Processing in the SCIADRO Project
The use of unmanned aerial systems is increasingly common in both research and industrial fields. Nowadays, the use of single unmanned aerial vehicles is quite established and several products are already avai...
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Reliability and human factors in Ambient Assisted Living environments
Malnutrition, sedentariness, and cognitive decline in elderly people represent the target areas addressed by the DOREMI project. It aimed at develo** a systemic solution for elderly, able to prolong their fu...
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Quality of service optimization in solar cells-based energy harvesting wireless sensor networks
In energy harvesting wireless sensor networks, the sensors are able to harvest energy from the environment to recharge their batteries and thus prolong indefinitely their activities. Widely used energy harvest...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Intelligent Smartphone Audiometry
The continuously aging population in the majority of industrialized nations challenges the healthcare providers to maintain quality of healthcare services at status quo. To make health care sustainable, the pa...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Benchmark Dataset for Human Activity Recognition and Ambient Assisted Living
We present a data benchmark for the assessment of human activity recognition solutions, collected as part of the EU FP7 RUBICON project, and available to the scientific community. The dataset provides fully an...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Detecting Social Interactions in Working Environments Through Sensing Technologies
The knowledge about social ties among humans is important to optimize several aspects concerning networking in mobile social networks. Generally, ties among people are detected on the base of proximity of peop...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Smart Environments and Context-Awareness for Lifestyle Management in a Healthy Active Ageing Framework
Health trends of elderly in Europe motivate the need for technological solutions aimed at preventing the main causes of morbidity and premature mortality. In this framework, the DOREMI project addresses three ...
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Engineering Energy Efficient Visual Sensor Network Applications Using Skeletons
Visual sensor networks (VSNs) perform complex scene analysis algorithms that require significant computations and communications. Under this respect, the use of skeletons contributes to reduce the complexity o...
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An experimental characterization of reservoir computing in ambient assisted living applications
In this paper, we present an introduction and critical experimental evaluation of a reservoir computing (RC) approach for ambient assisted living (AAL) applications. Such an empirical analysis jointly addresse...
