Computer-aided design (CAD), in its quest to facilitate new design revolutions, is again on
the brink of changing its scope. Following both historical and recent technological and …

Academic research into radio frequency identification (RFID) has proliferated significantly
over the last few years, to the point where journals (Production and Operations …

In combination with current sociological trends, the maturing development of Internet of
Things devices is projected to revolutionize healthcare. A network of body-worn sensors …

Location-based services have increased in popularity in recent years and can be fruitfully
exploited in the field of smart homes, opening the doors to a wide range of personalized …

The fast development of smart sensors and wearable devices has provided the opportunity
to develop intelligent operator workspaces. The resultant Human-Cyber-Physical Systems …

Since September 11, 2001, the imagination of" low probability, high consequence" events
has become a distinctive feature of contemporary politics. Uncertain futures—devastation by …

Indoor human sensing, recognition, and detection, as key enablers of building smart
environments, such as smart home, smart retail, and smart museum, have gained …

Heating, ventilation and cooling (HVAC) is the largest source of residential energy
consumption. In this paper, we demonstrate how to use cheap and simple sensing …

We present a new algorithm for mining maximal frequent itemsets from a transactional
database. Our algorithm is especially efficient when the itemsets in the database are very …

Technologies that deploy algorithmic calculation are becoming ubiquitous to the homeland
securitization of the war on terror. From the surveillance networks of the city subway to the …