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Clinical research registries need to be driven by data quality to improve the outcome of clinical trials and to provide the possibility to facilitate new research initiatives. The International Niemann-Pick Disease Registry (INPDR) is one such example of a clinical research registry. Unlike other registries where data quality is largely based around best effort manual data entry, the INPDR registry...
Self-adaptive systems employ feedback loops to cope with possibly unpredictable environment changes. These feedback loops not only have to capture a suitable adaptation logic, but also have to adhere to non-functional constraints like timing and qualities like precision. Several design options influence these aspects. However, they are often not explicitly accessible in feedback loops and may interfere...
In Infrastructure as a Service clouds, customers lease virtual resources (e.g., CPU, memory, network) offered by cloud providers, paying for the allocated capacity of resources, regardless of their effective use. In this context, it is in the interest of the customers to reserve resources with sufficient capacity so that their applications achieve good performance while, at the same time, minimizing...
An innovative cyber culture and computing of social governance of citizens is proposed, aimed at the moral metric cloud service of social groups through the leverage of digital monitoring and expert evaluation of social processes and phenomena. Cyber culture is defined as the development level of social, technological, moral and material relations between society, the physical world and cyberspace...
Personal Health Record (PHR) is an online service model that holds patient's vital parameter data from the sensors worn by the patient. It allows patients to easily share their health information from any location with doctors. An android smartphone fetches vital signs of the patient from the sensors configured with the smartphone. The various vital signs are grouped together on a time to time basis...
Together with the rapid development of IT technology, cloud computing has been considered as the next generation's computing infrastructure. One of the essential components of cloud computing is the virtual machine technology that enables to reduce the data center cost with better resource utilization. Especially, VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) is receiving explosive attentions from IT markets...
In modern wireless networks autonomous agents may exhibit selfish or malicious behavior which can compromise the performance of the network. For this reason, Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) have been proposed to monitor the agents' behavior, along with the deployment of Trust/reputation Management Systems (TMS) to enforce cooperation among the agents. IDS may not continuously monitor agents' behavior...
The notion of a BPaaS is currently taking a momentum as many organisations attempt to move and offer their business processes (BPs) in the cloud. Such BPs need to be adaptively provisioned so as to sustain the service level promised in the respective SLA. However, current cloud-based adaptation frameworks cannot cover all possible abstraction levels and usually rely on simplistic adaptation rules...
Cyber-Physical Systems are distributed, heterogeneous, decentralized and loosely coupled networks in which individual systems measure physical processes, exchange information, and influence processes. Sensors measure these physical processes, while aggregators process them and actuators perform resulting actions. Decisions are often based on sensor data collected by other systems. Furthermore, the...
Hajj is defined as a yearly Islamic pilgrimage to the holy place, Makkah. It is a religious obligation for Muslims who are financially and physically capable to perform. Hajj is one of the five pillars of Islam. The gathering of people during Hajj can be considered as the largest yearly gathering in the world. Every year, thousands of Muslims from all over the world will gather at the holy place during...
Emergency medical services are largely to provide facility to people in need of medical treatment or to take patient to the point of definitive care. In developing countries such as Pakistan, emergency medical services, especially pre-hospital emergency case services, are neglected for quite a long time. In metropolitan cities, timely access to emergency care becomes challenging with the increasing...
Troubleshooting in an infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud platform is an inherently difficult task because it is a multi-player as well as multi-layer environment where tenant and provider effectively share administrative duties. To address these concerns, we present our work on CloudSight in which cloud providers allow tenants greater system-wide visibility through a transparency-as-a-service...
Health monitoring without a priori knowledge can save a significant amount of design and implementation time. However, for smaller devices with limited available resources, this is not feasible using most conventional methods. For small footprint sensor and actuator devices, we propose a health monitoring architecture and algorithm, which uses context-awareness to assess the health status of an “Injective-function...
Data visualization has gained significant importance since the demand for software applications providing abstract view and pattern identification has increased. To meet the demand, a number of data visualization techniques and best practices have been proposed in many disciplines. However, data visualization is not as advanced in healthcare software applications as compared to other scientific fields...
Process mining research discipline offers a spectrum of techniques for analysing event logs. Event logs represent the history of process execution. This information can be used for monitoring, analysing and improving the operational processes. The currently available methods in process mining emphasise on constructing the static process model. These models depict various dimensions of the process...
The aim of this study is to develop the prototype of the learner-initiated instructional syllabus in which the whole curricular sequence is invented as a digital growing-up storytelling process of the students. In the current educational paradigm, the role of students is much more essential than that of the teacher. With the development of ICT, more and more people are connected to each other via...
In this project, we address the problem to determine human emotion states automatically using modern day smartphones. Sensor-rich smartphones have opened up the opportunity to unobtrusively collect user behaviour patterns, activity details and infer information about emotion states. Determining human emotion accurately and efficiently to build a scalable system is the major objective of the project...
Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled information system solutions are emerging in various domains such as remote healthcare, smart logistics, agriculture and so on. Meanwhile, Business Process Management Systems (BPMS) have proved themselves to be promising tools for driving and managing devices within IoT systems. However, past works have not fully addressed how the IoT-based BPMS can continue their...
ChatOps is an industry practice of conversation-driven development using instant messaging to automate common development or monitoring tasks. It makes team members communicate with each other efficiently to work, learn and create together. We expect ChatOps to have intelligent agents, which can perform predictive operations based on users' activities, in the near future. To enable such intelligent...
In this work, we focus on yield analysis task where engineers identify the cause of failure from wafer failure map patterns and manufacturing histories. We organize yield analysis task into 3 stages, failure map pattern monitoring, failure cause identification and failure recurrence monitoring, and incorporate machine learning and data mining technologies into each stage to support engineers' work...
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