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Start-Up formation and execution can be a daunting proposition for a technologist. The uncertainty and number of unknowns translate into substantial risk, which can discourage an engineer from even starting a company. One approach to address that risk is through instruction; by understanding the path through the start-up process, the variability is decreased and confidence can be cultivated. Although...
Organizations ranging from the Internet, to economies, to large global corporations, to rapidly changing technological ecosystems can be thought of as Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS). When viewed from the bottom-up CAS is often characterized by distributed control, connectivity, co-evolution, emergence, and unpredictability. When viewed from the top-down characteristics such as an implicit order, qualified...
There has been an increasing emphasis to understand the dynamism of firms in high-tech clusters given the economic prospect they offer to themselves and regions housing these clusters. This has placed a pressing need for researchers and practitioners across the globe to quantify absorptive capacity of a firm which is a measure of dynamic capability of a firm. Bengaluru being one of the “global hubs...
Greater unlicensed access to spectrum has the potential to increase competition among wireless service providers and encourage innovations by lowering barriers to entry. However, early providers offering service in such a band could create new entry barriers through the use of contracts that impose a penalty on customers who switch to a new provider. This paper discusses cases in which an exclusive...
With the rapid globalization of the world and the rapid changes in science and technology, Taiwan's industrial structure is in urgent need of transformation. Industry 4.0 is an opportunity for industrial upgrading. In order to cultivate the future engineering talent needed for Industry 4.0. Feng Chia University has carried out a series of curriculum reforms. The Freshman Project is one of these important...
In electronic design automation, the problem of double patterning lithography (DPL) can be formulated as follows. Two features of a layout should be assigned different colors if their spacing is less than the minimum coloring spacing. Because only two colors are used in DPL, a layout may contain a pattern which cannot be assigned a color. To resolve the conflict, a stitch is used to split a feature...
Software testing usually accounts for a large proportion of software development time and cost. Thus, it is crucial to improve test efficiency and reduce test cost as much as possible. This paper describes a cloud-based approach to increase test efficiency by partitioning a large test job into multiple tasks and executing the tasks concurrently on different virtual machines (VMs). Several task partitioning...
This paper studies the Major-League Baseball (MLB) Playoffs forecast. In general, the MLB related records are so numerous and complex, so it is very difficult to read and do the useful prediction. And invalid records will also affect the accuracy, computing time, performance of the classifier.
The Product development has been approached by linear methods that apply to any design problem without concern of ambient variables. In this approach, we will find a new matrix method that can deliver a basic path in which the designer can begin his journey, but adaptable to accept ambient variables.
This study proposes a framework of Design-by-Analogy (DbA) based on Structure Mapping Theory (SMT). A workshop is held to apply the framework to transforming the observation on DbA in daily life into creative designs. Results show that the participants' transformations prefer relational mapping to mere element mapping. The creativity in ideation is higher than that in observation; meaning the better...
This paper presents the new method use the smart watch to detect the fall system. Uses the Genetic Algorithm for Support Vector Machine (GA-SVM) algorithm to detect to fall or Activity Daily Living(ADL). We collect the data and transfer to the spectrum observations, we found that the attributes of the spectrum are the complex issue. We use the GA to do filter the useful features effectively and then...
To resolve the problem of ambiguity caused by the folding used widely in direct acquisition (DA) of the precision code (P code) in the global positioning system (GPS), a two-step DA scheme is proposed based on the zero-padding and local P code modification. The coarse acquisition is achieved in the first step based on the folding, which allows us to maintain the advantage of the folding, and the zero...
The k-nearest neighbor (KNN) based indoor localization methods are practical to the wireless sensor network constructed by internet of things. The weighted KNN (WKNN) method is designed as the enhanced KNN but actually does not outperform KNN. Inspired by the technique of differential coordinates from satellite-based localization, in this paper we propose the differential coordinate based WKNN (DC-WKNN)...
Because of their familiarity with various sites and members, elderly people behave differently in the dining hall, including when they choose their seats. More than half elderly tend to choose the same seats, and prefer to use personal items to occupy the seats. They also move the chairs or even communicate with others to make sure the people they know sit beside them. However, for some elderly people,...
Using the sensor to monitor and to evaluate sports performance is a new trend in the future. The experimental results will be affected by the sampling frequency, placement of sensors, setting of the filter and instrumental correction, etc. This study is to explore the effect of different detection of position on swimming stroke. Methods: Three swimmers are participating in this research. Two inertial...
Due to the continuous upscaling of the storage capacity and downscaling of the physical size of storage systems, the data reliability problem has become a research highlight. While various redundancy schemes have been proposed to include extra redundant data to ensure that the correct data can be recovered even in the presence of bit errors or bad blocks, they might introduce unexpected performance...
Due to the excellent performance and energy efficiency, modern nonvolatile memories (NVMs) have become popular alternatives to DRAM as main memory. However, the intrinsic characteristics of NVMs are quite different from those of DRAM, making existing designs of system and application software unfavorable on NVMs. For example, a write operation typically takes much more time and energy than a read...
Currently, roadside parking charging is mainly operated manually. However, this makes it difficult to achieve effective management. Aimed at removing many inconveniences brought by this current approach, this study discusses how to apply Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) in this issue. The RFID reader can be installed on a track. Through the track, the RFID reader can detect a whole row of parking...
With the rapid development of computer and network technology, micro-blog system provides to exchange information and proceed social life. It provides very favorable ways. Especially, how to quickly obtain information and release information, sharing of information in today's society become a research direction for a big data. In this paper, we based on Struts2, JSP, MySql, Ajax and JQuery related...
The work is mainly to use anionic polymerization to prepare polyisoprene, and then functionalize the end of polyisoprene as an acrylic functional group which (PIMA) can undergo radical copolymerization [1]. We choose methyl methacrylate (MMA) and poly(ethylene glycol) methyl ether methacrylate(PEGMA) as comonomers in radical copolymerization with PIMA in order to add viscosity and hydrophilicity to...
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