Current state of the art of smart environments and labs from an ambient assisted living point of view

2016 ◽  
pp. 11-28
Keyword(s):  
Assisted Living ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Ambient Assisted Living ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Smart Environments ◽  
Current State

On Dependability Issues in Ambient Intelligence Systems

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 18-27
Author(s):  
Marcello Cinque ◽  
Antonio Coronato ◽  
Alessandro Testa
Keyword(s):  
Assisted Living ◽  
Intelligent Systems ◽  
Ambient Intelligence ◽  
Ambient Assisted Living ◽  
Smart Environments ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Smart Systems ◽  
Computing Paradigm ◽  
Ambient Intelligent ◽  
Verification Techniques

Ambient Intelligence (AmI) is the emerging computing paradigm used to build next-generation smart environments. It provides services in a flexible, transparent, and anticipative manner, requiring minimal skills for human-computer interaction. Recently, AmI is being adapted to build smart systems to guide human activities in critical domains, such as, healthcare, ambient assisted living, and disaster recovery. However, the practical application to such domains generally calls for stringent dependability requirements, since the failure of even a single component may cause dangerous loss or hazard to people and machineries. Despite these concerns, there is still little understanding on dependability issues in Ambient Intelligent systems and on possible solutions. This paper provides an analysis of the AmI literature dealing with dependability issues and to propose an innovative architectural solution to such issues, based on the use of runtime verification techniques.

scholarly journals Assessment of Reference Architectures and Reference Models for Ambient Assisted Living Systems

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-36
Author(s):  
Lina Garcés ◽  
Flavio Oquendo ◽  
Elisa Yumi Nakagawa
Keyword(s):  
Assisted Living ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Software Industry ◽  
Ambient Assisted Living ◽  
Living Systems ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Reference Models ◽  
Architectural Models ◽  
Selection For

The innovation and development of software systems in the Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) domain have brought huge challenges for academia and software industry as well. Despite the existence of architectural models that can be used as references to build AAL systems, their selection for new AAL projects is a difficult task. In this work, the authors present the state of the art on Reference Architectures (RA) and Reference Models (RM) found through the conduction of a systematic literature review. The authors identified, analyzed, and assessed 24 existing RA&RM for AAL domain, and, as result, the authors spotted interesting research directions that should be further explored to improve existing and future RA&RM and software systems for that domain.

Paper 22: Timing Belt Drives

1969 ◽  
Vol 184 (15) ◽  
pp. 177-183
Author(s):  
D. A. Rayner
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Application ◽  
Power Transmission ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Belt Drives ◽  
Application Point ◽  
Current State ◽  
Timing Belt ◽  
Drive Belt ◽  
Synchronous Drive

Over the last 15 years the synchronous drive belt has become an established part of the power transmission scene. It is not a direct substitute for any of the more traditional transmission media; the unique properties of the belt make it complementary to them. This paper describes the current state of the art mainly from an industrial application point of view. This approach necessarily includes certain production information and the background to the power rating table.

Materials Requirements for IR Detectors and Imagers

1986 ◽  
Vol 90 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. Kinch
Keyword(s):  
Signal Processing ◽  
Focal Plane ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Large Degree ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Performance Goals ◽  
Large Area ◽  
Ir Detectors ◽  
Current State ◽  
Considerable Complexity

ABSTRACTThe requirements of infrared systems have increased significantly over the years, from the simple linear, low resolution, photoconductive array to the present-day, large area, high-density, photodiode (MIS and metalurgical) arrays, with on-focal-plane signal processing of considerable complexity. The success that has been achieved in meeting the performance goals appropriate for these systems has been due, to a large degree, to significant advances in the relevant materials technologies. The technologies of importance over the last twenty years are briefly reviewed, and the current state of the art, with its dominance by intrinsic alloy materials, is addressed in detail. The limitations of current bulk and epitaxial intrinsic materials technologies are considerable, both from a performance and a producibility point of view, when compared to the quality and quantity of material required by future infrared systems. These limitations are considered together with possible ways to overcome them.

Bioprinting Technology: A Current State-of-the-Art Review

2014 ◽  
Vol 136 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amer B. Dababneh ◽  
Ibrahim T. Ozbolat
Keyword(s):  
Review Paper ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Emerging Technology ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Preclinical Studies ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Scaffold Fabrication ◽  
Current State ◽  
Artificial Tissue ◽  
A Current

Bioprinting is an emerging technology for constructing and fabricating artificial tissue and organ constructs. This technology surpasses the traditional scaffold fabrication approach in tissue engineering (TE). Currently, there is a plethora of research being done on bioprinting technology and its potential as a future source for implants and full organ transplantation. This review paper overviews the current state of the art in bioprinting technology, describing the broad range of bioprinters and bioink used in preclinical studies. Distinctions between laser-, extrusion-, and inkjet-based bioprinting technologies along with appropriate and recommended bioinks are discussed. In addition, the current state of the art in bioprinter technology is reviewed with a focus on the commercial point of view. Current challenges and limitations are highlighted, and future directions for next-generation bioprinting technology are also presented.

Information and Technology Implementation Issues in AAL Solutions

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo Vardasca ◽  
Angelo Costa ◽  
Paulo M. Mendes ◽  
Paulo Novais ◽  
Ricardo Simoes
Keyword(s):  
Assisted Living ◽  
Technology Implementation ◽  
Ambient Assisted Living ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Current State ◽  
Level Information ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Information And Technology

With the population ageing effect, the technological developments, and pressure to reduce the cost with healthcare, are reunited the conditions for the development of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) solutions. This work is a revision of the current state of the art. Its aim is the characterization of the AAL solutions, within the AAL4ALL scope. Therefore, it is presented features, scenarios and projects, referring the limitations and the opportunities for the future developments of prototypes using high level information and technology in AAL environments. Moreover, it is presented guidelines of operation, exposing the conceptual approach, and the discussion and conclusion, which present recommendations and current AAL4ALL project positions in terms of concepts and technologies.

Early Detection of Dementia

2020 ◽  
pp. 1963-1988
Author(s):  
Stefanos Xefteris ◽  
Evdokimos Konstantinidis ◽  
Antonis S. Billis ◽  
Panagiotis E. Antoniou ◽  
Charis Styliadis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Detection ◽  
Assisted Living ◽  
Serious Games ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Home Environments ◽  
Current State ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Behavioral Monitoring

Early detection and prediction of dementia through unobtrusive techniques or obtrusive tests is still in exploratory status and despite the increase of interest in recent years, many challenges remain open in designing methodologies that can accurately predict its onset. This chapter addresses the problem of the early detection of dementia from two points of view: Detection based on unobtrusive paradigms both in lab and home environments (behavioral monitoring, serious games, home based assisted living applications in telemedicine) and detection based on neuroimaging approaches. The chapter also provides information on setting up ecologically valid home labs for dementia related experiments. Consequently, the aim of this chapter is to provide an overview of a complete methodology of how researchers can possibly detect or predict the onset of dementia through the current state-of-the-art, underline open challenges and illustrate future work in the field.

scholarly journals Translational equivalence in Statistical Machine Translation or meaning as co-occurrence

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lieve Macken ◽  
Els Lefever
Keyword(s):  
Machine Translation ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Word Sense Disambiguation ◽  
Statistical Machine Translation ◽  
General Purpose ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Word Alignment ◽  
Word Sense ◽  
Parallel Corpora ◽  
Current State

In this paper, we will describe the current state-of-the-art of Statistical Machine Translation (SMT), and reflect on how SMT handles meaning. Statistical Machine Translation is a corpus-based approach to MT: it de-rives the required knowledge to generate new translations from corpora. General-purpose SMT systems do not use any formal semantic representa-tion. Instead, they directly extract translationally equivalent words or word sequences – expressions with the same meaning – from bilingual parallel corpora. All statistical translation models are based on the idea of word alignment, i.e., the automatic linking of corresponding words in parallel texts. The first generation SMT systems were word-based. From a linguistic point of view, the major problem with word-based systems is that the mean-ing of a word is often ambiguous, and is determined by its context. Current state-of-the-art SMT-systems try to capture the local contextual dependen-cies by using phrases instead of words as units of translation. In order to solve more complex ambiguity problems (where a broader text scope or even domain information is needed), a Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) module is integrated in the Machine Translation environment.

scholarly journals Evidence from neurolinguistic methodologies: Can it actually inform linguistic/language acquisition theories and translate to evidence-based applications?

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leah Roberts ◽  
Jorge González Alonso ◽  
Christos Pliatsikas ◽  
Jason Rothman
Keyword(s):  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
L2 Acquisition ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current State

This special issue is a testament to the recent burgeoning interest by theoretical linguists, language acquisitionists and teaching practitioners in the neuroscience of language. It offers a highly valuable, state-of-the-art overview of the neurophysiological methods that are currently being applied to questions in the field of second language (L2) acquisition, teaching and processing. Research in the area of neurolinguistics has developed dramatically in the past 20 years, providing a wealth of exciting findings, many of which are discussed in the articles in this issue of the journal. The goal of this commentary is twofold. The first is to critically assess the current state of neurolinguistic data from the point of view of language acquisition and processing – informed by the articles that comprise this special issue and the literature as a whole – pondering how the neuroscience of language/processing might inform us with respect to linguistic and language acquisition theories. The second goal is to offer some links from implications of exploring the first goal towards informing language teachers and the creation of linguistically and neurolinguistically-informed evidence-based pedagogies for non-native language teaching.

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