Human behavior using a vending machine (Report 2)

Vending machine assessment methodology. A systematic review.

The nutritional quality of food and beverage products sold in vending machines has been implicated as a contributing factor to the development of an obesogenic food environment. How comprehensive, reliable, and valid are the current assessment tools for vending machines to support or refute these claims? A systematic review was conducted to summarize, compare, and evaluate the current methodolo...

Machine vision system for a reverse vending machine

FSA Vending Machine Operation Charged Illegal

The vending machines in your d o r m , in the campus center, pod ium, and tunnels are and have been opera ted in violation of the S ta t e University con t rac t with SUNY-A's Facul ty S tudent Associat ion. According t o New York State Audi tors , Article 3 of the contract be tween State University and FSA provides tha t " F S A may operate vending machines . This does not mean that FSA may su...

Applying Fondue to Specify a Drink Vending Machine

The purpose of the paper is to present our approach for specifying system behavior during analysis, part of the Fondue software development method. The approach is exemplified on a case study, a Drink Vending Machine (DVM). It is based on Operation Schemas and a Protocol Model. The Protocol Model describes the temporal ordering of the system operations by an UML protocol statemachine. An Operat...

On cascade source coding with a side information "vending machine"

The model of a side information"vending machine"accounts for scenarios in which acquiring side information is costly and thus should be done efficiently. In this paper, the three-node cascade source coding problem is studied under the assumption that a side information vending machine is available either at the intermediate or at the end node. In both cases, a single-letter characterization of ...