Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are a new technology that has received a substantial attention from several academic research fields in the last years. There are many applications of WSNs, including environmental monitoring, industrial automation, intelligent transportation systems, healthcare and wellbeing, smart energy, to mention a few. Courses have been introduced both at the PhD and at the...

and Course Syllabus Abstract The aim of this course is to teach the basic principles and concepts of modern cryptography. The focus of the course will be on cryptographic problems and their solutions, and will contain a mix of both theoretical and applied material. We will present definitions of security and argue why certain construction meet these definitions. However, these definitions and a...

Myosin V was the first discovered processive motor from the myosin family. It has therefore been subject of a number of mechanical, kinetic, optical and structural studies and now belongs to the best characterised motor proteins. This effort has been accompanied by a number of different theoretical models. In this article we give an overview of them and discuss what they have in common and wher...

The paper presents a set-theoretical definition of the classification problem, and then discusses and illustrates by examples the application of the variable-valued logic system VL. to the synthesis of minimal (or simplest) classification rules under cost (or simplicity) functionals designed by a user from available criteria.

This paper addresses the question whether innovation is within reach for small enterprises in developing economies by studying four cases of new technologies, products and business practices in traditional craft in Northern Vietnam. The paper starts with reviewing definitions of innovation since Schumpeter. It concludes that newness, value creation and process are time and again considered as t...

Our main purpose in this paper is to start a process of a systemic definition of the notion of information and to provide some initial practical consequences of it. We will try to do that providing: 1) a conceptual definition, following Ackoff’s (1962) description and method of such a kind of definition, and 2) following Peirce’s (1931-5,1958) conception of “meaning”, where the practical conseq...

Recent experiments on light-harvesting complexes have shown clear indication of coherent transport of excitations in these aggregates. We discuss the theoretical models that have been used to study energy transfer in molecular aggregates, beginning with the early models of Förster and Davydov and ending with the theoretical models of the present day.