OBJECTIVE The timely and accurate assessment of skin and underlying tissue is crucial for making informed decisions relating to wound development and existing wounds. The study objective was to determine within- and between-reader agreement of Scout Visual-to-Thermal Overlay (WoundVision LLC, Indianapolis, Indiana) placement (moving the wound edge trace from the visual image onto the wound edge...

Autonomous science augments the capabilities of planetary rovers by shifting the identification and selection of science targets from remote operators to the rover itself. This shift frees the rover from wasteful idle time and allows for more selective data collection. This paper presents an approach to autonomous science that is comprised of three components: a Bayesian network that uses image...

This paper describes three projects that are concerned with the exploration of the interior of steep craters, with special focus on exploring lunar craters with heterogeneous robotic teams. Within the project LUNARES (Lunar Exploration System), a terrestrial demonstrator for a lunar sample return mission has been created. The task of fetching a soil sample from within a permanently shadowed lun...

Artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm is one of the popular swarm intelligence algorithms. ABC has been developed by being inspired foraging and waggle dance behaviors of real bee colonies in 2005. Since its invention in 2005, many ABC models have been proposed in order to solve different optimization problems. In all the models proposed, there are only one scout bee and a constant limit value ...

La sécurisation des réseaux de communication engendre aujourd'hui une charge importante de configuration. C'est pourquoi nous proposons un nouveau protocole de découverte automatique des capacités de sécurisation, afin de réduire cette charge. Notre protocole « Security Capabilities Over Unsecured Topologies » a été conçu pour rechercher les mécanismes de sécurité supportés par les nœuds distan...

Software test suite optimization is one of the most important issue in software testing as testing consumes a lot of time in executing redundant test cases. In this paper, we have proposed and implemented a new approach for test suite optimization, namely, Mutated Artificial Bee Colony. Artificial Bee colony algorithm combines local search carried out by employed and onlooker bees with global s...

Knowledge scouts are software agents that autonomously synthesize knowledge of interest to a given user (target knowledge) by applying inductive database operators to a local or distributed dataset. This paper describes briefly a method and a scripting language for developing knowledge scouts, and then reports on experiments with a knowledge scout, SCAMP, for discovering patterns characterizing...