When should we use care robots? In this paper we endorse the shift from a simple normative approach to care robots ethics to a complex one: we think that one main task of a care robot ethics is that of analysing the different ways in which different care robots may affect the different values at stake in different care practices. We start filling a gap in the literature by showing how the philo...

We introduce a neurobiologically plausible model of contour integration from visual inputs of individual oriented edges. The model is composed of interacting excitatory neurons and inhibitory interneurons, receives visual inputs via oriented receptive fields (RFs) like those in VI. The RF centers are distributed in space. At each location, a finite number of cells tuned to orientations spanning...

The Pervasive Computing is embedded in the development of programmable and interactive environments, and it seeks to help the user in their daily activities. Considering that health system of the future requires the use of Pervasive Computing to optimize and automate clinical activities, this paper presents the architecture ClinicSpace, demonstrating through a problem 1 UNIPAMPA, Avenida Tiaraj...

psychological strain, physical and mental pressur. called stress is a part of daily life for all managers and employees. organizational changes, expectations of employees from management, technological changes, society expectations and personal involvement cause a person to be strained and depressed so that he, or she gets involved in pressure, conflict, and frustration. as dr. selye explains, ...

Energy experts need fine-grained dynamics oriented tools to investigate household activities in order to improve power management in the residential sector. This paper presents the SMACH framework for modelling, simulating and analysis of household activities. It provides experts with a guided graphical interface easing the modelling of the household, its inhabitants and their activities. It al...

In this paper, we propose a novel communication paradigm called group-oriented communication. Different from conventional unicast-based communications, group-oriented communication is based on group-based communications. Group-oriented communication is a type of many-to-many communication, but it realizes any type of communications covering one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one, and many-to-many...

Many business activities require planning and optimization, this is also true for engineering design, Internet routing, transport scheduling, objective-oriented task management and many other design activities. In fact, optimization is everywhere, the most important part of optimization is the core algorithms used to find optimal solutions to a given problem, though in many cases such algorithm...