Abstract The global trend of urbanization coupled with an increasing awareness the importance food systems resilience, has led to interest in urban agriculture sustainably feed rapidly growing population and mitigate against supply chain disruptions. While home community gardens have been long studied, there relatively little empirical research focused specifically on commercial (CUA) operation...

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This paper highlights challenges in industrial research related to translating research in natural language processing into commercial products. While the interest in natural language processing from industry is significant, the transfer of research to commercial products is non-trivial and its challenges are often unknown to or underestimated by many researchers. I discuss current obstacles an...

Soft computing (SC) is an association of computing methodologies that includes as its principal members fuzzy logic, neurocomputing, evolutionary computing and probabilistic computing. We present a collection of methods and tools that can be used to perform diagnostics, estimation, and control. These tools are a great match for real-world applications that are characterized by imprecise, uncert...

In this paper, RFID as a brand-new pervasive computing technology is to be studied and discussed. In particular, its security threats are the main problems that should be found through literature review. Possible solutions towards these problems are to presented.