1Department of Biophysical and Electronic Engineering, University of Genoa, Via Opera Pia 11a, 16145 Genoa, Italy 2Computer Vision & Graphics, Image Processing Department, Heinrich-Hertz-Institute Berlin, Fraunhofer-Institute for Telecommunications, 10587 Berlin, Germany 3R&D Department, Exent Technologies Ltd., 25 Bazel Street, P.O. Box 2645, Petach Tikva 49125, Israel 4Converging Networks Lab...

concern to both practitioners and researchers but also that the software market is becoming gradually more demanding in terms of development constraints, systems evolution and emerging business models. To cope with this reality, the adoption of Software Process Improvement Models such as capability maturity model integration (CMMI) is perceived by many software development organisations as a ba...

On July 7th, 2015, Pedro Castillejo defended his Ph.D. thesis titled “Contribution towards intelligent service management in wearable and ubiquitous devices” at the Technical University of Madrid (UPM). This thesis has been developed within the European research project “LifeWear-Mobilized Lifestyle with Wearables” funded by the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade in the framework o...

Understanding the functionality of a communications system or network in the wake of failures is provided by survivability analysis. A great deal of attention has been focused on survivability of high speed networks and of ad hoc networks supporting battleeeld communications. Very little attention has been placed on the unique survivability issues pertaining to mobile systems supporting cellula...

This document presents a summary of the issues involved in supporting time critical functions (e.g. multi-media services and connection setup), in telecommunications information networks and in particular how these relate to the choice of both operating system and middleware for distribution. The aim of the document is to provide an introduction to various ANSA technical reports which contain a...

We present a low-cost active vision system with ten degrees of freedom which has been built from off-the-shelf parts. To obtain high resolution depth information of fixated objects in the scene a general purpose calibration procedure is proposed which estimates intrinsic and extrinsic camera parameters including the vergence axes of both cameras. To produce enhanced dense depth maps a hierarchi...

Unbundling consists in the possibility for a new operator of having special access to the incumbent’s network infrastructure, in order to provide value-added services without the necessity to duplicate the infrastructure itself. Access network unbundling has received most attention in Europe. Most European operators are interested mainly in the physical access to copper loop, which gives the op...

Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) can help countries attain and sustain universal health coverage (UHC), as long as it is context-specific and considered within deliberative processes at the country level. Institutionalising robust deliberative processes requires significant time and resources, however, and countries often begin by demanding evidence (including local CEA evidence as well as evi...

I hope you enjoy our seventh Vodafone Policy Paper. Our aim in these papers is to provide a platform for leading experts to write on issues in public policy that are important to us at Vodafone. These are the people that we listen to, even if we do not always agree with them. These are their views, not ours. We think that they have important things to say that should be of interest to anybody c...

The minutes of the meeting Society Marine Physicians in St. Petersburg dated October 30, 1912, which describes an experiment on transmission biomedical data via telecommunications, are published. head workshop Radiotelegraph depot A.K. Nikiforov developed a device for remote sound picture heart, using his own designs amplifiers and microphones. was conducted with participation doctor A.G. Makar...