This special issue covers some recent advances on bioinspired and knowledge based techniques with some emphasis on applications to the medical domain, specifically in medical image processing. Some of the papers have been selected from the KES 2012 conference, and other have been contributed by authors outside the conference. The special issue covers a wide spectrum of techniques which we have ...

The Active Demand Response (ADR), integrated with the distributed energy generation and storage systems, is the most common strategy for the optimization of energy consumption and indoor comfort in buildings, considering the energy availability and the balancing of the energy production from renewable sources. In the paper an overview of basic requirements and applications of ADR management is ...

This paper experimentally investigates the relationship between the operating temperature and the power handling capability (PHC) of a coplanar waveguide (CPW) high-temperature superconducting (HTS) dual-band bandpass filter (DBPF) using a YBCO thin film deposited on a MgO substrate. The PHC is evaluated based on the intermodulation distortion of the HTS-DBPF. Experimental results show that the...

Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication refers to communication among machines without or with only limited human intervention. The paper deals with context-awareness in M2M communication and proposes rich presence information as a concept to address context information in a multi-agent system supporting networking of machines. Rich Presence Information Data (RPID) extensions suitable for M2M ar...

This paper suggests a model and a definition for forward-secure authenticated key exchange (AKE) protocols, which can be satisfied without depending on the Diffie-Hellman assumption. The basic idea is to use key-evolving schemes (KES), where the long-term keys of the system get updated regularly and irreversibly. Protocols conforming to our model can be highly efficient, since they do not requi...

The objective measurement of hand and related attributes offabrics which determine their value to the consumer, has been well recognized by the manufacturing industries and consumers. This paper describes in brief the concept of fabric objective measurement and its potential in today's advanced, quality conscious and competitive market. The measurement principle and the various profitable appli...

The goal of this paper is to bridge the paradigms of Linked Data and Conceptual Modeling, which have been developed from quite distinct concerns, although certain opportunities may stimulate the evolution of the Web towards a new type of knowledge space driven by diagrammatic models. To this end, the work at hand investigates structural patterns in a multitude of modeling languages accumulated ...

For the usual st raight·line model, in whic h the independent variable ta kes on a fixed, kno wn se t of va lues, it is shown that the sample corre lation coeffi cie nt is distributed as Q with (n-2) degrees of freedom and noncentralit y O=({3 /CT) V~(Xi X)2. The Q variate has been defin ed and studied e lse· where by Hogben et al. It is noted that the square of the correlation coeffi cient is ...

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