E-textile technology is rapidly progressing, allowing for the development of truly wearable computers as well as very large-scale computing textiles. Efficient development of applications on etextiles will require significant software services support. This paper analyzes two representative e-textile applications for their software service requirements. Based on this analysis, three services pa...

The textile plot is a parallel coordinate plot in which the ordering, locations and scales of the axes are simultaneously chosen so that the connecting lines, each of which represents a case, are aligned as horizontally as possible. Plots of this type can accommodate numerical data as well as ordered or unordered categorical data, or a mixture of these different data types. Knots and parallel w...

In order to reduce their stock, to avoid ruptures and to direct their marketing policies, textile companies must improve their supply chain management. This organization requires forecasting systems adapted to the uncertain environment of the textile field. Taking into account also delivery constraints, textile distribution need mean-term forecasting (one season) in order to launch new producti...

In this paper, we propose a new visual inspection method of defect detection on textile surfaces; selectively removing the textural information from textile surfaces. For this purpose we use Wavelet Shrinkage, which was originally proposed by Donoho & Johnstone as a method to remove Gaussian white noise. We also propose a modification of Wavelet Shrinkage to selectively remove textural informat...

The paper presents a summary overview of the research investigations undertaken in the four-year European Commission funded Marie Curie Initial Training Network: “STEP”.

The aim of this paper is the presentation of some marketing strategies for textiles and clothing products in the global and European Single Market. This presentation is based on conditions for the completion of the internal market with special reference to trade creation and trade diversion effects, and on the norms and standards related to quality, natural environment and consumer protection.

The integration of the antenna and textile materials is very important in the army protective or data transmission clothing. In this study, a novel microstrip antenna integrated into a 3D orthogonal woven fabric was successfully designed and fabricated. This type of antenna is designed to work in wearable or conformal antenna applications. Simulation work using HFSS software was done for the de...

Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a common chronic inflammatory skin condition characterized by intense puritus and skin dryness. The pathogenesis for AD has not been fully understood to date. Complementary therapies are very popular as effective treatment for AD among clinical practitioners. This study presents a comprehensive review of published works associated with textiles-based complementary ther...