Recommender systems provide decision aid and information filtering functions that have a great potential application in the mobile context. An aspect which has not been extensively exploited, in current recommender systems, are ways to better explain the recommendations, for instance, exploiting the opinion of users about the recommended products. In this paper we shall describe the foundations...

The present study deals with a robot safety system composed of standby robot units and inbuilt safety unit. When the main operative unit fails, it is replaced by the standby robot unit available in the system. The concept of reboot delay is also incorporated in this study according to which the robot unit is rebooted if it is not successfully recovered. The recovery and reboot times of failed u...

Executive Overview ..................................................................... 3 Safety and Availability: Two Sides of the Same Coin ....................... 4 Business Drivers in Process Automation and Safety.......................... 5 PROFIBUS and PROFIsafe Build the Foundation for Process Safety ..... 7 Case Study: Profisafe in a Pipeline Compressor Station ................... 11 R...

This document provides an overall description of the GORDA Management System and details the various modules that have been developed to configure and deploy, monitor, recover and optimize a GORDA database cluster.

Majority of the million plus cities in India are facing serious problems of traffic congestion and pollution due to the unprecedented and rapid pace of urbanization in last decade. City planners are providing solution to these twin problems by developing Mass Rapid Transit System including Metro and BRT in many Indian Metropolitan cities. The availability of transit network and pedestrian acces...

The main purpose of this study was to investigate effect of access to health facilities on the health status of rural households at Kermanshah Province. Statistical pupation of this study consisted of all heads of rural households at Bisotoun district in Harsin Township, Kermanshah Province, Iran (N=1020), that 278 of them were selected by the cluster random sampling method. The main instrument...