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Co-design Approaches to Dependable Networked Control Systems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 261

Co-design Approaches to Dependable Networked Control Systems

Networked Control Systems (NCS) is a growing field of application and calls for the development of integrated approaches requiring multidisciplinary skills in control, real-time computing and communication protocols. This book describes co-design approaches, and establishes the links between the QoC (Quality of Control) and QoS (Quality of Service) of the network and computing resources. The methods and tools described in this book take into account, at design level, various parameters and properties that must be satisfied by systems controlled through a network. Among the important network properties examined are the QoC, the dependability of the system, and the feasibility of the real-time scheduling of tasks and messages. Correct exploitation of these approaches allows for efficient design, diagnosis, and implementation of the NCS. This book will be of great interest to researchers and advanced students in automatic control, real-time computing, and networking domains, and to engineers tasked with development of NCS, as well as those working in related network design and engineering fields.

Towards Useful Services for Elderly and People with Disabilities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 342

Towards Useful Services for Elderly and People with Disabilities

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2011, held in Montreal, Canada, in June 2011. The 25 revised full papers presented together with 16 short papers and 8 student papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 94 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on smart home and village; health telematics and healthcare technology; wellbeing, ageing friendly and enabling technology; and medical health telematics and healthcare technology.

MontiArc - Architectural Modeling and Simulation of Interactive Distributed Systems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 400

MontiArc - Architectural Modeling and Simulation of Interactive Distributed Systems

Formal ADLs offer great potential to analyse the architecture of a system, predict the overall performance by using simulations, and allow to automatically generate parts of the implementation. Nevertheless, ADLs are rather not used in industrial practice since several problems hinder to exploit their potential to the full extend. This thesis elaborates the design of an ADL that copes with these impediments of ADLs in practice. Therefore, the design of a lightweight ADL is derived which also provides well defined extension points to be adapted to a certain domain or development process. Furthermore, it is investigated how architectural modeling can be enriched with agile development methods ...

Inclusive Smart Cities and e-Health
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 394

Inclusive Smart Cities and e-Health

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-05-29
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2015, held in Geneva, Switzerland, in June 2015. The 20 full papers and 16 short contributions included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: design and usability; assistive and sentient environments; human behavior and activities monitoring, and health IT and supportive technology. The book also contains 3 invited talks.

Optimal Control of Switched Systems with Application to Networked Embedded Control Systems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 204

Optimal Control of Switched Systems with Application to Networked Embedded Control Systems

This thesis addresses optimal control of discrete-time switched linear systems with application to networked embedded control systems (NECSs). Part I focuses on optimal control and scheduling of discrete-time switched linear systems. The objective is to simultaneously design a control law and a switching (scheduling) law such that a cost function is minimized. This optimization problem exhibits exponential complexity. Taming the complexity is a major challenge. Two novel methods are presented to approach this optimization problem: Receding-horizon control and scheduling relies on the receding horizon principle. The optimization problem is solved based on relaxed dynamic programming, allowing...

AD-HOC, Mobile and Wireless Networks
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 369

AD-HOC, Mobile and Wireless Networks

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-07-08
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Ad-hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks, ADHOC-NOW 2011 held in Paderborn, Germany, July 18-20, 2011. The 23 revised full papers presented together with 4 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on routing and activity scheduling, topology control, medium access control, security, mobility management and handling, applications and evaluation, and analytical considerations.

The Industrial Communication Technology Handbook
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 938

The Industrial Communication Technology Handbook

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005-02-23
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  • Publisher: CRC Press

The Industrial Communication Technology Handbook focuses on current and newly emerging communication technologies and systems that are evolving in response to the needs of industry and the demands of industry-led consortia and organizations. Organized into two parts, the text first summarizes the basics of data communications and IP networks, then presents a comprehensive overview of the field of industrial communications. This book extensively covers the areas of fieldbus technology, industrial Ethernet and real-time extensions, wireless and mobile technologies in industrial applications, the linking of the factory floor with the Internet and wireless fieldbuses, network security and safety...

Enhanced Quality of Life and Smart Living
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 277

Enhanced Quality of Life and Smart Living

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-08-21
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2017, held in Paris, France, in August 2017. The 18 regular papers, 5 short papers together with 2 invited talks included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The conference features a dynamic program incorporating a range of design, development, deployment and evaluation of Smart Urban Environments, Assistive Technologies, Chronic Disease Management, Coaching and Health Telematics systems.

Real-time Systems Scheduling 1
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

Real-time Systems Scheduling 1

Real-time systems are used in a wide range of applications, including control, sensing, multimedia, etc. Scheduling is a central problem for these computing/communication systems since responsible of software execution in a timely manner. This book provides state of knowledge in this domain with special emphasis on the key results obtained within the last decade. This book addresses foundations as well as the latest advances and findings in Real-Time Scheduling, giving all references to important papers. But nevertheless the chapters will be short and not overloaded with confusing details. Coverage includes scheduling approaches for mono-core as well as multi-core platforms, dependent tasks,...

Inclusive Society: Health and Wellbeing in the Community, and Care at Home
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 347

Inclusive Society: Health and Wellbeing in the Community, and Care at Home

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-06-13
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2013, held in Singapore, in June 2013. The 22 revised full papers presented together with one invited paper and 19 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Supportive Technology for Ageing and People with Cognitive Impairment; Activity Recognition and Algorithmic Techniques; Trust, Security and Social Issues; Assistive Robotics and HCI Issues; Supporting Safety and Pervasive Healthcare; Home Energy Usage, Reasoning Framework, Services; Algorithms for Smart Homes; Eldercare – Activity Recognition and Fall Detection; Healthcare and Rehabilitation; Robotics and Assistive Living.