infonet-economy

This paper proposes a location-based service for disseminating geo-localised information generated by and aimed at mobile users. The service itself works in a self-organising manner. A piece of hovering information is attached to a geographical point, called the anchor location, and to its vicinity area, called the anchor area. It is responsible for keeping itself alive, available…

Emerging healthcare applications rely on personal mobile devices to monitor patient vital signs and to send it to the hospitals-backend servers for further analysis. However, these devices have limited resources that must be used optimally in order to meet the requirements of healthcare applications end-users: healthcare professionals and their patients. This paper reports on a case…

In the perspective of a sustainable urban planning, it is necessary to investigate cities in a holistic way and to accept surprises in the response of urban environments to a particular set of strategies. For example, the process of inner-city densification may limit air pollution, carbon emissions, and energy use through reduced transportation; on the other hand, the resulting…

Objectives: To give a brief, introductory overview of current developments and trends in miniaturized medical sensors which will be informative to non-specialists in the field. Methods: Summary of the different types of wearable and implantable sensors with examples of current state-of-the-art devices and systems used in medical applications. Results: After more than a decade of…

This volume contains all accepted papers of the ERCIM Workshop on eMobility, which has been held in Coimbra, Portugal, on May 21, 2007. Papers from three main areas have been selected for the workshop. The workshop papers discuss several topics of the ERCIM eMobility working group, namely – Traffic engineering and mobility management – Wireless (sensor) networks – Pervasive computing…

Expressive facial animation synthesis of human like characters has had many approacheswith good results. MPEG-4 standard has functioned as the basis of many of thoseapproaches. In this paper we would like to lay out the knowledge of some of thoseapproaches inside an ontology in order to support the modeling of emotionalfacial animation in virtual humans (VH). Inside this ontology we…