Data from the Internet of Things (IoT) enables the design of new business models and services that improve user experience and satisfaction. These data serve as important information sources for many domains, including disaster management, biosurveillance, smart cities, and smart health, among others. However, this scenario involves the collection of personal data, raising new challenges related to data privacy protection.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe vibration signals of rolling bearings are complex and changeable, and extracting meaningful features is difficult. Currently, the commonly used empirical mode decomposition (EMD) algorithms have the problem of mode aliasing. In this paper, a new feature extraction method based on the improved complete ensemble empirical mode decomposition with adapted noise (ICEEMDAN) and permutation entropy is proposed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTo enhance the robustness of ship autopilot (SA) system with nonlinear dynamics, unmeasured states, and unknown steering machine fault, an observer-based H fuzzy fault-tolerant switching control for ship course tracking is proposed. Firstly, a global Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy nonlinear ship autopilot (NSA) is developed with full consideration of ship steering characteristics. And the actual navigation data collected from a real ship are used to verify the reasonableness and feasibility of NSA model.
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February 2023
Modelling the dynamics of a growing financial environment is a complex task that requires domain knowledge, expertise and access to heterogeneous information types. Such information can stem from several sources at different scales, complicating the task of forming a holistic impression of the financial landscape, especially in terms of the economical relationships between firms. Bringing this scattered information into a common context is, therefore, an essential step in the process of obtaining meaningful insights about the state of an economy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFModeling collaboration processes is a challenging task. Existing modeling approaches are not capable of expressing the unpredictable, non-routine nature of human collaboration, which is influenced by the social context of involved collaborators. We propose a modeling approach which considers collaboration processes as the evolution of a network of collaborative documents along with a social network of collaborators.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFContext: A distributed business process is executed in a distributed computing environment. The service-oriented architecture (SOA) paradigm is a popular option for the integration of software services and execution of distributed business processes. Entailment constraints, such as mutual exclusion and binding constraints, are important means to control process execution.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWeb-based collaboration and virtual environments supported by various Web 2.0 concepts enable the application of numerous monitoring, mining and analysis tools to study human interactions and team formation processes. The composition of an effective team requires a balance between adequate skill fulfillment and sufficient team connectivity.
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