1. Current and Future Trends in Video Surveillance Systems

Outsourcing: Current and future trends

Highlighted are two reasons for outsourcing: cost and focus on the core competencies of the enterprise. Surveying U.S., U.K., and Continental Europe companies concerning current and future outsourcing trends positions outsourcing as a prominent strategic lever. Achieving “best-of-breed” practice is predicted to occur through new technology. Also, human resources and IT outsourcing will become m...

Operating System’s Support for Multicore Systems: Current and Future Trends

Multi-agent Systems in Industry: Current Trends & Future Challenges

The application of artificial intelligence (AI) mechanisms allows the development of intelligent machines/systems capable to solve very complex engineering problems. Multi-agent systems is one paradigm, derived from the distributed artificial intelligence and artificial life fields, that allows an alternative way to design distributed control systems based on autonomous and cooperative agents, ...

Medical telerobotic systems: current status and future trends

Teleoperated medical robotic systems allow procedures such as surgeries, treatments, and diagnoses to be conducted across short or long distances while utilizing wired and/or wireless communication networks. This study presents a systematic review of the relevant literature between the years 2004 and 2015, focusing on medical teleoperated robotic systems which have witnessed tremendous growth o...

Efficient Video Surveillance: Performance Evaluation in Distributed Video Surveillance Systems

The ultimate aim of performance evaluation is to improve the system efficiency. Overall efficiency of the system is a combination of three factors: system functionality, performance and cost. Whereas system functionality improvement and cost optimisation are usually well understood and implemented the third factor of system performance is usually under prioritized. The development and improveme...