Advances in information and communication technology and in particularly the development of new mobile devices with user-friendly interfaces, broadband communication and wireless networks technology, offer new approaches to encouraging physician adoption of new technology applications. According to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) study “To Error is human: building a safer health system”, over o...

Traditionally, database management systems (DBMSs) have been associated with high-cost, high-quality functionalities. That is, powerful capabilities are provided, but only in response to careful design, procurement, deployment and administration. This has been very successful in many contexts, but in an environment in which data is available in increasing quantities under the management of a gr...

Within the industrial domain including manufacturing a lot of various data is produced. For exploiting the data for lower level control as well as for the upper levels such as MES systems or virtual enterprises, the traditional business intelligence methods are becoming insufficient. At the same time, especially within internet companies, the Big Data paradigm is getting higher popularity due t...

Abstract As digitalization in the agricultural sector has intensified, number of studies addressing adoption and use digital technologies crop production livestock farming also increased. However, trends context small-scale have mainly been excluded from such studies. The focus this paper is on investigating sequential precision agriculture (PA) other technologies, multiple a region southern Ge...

Modern industrial automation systems incorporate a variety of interconnected sensors and actuators that contribute to the generation of vast amounts of data. Although valuable insights for plant operators and engineers can be gained from such data sets, they often remain undiscovered due to the problem of applying machine learning algorithms in high-dimensional feature spaces. Feature selection...

Keywords: laboratory automation • life science • special-purpose robots • wet lab Compared with manufacturing and service industries, the life science R&D industry in general is lagging behind in terms of utilizing large-scale industrial automation for productivity , capacity and quality improvements. Granted, the exploratory and dynamic nature of life science R&D dictates that for most life sc...

The progressive integration of automation technologies in commercial transport aircraft flight decks -the “glass cockpit” -has had a major, and generally positive, impact on flight crew operations. Flight deck automation has provided significant benefits, such as economic efficiency, increased precision and safety, and enhanced functionality within the crew interface. These enhancements, howeve...

The automation manufacturing business has reached its turning point and manufacturers are forced to create new business areas. Their expertise about field devices will be the source for future growth of automation industry. This includes monitoring, maintenance, data analysis and process tuning which all require good remoting capabilities in order to be successfully and cost efficiently applied...

A Data Scientist typically performs a number of tedious and time-consuming steps to derive insight from a raw data set. The process usually starts with data ingestion, cleaning, and transformation (e.g. outlier removal, missing value imputation), then proceeds to model building, and finally a presentation of predictions that align with the end-users objectives and preferences. It is a long, com...

In this paper we present a multimodal interface that employs speech recognition and eye gaze tracking technology for use in data entry tasks. The aim of this work is to compare the usability of this multimodal system against other data entry methods (handwriting, mouse and keyboard and speech only) when carrying out the data entry task of filling a form. Discussions regarding the relationships ...