In developing effective energy management mechanisms, new concepts have been developed to provide approaches. Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) is an approach that was originally allow the occupants of a room identify contribution each appliance total electricity consumption through single point measurement device. The aim customers with information will enable them act as `` ` consum'actors...

Better water consumption decisions benefit from detailed use information. Easily installed non-intrusive vibration sensors provide a “no-fuss” retrofit solution for detecting the operation of water consuming appliances. The sensors measure pipe vibration, which are revealed to be a rich source of information for identifying loads. Vibration is processed to extract power spectral density based f...

A software system is comprised of parts, which interact through shared interfaces. Certain qualities of integration, such as loose-coupling, requiring minimal changes to the software and fine-grained localisation of dependencies, have impact on the overall software quality. Current general-purpose languages do not have features that target these integration qualities at the instance level, henc...

Activity recognition in smart environments and healthcare systems is gaining increasing interest. Several approaches are proposed to recognize activities namely intrusive and non-intrusive approaches. This paper presents a new fully non-intrusive approach for recognition of Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) in smart environments. Our approach treats the activity recognition process as an inform...

Abstract This paper introduces on the scene a new type of non-canonical question, dubbed non-intrusive, exemplified by interrogatives marked particle oare in Romanian. It does so providing an account distribution and interpretation this using updated version context components F?l?u? & Laca (2014), elaboration general assumptions Faller (2002). The intuition captures is that marking interro...

Speech captured from an in-ear microphone (IEM) under an intra-aural device is beneficial in extremely noisy environments as it maintains a relatively high signal to noise ratio. Due to its limited bandwidth, speech enhancement is required in order to obtain a more natural speech. Consequently, quick and practical measurement of speech quality is important. In this paper, we compare the perform...

In this paper we review some of the state of the art techniques for parasitic interconnect extraction in the presence of random geometrical variations due to uncertainties in the manufacturing processes. We summarize some of the most recent development in both sampling based (non-intrusive) and expansion based (intrusive) algorithms for the extraction of both general impedance and capacitance i...

Several recommendation systems have been developed to support the user in choosing an interesting movie from multimedia repositories. The widely utilized collaborative-filtering systems focus on the analysis of user profiles or user ratings of the items. However, these systems decrease their performance at the start-up phase and due to privacy issues, when a user hides most of his personal data...

This paper presents a framework for monitoring the compliance of systems composed of webservices with requirements set for them at run-time. This framework assumes systems composed of webservices which are co-coordinated by a service composition process expressed in BPEL and uses event calculus to specify the requirements to be monitored. These requirements may include behavioural properties of...

We introduce a novel passive network monitoring architecture which enables us to capture and integrate data from different levels of the protocol stack using a probe which can be placed at any arbitrary point in the network. We subject the data gathered to off-line analysis and show how, by modelling the dynamics of the protocols observed, we are able to extract information which would not be a...