background: neck and shoulder pains are the prevalent complaints among computer office workers. the purpose of this study was to assess the relationship of somatization tendency, expectation of pain, mental health and beliefs about causation of pain with persistence of neck/shoulder pains among computer office workers. methods: this research is a kind of prospective cohort study with 1‑year fol...

We discuss robustness in LE systems from the perspective of engineering, and the predictability of both outputs and construction process that this entails. We present an architectural system that contributes to engineering robustness and low-overhead systems development (GATE, a General Architecture for Text Engineering). To verify our ideas we present results from the development of a multi-pu...

Workflow Systems provide means and techniques for modelling, designing, performing and controlling repetitive (business) processes. The quality of commercial workflow systems is usually determined to a large extent by their versatility and multi-purpose application. One of the current trends in improving workflow systems lies in enriching modelling methods and techniques in order to enlarge des...

Service discovery has become more complicated than it was just a few years ago, because lots of service discovery platforms are introduced for their own purpose. As a result, the devices concurrently existed in such platforms must be equipped with corresponding modules which enable the devices to communicate with other devices. A great deal of papers dealing with service discovery has recently ...

Hello is a general-purpose, object-oriented, protocol-agnostic distributed programming language. This paper explains the ideas that guided design of Hello. It shows the spirit of Hello using two brief expressive programs and provides a summary of language features. In addition, it explores historical parallels between the binary programming of early computers and the distributed programming of ...

This paper presents an innovative vision “sensor”. The proposed method uses a vision system for recognizing distant barcodes. It is ideal for Real-Time Self Localization since the proposed algorithm uses light-weight processing of the image obtained by a multi-purpose vision system. The choice of the marker is discussed and the proposed solution uses the industrial barcode standard of Interleav...

1 GPI SpA, Via Ragazzi del ’99, 13, Trento, Italy, {garmellin, dbetti, achiasera, jstevovic, ttoai}@gpi.it 2 Information Engineering and Computer Science Department, University of Trento, Italy, [email protected], [email protected] Abstract. Assistive processes in healthcare and socio-assistive domains typically span multiple institutions which usually communicate manually with the exchange...

Developable materials are ubiquitous in design and manufacturing. Unfortunately, general-purpose modeling tools are not suited to modeling 3D objects composed of developable parts. We propose an interactive tool to model such objects from a photograph. Users of our system load a single picture of the object they wish to model, which they annotate to indicate silhouettes and part boundaries. Ass...