openAAL is a joint open source initiative by FZI Research Center for Information Technologies, Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena and CAS Software AG. It represents a flexible and powerful middleware for ambient-assisted living (AAL) scenarios and is based on research results of several German and international projects including the SOPRANO Integrated Project. The openAAL platform enables e...

The ability to lead change is crucial for entrepreneurs and clinical nurse specialists (CNSs). Although introducing a new idea or initiative may be the first step toward achieving change, getting change not only to happen but also ‘‘to stick’’ is a significant challenge. This article introduces a 6-source model for influencing behaviors to effect the desired change that will take hold and achie...

Introduction Renal transplant is the best treatment of choice for patients with end-stage renal disease (1). Annually, about 17000 patients receive deceased or living donor transplants, which help them promote health and self-efficacy (1-2). However, despite advances in transplant technology, patients face a number of post-operative challenges, which might lead to stress in patients, includin...

Analysis of ontology alignments, as sets of correspondences between entities, can reveal knowledge to be later fed back to the alignment process. We report on data mining experiments over 3-year results of the ‘conference’ track of the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative. The discovered hypotheses express relationships among the matching tools used, the nature of source ontologies, the con...

We have just completed the final phase of an Advanced Technology Initiative Program (ATIP) funded effort to develop the 1 μm pump source needed for ozone DIAL and other lidar systems. The output of this program was a brassboard version of a robust, singlefrequency oscillator/amplifier that achieved 500 mJ/pulse at 20 Hz with an M of 3 or 300 mJ/pulse at 50 Hz with an M of 1.5.

JXTA is an open-source initiative that allows to specify a set of collaboration and communication protocols which enable the creation and deployment of peer-to-peer (P2P) applications. This paper provides a survey on its current state regarding the topic of security. The study focuses on the security evaluation of standard peer operations within the JXTA network, highlighting which issues must ...

We describe the Open Mind Initiative, a framework for building intelligent systems collaboratively over the internet, and focus on one of its simpler component projects, Open Mind Animals. The Initiative extends traditional open source development methods by allowing non-expert netizens to contribute informal data over the internet. Such data is used to train classifiers or guide automatic infe...

Over the past decade, the Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) phenomenon has revolutionized the ways in which organizations and individuals create, distribute, acquire and use information systems and services, making it an increasingly important topic of research for information systems researchers. FLOSS has moved from a curiosity to the mainstream: it has become a useful instrument for ed...

Several research teams working on integrated land use, transportation and environmental modelling have begun an international collaboration to develop an Open Platform for Urban Simulation (OPUS). The initiative is creating an Open Source platform that simulates land use, activitybased travel demand, and dynamic traffic assignment, and that can be extended by users and adapted to alternative mo...