Hierarchical models (HMs) provide a flexible framework for modeling data. The ongoing development of techniques like the EM algorithm and Markov chain Monte Carlo has enabled statisticians to make use of increasingly more complicated HMs over the last few decades. In this article, we consider Bayesian and frequentist versions of a general, two-stage HM, and describe several examples from the li...

Traditional techniques for balancing privacy and awareness in video media spaces, like blur filtration, have been proven to be ineffective for compromising home situations involving a media space. As such, this paper presents the rationale and prototype design of a context-aware home media space (HMS)—defined as an always-on video media space used within a home setting—that focuses on identifyi...

A development of web application for a hydroponic monitoring system (HMS) is presented. The HMS to collect data plants such as quality and quantity nutrient solution. integrated internet that the collected stored in cloud server. can be accessed by users through application. This study develop an interface accessing real time. done implementing user centred design (UCD) method. case temperature...

Properly architected holonic systems can enhance the ability of each set of players in the industrial automation and control market to deliver added value by encapsulating, reusing and deploying their specialized intellectual property at succeedingly higher levels of integration. Such an architecture expands on the HMS concept of cooperation domains to include both low-level control (LLC) and h...

Researchers from Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital have developed a magnetic nanoparticle-based MRI technique for predicting whether—and when—subjects with a genetic predisposition for diabetes will develop the disease. While done initially in mice, preliminary data show that the platform can be used in people as well, so far to distinguish patients that do or do not hav...

This paper presents a holonic and isoarchic approach to the FMS (Flexible Manufacturing System) control. This approach is based on a flat holonic form, where each holon is a model for each entity of the FMS, with a unifying level of communication between holons. After description of this model, called PROSIS, the interaction protocol and decision rules are presented. The objective is to increas...