Intelligent vehicles of the future are that which, having a holistic (i.e. inside and outside the vehicle) perception and understanding of the driving environment, make it possible for passengers to go from point A to point B safely and in a timely manner. This may happen by way of providing active assistance for drivers, giving full control to automated cars or some combination of the two. No ...

The process of identification of a person by their facial image is the face recognition. For criminal identification, for passport verification. Face recognition approached for still image can be broadly categorized into holistic methods. This technique makes it possible to use the facial images of a person to authenticate him into a secure system. He entire raw face image as an input. Holistic...

The concept of holistic processing is a cornerstone of face-recognition research. In the study reported here, we demonstrated that holistic processing predicts face-recognition abilities on the Cambridge Face Memory Test and on a perceptual face-identification task. Our findings validate a large body of work that relies on the assumption that holistic processing is related to face recognition. ...

This paper introduces a model addressing the heterogeneity problem of Pervasive Computing systems from a resource, service and context management viewpoint. The presented system architecture, called UBIDEV is a collection of abstraction services for semantic-driven management of the physical environment that provide a design methodology that allow a description of the behavior of the whole syst...

Introduction As distributed systems that span multiple administrative domains proliferate, robust protocols increasingly need to incorporate the incentives of multiple stakeholders into their design. A significant challenge in designing incentive aware systems is layering: where are incentives required? who are the principals? Peer-to-peer systems (P2P) push these challenges to the limit. Users...

the linear and single factor attitude towards human being behavior (in the range of normality and abnormality) is no longer valid. currently human being is considered a live and dynamic system and behavioral problems, fluctuating mood states, mental illnesses and disturbances of personality are no exclusions from this ‘system’. a comprehensive holistic and systematic approach in this regard is ...

Whereas the most vulnerable and error-prone part of the development cycle is the requirements elicitation and analysis stage, the methods offered in this area have been criticized for either being too soft for engineering an IS, or too hard, neglecting social, organizational, human and other non-technical aspects of the IS’s environment. A holistic approach is necessary to combine the advantage...

The objectives of the paper are to show how the sustainability of urban settlements can be improved by treating as a variable the design of: (a) property rights to realty, corporations and currencies and: (b) their communication and control governance architecture. System science provides the basis for showing that the governance of complexity is improved by increasing the richness and variety ...

PURPOSE To describe the effects of genetics and genomics on children's health care. ORGANIZING CONSTRUCT The breakthroughs in the Human Genome Project have great potential for disease prediction, treatment, and prevention in the health care of children with chronic health conditions. Most childhood conditions based on a single gene are influenced by a complex interaction of genetic and enviro...

The purpose of this volume is to provide a capsule view of the relationship of the behavioral and social sciences to pubIic health as we enter the 2 1st century. Historically, the genealogical tree of Western medicine often is traced to Hippucrates, who held a holistic concept of health and disease: “Health depends upon a state of equilibrium among the various internal factors which govern the ...