The topic of sustainability is becoming one the strongest drivers change in marketplace by transforming into an element competitiveness and integral part business strategy. Particularly manufacturing sector, a key role played technological innovations that allow companies to minimize impact their on environment contribute enhancing value societies which they operate. Technological process can b...

This report provides a brief overview of blinding eye diseases for which prosthetic vision may hold promise as a treatment modality, and of current and near-term technological approaches towards the creation of prosthetic interfaces with the remaining visual system. Principal anatomical, physiological, technological and functional obstacles and possible solutions are outlined, and references ar...

The objective of this empirical study is to find ways that best support business performance through the alignment of organizational and technological infrastructures. Adapting Tapscott and Caston's infrastructure themes, the organizational infrastructure includes components such as common vision, cooperation, empowerment, adaptability and learning, and the technological infrastructure addresse...

Our ever-growing knowledge about the human brain and human behavior is opening doors to increasingly impressive technological achievements. This neurobiological inspiration has a significant history and involves almost equal parts neuroscience, computation and art. With a focus on the sense of vision, this essay presents a selective and highly condensed snapshot of the history of how neurobiolo...

Vision is one of the most important perceptual capabilities that any autonomous intelligent system, either natural or artificial, can possess in order to operate in the real world. Computer vision encompasses the development of both the computational theories and the technological means to realize artificial vision systems with performance equal to or greater than that of humans. The goal of co...

The application of the collaborative networks paradigm, combined with a new generation of collaboration-support platforms, can offer a promising approach to active ageing and better use of the talents of senior professionals. This paper introduces a roadmapping initiative focused on elaboration of a new vision for extending professional active life. To support this vision, a strategic research ...

Ambient Intelligence (AmI) is an innovative paradigm that promotes the advancement of science and technology to build smart environments. AmI proponents advocate an invisible technological support layer of information processing to improve the quality of life in public and private spaces. A robust AmI system requires a variety of algorithms and state of the art methodologies from the fields of ...

Vision constitutes the most important sense in the vast majority of animals. Researchers in robotic systems, where biological inspiration has been always a reference, frequently try to make use of vision as a primary sensor. The technological advances have notably favoured this, permitting the incorporation of cameras to a wide variety of robots, including even low cost models. Initially config...