With high penetration of distributed renewable energy resources along with sophisticated automation and information technology, cyber-physical energy systems (CPES, i.e. Smart Grids here) requires a holistic approach to evaluate the integration at a system level, addressing all relevant domains. Hybrid cloud SCADA (Supervisory, Control And Data Acquisition), allowing laboratories to be linked i...

To target complex, multi-factorial diseases more effectively, there has been an emerging trend of multi-target drug development based on network biology, as well as an increasing interest in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) that applies a more holistic treatment to diseases. Thousands of years' clinic practices in TCM have accumulated a considerable number of formulae that exhibit reliable in...

In this paper, we conduct a systematic study of multi-view gender recognition on a large database. We focus on the basic methodologies of dealing with view point variations, and compare their performance on gender recognition problems. Experimental evaluation is conducted on a large multi-view database consisting of 23136 facial images of 241 subjects under 32 different views and 3 illumination...

In this paper, we sketch a framework for interdisciplinary modeling of space systems, by proposing a holistic view. We consider different system dimensions and their interaction. Specifically, we study the interactions between computation, physics, communication, uncertainty and autonomy. The most comprehensive computational paradigm that supports a holistic perspective on autonomous space syst...

The European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) business excellence model is widely recognized as a representative theory to improve traditional Total Quality Management (TQM) by expanding the narrow quality-oriented concept into a holistic management concept. The EFQM model, an integrative business system, covers all management activities composed of input, process, and output (Black et ...

84.6% of touching digit strings have only two digits touching, 12.3% have three digits touching, and 3.1% have more than three digits touching. We present a multiexperts approach to recognize touching digit pairs (TDP) and touching digit triples (TDT). We combine holistic and traditional segmentation methods. 25,686 TDP training samples and 2778 TDP testing samples collected from USPS mail are ...

The authors of this article were invited members of a workgroup sponsored by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in the fall of 2013. They came away convinced that a more holistic perspective of childhood vaccination is necessary in order to understand and ultimately address the complex, multi-faceted issues surrounding vaccine hesitancy and vaccine acceptance in the United States. The au...

Reported lack of efficacy of Ayurvedic treatments in clinical trials is often not due to inefficacy of the treatment itself, but arises from inadequacies of trial design. This paper argues that trials of Ayurvedic interventions should exclusively use its multi-component, individualized and inherently holistic approach, and that general guidelines for rigorously reporting such clinical trials sh...

As the number of web applications and corresponding sophistication threats increases, creating new tools that are efficient accessible becomes essential. Although there is much research concentrating on network security visualizations, only a few studies considering application vulnerabilities' possible visualization options. Consequently, to fill this gap, centers around novel perception confi...