Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be used to localize victims, deliver first-aid, and maintain wireless connectivity to victims and first responders during search/rescue and public safety scenarios. In this letter, we consider the problem of navigating a UAV to a Rayleigh fading wireless signal source, e.g. the Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices such as smart watches and other wearables owned b...

There are many strategies to assist the user in pervasive environments. In some cases, the user has to achieve a goal according to a plan known by the environment. We address the issue of enabling the environment to be aware of which task of the plan is currently on-going. We present a strategy that makes use of temporal patterns called memory chronicles and that watches events that occur in ob...

Performance and compliance in hospitals are particularly challenging due to the nature of care variability, and the humanintensive clinical activities involved. There is a need to collect fine-grained measurements to enact performance and governance effectively. Modern wearable technologies, such as smart watches, provide a significant opportunity towards facilitating the gathering of such fine...

Any sense of privacy on The Internet is an illusion. Even Tor, which could be considered the most privacy preserving networking framework in existence, has its flaws [3]. Furthermore, privacy-enhancing technology is difficult to use for normal users and it slows down The Internet. For instance, should one first setup a VPN and then Tor or Tor and then VPN? Getting it wrong might actually negati...

Selling has long been considered as an “art” driven by personal intuition and native sales talent. However, significant changes have occurred over the past 30 years, as a result of technological advances and changing customer expectations. As one answer to these changes, practitioners and scholars have promoted the idea of “sales as a science”, relying on documented, repeatable ways of selling ...

The rise in the use of electronic health records (EHRs) and associated resources over the last decade is leading to the end of the paper medical record and all the risks associated with the use of a paper chart. However, there has not been a concomitant creation of a systematic oversight body that is specifically charged with ensuring the public’s safety through the use of EHR knowledge resourc...