The configuration of smart cards is a complex multi-level process. Addressing this process efficiently is a major challenge of the smart card industry. In the context of the forthcoming evolutions of smart card systems, we are ex-perimenting new configuration methods. We propose to rely on both model-driven engineering and software product lines to formalize and automate the smart card configur...

Smart Spaces refer to application scenarios where people are immersed in time and space in an augmented environment, exploiting ubiquitous computing technologies, space and time awareness, and pervasive intelligence. This paper focuses on Home Manager, an agent-based platform for the implementation of Smart Spaces in Smart Home contexts, rooted in the Butlers for Smart Spaces framework – the sp...

Next generation wearable devices such as Smart health monitoring device and Smart Sousveillance hat, are capable of using wearable sensors for measuring physiological information, sousveillanace, navigation, as well as smart device to smart device communications. Smart health monitoring device collect and observe different health related information deploying biosensors and can predict health p...

Despite the impressive growth of smart city initiatives worldwide, an organizational theory of smart city has yet to be developed, and we lack models addressing the unprecedented organizational and management challenges that emerge in smart city contexts. Traditional models are often of little use, because smart cities pursue different goals than traditional organizations, are based on networke...

Dr.-Ing. Jutta Fortmann Wrist-Worn Light-Based Smart Digital Jewellery In recent years wearable devices have become an emerging trend in the consumer market. However, recent studies in the U.S. show that a third of owners of a wearable device abandon its use within six months. Supposed reasons are, among others, a lack in useful functions, aesthetics, and comfort. Smart Digital Jewellery has be...

The smart grid is an important hub of interdisciplinary research where researchers from different areas of science and technology combine their efforts to enhance the traditional electrical power grid. Due to these efforts, the traditional electrical grid is now evolving. The envisioned smart grid will bring social, environmental, ethical, legal and economic benefits. Smart grid systems increas...

background: a major issue in many gene expressionstudies utilizing small amount of biological materials is thelimited quantity of rnapurified from clinical samples, which isoften used for rt-pcr or standard northern blot analysis.objectives: the smart cdna synthesis method and subsequentsmart-cdna-pcr technique was used to analyse 3genes in macroschizonts of theileria annulata in small lymphnod...

the importance of education through interactive discussion-forums and seminars on family skills in coping with stress of having a child with autistic spectrum disorder (asd) seems to be under-attended. this prompted a local initiative entitled smart (shiraz multidisciplinary autism research team), to document the personal impact of autism on a preliminary group of parents and identify the corre...

As an integral part of the Smart Grid, smart transformers both work independently to constantly regulate voltage and maintain contact with the smart grid in order to allow remote administration if needed and to provide information and feedback about the power supply and the transformers themselves. Through a process known as voltage optimization, a smart transformer provides the exact amount of...