The human brain and body are prolific signal generators. Recent technologies and computing techniques allow us to measure, process and interpret these signals. We can now infer such things as cognitive and emotional states to create adaptive interactive systems and to g...

Emerging from a study in the European aerospace industry, this paper identifies a gap in the way value-related information is communicated to designers of hardware in the preliminary stages of Product Service System (PSS) design. To fit this gap a Lifecycle Value Repres...

This paper shows how multiobjective evolutionary algorithms can be used to procedurally generate complete and playable maps for real-time strategy (RTS) games. We devise heuristic objective functions that measure properties of maps that impact important aspects of gamep...

Abstract Background This ongoing follow-up study evaluated the persistence of efficacy and immune responses for 6 additional years in adults vaccinated with the glycoprotein E (gE)-based adjuvanted recombinant zoster vaccine (RZV) at age ≥50 years in 2 pivotal efficacy...

In this paper, we investigate the asymmetric property of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) dual-hop amplify-and- forward (AF) relay networks. We consider the difference of the two hops in terms of both fading channels and scattering environment. In particular, we an...

Background: Many countries are witnessing a trend of growth in the number and proportion of older adults within the total population. In Europe, population aging has had and will continue to have major social and economic consequences. This is a fundamentally positive d...

Cloudified architectures facilitate resource ac-cess and sharing which is independent from physical lo-cations. They permit high availability of resources at lowoperational costs. These advantages, however, do not comefor free. End users might fear that they lose contro...

Testing plays a vital role for assuring software quality. Among the activities performed during testing process, test cases generation is a challenging and labor intensive task. Test case generation techniques based on UML models are getting the attention of researchers...

Requirements Engineering (RE) has established itself as a software engineering discipline during the past decades. While researchers have been investigating the RE discipline with a plethora of empirical studies, attempts to systematically derive an empirically-based th...

Population ageing within Europe has major social and economic consequences. One of the most devastating conditions that predominantly affects older people is dementia. The SMART4MD (Support Monitoring and Reminder Technology for Mild Dementia) project aims to develop an...