—This paper describes a new embedded system, called iFall, for the detection of unexpected falls for elderly people. In combination with a new sensors system and the monitoring o...
This paper studies the global synchronization problem of networked systems with bidirectional connections. We introduce a virtual node to produce the reference trajectory which wil...
A distributed message delivery system can use replication to improve performance and availability. However, without safeguards, replicated messages may be delivered to a mobile de...
Providing healthcare services to patients and elderly people has been an emerging application domain in ubiquitous computing technologies. The current trend toward long-term health...
Expectation of profit is the economic driving force motivating business activity in a free-enterprise economy. An increase in this profit for a given organization can be accomplis...