National Technical University of Athens

About: National Technical University of Athens is a education organization based out in Athens, Attiki, Greece. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Large Hadron Collider & Nonlinear system. The organization has 13445 authors who have published 31259 publications receiving 723504 citations. The organization is also known as: Athens Polytechnic & NTUA.

Integrating RFIDs and Smart Objects into a UnifiedInternet of Things Architecture

Abstract: The term Internet of Things refers to the networked interconnection of objects of diverse nature, such as electronic devices, sensors, but also physical objects and beings as well as virtual data and environments. Although the basic concept of the Internet of Things sounds simple, its application is difficult and, so far, the respective existing architectural models are rather monolithic and are dominated by several limitations. The paper introduces a generic Internet of Things architecture trying to resolve the existing restrictions of current architectural models by integrating both RFID and smart object-based infrastructures, while also exploring a third parameter, i.e. the social potentialities of the Internet of Things building blocks towards shaping the “Social Internet of Things”. The proposed architecture is based on a layered lightweight and open middle-ware solution following the paradigm of Service Oriented Architecture and the Semantic Model Driven Ap-proach, which is realized at both design-time and deployment–time covering the whole service lifecycle for the corresponding services and applications provided.

Measurements of the nuclear modification factor for jets in Pb+Pb Collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Abstract: Measurements of inclusive jet production are performed in pp and Pb+Pb collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC, corresponding to integrated luminosities of 4.0 pb−1 and 0.14 nb−1, respectively. The jets are identified with the anti-kt algorithm with R = 0.4, and the spectra are measured over the kinematic range of jet transverse momentum 32 < pT < 500 GeV, and absolute rapidity |y| < 2.1 and as a function of collision centrality. The nuclear modification factor, RAA, is evaluated and jets are found to be suppressed by approximately a factor of two in central collisions compared to pp collisions. The RAA shows a slight increase with pT and no significant variation with rapidity.