Showing papers in "Procedia Technology in 2014"
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TL;DR: This paper analyzes from a company's point of view the factors that need to be considered by an enterprise when making the decision of using cloud computing and correlates all these factors with the company size and business area in order to identify if or what type of cloud computing solution is suitable for their needs.
337 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, a comparative study of surface treatment of carbon fibres is presented, which helps in selection of appropriate surface treatment method as per requirement and gives details on physical, chemical and morphological changes occur in fiber properties.
229 citations
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TL;DR: The intelligent laser-welding architecture introduced in this work has the capacity to improve its performance without further human assistance and therefore addresses key requirements of modern industry.
224 citations
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TL;DR: For this type of robot a solution to the inverse kinematics problem, needed for generating desired trajectories in the Cartesian space (2D) is found by using a feed-forward neural network.
138 citations
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TL;DR: A conceptual model of HIT acceptance in developing countries is proposed and some available HIT systems are reviewed in order to have an idea on their availability.
102 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, the performance and emission characteristics of a high speed single-cylinder SI engine operating with different hydrogen gasoline blends were investigated. And the test results demonstrated that combustion performances, fuel consumption and brake mean effective pressure were eased with hydrogen enrichment.
83 citations
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TL;DR: The results prove that the proposed chaotic KH algorithms are able to show superior results compared to KH in terms of local optima avoidance and convergence speed.
78 citations
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TL;DR: Using the simple IoT architecture presented, combining smart objects, the security solution and mobile communications, one may remotely take care of patients’ well being, establishing an ubiquitous Ambient Assisted Living for Mobile Health applications.
74 citations
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TL;DR: A statistical analysis of the Jitter, Shimmer and Harmonic to Noise Ratio parameters was applied to classify and compare genders, vowels and tones of healthy voices and showed differences for parameters rap, Shim, ShdB, apQ3, apq5 and HNR.
71 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, the effects of distributed generation on electric power systems are described, such as short circuit levels are increased, load losses change, voltage profiles change along the network, voltage transients will appear, congestions can appear in system branches, power quality and reliability may be affected and the networks protections may not function properly.
71 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, a survey was conducted to determine if communication might be a foundation area of project management, with the other cornerstone areas as derived from previous research and the rest of the areas, and the means of achieving the trade off, as pillars or support.
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TL;DR: A literature review on technological innovation characteristics in this context is conducted to identify potential gaps in ongoing research and an operationalization of each factor in the context of cloud computing.
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TL;DR: In this article, a review of the tribological properties of three ternary nitride based coatings such as Titanium Aluminium Nitride, Titanium Vanadium Nitride and Titanium Molybdenum Nitride is presented.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed different dynamic models for rolling bearing in presence and absence of local and distributed defects and summarized the signal processing techniques used for the improvement of fault detection.
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TL;DR: In this article, the I-V characteristics of an advanced alkaline electrolyser were investigated and the main parameters such as ohmic overpotential, activation overpotentials (at anode and cathode) affecting the performance of the electrolyser was investigated.
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TL;DR: The results show that the total gains were higher when students used the computer simulation, alone or together with “hands-on” activities, but it is found that thetotal gains obtained depend on the teachers pedagogy when using theComputer simulation to teach the concepts of weight and mass.
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TL;DR: In this article, a neural network is used to predict the tensile strength of a joint in friction stir welding (FSW) process for the aluminum alloy AA8014 using the conventional milling machine.
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TL;DR: The Particle Filter (PF) algorithm as discussed by the authors is a derivative-free alternative to the Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) algorithm that does not require either of the noises to be Gaussian and the posterior probabilities are represented by a set of randomly chosen weighted samples.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented the decomposition of the vibration signal by using discrete wavelet transform assisted by sym5 wavelet and found that the output of the proposed technique finds close correlation with the actual defect size measured from optical microscope with the maximum deviation in the result of 2.06%.
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TL;DR: The limitations of existing software applications was overcome by designing an application that allows choosing any ROI, independently of its geometric shape and optimize it for further processing.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of machining parameters on the delamination damage of glass fiber reinforced plastic (GFRP) during the drilling process was reviewed. And the authors concluded that both vibration assisted and ultrasonic assisted drilling are more appropriate for drilling of GFRP.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors give the algorithm for finding frequent patterns from data streams with a case study and identify the research issues in handling data streams, which is the key concern in data mining.
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TL;DR: The usability and load tests performed to evaluate the service, including its recommendation engine, have shown both the adequacy of the designed interfaces as well as good response times.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine knowledge management described in literature and investigate how it is managed and applied in organizations, and how organizations turn into practice learning from experience in order to capture, share and save knowledge in time.
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TL;DR: In this article, the suitability of mobile health applications as a measure of workplace health promotion and the underlying motivations that drive employees to adopt the use of mobile Health applications in the workplace are discussed.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a genetic algorithm and finite element analysis are used to optimize the topology, size and shape of plane trusses using an original penalty function to evaluate the fitness function.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present some technologies which can help the implementation of real-time accounting, namely, business process management, mobile devices, cloud computing, business intelligence, enterprise architecture and enterprise application integration.
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TL;DR: In this article, an incremental conductance (IncCond) maximum power point tracking (MPPT) algorithm is used in solar array power systems with direct control method to track MPPs accurately and rapidly without steady state oscillation.
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TL;DR: A Cyber-Physical-System based approach which allows the efficient utilization of the entire flexibility of reconfigurable, modular robot cells in assembly and eliminates uncertainties regarding the feasibility of the assembly process in a defined robot cell during the design phase of the product with a CAD program.
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TL;DR: In this article, an experimental study of power consumption and roughness characteristics of surface generated in turning operation of EN-31 alloy steel with TiN+Al2O3+TiCN coated tungsten carbide tool under different cutting parameters is presented.