L. Herger, Carlos A. Fonseca, Bill Rippon, Mercy Bodarky
{"title":"IBM research cloud evolution & efficiencies","authors":"L. Herger, Carlos A. Fonseca, Bill Rippon, Mercy Bodarky","doi":"10.1109/UEMCON.2017.8249072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/UEMCON.2017.8249072","url":null,"abstract":"The rapid growth and demand to promptly provision, scale and delete resources from a self-service cloud portal or an Application Programming Interface (API), has drastically changed how IBM and our industry have brought agility to information technology resources. In this paper, we will discuss the development and evolution of the IBM Research Cloud Integration Solution and provide our analysis and history of cloud deployment and automation readiness.","PeriodicalId":403890,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 8th Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON)","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116383124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recommended practices for the specification of multi-agent systems requirements","authors":"Khaled Slhoub, Marco M. Carvalho, Walter P. Bond","doi":"10.1109/UEMCON.2017.8249021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/UEMCON.2017.8249021","url":null,"abstract":"The lack of process standardization in the development of multi-agent systems (MAS) causes a great deal of difficulty for developers in addressing major development phases, such as requirements analysis. Instead, such MAS infrastructure is generally attended to in an ad-hoc fashion and important aspects of requirements analysis are often neglected altogether. The IEEE Std 830 model plays a key role in standardizing requirement specifications (SRS) for complex development of conventional software. Knowing that MAS are a natural and logical evolution of the conventional software development paradigms, we believe that the MAS requirement phase can thoroughly benefit from applying such a specific standard model in such a way that results in a high-quality and more accepted SRS artifact. Our purpose in this paper is to utilize and extend the IEEE Std 830-2009 model to specify requirements of multi-agent systems.","PeriodicalId":403890,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 8th Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123333155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development of a motion controlled robotic arm","authors":"Jean Jiang, Alex McCoy, Eric Lee, Li Tan","doi":"10.1109/UEMCON.2017.8248998","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/UEMCON.2017.8248998","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, an inexpensive, a lightweight and easily controlled robotic arm with human interface is developed. The developed robotic arm is fully functional and accurately reacts to the movements from the user. The human user wears 2 accelerometers on his/her arm. These accelerometers relay both position and speed vector information to the robotic arm. The user also wears a glove that controls the flex sensor which gives readings to the claw. The robotic arm is on a fully mobile base that moves the arm from location to location in any given room. The research methodology and design are introduced before the robot system is realized and tested. Finally, conclusions are given and future improvements are discussed.","PeriodicalId":403890,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 8th Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124645956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Urban legislation assessment by data analytics with smart city characteristics","authors":"Xu Du, Diane Liporace, A. Varde","doi":"10.1109/UEMCON.2017.8248972","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/UEMCON.2017.8248972","url":null,"abstract":"Smart cities receive great attention today especially in conjunction with ubiquitous computing. People feel the need to access information about their cities anywhere anytime. They wish to be actively involved with local government bodies for policy decisions affecting urban lifestyle. Accordingly, this paper describes our research on urban policy management. We analyze urban legislation, more specifically, ordinances or local laws. We categorize ordinances based on smart city characteristics they address. This work deploys data warehousing, XML data management and data mining over categorized ordinances. Interesting findings include relative importance of smart city characteristics considering the focus given by urban agencies. This research helps agencies assess their current ordinance policies with decision support for the future. It also provides urban residents at-a-glance information about their cities and policies with analysis. This work has broader impacts of enhancing smart cities and ubiquitous computing by making useful information widely accessible with suitable inferences.","PeriodicalId":403890,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 8th Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121274210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards human-powered IoT: Optimizing harvested power from human daily motion","authors":"Q. Ju, Hongsheng Li, Ying Zhang","doi":"10.1109/UEMCON.2017.8249025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/UEMCON.2017.8249025","url":null,"abstract":"Human kinetic energy is considered to be a promising green energy source to enable human-powered Internet of Things (IoT), as constrained lifetime has become a bottleneck problem for IoT devices. However, the scarce energy collected by human motion severely restricts the operation of human-powered IoT and stresses the need for an optimized inertial harvester to provide more energy from human daily activities. In this paper, we investigate the feasibility and efficiency of using a single frequency inertial energy harvester, which is optimized based on a typical one-day motion of a human subject, to harvest kinetic energy from multiple-day activities of the same human subject. To facilitate this investigation, we propose a novel optimization framework to maximize the harvested power from human daily motion using a single-frequency energy harvester. By analyzing the frequency characteristics of human daily motion and the inertial harvester model, the optimal inertial harvester parameters are determined to maximize power generation from a typical one-day motion, and are used to harvest power from the same human subject's motion of other days. The real world human motion dataset is used for evaluation. The results demonstrate that the propose method can maximize power generated from one-day motion. Furthermore, the optimal harvester parameters determined by one-day trace can also achieve near-optimal harvested power from other days.","PeriodicalId":403890,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 8th Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129574901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Smartwatch-based transcription biometrics","authors":"Francesco Ciuffo, Gary M. Weiss","doi":"10.1109/UEMCON.2017.8249014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/UEMCON.2017.8249014","url":null,"abstract":"Handwriting analysis and the identification of people based on individual typing patterns are of great interest in the field of biometrics. The increasing need for user authentication in our modern society has underscored the need for smarter and more automated security protocols. The goal of this research is to explore the feasibility of using relatively inexpensive commercial smartwatches as a reliable platform for transcription-based biometrics. This study demonstrates that it is possible to accurately identify individuals performing transcription tasks (i.e. handwriting sentences, typing on a keyboard, etc.) using only a smartwatch.","PeriodicalId":403890,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 8th Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129895873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Joo-Young Lee, Juho Lee, Sungkwon Park, Jaewon Lee, Eunhee Hyun, Junyoung Jung
{"title":"Home gateway for RF/PON based gigabit Transmission system for cable network","authors":"Joo-Young Lee, Juho Lee, Sungkwon Park, Jaewon Lee, Eunhee Hyun, Junyoung Jung","doi":"10.1109/UEMCON.2017.8249046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/UEMCON.2017.8249046","url":null,"abstract":"To keep up with increasing bandwidth demands, cable network operators are migrating to fiber networks, which promise to deliver Gigabit speeds. However, migration to an all-fiber network infrastructure requires major investment and takes considerable time to complete. New network technologies and the demand to improve the quality of experience (QoE) are driving network operators towards the Ultra-Broadband era. The Ultra-Broadband Cable Network can be implemented in two ways: a coaxial-based access technology and a fiber-based access technology. However, those existing technologies have problems such as problems at extension of up/down stream frequency, cost of upgrading the network. This paper proposes the Home Gateway for RF/PON based gigabit Transmission system in order to provide the 1Gbps internet and the N-Screen to IP devices.","PeriodicalId":403890,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 8th Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130894014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Hasan, N. Sakib, Richard R. Love, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed
{"title":"Analyzing the existing noninvasive hemoglobin measurement techniques","authors":"M. Hasan, N. Sakib, Richard R. Love, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed","doi":"10.1109/UEMCON.2017.8249080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/UEMCON.2017.8249080","url":null,"abstract":"To meet the potential research challenges, such as cost, accuracy, and portability, a number of research has been conducted around the world in the domain of noninvasive measurement techniques. In this paper, we explored, analyzed, and critiqued concurrent research approaches that endeavored to meet the research challenges in noninvasive hemoglobin (Hb) measurement. Here, besides the conventional invasive Hb measurement methods, we covered the Hb measurement techniques based on various scientific contribution and advancement. We studied smartphone-image, IR-LED, and spectra-based solutions as well as noninvasive point-of-care (POC) devices. From that insight, in this paper, we delineated the novel smartphone-based approaches to measure hemoglobin level noninvasively that can leverage the computation, portability, and affordability of smartphone devices, and assure the desired accuracy and consistency. Apart from that, this paper describes how these novel proposals can overcome the limitations of the data collection and analysis in the state-of-the-art approaches in this domain.","PeriodicalId":403890,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 8th Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130315823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Majdi M. Ababneh, M. Jasim, Kavyashree Puttananjegowda, Samuel Perez, S. Afroz, Sylvia W. Thomas, Y. Tan
{"title":"Design of a SiC implantable rectenna for wireless in-vivo biomedical devices","authors":"Majdi M. Ababneh, M. Jasim, Kavyashree Puttananjegowda, Samuel Perez, S. Afroz, Sylvia W. Thomas, Y. Tan","doi":"10.1109/UEMCON.2017.8249040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/UEMCON.2017.8249040","url":null,"abstract":"Radio frequency energy harvesting methods for wireless applications have been widely investigated, however limited number of these methods have been capable of generating sufficient energy levels, in which can be leveraged as feasible sources for implantable medical devices, in particular implantable rectenna. Such rectennas can provide unlimited energy for the lifespan of implanted devices. This paper presents a fabricated rectenna using the biocompatible material Silicon Carbide (SiC) and a rectifier system including matching network of 47.7% power efficiency. The developed SiC rectenna is intended for wireless biomedical power transmission. This proposed SiC rectenna has the potential to extend the battery life of implantable medical devices.","PeriodicalId":403890,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 8th Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131102315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ahmed Alzahmi, Nahid Mirzaie, Chung-Ching Lin, Gyung-Su Byun
{"title":"Low-power and high-performance 2.4 GHz RF transmitter for biomedical application","authors":"Ahmed Alzahmi, Nahid Mirzaie, Chung-Ching Lin, Gyung-Su Byun","doi":"10.1109/UEMCON.2017.8249090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/UEMCON.2017.8249090","url":null,"abstract":"A high performance and low power 2.4 GHz radio frequency (RF) transmitter for biomedical application is presented. The design utilizes LC voltage control oscillator (VCO), ASK modulator, and an inverse Class-D (D−1) power amplifier (PA). The ASK modulates the carrier signal generated by a low phase noise LC-VCO, then the modulated signal is amplified by the inverse Class-D−1 PA. The proposed RF transmitter achieves −11.14-dBm output power with 3.88% efficiency. It also supports 130-Mb/s data rate and consumes 1.98-mW. The design has been implemented in a 0.13μm CMOS process technology and fully integrated on-chip.","PeriodicalId":403890,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 8th Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131090826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}