Automatic Identification (AutoID) technology has introduced innovative ways to collect,manage information and monitor everything from hospital patients and livestock to library books.Radio frequency Identification (RFID) is the burgeoning AutoID becoming a popular tool inmanufacturing, supply...

Crowd analysis is of increasing interest. Sociologists, for example, are interested in studying social influence within and between small groups of individuals traveling in a crowd. However, current empirical studies conducted by human observers are very time-consuming. We propose an automatic,...

Error correction and detection play an important role in data transmission and storage systems. With the increasing demand for higher data transfer rates, reliability and efficiency is a necessity. A commonly used error correcting method is Reed-Solomon decoding. It is particularly attractive...

The current literature on privacy addresses the need for privacy, user's perceptions of privacy, privacy-enhancing solutions and other related aspects. What lacks is an attempt to present the essence of privacy in a coherent, definable manner within the context of all the related factors that...

Sensor networks are considered useful for a broad spectrum of emerging civil and military applications.However, sensor networks are also confronted with many securitythreats such as node compromise, routing disruption, and false datainjection, because they normally operate in unattended, harsh...

Although automated test equipment standards have improved substantially since as recently as the early 1990s, the standards have not reached the point where instrument models are interchangeable. This may never be achievable, which is why a software solution is necessary in order to allow for...

A recent study found that supply-chain problems cost companies between 9 and 20 percent of their value over a six-month period (T.J. Becker, 2000). The problems range from part shortages to poorly utilized plant capacity. When you place this in the context of the overall business-to-business...