ERCIM News 92
January 2013
Special theme Smart Energy Systems
Guest editors Carl Binding (IBM Zurich Research Lab) and Han La Poutré (CWI and Utrecht University)
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by Paul Panek, Christian Beck, Georg Edelmayer, Peter Mayer and Wolfgang L. Zagler
Even small robots have great potential to support the elderly. We have created a prototype of a LED projector module that enables a small humanoid robot to project text, graphics and video to a surface next to the user.
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by Ranieri Baraglia, Patrizio Dazzi, Matteo Mordacchini and Laura Ricci
ATLAAS-P2P is a two-layered peer-to-peer (P2P) architecture for developing systems, providing resource aggregation and approximated discovery in P2P networks. It gives users a flexible and easy means of searching for resources and also benefits resource providers by assisting users to find them.
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by Patrizio Dazzi and Emanuele Carlini
Since the late ‘nineties, peer-to-peer (P2P) protocols have become increasingly popular. Traditionally, these systems have been used to implement widely distributed applications, such as file-sharing services, as they provide efficient support for the discovery and distribution of information.
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by Kostas Stefanidis and Kjetil Nørvåg
gRecs is a research prototype system designed for providing suggestions to groups of users about items of potential interest. In particular, gRecs proposes an extensive model for group recommendations based on recommendations for items liked by similar users to the group members. This is achieved with the use of data mining techniques. More specifically, since the main bottleneck is to identify the most similar users to a given one, we model the user-item interactions in terms of clustering and use the extracted clusters for predictions.
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by Giacomo Berardi, Andrea Esuli and Fabrizio Sebastiani
Researchers from ISTI-CNR, Pisa, have addressed the problem of optimizing the work of human editors who proofcheck the results of an automatic text classifier with the goal of improving the accuracy of the automatically classified document set.
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by Ton Engbersen
The worldwide community of Radio-Astronomy has envisioned building a very large, highly sensitive radio telescope partly in South Africa and partly in Australia by 2020. The total effective area of this radio telescope should approach one square kilometer and therefore it is called the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). The SKA instrument is expected to generate Exabytes of data per day which need to be processed and reduced, such that approximately 1 Petabyte per day is left to be stored for later use by Radio Astronomers.
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by Sébastien Lugan and Benoit Michel
The Green-Wake project has developed a new LIDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) scanner able to detect vortices generated by airplanes taking off and landing, thereby increasing airport security while decreasing the time between two consecutive flights.