Modern technology, in addition to all its benefits, creates new threats and attack vectors to ind... more Modern technology, in addition to all its benefits, creates new threats and attack vectors to individuals and organisations. In the past years, the number of cyber attacks has increased drastically as has the extent of their effects. These circumstances clearly show that a different approach to cybersecurity is required: a holistic, collaborative strategy to improve the security situation for society and the economy as a whole. In the European Union, the legal framework that is currently developing (like the network and information security (NIS) directive), recognises the increasing need for cooperation and collaboration among individual actors to improve cybersecurity. Information sharing is therefore one of the key elements of the NIS directive. In this paper, we present and demonstrate a system and dependency analysis based on soft systems thinking. This approach is able to capture the relations between assets and their internal and external dependencies in the complex systems o...
Cell-secreted extracellular vesicles (EVs), carrying components such as RNA, DNA, proteins, and m... more Cell-secreted extracellular vesicles (EVs), carrying components such as RNA, DNA, proteins, and metabolites, serve as candidates for developing non-invasive solutions for monitoring health and disease, owing to their capacity to cross various biological barriers and to become integrated into human sweat. However, the evidence for sweat-associated EVs providing clinically relevant information to use in disease diagnostics has not been reported. Developing cost-effective, easy, and reliable methodologies to investigate EVs’ molecular load and composition in the sweat may help to validate their relevance in clinical diagnosis. We used clinical-grade dressing patches, with the aim being to accumulate, purify and characterize sweat EVs from healthy participants exposed to transient heat. The skin patch-based protocol described in this paper enables the enrichment of sweat EVs that express EV markers, such as CD63. A targeted metabolomics study of the sweat EVs identified 24 components. T...
The multi-robot task allocation (MRTA) is an NP-hard problem whose viable solutions are usually f... more The multi-robot task allocation (MRTA) is an NP-hard problem whose viable solutions are usually found by heuristic algorithms. Considering the growing need for improvements in logistics, using robots to increase warehouse management’s efficiency is an essential demand. In smart warehouses, the main tasks involve employing a fleet of automated picking and mobile robots that coordinate by picking up items from a set of orders from the shelves and dropping them at delivery stations. The complexity of multi-robot task allocation arises mainly due to: (i) environmental aspects, such as multi-delivery stations and dispersed robots; and (ii) fleet heterogeneity. Despite these properties having been widely researched in the literature, they are commonly investigated separately. Also, many algorithms are not scalable for problems with thousands of tasks and hundreds of robots as those currently found in logistic warehouses. This work presents a scalable and efficient task allocation algorith...
2018 IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings) and IEEE Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom) and IEEE Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom) and IEEE Smart Data (SmartData), 2018
Utilizing the novel User Interface (UI) technology of Augmented Reality (AR) in mobile phones pro... more Utilizing the novel User Interface (UI) technology of Augmented Reality (AR) in mobile phones provides significant advantages for Location Based Social Networks (LBSN) via powerful UI that allows the user to see the world through AR view rather than via a traditional map view. Compared to use of a map based interface, it is much easier for the user to understand where the nearby friends and points of interests are located when using a mobile AR interface to access the information of LBSN services. Recent development in the commercially available high end mobile phones has made it a viable device to use globally available AR services, but there still exist some limitations when it comes to LBSN services. Especially demanding is the need to include constantly moving friends reliably and accurately as annotated objects into the AR view of a user. In this article we show for the first time that mobile phones can be utilized to create mobile AR based LBSN services and create an experimen...
Modern technology, in addition to all its benefits, creates new threats and attack vectors to ind... more Modern technology, in addition to all its benefits, creates new threats and attack vectors to individuals and organisations. In the past years, the number of cyber attacks has increased drastically as has the extent of their effects. These circumstances clearly show that a different approach to cybersecurity is required: a holistic, collaborative strategy to improve the security situation for society and the economy as a whole. In the European Union, the legal framework that is currently developing (like the network and information security (NIS) directive), recognises the increasing need for cooperation and collaboration among individual actors to improve cybersecurity. Information sharing is therefore one of the key elements of the NIS directive. In this paper, we present and demonstrate a system and dependency analysis based on soft systems thinking. This approach is able to capture the relations between assets and their internal and external dependencies in the complex systems o...
Cell-secreted extracellular vesicles (EVs), carrying components such as RNA, DNA, proteins, and m... more Cell-secreted extracellular vesicles (EVs), carrying components such as RNA, DNA, proteins, and metabolites, serve as candidates for developing non-invasive solutions for monitoring health and disease, owing to their capacity to cross various biological barriers and to become integrated into human sweat. However, the evidence for sweat-associated EVs providing clinically relevant information to use in disease diagnostics has not been reported. Developing cost-effective, easy, and reliable methodologies to investigate EVs’ molecular load and composition in the sweat may help to validate their relevance in clinical diagnosis. We used clinical-grade dressing patches, with the aim being to accumulate, purify and characterize sweat EVs from healthy participants exposed to transient heat. The skin patch-based protocol described in this paper enables the enrichment of sweat EVs that express EV markers, such as CD63. A targeted metabolomics study of the sweat EVs identified 24 components. T...
The multi-robot task allocation (MRTA) is an NP-hard problem whose viable solutions are usually f... more The multi-robot task allocation (MRTA) is an NP-hard problem whose viable solutions are usually found by heuristic algorithms. Considering the growing need for improvements in logistics, using robots to increase warehouse management’s efficiency is an essential demand. In smart warehouses, the main tasks involve employing a fleet of automated picking and mobile robots that coordinate by picking up items from a set of orders from the shelves and dropping them at delivery stations. The complexity of multi-robot task allocation arises mainly due to: (i) environmental aspects, such as multi-delivery stations and dispersed robots; and (ii) fleet heterogeneity. Despite these properties having been widely researched in the literature, they are commonly investigated separately. Also, many algorithms are not scalable for problems with thousands of tasks and hundreds of robots as those currently found in logistic warehouses. This work presents a scalable and efficient task allocation algorith...
2018 IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings) and IEEE Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom) and IEEE Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom) and IEEE Smart Data (SmartData), 2018
Utilizing the novel User Interface (UI) technology of Augmented Reality (AR) in mobile phones pro... more Utilizing the novel User Interface (UI) technology of Augmented Reality (AR) in mobile phones provides significant advantages for Location Based Social Networks (LBSN) via powerful UI that allows the user to see the world through AR view rather than via a traditional map view. Compared to use of a map based interface, it is much easier for the user to understand where the nearby friends and points of interests are located when using a mobile AR interface to access the information of LBSN services. Recent development in the commercially available high end mobile phones has made it a viable device to use globally available AR services, but there still exist some limitations when it comes to LBSN services. Especially demanding is the need to include constantly moving friends reliably and accurately as annotated objects into the AR view of a user. In this article we show for the first time that mobile phones can be utilized to create mobile AR based LBSN services and create an experimen...
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