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Kaushik Sheth - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A 3D Fax Machine based on Claytronics
2006 IEEE RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2006Co-Authors: Padmanabhan Pillai, Jason Campbell, Gautam Kedia, Shishir Moudgal, Kaushik ShethAbstract:This paper presents a novel application of modular robotic technology. Many researchers expect manufacturing technology will allow robot modules to be built at smaller and smaller scales, but movement and actuation are increasingly difficult as dimensions shrink. We describe an application - a 3D Fax Machine - which exploits inter-module communication and computation without requiring self-reconfiguration. As a result, this application may be feasible sooner than applications which depend upon modules being able to move themselves. In our new approach to 3D Faxing, a large number of submillimeter robot modules form an intelligent "clay" which can be reshaped via the external application of mechanical forces. This clay can act as a novel input device, using intermodule localization techniques to acquire the shape of a 3D object by casting. We describe software for such digital clay. We also describe how, when equipped with simple inter-module latches, such clay can be used as a 3D output device. Finally, we evaluate results from simulations which test how well our approach can replicate particular objects
H Kottkamp - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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hin4 397 designing the web and Fax based consultancy and information service ecgconsult for clinicians dealing with ecg diagnostics and rhythmologic problems
Journal of Medical Internet Research, 1999Co-Authors: C H Elsner, G Hindricks, H KottkampAbstract:INTRODUCTION: Modern strategies for the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac arhythmias include besides non-invasive methods an increasing variety of invasive and curative therapeutic strategies. In order to define proper rhythmologic diagnosis and to develop an optimal treatment strategy for individual patients, a high degree of rhythmologic expertise is necessary. Adequate platforms for information exchange, where physicians can meet rhythmologic experts to allow proper handling of individual rhythmologic problems are desirable. Thus, the Heart Center Leipzig develops the Web- and Fax-based consultancy and information service "EcgConsult". METHODS: The service utilizes the network capabilities of the Internet and of the common telecommunication network. This way information input can be achieved either by using a browser/email-client or by using a Fax Machine. All input from both networks is collected on a centralised mail-server (SSL-POP3 protocol). User interaction on the Web site is achieved with dynamic HTML and a moderated List-Server. The List-Server and an additional discussion area on the Web site are moderated by the Consultants at the Heart Center Leipzig, adequate processing of the site-content and technical management of the site have been outsourced to the university Internet workgroup Elchsoft/Medkonsult. RESULTS: A prototype of the site and the communication architecture for Fax/email have been established and successfully beta-tested. Any consulting physician can easily send ECGs and additional material to the server with any Fax-Machine, where they are automatically TIFF-file converted. A password-protected site is already in use with selected clinicians (http://www.ecgconsult.de). For mobile site management, a web-based Control-Center has been designed. Outlines of contract models for members, guidelines for security purposes of the web-based communication, a business/cost plan and models for the logistic request management as well as for member/patient identification have been developed. DISCUSSION: The platform "EcgConsult" provides a network with fast and easy access to a specific target group and thus allows easy information exchange between the Heart Center Leipzig and rhythmologic experts and non-experts. This exchange may generate synergy effects by offering both groups a variety of data and information. Due to the use of web- and Fax-based technology, the access to the service is easy and does not require PC-equipment or a scanner. The requests can be answered by the Heart Center consultants from any remote location world-wide. For the future open-ended architecture allows the participation of further consultants from clinics all over the world. The knowledge gathered from this project may help setting up guidelines for the development of other web-based medical competence centers / information services. []
Guidolin Mariangela - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Cellular Automata with Network Incubation in Information Technology Diffusion
'Elsevier BV', 2010Co-Authors: Guseo Renato, Guidolin MariangelaAbstract:Innovation diffusion of network goods determines direct network externalities that depress sales for long periods and delay full benefits. We model this effect through a multiplicative dynamic market potential driven by a latent individual threshold embedded in a special Cellular Automata representation. The corresponding mean field approximation of its aggregate version is a Riccati equation with a closed form solution. This allows the detection of a change-point time separating an incubation period from a subsequent take-off due to a collective threshold (critical mass). Weighted nonlinear least squares are the main inferential methodology. An application is analysed with reference to USA Fax Machine diffusion
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Cellular Automata with Network Incubation in Information Technology Diffusion.
Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche, 2009Co-Authors: Guseo Renato, Guidolin MariangelaAbstract:Innovation diffusion of network goods determines direct network externalities that exhibit delayed full benefits, depressing sales for long periods. We model a multiplicative dynamic market potential driven by a latent heterogeneous individual threshold derived from a basic economic theory by Economides and Himmelberg (1995) which is embedded in a special Cellular Automata representation. The corresponding mean field approximation of its aggregate version is a Riccati equation with a closed form solution. This allows the detection of a change-point time separating an incubation period from a subsequent take-off due to a sufficient critical mass acting as a collective threshold. Weighted nonlinear least squares methodology is the main inferential technique. An application is analysed with reference to USA Fax Machine diffusion
Shuib Aida Rosmiza - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Web Based Model of a Digital Fax Document Management System
2009Co-Authors: Shuib Aida RosmizaAbstract:The Government of Malaysia has encouraged the use of Information Technology application among the public and private sector to enable both sectors to compete and provide better facilities. Most brick and mortar or physically located organizations also seek alternatives for handling the document management. Nowadays, most of the information in the organization is stored in unstructured manner that require certain technique to be applied in order to retrieve the important and relevant information from a large scale of collected data. A digital document management system takes advantage of advanced document analysis and management techniques. In this study, a document from the Fax Machine that is a structured data is used in the system to digitalize the Fax documents into the document management system.
Padmanabhan Pillai - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A 3D Fax Machine based on Claytronics
2006 IEEE RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2006Co-Authors: Padmanabhan Pillai, Jason Campbell, Gautam Kedia, Shishir Moudgal, Kaushik ShethAbstract:This paper presents a novel application of modular robotic technology. Many researchers expect manufacturing technology will allow robot modules to be built at smaller and smaller scales, but movement and actuation are increasingly difficult as dimensions shrink. We describe an application - a 3D Fax Machine - which exploits inter-module communication and computation without requiring self-reconfiguration. As a result, this application may be feasible sooner than applications which depend upon modules being able to move themselves. In our new approach to 3D Faxing, a large number of submillimeter robot modules form an intelligent "clay" which can be reshaped via the external application of mechanical forces. This clay can act as a novel input device, using intermodule localization techniques to acquire the shape of a 3D object by casting. We describe software for such digital clay. We also describe how, when equipped with simple inter-module latches, such clay can be used as a 3D output device. Finally, we evaluate results from simulations which test how well our approach can replicate particular objects
