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  • Testing Situation Awareness Network for the Electrical Power Infrastructure

    The contemporary electrical power infrastructure is exposed to new types of threats. The cause of such threats is related to the large number of new vulnerabilities and architectural weaknesses introduced by the extensive use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in such complex critical systems. The power grid interconnection with the Internet exposes the grid to new types of attacks, such as Advanced Persistent...

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  • ICT-driven economic and financial development. Analyses of European countries

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    - Year 2019

    ICT-Driven Economic and Financial Development: Analyses of European Countries demonstrates the effects of ICT diffusion on economic, social and financial development by examining their impact on the structure and dynamics of national economies. It provides the insight into shifts observed in labour markets, international trade activities productivity factors, education and use of innovative financial products. It combines empirical...

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  • Application of unmanned USV surface and AUV underwater maritime platforms for the monitoring of offshore structures at sea

    The operation of offshore structures at sea requires the implementation of advanced systems for their permanent monitoring. There is a set of novel technologies that could be implemented to deliver a higher level of effective and safe operation of these systems. A possible novel solution may be the application of a new maritime unmanned (USV) surface and underwater vehicles/platforms (AUV). Application of such vehicles/platforms...

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  • E-learning in tourism and hospitality: A map

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    The impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) on tourism and hospitality industries has been widely recognized and investigated as a one of the major changes within the domains in the last decade: new ways of communicating with prospective tourists and new ways of purchasing products arisen are now part of the industries’ everyday life. Poor attention has been paid so far to the role played by new media in education...

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  • The lemniscate knowledge flow model

    Knowledge is seen as one of the main resources for organizations providing knowledge-intensive services. Therefore, sharing and reusing are the main goals of modern knowledge management (KM) approach, driven by information and communication technologies (ICT). However, one can ask for the details in order to provide means and tools to design and deploy environment able to fulfil these two goals. We observed that occurred interactions...

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  • To meet or to connect? Face-to-face contacts vs ICT in cluster organisations

    The main purpose of the paper is to explore how cluster organisations (COs) take advantage of direct (F2F) and indirect (ICT) contacts in fulfilling their main roles. The paper addresses the research question: “How important are Information and Communication Technologies at each level of advancement of cluster cooperation?” The research was conducted in 2016 in four purposefully selected cluster organisations representing metal...

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  • Visual Content Representation for Cognitive Systems: Towards Augmented Intelligence

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    - Year 2020

    Cognitive Vision Systems have gained significant attention from academia and industry during the past few decades. One of the main reasons behind this interest is the potential of such technologies to revolutionize human life since they intend to work robustly under complex visual scenes (which environmental conditions may vary), adapting to a comprehensive range of unforeseen changes, and exhibiting prospective behavior. The combination...

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  • The Realization of NGN Architecture for ASON/GMPLS Network

    For the last decades huge efforts of telecommunication,Internet and media organizations have been focusingon creating standards and implementing one common networkdelivering multimedia services - Next Generation Network.One of the technologies which are very likely to beused in NGN transport layer is ASON/GMPLS optical network.The implementation of ASON/GMPLS technology usingopen source software and its results are the subject...

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  • Concentration in ICTs sector - cross country analysis

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    - Year 2010

    In the chapter below, the author present inequalities in sector of new information and communication technologies. Having in mind inequalities we can also discuss concentration issues, and the concentration itself is a problem to which the author refers on first place. The paper is organized as following: first basic measures of concentration are defined, after we can read a discussion referring to concentration in ICTs sector...

  • Challenges for universities in the face of knowledge-based economy - directions for higher education institutions in the Baltic Sea Region

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    - Year 2011

    The aim of this paper is to present new challenges that are faced by universities in the knowledge-based economy. There are several phenomena that can presently be observed like the need for life-long learning or interdisciplinary approach, and universities should prepare their graduates for those challenges. One of the crucial questions that universities need to ask is how to teach and what to teach. Knowledge becomes obsolete...

  • Challenges for universities in the face of the knowledge-based economy - Directions for higher education institutions in the Baltic Sea Region

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    - Year 2011

    The aim of this paper is to present new challenges that are faced by universities in the knowledge-based economy. There are several phenomena that can presently be observed like the need for life-long learning or interdisciplinary approach, and universities should prepare their graduates for those challenges. One of the crucial questions that universities need to ask is how to teach and what to teach. Knowledge becomes obsolete...

  • Edge-Computing based Secure E-learning Platforms

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    - Year 2022

    Implementation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in E-Learning environments have brought up dramatic changes in the current educational sector. Distance learning, online learning, and networked learning are few examples that promote educational interaction between students, lecturers and learning communities. Although being an efficient form of real learning resource, online electronic resources are subject to...

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  • Event-Triggered Communication in Cooperative, Adaptive Model Predictive Control of a Nuclear Power Plant’s Turbo–Generator Set

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    - ENERGIES - Year 2023

    This paper discusses the issue of optimizing the communication between the components of a cooperating control system formed by a pair of MPC controllers of a nuclear power plant turbine set using online recursive least squares identification. It is proposed to use event-triggered communication, i.e., sending information only at selected time instants, as opposed to the standard approach where communication is triggered by time...

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  • Quality Expectations of Mobile Subscribers

    Mobile systems, by nature, have finite resources. Radio spectrum is limited, expensive and shared between many users and services. Mobile broadband networks must support multiple applications of voice, video and data on a single IP-based infrastructure. These converged services each have unique traffic holding and quality requirements. A positive user experience must be obtained through efficient partitioning of the available wireless...

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  • Disciplines and measures of information resilience

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    • J. Rak
    • M. Jonsson
    • D. Hutchison
    • J. Sterbenz

    - Year 2017

    Communication networks have become a fundamental part of many critical infrastructures, playing an important role in information delivery in various failure scenarios triggered e.g., by forces of nature (including earthquakes, tornados, fires, etc.), technology-related disasters (for instance due to power blackout), or malicious human activities. A number of recovery schemes have been defined in the context of network resilience...

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  • W stronę spersonalizowanego miasta?

    Od czasów Platona i Witruwiusza nie ustają wysiłki na rzecz dążenia do prawdy, dobra i piękna skupione wokół miasta jako idei politycznej i przestrzeni fundamentalnie egzystencjalnej. Towarzyszy im od wieków myślenie o idealnej organizacji i kompozycji miasta, o poczuciu podmiotowości mieszkańców i użytkowników, doświadczaniu przez nich czasu i przestrzeni. Szczególnie w ostatnich dekadach, gdy już nie przestrzeń, a czas i jego...

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  • Broadband communication solutions for maritime ITSs: Wider and faster deployment of new e-navigation services

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    n its initial part, the paper presents an overview of popular technologies and systems currently developed or employed in maritime communication. These solutions are used to provide both ship-to-ship and ship-to-shore communication for the purpose of supporting specific services, often dedicated to maritime safety and e-navigation. Utility of such communication systems have been thoroughly verified over the years and their strengths...

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  • Testy platformy SAN dla sektora elektroenergetycznego

    Współczesna infrastruktura elektroenergetyczna jest narażona na zagrożenia związane z dużą liczbą nowych luk i słabo- ści architektonicznych wynikających z szerszego wykorzystania technologii informacyjnych i komunikacyjnych (ang. Information and Communication Technologies – ICT). Połączenie infrastruktury elektroenergetycznej z Internetem naraża ją na nowe rodzaje ataków, takie jak ataki typu APT (ang. Advanced Persistent Threats)...

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  • Business continuity management framework for Industry 4.0 companies regarding dependability and security of the ICT and ICS/SCADA system

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    - Year 2021

    This chapter addresses a business continuity management (BCM) framework for the Industry 4.0 companies including the organizational and technical solutions, regarding the dependability and security of the information and telecommunication technology (ICT), and the industrial control system (ICS) / supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system. These technologies and systems play nowadays important roles in modern advanced...

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  • 5G Technologies in Intelligent Transport Systems - Architectures, Virtualization and Network Slicing

    In the paper, 5G communication technologies implemented for Intelligent Transport Systems are discussed. Firstly, the essence of the 5G system concept is presented, and the problem of network functions virtualization (NFV) is analyzed. Moreover, the principle of virtualization is explained. Secondly, the analysis of network slicing is performed, from the point of view of transport systems implementation in the...

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  • Quality of Satellite Communication in Selected Mobile Android Smartphones

    Today, thanks to mobile devices, satellite communication is available to anyone and everywhere. Gaining information on one’s position using GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite Systems), particularly in unknown urban environments, had become an everyday activity. With the widespread of mobile devices, particularly smartphones, each person can obtain information considering his or her location anytime and everywhere. This paper is...

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  • Fundamentals of Communication Networks Resilience to Disasters and Massive Disruptions

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    • J. Rak
    • D. Hutchison
    • J. Tapolcai
    • R. Bruzgiene
    • M. Tornatore
    • C. Mas-Machuca
    • M. Furdek
    • P. Smith

    - Year 2020

    Communication networks are exposed to a variety of massive failure events following from activities of nature, weather-induced disruptions, technology-implied problems, and malicious human activities. In this chapter, we first highlight the characteristics of these scenarios and discuss example failure events reported during the last three decades. Next, we explain the concept of network resilience and present an overview of major...

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  • Technology convergence and digital divides. A country-level evidence for the period 2000–2010

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    The paper, mostly empirical in nature, investigates issues on cross-national new information and communication technologies (ICTs) adoption patterns and growth directions. In the period of 2000–2010, a great number of countries underwent substantial changes on the field of ICTs implementation. Many of them made a great “jump” starting with almost “zero level” of ICTs adoption in the year 2000 and during the ten- year period were...

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  • Cooperative control in production and logistics

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    • L. Monostori
    • P. Valckenaers
    • A. Dolgui
    • H. Panetto
    • M. Brdyś
    • B. Csáji

    - ANNUAL REVIEWS IN CONTROL - Year 2015

    Classical applications of control engineering and information and communication technology (ICT) in production and logistics are often done in a rigid, centralized and hierarchical way. These inflexible approaches are typically not able to cope with the complexities of the manufacturing environment, such as the instabilities, uncertainties and abrupt changes caused by internal and external disturbances, or a large number and variety...

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  • Interdependence between Power Grids and Communication Networks: A Resilience Perspective

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    • L. Martins
    • R. Girao-Silva
    • L. Jorge
    • A. Gomes
    • F. Musumeci
    • J. Rak

    - Year 2017

    Power network resilience is increasingly dependent on communication networks. Besides traditional generation, power networks need to accommodate increasingly high penetration levels of dispersed micro generation, mostly based on renewable sources, and increasing and challenging demand, such as electric vehicles. At the same time the deployment of enabling technologies throughout the power grid makes available new demand resources...

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  • Wireless Link Selection Methods for Maritime Communication Access Networks—A Deep Learning Approach

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    In recent years, we have been witnessing a growing interest in the subject of communication at sea. One of the promising solutions to enable widespread access to data transmission capabilities in coastal waters is the possibility of employing an on-shore wireless access infrastructure. However, such an infrastructure is a heterogeneous one, managed by many independent operators and utilizing a number of different communication...

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  • Semi-definite programming and quantum information

    This paper presents a comprehensive exploration of semi-definite programming (SDP) techniques within the context of quantum information. It examines the mathematical foundations of convex optimization, duality, and SDP formulations, providing a solid theoretical framework for addressing optimization challenges in quantum systems. By leveraging these tools, researchers and practitioners can characterize classical and quantum correlations,...

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  • Aspects of multistation quantum information broadcasting

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    We study quantum information transmission over multiparty quantum channel. In particular, we show an equivalence of different capacity notions and provide a multiletter characterization of a capacity region for a general quantum channel with k senders and m receivers. We point out natural generalizations to the case of two-way classical communication capacity. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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  • Intranet and internal communication in an organization

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    - Year 2006

    One of the conditions of an organizational effectiveness is acommunication. However, communication meets some obstacles. Newtechnological opportunities, such as Intranet support enterprise communication process and bring some benefits. This paper includes: the description of communication process and its barriers, the analyze of relationships between communication and an organizational effectiveness, advantages from implementing...

  • Technologia radia programowalnego w procesie kształcenia studentów ICT

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    - Year 2015

    Technologie informacyjne i telekomunikacyjne ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) są współcześnie synonimem nowoczesności, innowacyjności oraz jednym z głównych czynników wzrostu społeczno-gospodarczego. Uczelnie wyższe stoją przed wyzwaniem, aby dostosować program studiów i metody nauczania do potrzeb rynku, przy jednoczesnym zachowaniu wysokiej jakości kształcenia. Obecnie studenci wyższych uczelni na kierunkach technicznych...

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  • Technologie informacyjne i komunikacyjne w Polsce : stan obecny i perspektywy rozwoju

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    - Year 2010

    Nowoczesne technologie informacyjne i komunikacyjne (icts - information and communication technologies) to jeden z najważniejszych elementów, który stanowi o stanie krajowej - jak i światowej - gospodarki. w literaturze można spotkać się z pew-ną dychotomią pojęciową icts. z jednej strony icts są traktowane jako sektor gospodarki, który dostarcza dóbr i usług it, przyczyniając się do wzrostu go-spodarczego i zmieniając strukturę...

  • A navigation device utilizing body communication channel for mobile wearable systems

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    - Year 2017

    A novel touch sensor utilizing a body communication technology is presented in the paper. The proposed device accepts orders (gestures) only from a person wearing it. Moreover, when comparing it to a similar, however an optical one, it appears as a less power consumable. Preliminary results of its properties examination are presented and discussed. Additionally, the developed sensor allows to measure a human body the electrical...

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  • Maritime Communication and Sea Safety of the Future - Machnine-type 5G Communication Concept

    The article presents the concept of a system based on 5G network and M2M communication increasing maritime safety. Generally, the focus was on presenting a proposal for a hierarchical, hybrid, cooperative system with M2M communication coordinated with BAN networks. The possi-ble applications of M2M communication at sea were also presented.

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  • A survey of strategies for communication networks to protect against large-scale natural disasters

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    • T. Gomes
    • J. Tapolcai
    • C. Esposito
    • D. Hutchison
    • F. Kuipers
    • J. Rak
    • D. Amaro
    • A. Iossifides
    • R. Travanca
    • J. Andre... and 8 others

    - Year 2016

    Recent natural disasters have revealed that emergency networks presently cannot disseminate the necessary disaster information, making it difficult to deploy and coordinate relief operations. These disasters have reinforced the knowledge that telecommunication networks constitute a critical infrastructure of our society, and the urgency in establishing protection mechanisms against disaster-based disruptions. Hence, it is important...

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  • A diplexer design method using an augmented channel filter approach

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    Continuous development in RFID andmicrocontrollers technologies gives new possibilities to createsystems that are able to integrate a lot of sensors based ondifferent technologies. This integration brings us closer to realizethe Ubiquitous Network Society vision. However, many problemsmust be addressed before we will benefit from such systems. Inthis paper we describe concept of integrating RFID technologywith other sensors technologies...

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  • Entanglement-swapping boxes and their communication properties

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    - PHYSICAL REVIEW A - Year 2008

    We pose the fundamental question of communication properties of primitives irrespectively of their implementation. To illustrate the idea we introduce the concept of entanglement-swapping boxes, i.e., we consider any quantum operations which perform entanglement swapping, not necessarily via simple quantum teleportation. We ask a question about the properties of such boxes, i.e., what local operations and how much classical communication...

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  • Transmission parameters of underwater communication channels

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    The underwater environment is tough and demanding as a communication channel for ultrasonic signals. The channel transmission characteristics in marine and inland waters depend much on local bathymetry and changing weather conditions. The architecture and performance of a reliable underwater acoustic communication (UAC) system should allow real-time adaptation of its transmission parameters to a large variety of possible channel...

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  • Towards Cognitive and Perceptive Video Systems

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    • T. Akgun
    • C. Attwood
    • A. Cavallaro
    • C. Fabre
    • F. Poiesi
    • P. Szczuko

    - Year 2014

    In this chapter we cover research and development issues related to smart cameras. We discuss challenges, new technologies and algorithms, applications and the evaluation of today’s technologies. We will cover problems related to software, hardware, communication, embedded and distributed systems, multi-modal sensors, privacy and security. We also discuss future trends and market expectations from the customer’s point of view.

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  • Study on Speech Transmission under Varying QoS Parameters in a OFDM Communication System

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    - Year 2021

    Although there has been an outbreak of multiple multimedia platforms worldwide, speech communication is still the most essential and important type of service. With the spoken word we can exchange ideas, provide descriptive information, as well as aid to another person. As the amount of available bandwidth continues to shrink, researchers focus on novel types of transmission, based most often on multi-valued modulations, multiple...

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  • The Latest Advances in Wireless Communication in Aviation, Wind Turbines and Bridges

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    - Inventions - Year 2022

    Present-day technologies used in SHM (Structural Health Monitoring) systems in many implementations are based on wireless sensor networks (WSN). In the context of the continuous development of these systems, the costs of the elements that form the monitoring system are decreasing. In this situation, the challenge is to select the optimal number of sensors and the network architecture, depending on the wireless system’s other parameters...

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  • Validation of a virtual test environment for C2X communication under radio jamming conditions

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    - Year 2020

    In this paper, we propose a novel car-2-x communication security testing methodology in the physical layer of wireless systems. The approach is dedicated to automated testing of autonomous vehicles and it is essential for such complex systems operation, especially with regard to safety and security issues. It is based on scenario-driven testing in virtual and real test environments created from collected or simulated data. The...

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  • Architektura przyszłości – przekraczanie granic poprzez interfejsy

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    - Year 2014

    Architektura przyszłości rozpatrywana jest w kontekście rozwoju technologii cyfrowych, które umożliwiają nadawanie obiektom architektonicznym cech interfejsów. Przekraczanie granic dotyczy więc nadawania architekturze nowych funkcji - funkcjonalności zapożyczonych ze świata wirtualnego, emisji informacji oraz interakcji. W tym ujęciu „interfejs architektoniczny” stanowi płaszczyznę komunikacji pomiędzy obiektem architektonicznym...

  • TRWAŁOŚĆ PROJEKTU ERASMUS+ SP4CE - STUDIUM PRZYPADKU

    Projekt ERASMUS+ Partnerstwo Strategiczne na Rzecz Kreatywności i Przedsiębiorczości (ang. Strategic Partnership for Creativity and Entrepreneurship - SP4CE) dotyczył wdrażania i upowszechniania innowacyjnych rozwiązań wzmacniających współpracę europejską w dziedzinie kształcenia i szkolenia zawodowego. Działania projektowe były związane z promowaniem innowacyjnych praktyk w edukacji oraz szkoleniach poprzez wspieranie spersonalizowanych...

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  • Smart Document-Centric Processing of Human Oriented Information Flows

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    Usually people prefer to focus on creative rather than repetitive and schematic work patterns. Still, they must spend a lot of time complying with the procedures, selecting the information they receive and repeatedly restoring the previous state of work. This paper proposes the Mobile INteractive Document architecture (MIND) - a document-centric uniform interface to provide both effective communication of content and coordination...

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  • Vehicular Communication Environments

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    • E. G. Ström
    • L. Ekiz
    • T. Abbas
    • R. He
    • S. J. Ambroziak
    • V. Shivaldova
    • J. Nuckelt

    - Year 2016

    Communication to and between road vehicles (cars, truck, buses, trains, etc.) are of growing interest. This is partly due to the attractive services that cooperative intelligent transport systems (C-ITSs) provides, mainly in the areas of traffic safety and traffic efficiency. An enabler for C-ITS is wireless vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication, collectively referred to as vehicle-to-X (V2X)...

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  • LTE and NB-IoT Performance Estimation Based on Indicators Measured by the Radio Module

    Monitoring the operating parameters of power grids is extremely important for their proper functioning as well as for ensuring the security of the entire infrastructure. As the idea of the Internet of Things becomes more ubiquitous, there are tools for monitoring the state of the complex electrical grid and means to control it. There are also developed new measuring devices and transmission technologies allowing for the transfer...

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  • The impact of brand communication on brand equity through Facebook

    Purpose The purpose of this study is to fill the gap in the discussion of the ways in which firm-created and user-generated social media brand communication impacts consumer-based brand equity metrics through Facebook. Design/methodology/approach We evaluated 302 data sets that were generated through a standardized online-survey to investigate the impact of firm-created and user-generated social media brand communication on brand...

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  • Overview of cooperative communication methods

    The paper presents issues related to the cooperative communication in wireless networks. Cooperative com-munication involves the use of mobile terminals as relay stations to improve the transmission quality, improve network performance and reduce energy consumption. It is also possible to use several different data transmission standards. The paper presents the methods used to implement cooperative communication. The types of cooperative...

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  • Real-Time connection Between Immerse 3D Vizualization Laboratory and Kaskada Platform

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    Multimedia stream processing into two cooperative different systems (cluster platform and virtual lab) is considered. The considered selected information about the systems is presented and the idea of its communication when executing the distributed application is proposed. A general schema of the communication architecture is given. Tests of data transmission quality are considered and their results are presented.

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  • IoT protocols, architectures, and applications

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    • C. Buratti
    • E. G. Ström
    • L. Feltrin
    • L. Clavier
    • G. Gardašević
    • T. Blazek
    • L. Berbakov
    • T. C. Balan
    • L. Orozco-Barbosa
    • C. Anton-Haro... and 2 others

    - Year 2021

    The proliferation of embedded systems, wireless technologies, and Internet protocols have enabled the IoT to bridge the gap between the virtual and physical world enabling the monitoring and control of the environment by data processing systems. IoT refers to the inter-networking of everyday objects that are equipped with sensing, computation, and communication capabilities. These networks can collaboratively interact and perform...

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