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Raising new opportunities for the Next Economy by exploring variable user needs for Computational Co-Design
Digital Fabrication promises to revolutionize manufacturing, bringing both
economic, social and environmental benefits. Combined with Computational CoDesign it can raise the creative potential of both designers and users. However,
today the productive use of Digital Fabrication and Computational Design requires
significant effort and specialised know-how, so valorising these practices calls for
the identification of the application fields that benefit the most from them. This
paper presents a tool for helping the discovery of design opportunities across
comprehensive, ramified lists of product categories, where designers can identify
possible points of intervention. The web-based tool allows the rapid evaluation of
numerous product categories according to an extendable set of factors and
inspiring questions related to the necessity of personalization, aiming to stimulate
designers to consider unexpected frontiers of innovation. Beyond the scope of the
research project, this tool has the potential to assist designers in finding
applications also for other emerging technologies in a structured and scalable wa
EC-IoT : an easy configuration framework for constrained IoT devices
Connected devices offer tremendous opportunities. However, their configuration and control remains a major challenge in order to reach widespread adoption by less technically skilled people. Over the past few years, a lot of attention has been given to improve the configuration process of constrained devices with limited resources, such as available memory and absence of a user interface. Still, a major deficiency is the lack of a streamlined, standardized configuration process. In this paper we propose EC-IoT, a novel configuration framework for constrained IoT devices. The proposed framework makes use of open standards, leveraging upon the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP), an application protocol that enables HTTP-like RESTful interactions with constrained devices. To validate the proposed approach, we present a prototype implementation of the EC-IoT framework and assess its scalability.The research from DEWI project (www.dewi-project.eu)
leading to these results has received funding from the
ARTEMIS Joint Undertaking under grant agreement n
621353 and from the agency for Flanders Innovation &
Entrepreneurship (VLAIO). The research from the ITEA2
FUSE-IT project (13023) leading to these results has re-
ceived funding from the agency for Flanders Innovation &
Entrepreneurship (VLAIO)
Cloudbus Toolkit for Market-Oriented Cloud Computing
This keynote paper: (1) presents the 21st century vision of computing and
identifies various IT paradigms promising to deliver computing as a utility;
(2) defines the architecture for creating market-oriented Clouds and computing
atmosphere by leveraging technologies such as virtual machines; (3) provides
thoughts on market-based resource management strategies that encompass both
customer-driven service management and computational risk management to sustain
SLA-oriented resource allocation; (4) presents the work carried out as part of
our new Cloud Computing initiative, called Cloudbus: (i) Aneka, a Platform as a
Service software system containing SDK (Software Development Kit) for
construction of Cloud applications and deployment on private or public Clouds,
in addition to supporting market-oriented resource management; (ii)
internetworking of Clouds for dynamic creation of federated computing
environments for scaling of elastic applications; (iii) creation of 3rd party
Cloud brokering services for building content delivery networks and e-Science
applications and their deployment on capabilities of IaaS providers such as
Amazon along with Grid mashups; (iv) CloudSim supporting modelling and
simulation of Clouds for performance studies; (v) Energy Efficient Resource
Allocation Mechanisms and Techniques for creation and management of Green
Clouds; and (vi) pathways for future research.Comment: 21 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables, Conference pape
CloudMan as a platform for tool, data, and analysis distribution
Background Cloud computing provides an infrastructure that facilitates large scale computational analysis in a scalable, democratized fashion, However, in this context it is difficult to ensure sharing of an analysis environment and associated data in a scalable and precisely reproducible way. Results CloudMan (usecloudman.org) enables individual researchers to easily deploy, customize, and share their entire cloud analysis environment, including data, tools, and configurations. Conclusions With the enabled customization and sharing of instances, CloudMan can be used as a platform for collaboration. The presented solution improves accessibility of cloud resources, tools, and data to the level of an individual researcher and contributes toward reproducibility and transparency of research solutions
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