—Shared control is a strategy used in assistive plat forms to combine human and robot orders to achieve a goal. Col laborative control is a specific shared control approach, in which user’s and robot’s commands are merged ...

While the auxiliary services required for the operation of power plants are not the main components of the plant, their energy consumption is often significant, and it can be reduced by implementing a series of improvement ...

Knowing the spectral distribution of solar radiation is required to estimate the performance of photovoltaic modules, especially for thin-film modules. This is not a trivial problem due to the large number of environmental ...

This paper presents an integrated approach for testing mobile applications (apps) against a set of extra-functional properties to be used by app developers. The approach starts with the (manual ...

A small number of combinatorial optimization problems have search spaces that correspond to elementary landscapes, where the objective function f is an eigenfunction of the Laplacian that describes the neighborhood structure ...

Emergent application domains, such as cyber–physical systems, edge computing or industry 4.0. present a high variability in software and hardware infrastructures. However, no single variability modeling language supports ...

Challenging domains of the future such as Smart Cities, Cloud Computing, or Industry 4.0 expose highly variable systems with colossal configuration spaces. The automated analysis of those systems’ variability has often ...

Federated learning is a paradigm that proposes protecting data privacy by sharing local models instead of raw data during each iteration of model training. However, these models can be large, with many parameters, provoking ...

This work revisits established user classifications and aims to characterise a historically unspecified user category, the Occasional User (OU). Three user categories, novice, intermediate and expert, have dominated the ...