Emerging Trends in Technological Innovation

1: Enterprise Networks and Strategic Alignment.- Applying Causal Reasoning to Analyze Value Systems.- Assessment of the Willingness to Collaborate in Enterprise Networks.- Business and IS/IT Strategic Alignment Framework.- 2: Issues in Information Systems.- of Empirical Topology in Construction of Relationship Networks of Informative Objects.- The TSTS Method in Cultural Heritage Search.- Representing User Privileges in Object-Oriented Virtual Reality Systems.- Survey of Media Forms and Information Flow Models in Microsystems Companies.- 3: Collaborative Networks Support.- The Virtual Enterprise from a Governance Perspective.- Negotiation and Contracting in Collaborative Networks.- Pro-Active Asset Entities in Collaborative Networks.- 4: Assessment and Decision Support.- Qualitative Model for Risk Assessment in Construction Industry: A Fuzzy Logic Approach.- Decision Support for Life-Cycle Optimization Using Risk Assessment.- A Clinical Decision Support System for Breast Cancer Patients.- 5: Evolvable Factory Automation.- Evolvable Production Systems: Mechatronic Production Equipment with Evolutionary Control.- The Meaningfulness of Consensus and Context in Diagnosing Evolvable Production Systems.- Applications of Dynamic Deployment of Services in Industrial Automation.- Improving Energy Efficiency in the Production Floor Using SoA-Based Monitoring Techniques.- 6: Cooperative Robotics.- Dual-Arm Robot Motion Planning Based on Cooperative Coevolution.- Comparative Study of Self-organizing Robotic Systems Regarding Basic Architecture.- Laban Movement Analysis towards Behavior Patterns.- Self-adaptive Vision System.- 7: Robots and Manipulation.- Right-Arm Robotic-Aided-Therapy with the Light-Exoskeleton: A General Overview.- Grasp Exploration for 3D Object Shape Representation Using Probabilistic Map.- Movement Speed Models of Natural Grasp and Release Used for an Industrial Robot Equipped with a Gripper.- 8: Petri Nets Based Modeling.- Petri Net Based Engineering and Software Methodology for Service-Oriented Industrial Automation.- Properties Preservation in Distributed Execution of Petri Nets Models.- Semantic Equations for Formal Models in the Model-Driven Architecture.- 9: Advances in Telecommunications.- Delay Analysis for TDMA Schemes with Packet Recombining.- Optoelectronic Oscillators for Communication Systems.- Simulation Model for OBS Contention Avoidance Routing Strategies.- Transmission Performance of mm-Waves on Radio over Fiber Systems: Dispersion and Intermodulation Issues.- 10: Sensorial Perception - I.- Advances in Image Processing Techniques for Drusens Detection and Quantification in Fundus Images.- A Novel Framework for Data Registration and Data Fusion in Presence of Multi-modal Sensors.- Vector Sensor Arrays in Underwater Acoustic Applications.- An Approach to Modification of Water Flow Algorithm for Segmentation and Text Parameters Extraction.- 11: Sensorial Perception - II.- A Face Attention Technique for a Robot Able to Interpret Facial Expressions.- Using Eye Blinking for EOG-Based Robot Control.- Bio-inspired Binocular Disparity with Position-Shift Receptive Field.- 12: Signal Processing - I.- Fractional Filters: An Optimization Approach.- MicroECG: An Integrated Platform for the Cardiac Arrythmia Detection and Characterization.- A Contribution for the Automatic Sleep Classification Based on the Itakura-Saito Spectral Distance.- 13: Signal Processing - II.- Controlled Invariant Polyhedral Sets for Constrained Discrete-Time Descriptor Systems.- Using Human Dynamics to Improve Operator Performance.-Railscan: A Tool for the Detection and Quantification of Rail Corrugation.- Active System for Electromagnetic Perturbation Monitoring in Vehicles.- 14: Advances in Energy Systems.- Energy Consumption Monitoring System for Large Complexes.- High Temperature Superconducting Fault Current Limiters as Enabling Technology in Electrical Grids with Increased Distributed Generation Penetration.- On the Mineral and Vegetal Oils Used as Electroinsulation in Transformers.- Interconnections between Reliability, Maintenance and Availability.- 15: Dedicated Energy Systems.- Evaluation of Supercapacitors Effects on Hybrid Energy Systems for Automotive.- Characteristics of the PTC Heater Used in Automotive HVAC Systems.- Fuel Cell Systems for Telecommunications.- Hybrid Photovoltaic-Thermal Collectors: A Review.- 16: Advances in Electrical Machinery.- Study of AC Losses in Superconducting Electrical Components for Electrical System Design.- Robust Position Control of a DC Motor by Sliding Mode.- Disc Motor: Conventional and Superconductor Simulated Results Analysis.- 17: Electronic Circuits Layout and Optimization.- GADISI - Genetic Algorithms Applied to the Automatic Design of Integrated Spiral Inductors.- Test Based on Built-In Current Sensors for Mixed-Signal Circuits.- Structural DfT Strategy for High-Speed ADCs.- 18: Microelectronic Circuits Design.- A CMOS Inverter-Based Self-biased Fully Differential Amplifier.- Reconfigurable Circuits Using Magnetic Tunneling Junction Memories.- A New Automated Trigger Circuit for a Pulsed Nd: YAG Laser.