Oct

30

Three-Dimension Indoor Positioning Algorithms Using an Integrated RFID/INS System in Multi-storey Buildings

October 30, 2008 | Comments Off

Location based services (LBS) require a reliable, accurate and continuous position determination of mobile users. This is
particularly true in indoor environments where the widely used Global Positioning System ( GPS) is not available due to its
signal outages. One solution is to integrate different techniques in a multi-sensor positioning system to overcome the limitations
of a single sensor. In this chapter an approach is described using a three-dimensional Radio Frequency Identifi cation (3D
RFID) location fi ngerprinting probabilistic approach with map-based constraints in order to provide reliable positions in
indoor 3D environments. An Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) is used to integrate 3D RFID positioning method with an Inertial Navigation
System (INS) in order to produce an accurate and continuous positioning estimation.

The multi-storey experiments conducted at RMIT University, Australia, show that the 3D RFID positioning method can determine
the mobile user’s movements in a kinematic mode to meter-level by using the fi ngerprinting probabilistic approach. The smoothing
method and the RFID/INS integration can both improve the positioning accuracy by tackling the RSS instability problem. Besides
the 100Hz updating rate, the RFID/INS integration method can provide more reliable estimation based on the mobile user’s kinematic
characteristics rather than simply smoothing the estimations. The results also show that the algorithms for the Integrated
RFID/INS indoor positioning system developed can satisfy the requirements for personal navigation services.

  • Content Type Book Chapter
  • DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-87393-8_22
  • Authors
    • Kefei Zhang, RMIT University School of Mathematical and Geospatial Sciences Australia
    • Ming Zhu, RMIT University School of Mathematical and Geospatial Sciences Australia
    • Günther Retscher, Vienna University of Technology Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics Austria
    • Falin Wu, RMIT University School of Mathematical and Geospatial Sciences Australia
    • William Cartwright, RMIT University School of Mathematical and Geospatial Sciences Australia

Oct

26

Deconvolution and Optimal Filtering in Seismology

October 26, 2008 | Comments Off

Deconvolution and Optimal Filtering in Seismology

  • Content Type Book Chapter
  • DOI 10.1007/978-0-387-30441-0_87
  • Authors
    • Ramesh Neelamani, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company Houston TX USA

Oct

26

Seismic Data Acquisition

October 26, 2008 | Comments Off

Seismic Data Acquisition

  • Content Type Book Chapter
  • DOI 10.1007/978-0-387-30441-0_85
  • Authors
    • Christine E. Krohn, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company Houston, TX USA

Oct

22

Bon usage des antiangiogéniques: le point de vue du pharmacien

October 22, 2008 | Comments Off

Le déploiement du Plan cancer, en donnant la priorité à ľinnovation diagnostique et thérapeutique, a favorisé ľaccès aux thérapies
ciblées et tout particulièrement aux antiangiogéniques qui visent à diminuer ľagressivité tumorale. En seulement deux ans,
trois médicaments ont reçu ľautorisation de mise sur le marché (AMM) et des extensions ďAMM sont déjà en cours. Il s’agit
du bevacizumab (Avastin®), du sunitinib (Sutent®) et du sorafénib (Nexavar®).

  • Content Type Book Chapter
  • DOI 10.1007/978-2-287-71655-3_5
  • Authors
    • M. -L. Maëstroni, Assistance publique Hôpitaux de Paris Secrétariat scientifique, du CEDIT Direction de la politique médicale 3 avenue Victoria 75184 Paris Cedex 04
    • N. Théou-Anton, Hôpital Beaujon Service Pharmacie 100, boulevard du Général-Leclerc 92118 Clichy Cedex

Oct

22

Confronting the Dark Side of Video Games

October 22, 2008 | Comments Off

Confronting the Dark Side of Video Games

  • Content Type Book Chapter
  • DOI 10.1007/978-0-387-09775-6_8
  • Authors
    • Christian Sebastian Loh, Southern Illinois University Carbondale Department of Curriculum & Instruction Carbondale 62901 IL

Oct

22

Setting the System to Your Hand

October 22, 2008 | Comments Off

After reading the first five chapters of this book, you should have your server up, running, and secure. Up to now, however,
you haven’t really changed the way processes on your server are running. So in this chapter, you will learn how to customize
and optimize your server.

  • Content Type Book Chapter
  • DOI 10.1007/978-1-4302-1081-8_6

Oct

22

Podcasts – Wesen und Funktion einer konvergenten Medienform

October 22, 2008 | Comments Off

Das Internet hat sich in den deutschen Haushalten als feste Medienform, neben Radio, TV und Printmedien, etabliert. Die Zahl
der DSL-Anschlüsse als schnelle und datenreiche Internetverbindungen betrug in deutschen Haushalten 2007 rund 13 Millionen
[1]. Neben der Expansion der technischen Infrastruktur zeigt sich dabei auch eine erweiterte alltagsnahe Nutzung des Internets,
sei es in Form neuer Rezeptionsformen (E-Mail, Communities, elektronische Zeitungen bis hin zu Videoportalen wie YouTube)
oder aber in durch die Technik bedingten veränderten Verhaltensweisen (Einkauf im Internet, EBay, Markplätze). Ebenso ist
die Nutzung des Internets altersübergreifend durch alle Schichten erkennbar. Gerade ältere Menschen etwa mit ihrem höheren
Zeitbudget („Silver Surfer“) stellen eine der am schnellsten wachsenden Nutzergruppen des Internets dar. Das einstmals als
Tummelplatz für Spezialisten entstandene World Wide Web hat sich zu einem selbstverständlichen Alltagsmedium gemeistert, welches
von allen gesellschaftlichen Schichten quer durch alle Altersklassen genutzt und bedient wird.

  • Content Type Book Chapter
  • DOI 10.1007/978-3-7908-2127-7_16
  • Authors
    • Andreas Schümchen, FH Bonn-Rhein-Sieg Fachbereich Elektrotechnik, Maschinenbau und Technikjournalismus Sankt Augustin Deutschland
    • Thorsten Sellheim, FH Bonn-Rhein-Sieg Fachbereich Elektrotechnik, Maschinenbau und Technikjournalismus Sankt Augustin Deutschland

Oct

22

Python and the Web

October 22, 2008 | Comments Off

This chapter tackles some aspects of web programming with Python. This is a really vast area, but I’ve selected three main
topics for your amusement: screen scraping, CGI, and mod_python. In addition, I give you some pointers for finding the proper
toolkits for more advanced web application and web service development. For extended examples using CGI, see Chapters 25 and
26. For an example of using the specific web service protocol XML-RPC, see Chapter 27.

  • Content Type Book Chapter
  • DOI 10.1007/978-1-4302-0634-7_15
    • Book Beginning Python
    • DOI 10.1007/978-1-4302-0634-7
    • Online ISBN 978-1-4302-0634-7
    • Print ISBN 978-1-59059-982-2

Oct

22

Project 4: In the News

October 22, 2008 | Comments Off

In this project, you see how you go from a simple prototype without any form of abstraction (no functions, no classes) to
a generic system in which some important abstractions have been added. Also, you get a brief introduction to the nntplib library,
which lets you interact with Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) servers.

  • Content Type Book Chapter
  • DOI 10.1007/978-1-4302-0634-7_23
    • Book Beginning Python
    • DOI 10.1007/978-1-4302-0634-7
    • Online ISBN 978-1-4302-0634-7
    • Print ISBN 978-1-59059-982-2

Oct

22

Project 3: XML for All Occasions

October 22, 2008 | Comments Off

I mentioned XML briefly in Project 1. Now it’s time to examine it in more detail. In this project, you see how XML can be
used to represent many kinds of data, and how XML files can be processed with the Simple API for XML, or SAX. The goal of
this project is to generate a full web site from a single XML file that describes the various web pages and directories.

  • Content Type Book Chapter
  • DOI 10.1007/978-1-4302-0634-7_22
    • Book Beginning Python
    • DOI 10.1007/978-1-4302-0634-7
    • Online ISBN 978-1-4302-0634-7
    • Print ISBN 978-1-59059-982-2
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