Modeling the Offloading of Different Types of Mobile Applications by Using Evolutionary Algorithms

2014 ◽  
pp. 86-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gianluigi Folino ◽  
Francesco S. Pisani
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Algorithms ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Different Types

scholarly journals Mobile Applications for the Promotion and Support of Healthy Nutrition and Physical Activity Habits: A Systematic Review, Extraction of Features and Taxonomy Proposal

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-71
Author(s):  
María Vanessa Villasana ◽  
Ivan Miguel Pires ◽  
Juliana Sá ◽  
Nuno M. Garcia ◽  
Eftim Zdravevski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Calorie Intake ◽  
Anthropometric Parameters ◽  
Healthy Nutrition ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Diet Diary ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Google Play

Background: Mobile applications can be used for the monitoring of lifestyles and physical activity. It can be installed in commodity mobile devices, which are currently used by different types of people in their daily activities worlwide . Objective: This paper reviews and categorizes the mobile applications related to diet, nutrition, health, physical activity and education, showing the analysis of 73 mobile applications available on Google Play Store with the extraction of the different features. Methods: The mobile applications were analyzed in relation to each proposed category and their features, starting with the definition of the search keywords used in the Google Play Store. Each mobile application was installed on a smartphone, and validated whether it was researched in scientific studies. Finally, all mobile applications and features were categorized. Results: These mobile applications were clustered into four groups, including diet and nutrition, health, physical activity and education. The features of mobile applications were also categorized into six groups, including diet, anthropometric parameters, social, physical activity, medical parameters and vital parameters. The most available features of the mobile applications are weight, height, age, gender, goals, calories needed calculation, diet diary, food database with calories, calories burned and calorie intake. Conclusion: With this review, it was concluded that most mobile applications available in the market are related to diet, and they are important for different types of people. A promising idea for future work is to evaluate the acceptance by young people of such mobile applications.

scholarly journals Mobile Applications for the Promotion and Support of Healthy Nutrition and Physical Activity Habits: A Systematic Review, Extraction of Features and Taxonomy Proposal

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Vanessa Villasana ◽  
Ivan Miguel Pires ◽  
Juliana Sá ◽  
Nuno M. Garcia ◽  
Eftim Zdravevski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Calorie Intake ◽  
Anthropometric Parameters ◽  
Healthy Nutrition ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Diet Diary ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Google Play

Background: Mobile applications can be used for the monitoring of lifestyles and physical activity. It can be installed in commodity mobile devices, which are currently used by different types of people in their daily activities worlwide . Objective: This paper reviews and categorizes the mobile applications related to diet, nutrition, health, physical activity and education, showing the analysis of 73 mobile applications available on Google Play Store with the extraction of the different features. Methods: The mobile applications were analyzed in relation to each proposed category and their features, starting with the definition of the search keywords used in the Google Play Store. Each mobile application was installed on a smartphone, and validated whether it was researched in scientific studies. Finally, all mobile applications and features were categorized. Results: These mobile applications were clustered into four groups, including diet and nutrition, health, physical activity and education. The features of mobile applications were also categorized into six groups, including diet, anthropometric parameters, social, physical activity, medical parameters and vital parameters. The most available features of the mobile applications are weight, height, age, gender, goals, calories needed calculation, diet diary, food database with calories, calories burned and calorie intake. Conclusion: With this review, it was concluded that most mobile applications available in the market are related to diet, and they are important for different types of people. A promising idea for future work is to evaluate the acceptance by young people of such mobile applications.

scholarly journals Finding the Perfect Match: Different Heavy-Duty Mobile Applications Call for Different Actuators

Proceedings ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 22
Author(s):  
David Fassbender ◽  
Tatina Minav
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Applications ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Perfect Match ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Hydraulic Systems ◽  
Heavy Duty ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Evaluation Algorithm ◽  
Novel Concept ◽  
Valve Control

For the longest time, valve-controlled, centralized hydraulic systems have been the state-of-the-art technology to actuate heavy-duty mobile machine (HDMM) implements. Due to the typically low energy efficiency of those systems, a high number of promising, more-efficient actuator concepts has been proposed by academia as well as industry over the last decades as potential replacements for valve control—e.g., independent metering, displacement control, different types of electro-hydraulic actuators (EHAs), electro-mechanic actuators, or hydraulic transformers. This paper takes a closer look on specific HDMM applications for these actuator concepts to figure out where which novel concept can be a better alternative to conventional actuator concepts, and where novel concepts might fail to improve. For this purpose, a novel evaluation algorithm for actuator–HDMM matches is developed based on problem aspects that can indicate an unsuitable actuator–HDMM match. To demonstrate the functionality of the match evaluation algorithm, four actuator concepts and four HDMM types are analyzed and rated in order to form 16 potential actuator–HDMM matches that can be evaluated by the novel algorithm. The four actuator concepts comprise a conventional valve-controlled concept and three different types of EHAs. The HDMM types are excavator, wheel loader, backhoe, and telehandler. Finally, the evaluation of the 16 matches results in 16 mismatch values, of which the lowest indicates the “perfect match”. Low mismatch values could be found in general for EHAs in combination with most HDMMs but also for a valve-controlled actuator concept in combination with a backhoe. Furthermore, an analysis of the concept limitations with suggestions for improvement is included.

Planning for a Disaster

2016 ◽  
pp. 49-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmen Cowick ◽  
Jeff Cowick
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Cloud Storage ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Sudden Change ◽  
Disaster Plan ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Reference Tools

In this paper the authors discuss what a disaster plan entails and the steps that need to be taken for an institution to create such a plan, including taking advantage of all the new opportunities to provide a more comprehensive disaster plan through new technologies such as mobile applications, cloud storage and online reference tools. A disaster is a sudden change of situation, because of this, the planning for such an event needs to be done well ahead of time so that adequate training can be implemented and the response to the disaster can be quick and effective. As much as apathy, avoidance and lack of resources can be excuses as to why we have not created an institutional disaster plan, being prepared and trained to handle the different types of emergency disasters that can befall a library or archive is the best way to ensure that the materials will remain protected and the damage done to them in the case of an actual disaster is minimized. The steps outlined in this chapter will help any library or archive in the creation of a successful disaster plan and help them understand why some disaster plans fail.

Current Status of Fuel Cell Technologies

2005 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 207-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meng Ni
Keyword(s):  
Fuel Cells ◽  
Fuel Cell ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Electrical Energy ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Principal Characteristic ◽  
Hydrogen Fuel ◽  
Cell Technologies ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Potential Applications

A fuel cell is an electrochemical energy conversion device for electricity generation using hydrogen fuel. The principal characteristic of a fuel cell is that it can convert chemical energy directly into electrical energy with higher efficiencies than conventional mechanical systems. The emission of fuel cells using hydrogen as a fuel is only water vapour. Fuel cells are currently under development for both stationary and mobile applications in response to the need for sustainable energy technology. This paper reviews current status of fuel cell technologies, compares different types of fuel cells. The potential applications of fuel cells are discussed.

Applying multiobjective evolutionary algorithms to dynamic software product lines for reconfiguring mobile applications

2015 ◽  
Vol 103 ◽  
pp. 392-411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gustavo G. Pascual ◽  
Roberto E. Lopez-Herrejon ◽  
Mónica Pinto ◽  
Lidia Fuentes ◽  
Alexander Egyed
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Algorithms ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Software Product Lines ◽  
Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms ◽  
Product Lines ◽  
Software Product ◽  
Dynamic Software

scholarly journals Presenting social media information on mobile devices using multiple contexts

2015 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 182-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esther MengYoke Tan ◽  
Dion Hoe-Lian Goh
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Evaluation Study ◽  
User Preferences ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Multiple Contexts ◽  
Multiple Context ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose – Research has shown that when presenting large amounts of social media information on small devices, design should consider multiple contexts which include user preferences, time, location, environment and so on. It should also take into account the purpose of use, for example, the kind of tasks undertaken by users. However, little research has been done on the organization of social media information by multiple context and tasks. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – Using tourism as a domain, the authors conducted a user evaluation study with a prototype to investigate users’ preferred ways of organizing different types of social media information based on multiple contexts. Findings – In this paper, the authors present a sequence of context types for organizing four types of social media information (recommendations, events, friends and media elements). The study revealed that users preferred to view recommendations by location and environment context, events by location and temporal context, contacts by location and identity context and finally, list of media elements by environment and identity context. Research limitations/implications – There may be different sequences of context types for organizing social media information in domains other than tourism. Researchers are encouraged to analyze users’ needs in other domains so as to find their preferred ways of organizing social media information. Practical implications – This paper includes implications for the design and development of user interface, in particular, for mobile applications presenting large amount of social media information. Originality/value – It presents a new way of organizing social media information using multiple context types and with consideration of users’ needs.

Using Evolutionary Algorithms to Generate Alternatives for Multiobjective Site-Search Problems

2002 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 639-656 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ningchuan Xiao ◽  
David A Bennett ◽  
Marc P Armstrong
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Algorithms ◽  
Evolutionary Algorithm ◽  
Decision Problems ◽  
Graph Representation ◽  
Search Problems ◽  
Site Search ◽  
Conflicting Objectives ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
A Site

Multiobjective site-search problems are a class of decision problems that have geographical components and multiple, often conflicting, objectives; this kind of problem is often encountered and is technically difficult to solve. In this paper we describe an evolutionary algorithm (EA) based approach that can be used to address such problems. We first describe the general design of EAs that can be used to generate alternatives that are optimal or close to optimal with respect to multiple criteria. Then we define the problem addressed in this research and discuss how the EA was designed to solve it. In this procedure, called MOEA/Site, a solution (that is, a site) is encoded by using a graph representation that is operated on by a set of specifically designed evolutionary operations. This approach is applied to five different types of cost surfaces and the results are compared with 10 000 randomly generated solutions. The results demonstrate the robustness and effectiveness of this EA-based approach to geographical analysis and multiobjective decisionmaking. Critical issues regarding the representation of spatial solutions and associated evolutionary operations are also discussed.

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