Emerging Trends in Technological Innovation

Identifying Emerging Trends in Technological Innovation Doctoral programs in science and engineering are important sources of innovative ideas and techniques that might lead to new products and technological innovation. Certainly most PhD students are not experienced researchers and are in the process of learning how to do research. Nevertheless, a number of empiric studies also show that a high number of technological innovation ideas are produced in the early careers of researchers. The combination of the eagerness to try new approaches and directions of young doctoral students with the experience and broad knowledge of their supervisors is likely to result in an important pool of innovation potential. The DoCEIS doctoral conference on Computing, Electrical and Industrial En- neering aims at creating a space for sharing and discussing ideas and results from doctoral research in these inter-related areas of engineering. Innovative ideas and hypotheses can be better enhanced when presented and discussed in an encouraging and open environment. DoCEIS aims to provide such an environment, releasing PhD students from the pressure of presenting their propositions in more formal contexts.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First IFIP WG 5.5/SOCOLNET Doctoral Conference on Computing, Electrical and Industrial Systems, DoCEIS 2010, held in Costa de Caparica, Portugal, in February 2010.

The 62 revised full papers were carefully selected from numerous submissions. They cover a wide spectrum of topics ranging from collaborative enterprise networks to microelectronics.The papers are organized in topical sections on enterprise networks and strategic alignment; information systems; collaborative networks support; risk assessment and decision support; evolvable factory automation; cooperative robots; robots and manipulation; Petri nets based modeling; telecommunications; sensorial perception; signal processing; energy systems; dedicated energy systems; electrical machinery; electronics design and test; and electronic circuits.

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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.