This whitepaper provided a starting point concerning some of the topics that were to be addressed at IWASS, including the current state of the art on autonomous systems development and challenges it faces. In the following ...

Maritime Situational Awareness is crucial in maritime operations to identify threats and to deal with them as soon as possible. These threats can be pirates in shipping operations, icebergs when sailing in the northern sea ...

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have recently been used in a wide variety of applications due to their versatility, reduced cost, rapid deployment, among other advantages. Search and Rescue (SAR) is one of the most prominent ...

Objectives Central nervous system (CNS) anomalies are the second most frequent category of congenital anomalies after congenital heart defects (CHDs). In this study, the aim was to investigate the distribution of different ...

The abstract relation between hardware parameters and program performance makes setting program parameters a difficult task. Without autotuning, software can miss low-level optimizations, resulting in lower performance. ...

Auxiliary donors are common design motifs for phenothiazine sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells. Despite this, there are only a few reports on their overall contribution to the photon-to-electron conversion efficiency. ...

The recent development of mobile technologies allows nurses to receive different types of requests anywhere. However, the interruptions generated by these devices often presents a challenge for nurses in their daily work ...

Several resilience metrics have been proposed for engineering systems (e.g., mechanical engineering, civil engineering, critical infrastructure, etc.); however, they are different from one another. Their difference is ...

A mathematical model to predict the dissolution of salt particles suspended in a brine flow is provided. The model consists of a system of three partial differential equations (PDE) based on mass conservation of salt ...