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Simoes dos Santos, D. (author), Baldini, L.B. (author), Vos, H.J. (author), Verweij, M.D. (author), de Jong, N. (author), van Neer, P.L.M.J. (author)The accurate determination of the transfer function of ultrasound transducers is important for their design and operational performance. However, conventional methods for quantifying the transfer function, such as hydrophone measurements, radiation force balance, and pulse-echo measurements, are costly and complex due to specialized equipment...journal article 2024
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Alday Gonzalez, M.F. (author), Lavidas, G. (author)In order to accelerate the transition from carbon fuels to renewable energy sources, it is essential to extend our knowledge of the resources’ availability to further improve or adjust the design of extraction devices. In the present paper, a first characterization of the tidal stream resource along the coast of The Netherlands is performed...journal article 2023
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Wisotzky, Eric L. (author), Rosenthal, Jean Claude (author), Meij, S.E.P. (author), van den Dobbelsteen, J.J. (author), Arens, Philipp (author), Hilsmann, Anna (author), Eisert, Peter (author), Uecker, Florian Cornelius (author), Schneider, Armin (author)Existing challenges in surgical education (See one, do one, teach one) as well as the COVID-19 pandemic make it necessary to develop new ways for surgical training. Therefore, this work describes the implementation of a scalable remote solution called “TeleSTAR” using immersive, interactive and augmented reality elements which enhances...journal article 2023
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Fragkoulis, M. (author), Carbone, Paris (author), Kalavri, Vasiliki (author), Katsifodimos, A (author)Stream processing has been an active research field for more than 20 years, but it is now witnessing its prime time due to recent successful efforts by the research community and numerous worldwide open-source communities. This survey provides a comprehensive overview of fundamental aspects of stream processing systems and their evolution in...journal article 2023
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Yue, Z. (author), Loweimi, Erfan (author), Cvetkovic, Zoran (author)In this paper, we explore the effectiveness of deploying the raw phase and magnitude spectra for dysarthric speech recognition, detection and classification. In particular, we scrutinise the usefulness of various raw phase-based representations along with their combinations with the raw magnitude spectrum and filterbank features. We employed...journal article 2023
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Alsoliman, Anas (author), Rigoni, Giulio (author), Callegaro, Davide (author), Levorato, Marco (author), Pinotti, Cristina M. (author), Conti, M. (author)Cheap commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) First-Person View (FPV) drones have become widely available for consumers in recent years. Unfortunately, they also provide low-cost attack opportunities to malicious users. Thus, effective methods to detect the presence of unknown and non-cooperating drones within a restricted area are highly demanded....journal article 2023
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Siachamis, G. (author), Kanis, Job (author), Koper, Wybe (author), Psarakis, K. (author), Fragkoulis, M. (author), van Deursen, A. (author), Katsifodimos, A (author)In this work, we evaluate autoscaling solutions for stream processing engines. Although autoscaling has become a mainstream subject of research in the last decade, the database research community has yet to evaluate different autoscaling techniques under a proper benchmarking setting and evaluation framework. As a result, every newly proposed...conference paper 2023
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Reukers, Matthijs A. (author), Tian, Y. (author), Al-Ars, Z. (author), Hofstee, H.P. (author), Brobbel, M. (author), Peltenburg, J.W. (author), van Straten, J. (author)Tydi is an open specification for streaming dataflow designs in digital circuits, allowing designers to express how composite and variable-length data structures are transferred over streams using clear, data-centric types. These data types are extensively used in a many application domains, such as big data and SQL applications. This way,...journal article 2023
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Nadeem, A. (author), Verwer, S.E. (author)Sequence clustering in a streaming environment is challenging because it is computationally expensive, and the sequences may evolve over time. K-medoids or Partitioning Around Medoids (PAM) is commonly used to cluster sequences since it supports alignment-based distances, and the k-centers being actual data items helps with cluster...conference paper 2023
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Cromjongh, Casper (author), Tian, Y. (author), Hofstee, H.P. (author), Al-Ars, Z. (author)In spite of progress on hardware design languages, the design of high-performance hardware accelerators forces many design decisions specializing the interfaces of these accelerators in ways that complicate the understanding of the design and hinder modularity and collaboration. In response to this challenge, Tydi is presented as an open...conference paper 2023
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Hou, Biao (author), Yang, Song (author), Kuipers, F.A. (author), Jiao, Lei (author), Fu, Xiaoming (author)Recent years have witnessed video streaming grad- ually evolve into one of the most popular Internet applications. With the rapidly growing personalized demand for real-time video streaming services, maximizing their Quality of Experience (QoE) is a long-standing challenge. The emergence of the server- less computing paradigm has potential to...conference paper 2023
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Tsigkari, D. (author), Iosifidis, G. (author), Spyropoulos, Thrasyvoulos (author)Recommendations are employed by Content Providers (CPs) of streaming services in order to boost user engagement and their revenues. Recent works suggest that nudging recommendations towards cached items can reduce operational costs in the caching networks, e.g., Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) or edge cache providers in future wireless...journal article 2023
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Kouba, V. (author), D, Vejmelkova (author), E, Zwolsman (author), K, Hurkova (author), K, Navratilova (author), M, Laureni (author), Pabst, Martin (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author), Weissbrodt, D.G. (author)Anammox bacteria enable efficient removal of nitrogen from sewage in processes involving partial nitritation and anammox (PN/A) or nitrification, partial denitrification, and anammox (N-PdN/A). In mild climates, anammox bacteria must be adapted to ≤15 °C, typically by gradual temperature decrease; however, this takes months or years. To...journal article 2022
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Goyal, N. (author), Iychettira, K.K. (author)As policy innovation is essential for upscaling responsible innovation, understanding its relationship to value change(s) occurring or sought in sociotechnical systems is imperative. In this study, we ask: what are the different types of values in the policy process? And, how does value change influence policy innovation? We propose a...journal article 2022
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Subramanyam, S. (author), Viola, Irene (author), Jansen, Jack (author), Alexiou, Evangelos (author), Hanjalic, A. (author), Cesar, Pablo (author)Technological advances in head-mounted displays and novel real-time 3D acquisition and reconstruction solutions have fostered the development of 6 Degrees of Freedom (6DoF) teleimmersive systems for social VR applications. Point clouds have emerged as a popular format for such applications, owing to their simplicity and versatility; yet,...conference paper 2022
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de Heus, Martijn (author), Psarakis, K. (author), Fragkoulis, M. (author), Katsifodimos, A (author)Serverless computing is currently the fastest-growing cloud services segment. The most prominent serverless offering is Function-as-a-Service (FaaS), where users write functions and the cloud automates deployment, maintenance, and scalability. Although FaaS is a good fit for executing stateless functions, it does not adequately support...journal article 2022
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Yang, Dingqi (author), Qu, Bingqing (author), Yang, J. (author), Wang, Liang (author), Cudre-Mauroux, Philipe (author)Graph embeddings have become a key paradigm to learn node representations and facilitate downstream graph analysis tasks. Many real-world scenarios such as online social networks and communication networks involve streaming graphs, where edges connecting nodes are continuously received in a streaming manner, making the underlying graph...journal article 2022
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Siachamis, G. (author), Houben, G.J.P.M. (author), van Deursen, A. (author), Katsifodimos, A (author)Data Integration has been a long-standing and challenging problem for enterprises and researchers. Data residing in multiple heterogeneous sources must be integrated and prepared such that the valuable information that it carries, can be extracted and analysed. However, the volume and the velocity of the produced data in addition to the modern...conference paper 2021
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Verbeek, Merel C. (author), Labeur, R.J. (author), Uijttewaal, W.S.J. (author)The tidal flow between bridge pillars and through open barriers is a promising source of ocean energy which can be exploited using tidal stream turbines, as proven recently by operational demonstration plants. The aim of this study is to clarify the consequences for the power output of tidal turbines when placing them in a hydraulic structure...journal article 2021