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Digital Road Authority for Coordination between In-Car Navigation Systems and...

by Rob van der Mei, Maaike Bots and Frank Ottenhof The use of in-car technology and real-time traffic information has been growing spectacularly over the past few years, and this growth is not likely...

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The Car that Looks Like Me: Similarity Cues can Increase Trust in the...

by Frank Verberne, Jaap Ham and Cees Midden In the future, cars will be better at driving themselves than humans are. These cars will be useless, however, if humans do not trust them. Researchers from...

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Electro Vehicle Car-Sharing System – A Simulation Model for Big Cities

by Dmitry Rozhdestvenskiy and Petr Bouchner We address the problem of the introduction of car sharing systems for electric vehicles within big cities through simulation of such systems. Simulation is...

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Modularity Analysis of Automotive Control Software

by Yanja Dajsuren, Mark G.J. van den Brand and Alexander Serebrenik A design language and tool like MATLAB/Simulink is used for the graphical modelling and simulation of automotive control software....

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Intelligent Vehicles: Complex Software-Based Systems

by Javier Ibanez-Guzman and Christian Laugier Motor vehicles are becoming complex-networked mobile computers. Modern vehicles include numerous networked microprocessor-based Electronic Control Units...

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The VESPA Project: Driving Advances in Data Management for Vehicular Networks

by Thierry Delot and Sergio Ilarri The importance of Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) is expected to increase significantly in the next few years: According to a recent survey by ABI Research, about...

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Understanding V2X Communication Dynamics Through Complex Network Science

by Nicholas Loulloudes, George Pallis and Marios D. Dikaiakos With the proliferation of wireless hardware that supports communication standards designed exclusively for the vehicular environment (IEEE...

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Autonomous Traffic Warning System with Car-to-X Communication

by Josef Jiru Of the 2.36 million traffic accidents recorded in Germany in 2011, traffic congestion and tailgating caused the most injuries. Because they are usually positioned at one to two kilometer...

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Mobile Opportunistic Traffic Offloading for Map-Based ADAS Applications: the...

by Raffaele Bruno, Andrea Passarella, Leandro D’Orazio and Filippo Visintainer Map-based Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) is one of the key applications for future “Intelligent Car”...

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Paving the Way for Apps in Vehicles

by Avenir Kobetski and Jakob Axelsson What will cars talk about when they start communicating with each other? Volvo and SICS Swedish ICT have launched a collaborative project to open the computer...

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Location Assurance and Privacy in GNSS Navigation

by Xihui Chen, Carlo Harpes, Gabriele Lenzini, Sjouke Mauw and Jun Pang The growing popularity of location-based services such as GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) navigation requires...

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Cooperative Systems for Car Safety Improvement

by Zdeněk Lokaj, Tomas Zelinka and Miroslav Šrotýř Cooperative systems are playing an increasingly important role in the automotive industry, particularly in relation to improvement of safety....

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ABV – A Low Speed Automation Project to Study the Technical Feasibility of...

by Evangeline Pollard, Fawzi Nashashibi and Paulo Resende The purpose of the ABV project was to demonstrate the technical feasibility of fully automated driving at speeds below 50 km/h in urban and...

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Intelligent Vehicles as an Integral Part of Intelligent Transport Systems

by Jaroslav Machan and Christian Laugier Socio-economic context The recent global economic growth and the related overall increase in volumes of transportation, along with stronger public demand for...

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Collaborative Mobility – Beyond Communicating Vehicles

by Ilja Radusch European efforts for more intelligent transport systems have a long history with the first programmes focusing on Road Transport Informatics (RTI) dating back to the 1980’s. The...

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European Laboratory on Big Data Analytics and Social Mining

The “SoBigData” Lab is a recently created research initiative in Pisa, Italy, with the mission to perform advanced research and analyses on the emerging challenges posed by big data, namely the digital...

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National ICT Awards 2013 for Python and SIG

Programming language Python and company Software Improvement Group (SIG) were awarded a Dutch National ICT Award on 13 June.

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Cryptographer Ronald Cramer appointed Fellow of IACR

Ronald Cramer from CWI in Amsterdam and Leiden University was appointed Fellow of IACR.

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Michael Wilson Obituary

It is with great sadness that we remember Professor Michael Wilson, Scientific Computing Department, STFC, who died suddenly and unexpectedly at the end of April.

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Set-theoretic Fault-tolerant Control in Multisensor Systems

Florin Stoican and Sorin Olaru Fault-tolerant control theory is a well-studied topic but the use of the sets in detection, isolation and/or reconfiguration is rather tangential. The authors of this...

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