Cloud computing offers the potential to store, manage, and process data in highly available, scalable, and elastic environments. Yet, these environments still provide very limited and inflexible means for customers to control their data. For example, customers can neither specify security of inter-cloud communication bearing the risk of information leakage, nor comply with laws requiring data to be kept in the originating jurisdiction, nor control sharing of data with third parties on a fine-granular basis. This lack of control can hinder cloud adoption for data that falls under regulations. In this paper, we show in six use cases how cloud environments can be enriched with policy language support to give customers control over cloud data. Our use cases are based on realizing policy language support in all three cloud environment layers, i.e., IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. Specifically, we present policy-aware resource management (with OpenStack) and dynamic network configuration. With CERN's big data storage and the in-memory database Hyrise, we show realization for storage and further exemplify policy-aware cloud processing by network function virtualization which enables Orange to offload customer home gateways to the cloud. Finally, we discuss benefits of policy support in F-Secure's Security Cloud. These use cases show the feasibility of realizing customer control with policy support in the cloud. Thus, our work enables customers with regulated data to tap cloud benefits and significantly broadens the market for cloud providers.

One problem in current human-robot task communication is the laborious need to define action and target object parameters for each task request. This paper's solution to the problem is to enable indirect task communication by mimicking the human cognitive ability to understand affordances, i.e. action possibilities in the environment with respect to different actors. This enables humans to communicate tasks using only the task-related action or target object names, and thus avoid the need to remember explicit task request utterances. The proposed task communication is integrated as a subsystem into an existing service robot, and its functionality is evaluated through a set of user experiments in an astronaut-robot task communication context. Affordance-based indirect task communication is shown to successfully reduce the workload experienced by the human and to decrease task communication times, while also being the preferred way to communicate tasks.

Mars is currently the centre of interest for space exploration. Tremendous efforts are still in progress to find clues of existence of life on Mars. Rovers are major sources of information of Mars. This paper focuses on a robotic roving vehicle robot for scientific applications (ROSA) having its initiative of European Space Agency (ESA). ROSA being a tethered rover makes possible to reduce the weight/size of rover because power is delivered through tether. Additionally, tether provides communication lines between the lander and the rover. Tethered robots require complex control system. This paper presents a specialized tracking system for rover's 40 m tether. The proposed system is capable of tether tracking within resolution of plusmn6 cm. The same strategy can also be used in other tethered robots for rescue, security, underwater, mines hunting and cleaning petroleum tanks after minor modifications.

Space of two categories connects wievers emotionally with their own childhood. Each person entering the installation space creates a human-shaped view to the world of a little girl with their own shadows. The shadows act as gateways to another temporal state, which is illuminated inside shadows, normally dark and void. The installation deals with the relationship of childhood and adulthood as different states of human body; how our childhood exists inside our aging and transforming body and how those memories are stored into our bodies.

This paper presents a human dead-reckoning system for beaconless indoor positioning. The system is based on traditional dead-reckoning sensors like compass, gyro, and accelerometers. Due to the difficult kinematics of a human, there are no ready solutions for the odometry. This problem is solved by using a self-made stride length measurement unit and laser odometry. All the sensors are integrated to a complete system including sensor fusion. The functionality of the integrated system is verified with tests in an office environment. Finally the test results are analyzed.