Abstract Advanced platform services enable in their rich content schema and business approach a step closer to the digitalization of the public and industrial sectors. These services are open for their further usage in a plethora of applications and run on opensourced cloud infrastructure. The main objective of this initiative is to increase the competitiveness of the Slovenian ICT industry by developing advanced ICT pre-integrated... Advanced platform services enable in their rich content schema and business approach a step closer to the digitalization of the public and industrial sectors. These services are open for their further usage in a plethora of applications and run on opensourced cloud infrastructure. The main objective of this initiative is to increase the competitiveness of the Slovenian ICT industry by developing advanced ICT pre-integrated (platform) services, which are available via application programming interfaces to other services and applications, and they are managed and orchestrated using the cognate principles. The three areas of platform services usage (E&M Health, Solutions for Small and Medium Enterprise, Safe Society) are described and its benefits for each of these areas. This program has been initiated by the company Iskratel, d.o.o., Kranj, and involves 15 partners, including 12 industrial and four public research institutes with their 12 research groups. The Platform services are oriented horizontally, incorporating enabling technologies and services that allow faster and efficient development of applications and services within the initiatives Safe Society, Smart Cities and Communities PaMetSkup, Energetics and E&M Health. The Platform Services are an excellent ICT basis for Smart Cities and Communities thanks to advanced and rich content and concepts. The consortium of partners wants to become a global partner for integrated/comprehensive projects with flexible and innovative service providers. Read More Read Less

Abstract Solar trackers are machines that track position of the sun, and can increase the receiving ability of solar panels. The incident irradiations of the sun on the panel vary with respect to time, to maximise the receiving power it is worthwhile to implement a tracking mechanism. In current work, the focused surface orientation is based on dual axis tracking using hybrid technology. For... Solar trackers are machines that track position of the sun, and can increase the receiving ability of solar panels. The incident irradiations of the sun on the panel vary with respect to time, to maximise the receiving power it is worthwhile to implement a tracking mechanism. In current work, the focused surface orientation is based on dual axis tracking using hybrid technology. For effective tracking, solar panel is bring into line where light intensity is more and the sun rays are perpendicular to the panels by using appropriate sensors and assures command from designed controllers to the two positioning motors. During initial conditions and rainy seasons, another chronological technique which is also combined and implemented. For this technique, a solar tracker is designed and implemented based on Sun earth relations, which could predict the precise the actual position of the sun, by latitude location, thereby avoiding the need to use sensors. The proposed technique reduces the cost of the tracking method and makes it cost-effective. This paper proposed a dual-axis solar tracker to improve the absorption and production of sun based power conversion and to lessen the system cost with the thought of simple assembling and collecting. Read More Read Less

Abstract While the methods of parallelizing Monte Carlo algorithms in engineering modeling very popular, these methods are of little use in discrete optimization problems. We propose that the variance of the Monte Carlo method, the Las Vegas method can be used for these problems. We would like to outline the basic concept and present the algorithm working on a specific problem of finding the... While the methods of parallelizing Monte Carlo algorithms in engineering modeling very popular, these methods are of little use in discrete optimization problems. We propose that the variance of the Monte Carlo method, the Las Vegas method can be used for these problems. We would like to outline the basic concept and present the algorithm working on a specific problem of finding the maximum clique. Read More Read Less