Reducing the uncertainty on location estimation of mobile users to support hospital work

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 861-866

  Castro, Luis A ^a   Favela, Jesus ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Computer applications; Location estimation; Neural network applications; Pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; HOSPITALS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; MOBILE DEVICES; NEURAL NETWORKS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

ACCURATE LOCATIONS; AVERAGE DISTANCES; CONTEXT-AWARE; CONTINUOUS MOTIONS; FREQUENCY SIGNALS; HOPPING TRAJECTORIES; HOSPITAL SETTINGS; LOCATION ESTIMATION; LOCATION ESTIMATIONS; LOCATION INFORMATIONS; MOBILE USERS; NEURAL NETWORK APPLICATIONS; WORK DEMANDS;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 56049093001     PISSN: 10946977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCC.2008.2001572     Document Type: Article

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