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As the number of elderly people increases, so does the need for innovative technology enabling to keep these old persons in their own home, as long as they so desire and as is technically and medically feasible. In the framework of a regional research project we are working on an information system aiming at managing the various processes involved in caring for elderly persons in their home. We present...
The aim of this paper is to propose a dynamic integrated approach, based on modularity concept and on the business ecosystem approach, that exploit different eBusiness services for SMEs under an open business network platform. The adoption of this approach enables firms to collaborate locally for delivering the best product/service to the customers as well as globally by accessing international markets,...
Smart homes have become increasingly popular in the past few years. Similarly, new buildings are nowadays planned and built following sustainability guidelines. Energy efficient residential homes have gained importance for two reasons. They contribute to the protection of our environment and they simultaneously reduce operational costs over the whole building lifecycle. However, the full potential...
This paper is an introduction to Business Ecosystems and its improvements as represented in Digital Business Ecosystem. In traditional non-digital economic ecosystems, the hubs, once established are static. It is difficult to create new hubs and as such these established hubs enjoy considerable power in the marketplace. Indeed, in many instances, these hubs become the main impediments for the growth...
A digital ecosystem consists of distributed adaptive socio-technical systems. It mainly relies on software and exhibits properties of self-organization, scalability, flexibility and sustainability, inspired by natural ecosystems. Digital ecosystems are complex systems and continuously follow an incremental evolutionary process. In this paper, we study successive versions of digital ecosystems by examining...
The amount of time teachers spend grading essays has increased over the past decade, prompting the development of systems that are able to lighten the workload. Many systems have thus far used linear regression or semi-supervised methods towards this objective. This paper discusses some of the main Automated Essay Grading systems, highlighting some of their strengths and weaknesses, in addition to...
The establishment of a very strong and effective disaster management system is an urgent need of Pakistan, as it is badly suffering from both natural and man-made disasters. In this paper, we propose a new methodology for improving the disaster management system of Pakistan by the implementation of digital ecosystems. Firstly, we discuss the existing disaster management system followed by the current...
Decision-makers exploit several channels to acquire up-to-date and reliable information, which they combine with background knowledge to formulate their decisions. Practice shows that such information is acquired from the Internet by a conceptually straightforward process involving the identification of information sources, querying these sources regularly and integrating the desired information pieces...
We propose a novel flagging system (FS) to make the Neural Network Controller (NNC), which is an extant real-time dynamic buffer tuner, more realistic for real-time applications over the mobile Internet. Even though the extant NNC may prevent buffer overflow, it fails under certain traffic conditions easily. This happens because the intrinsic NNC control intelligence cannot handle the whole spectrum...
Digital ecosystems typically involve a large number of participants from different sectors who generate rapidly growing archives of unstructured text. Measuring the frequency of certain terms to determine the popularity of a topic is comparably straightforward. Detecting sentiment expressed in user-generated electronic content is more challenging, especially in the case of digital ecosystems comprising...
This paper describes a free and open source information system designed to be deployed in emergencies caused by sudden onset natural disasters. The aim is to streamline the communication flow and collaboration between media, aid workers and government agencies with the affected population, to help the latter get verified, accurate and actionable information that will enable them to make decisions...
For many marketing and business applications, it is necessary to know the home page of a company specified only by its company name. If we require the home page for a small number of big companies, this task is readily accomplished via use of Internet search engines or access to domain registration lists. However, if the entities of interest are small companies, these approaches can lead to mismatches,...
This paper proposes a semantic enhance social-aware user profile to address the issues of capturing and modeling user information for personalized services and contents. We also identify design requirements for user-centric profile to enhance its applicability in different domains and usage scenarios. In addition, the paper also provides the refinement algorithm to confine the user profile to most...
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