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Nowadays, when more than half of the world's population lives in urban areas, when information and (mobile) communication technologies are real catalysts for innovations in all domains, there are a lot of studies and debates related to how our cities should become “Smart Cities”, “Smarter Cities” or “Future Cities”, in order to improve life quality and to reduce costs, to become a “Smart Learning...
As all over the country to develop the integration of urban and rural construction, vigorously develop the rural tourism has become the breakthrough point of the organic combination of urban and rural areas together, and solve the problem of agriculture, rural areas and farmers, the realization of a well-off society in the new starting point. Rural tourism the smokeless industry sunrise industry,...
Mining the silent members, also called lurkers, of an online community has been recognized as an important problem that accompanies the extensive use of social networks. Existing solutions to the ranking of lurkers can aid understanding the lurking behaviors in social networks, however they ignore any information concerning the time dimension. In this work we push forward research in lurker mining...
At the time when we are debating the Internet as a human right, an access to basic online information is a challenge for blind and visually impaired community. Steps taken for their digital inclusion, such as, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) are often insufficient. In this paper we present initial requirements gathered during three workshops organized with various stakeholders coming...
In the last few years, the research community has witnessed the rapid development of the Information-Centric Networking (ICN) approach aiming at evolving the Internet from today's host based packet delivery towards directly retrieving information in a secure, reliable, scalable, and efficient way. The Internet of Things (IoT) concept envisions scenarios in which “smart objects” can be interconnected...
This article presents the results of a design workshop that developed scenarios of learning in an imaginary "smart city": Villard-de-Lans (Vercors, French Alps) by exploring suitable methodological approaches to the Smart City Learning Design. The aim of this case study was to propose "glocal" solutions intended to balance the global trends and the expectations of the community...
The main purpose of elementary school is to prepare students to be educated, critical thinking individuals who can provide and help their community. Community is now elevated on the virtual level and specific rules of conduct apply. School can influence student's behavior while online. Every informatics teacher can help their community by making workshops for students, their parents and colleagues...
This paper analyzes Weiser's original definition of ubiquitous or pervasive computing (PerComp) and compares its presence in developed nations to the needs of emerging markets. The majority of PerComp research is targeted towards industrial nations, while users from resource constrained, low income and digitally unstable regions are often neglected. It is essential for the scientific community to...
This paper contains a summary of a significant amount of findings carried out collectively by a global research community specifically aimed at determining mutually beneficial and hot topics for international collaboration on the research and development of Trustworthy ICT. The paper highlights a sampling of these topics that were deemed to produce the most impact and it provides an introduction to...
Recent studies demonstrate that inadequate undergraduate advising often contributes to engineering students switching out of their majors. In this paper we present findings from a project undertaken to design and implement a web-based advising system for first-year engineering students. The advising system, AdWiki, has been accessed over 6425 times by over 1260 students since its full implementation...
Communities in unipartite networks are often understood as groups of nodes within which links are dense but between which links are sparse. Such communities are not suited to bipartite networks, as there is only one-to-one correspondence between communities of different types. Recently, B. Long et al. Introduced the link-pattern based community, which allows many-to-many correspondence between communities...
The web page in network communication were partitioned to Hub web page and Authority web page. Simplifying the H-A web page set was more researched by making abstract method in this paper. Existing condition of the regular abstract was deeply researched and discussed, and the solution to the regular abstraction was given too. So simplifying the huge web page concept lattice about network communication...
During the past years a number of international efforts have led to the development of the IEEE LOM standard as a commonly accepted way for describing educational resources, facilitating storage, search and retrieval of these resources through web-based repositories. On the other hand, it was recognized early enough that it is not possible for a generic standard such as IEEE LOM to meet specific requirements...
We present an application of an open source platform for wireless body sensor network called DexterNet to the problem of monitoring different subjects. The architecture of the system consists of three layers. At the body sensor layer (BSL), the integrated monitoring of a person's activities, geographic location, and air pollution exposures occurs. At the personal network layer (PNL), a wireless mobile...
The Virtual Museum of the Pacific was developed by the authors and launched by the Australian Museum in November 2009. A digital ecosystem implemented as Web 2.0 application, the VMP is an experimental platform with information and knowledge acquisition for the Australian Museum's Pacific collection. Importantly, the VMP facilitates a number of social media interfaces that enable content to be added...
The most widely recognized form of spam is e-mail spam, however the term “spam” is used to describe similar abuses in other media and mediums. Spam 2.0 (or Web 2.0 Spam) is refereed to as spam content that is hosted on online Web 2.0 applications. In this paper: we provide a definition of Spam 2.0, identify and explain different entities within Spam 2.0, discuss new difficulties associated with Spam...
In his seminal book "The New Asian Hemisphere - The irreversible shift of global power to the East" Kishore Mahbubani, the famous Singaporean diplomat and professor at the National University of Singapore gave an in-depth analysis about the changes which are implied by the use of mobile phones in developing countries. Three of his examples should illustrate this: (1) "The Bangladesh...
This paper presents investigations on formal and informal requirements for personal learning environments taking into account students' personal and social learning practices. The potential of global Web 2.0 educational service bundles and informal learning communities, as well as their recommendation by educators are addressed. A scenario showing how these new paradigms can be integrated in engineering...
After the ten years rise of ageing population in Taiwan, it has increased the population rate of elders to nearly 10% in year 2009. Since 1990, the day-time aged care service has been implemented over decades in Taiwan. The social welfare has been attended and been actively promoted among the communities with the aged day-care service (ADCS) in recent years. The successful implementation of the ADCS...
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