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Analysis and mining of social media has become an important research area. A challenging problem in this area consists in the identification of a group of users with similar patterns. In this paper, we propose the classification of users based on their activity profiles (e.g., periods of the day when the user is most and least active in online communications). Activity profiles can be useful for many...
This quantitative study explores students' motivation towards the use of wikis to encourage self-directed learning (SDL) and collaborative learning (CoL). SDL and CoL are the goals for Singapore's Ministry of Education Information and Communication Technology Masterplan 3. Wikis were used in the project to support reflection and communication within groups. Five classes consisting of 181 Secondary...
In this contribution we discuss whether or not learner control may be considered as key-component in the development of distance education. We argue that different factors -for example: new technologies, the increased importance of some competencies, and ‘weisure’- may lead to the assumption that learner control is a prevalent condition to make distance education more effective. Moreover, there is...
In this article, we propose a general-purpose disaster support system based on generalized (multiplicatively-weighted order-k Minkowski-metric) Voronoi diagrams. The proposed system is capable of handling disasters (or emergency units) having different weights in the complete order from 1 to k in the three popular Minkowski metrics (Euclidean, Manhattan and Maximum distance space). The proposed model...
As digital resources increasingly growing and the economic benefit of digital intellectual property rights being increasingly important, people has been increasingly emphasis on information security issues brought by the data remnants in storage devices. They try their best to prevent the potential risks. In this paper, we survey comprehensively related technologies, standards and trends of erasure,...
Robustness against geometric distortion is one of the most important problems in image authentication. In this paper, an image watermarking algorithm robust to geometric transformations is proposed. Radon transformation is used to detect and invert geometric transformations, and a perceptual hash feature detector is proposed to extract significant feature points, finally compares features from two...
Many real-time communication protocols have been studied to guarantee the communication requirements of distributed real-time systems. But, current techniques lack all or most of these requirements specially bounded message delivery time. In this paper we have proposed a Mac layer protocol called RDM+ with concepts similar to Round Data Mailer multi layer protocol. Our simulation results show that...
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