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Internet inquiry is playing an increasingly important role as the complement of the traditional medical service system, especially the similar cases recommendation. It can not only save the patients' waiting time, but also make use of the historical resources, for many cases with the same purpose have been solved perfectly. However, because of the diversity and non-standard of the patients' descriptions,...
Connecting wireless sensor networks (WSNs) to the Internet using the traditional IPV6 protocol is a significant challenge due to the short frame length of the WSN medium access layer and large IPV6 and UDP headers. Therefore, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) recently formulated an encoding format (LoWPAN IPHC) to compress the IPV6 header from several bytes to several bits. A context table...
There is an emerging international phenomenon of drugs that are sold without any control on online marketplaces. An example of a former online marketplace is Silk Road, best known as a platform for selling illegal drugs operated as a Tor hidden service. Silk Road was closed by FBI in 2013 but new alternatives have appeared since illicit substances is a big market. One problem with online marketplaces...
European introduction of the eight key-competences and implicitly, the educational curriculum restructure at primary level by redefining educational outcomes and the introduction of the general and specific competences, led to the development in the Romanian educational system of the educational policy focused on skills training. The training based on competences has as premise the focus of the teaching...
The economic development of a country is conceived from several perspectives, one of them is the technology and, within it, the Internet that is a tool that promotes the business innovation, the social inclusion through services related to education, health, etc. In this context, this document, shows an analysis of the incidence of the Internet in the economic development countries members of the...
The economic development of a country is conceived from several perspectives, one of them is the technology and, within it, the Internet that is a tool that promotes the business innovation, the social inclusion through services related to education, health, etc. In this context, this document, shows an analysis of the incidence of the Internet in the economic development countries members of the...
Visualization and processing of geographic information is an important part for a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI). Choose the software system to accomplish this task is laborious and complex. To assist SDI implementers to define which systems should be used, this article analyzes some of the currently available systems and used by a variety of existing SDI in order to provide information for decision...
The online media in a context of proximity has experimented in recent years a series of transformations towards new communicative and business models, due to the economic recession and the crisis of the newspapers' traditional model suffered by the media industry. In a global context of crisis in the traditional local media sector, readers express a growing necessity of information about the geographical...
Entity linking (EL) is the task of mapping name mentions in web text to their entities in a knowledge base. Most of earlier EL work in the knowledge based approach is usually formulated as a ranking problem, either by (i) non-collective approaches with supervised models, or (ii) collective approaches by leveraging global topical coherence which means semantic relations between entities through graph-based...
The number of entities in large-scale knowledge bases has been growing in recent years. The key issue to entity linking using a knowledge base such as Wikipedia is entity disambiguation. The objective of our proposing system is to disambiguate entities in documents and link entity mentions to their corresponding Wikipedia articles. To this end, our system ranks the set of candidate entities based...
The trend of grid computing available on the Internet has generated challenges to the allocation of resources provided by this type of environment. Once a grid computing is context sensitive system, so its possible to deal jointly with user's satisfaction and system performance. In this sense the quality of context can be used to process the context informations and provide several management decisions...
Based upon the theoretical perspective from Uses and Gratifications (U&G) theory, this study develops a nomological model to explain how incentivized gamification, hedonic presence, individual needs and platform synergy affect consumer active participation in the phenomena of online shopping carnival on singles' day in China. Data gathered from online shopping consumers in China through a large-scale...
The goal is to present a summary approach to global aging process with particular emphasis on the EU-27 and Portugal. In this context, it addressed the issue of digital divide citizens 50+ and their consequences for this group of citizens that prevent them from exercising proper citizenship and a consequent social inclusion. To this end, the contribution of USALBI is displayed (Senior University of...
This paper analyzes the factors technological context that uses Spanish hotels in the e-CRM systems. It is built on the model of Chang, Liao and Hsiao (2005). The data are collected from corporate web and analyzed using Rasch Model (1961). The results indicate that the technological context of e-CRM is based more on the analysis of customer information than in the integration of e-CRM technologies...
The new media became an extension of the traditional media, allowing to the public access information in a wide range of digital devices. In this sense, our qualitative study with empirical descriptive nature focuses on a literature review about Web Radio and its educative strand. This is an innovator and incipient issue on literature when investigating the potentialities of the radiophonic universe...
E-commerce promotes economic growth by enabling online shops to compete within a global market scenario. There are critical success factors that permit to distinguish a good business on the Internet and this knowledge may allow reaching an important competitive advantage for business sustainability. As many disciplines are involved, when determining critical success factors, e-commerce requires an...
Survey is a scientific method used for analysis of various phenomena. The advancement of technology, which automates and simplifies data collection, significantly increases the number of possibilities for implementing such method. The Information Visualization (InfoVis) techniques can improve the analysis of such data by facilitating the results representation and interpretation. Given the wide variety...
Participation is changing over time, thanks to the improvements in the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). Traditional online forums and structured discussions are being complemented, often replaced, by a more immediate involvement where people can leave spot opinions, often by simply clicking to agree or disagree. These "weak" forms of engagement allow many people to be part...
Digital NGOs design and popularise tools to open up, and enable citizens to interact with, decision-makers. The successful operation of such platforms depends on the expertise and efficiency of the NGO, and the willingness of institutions to disclose usable information. It is this institutional interaction with civic technology that this paper seeks to explore. This paper examines the empirical interview...
Ubiquitous Learning changing the existing paradigm of learning that is a learning process everywhere, every time and anything into the learning process right place, right time and the right thing, so that the determination of the appropriate content for the user and the system's ability to adapt to the user is important in ubiquitous learning. Context aware in ubiquitous learning can be used to achieve...
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