267 research outputs found
BioIMAX : a Web2.0 approach to visual data mining in bioimage data
Loyek C. BioIMAX : a Web2.0 approach to visual data mining in bioimage data. Bielefeld: UniversitÀt Bielefeld; 2012
Open Personalization: Involving Third Parties in Improving the User Experience of Websites
Traditional software development captures the user needs during the
requirement analysis. The Web makes this endeavour even harder due to
the difficulty to determine who these users are. In an attempt to tackle
the heterogeneity of the user base, Web Personalization techniques are
proposed to guide the usersâ experience. In addition, Open Innovation
allows organisations to look beyond their internal resources to develop new
products or improve existing processes.
This thesis sits in between by introducing Open Personalization as a
means to incorporate actors other than webmasters in the personalization
of web applications. The aim is to provide the technological basis that
builds up a trusty environment for webmasters and companion actors to
collaborate, i.e. "an architecture of participation". Such architecture
very much depends on these actorsâ profile. This work tackles three
profiles (i.e. software partners, hobby programmers and end users), and
proposes three "architectures of participation" tuned for each profile. Each
architecture rests on different technologies: a .NET annotation library
based on Inversion of Control for software partners, a Modding Interface in
JavaScript for hobby programmers, and finally, a domain specific language
for end-users. Proof-of-concept implementations are available for the three
cases while a quantitative evaluation is conducted for the domain specific
language
Stimulating Personal Development and Knowledge Sharing
Koper, R., Stefanov, K., & Dicheva, D. (Eds.) (2009). Proceedings of the 5th International TENCompetence Open Workshop "Stimulating Personal Development and Knowledge Sharing". October, 30-31, 2008, Sofia, Bulgaria: TENCompetence Workshop.The fifth open workshop of the TENCompetence project took place in Sofia, Bulgaria, from 30th to 31st October 2008. These proceedings contain the papers that were accepted for publication by the Program Committee.The work on this publication has been sponsored by the TENCompetence Integrated Project that is funded by the European Commission's 6th Framework Programme, priority IST/Technology Enhanced Learning. Contract 027087 [http://www.tencompetence.org
Dagstuhl News January - December 2008
"Dagstuhl News" is a publication edited especially for the members of the Foundation "Informatikzentrum Schloss Dagstuhl" to thank them for their support. The News give a summary of the scientific work being done in Dagstuhl. Each Dagstuhl Seminar is presented by a small abstract describing the contents and scientific highlights of the seminar as well as the perspectives or challenges of the research topic
Influence of diagram layout and scrolling on understandability of BPMN processes: an eye tracking experiment with BPMN diagrams
Business process modeling is an important activity for developing software systemsâespecially within digitization projects and when realizing digital business models. Specifying requirements and building executable workflows is often done by using BPMN 2.0 process models. Although there are several style guides available for BPMN, e.g., by Silver and Richard (BPMN method and style, vol 2, Cody-Cassidy Press, Aptos, 2009), there has not been much empirical research done into the consequences of the diagram layout. In particular, layouts that require scrolling have not been investigated yet. The aim of this research is to establish layout guidelines for business process modeling that help business process modelers to create more understandable business process diagrams. For establishing benefits and penalties of different layouts, a controlled eye tracking experiment was conducted, in which data of 21 professional software developers was used. Our results show that horizontal layouts are less demanding and that as many diagram elements as possible should be put on the initially visible screen area because such diagram elements are viewed more often and longer. Additionally, diagram elements related to the readerâs task are read more often than those not relevant to the task. BPMN modelers should favor a horizontal layout and use a more complex snake or multi-line layout whenever the diagrams are too large to fit on one page in order to support BPMN model comprehension
ALT-C 2011 Abstracts
This is a PDF of the abstracts for all the sessions at the 2011 ALT conference. It is designed to be used alongside the online version of the conference programme. It was made public on 1 September, with a "topped and tailed" made live on 2 September
The genesis and emergence of Web 3.0: a study in the integration of artificial intelligence and the semantic web in knowledge creation
The web as we know it has evolved rapidly over the last decade. We have gone from a phase of rapid growth as seen with the dot.com boom where business was king to the current web 2.0 phase where social networking, Wikiâs, Blogs and other related tools flood the bandwidth of the world wide web. The empowerment of the web user with web 2.0 technologies has led to the exponential growth of data, information and knowledge on the web. With this rapid change, there is a need to logically categorise this information and knowledge so it can be fully utilised by all. It can be argued that the power of the knowledge held on the web is not fully exposed under its current structure and to improve this we need to explore the foundations of the web. This dissertation will explore the evolution of the web from its early days to the present day. It will examine the way web content is stored and discuss the new semantic technologies now available to represent this content. The research aims to demonstrate the possibilities of efficient knowledge extraction from a knowledge portal such as a Wiki or SharePoint portal using these semantic technologies. This generation of dynamic knowledge content within a limited domain will attempt to demonstrate the benefits of semantic web to the knowledge age
A treatise on Web 2.0 with a case study from the financial markets
There has been much hype in vocational and academic circles surrounding the emergence of
web 2.0 or social media; however, relatively little work was dedicated to substantiating the
actual concept of web 2.0. Many have dismissed it as not deserving of this new title, since the
term web 2.0 assumes a certain interpretation of web history, including enough progress in
certain direction to trigger a succession [i.e. web 1.0 â web 2.0]. Others provided arguments in
support of this development, and there has been a considerable amount of enthusiasm in the
literature. Much research has been busy evaluating current use of web 2.0, and analysis of the
user generated content, but an objective and thorough assessment of what web 2.0 really stands
for has been to a large extent overlooked. More recently the idea of collective intelligence
facilitated via web 2.0, and its potential applications have raised interest with researchers, yet a
more unified approach and work in the area of collective intelligence is needed.
This thesis identifies and critically evaluates a wider context for the web 2.0 environment, and
what caused it to emerge; providing a rich literature review on the topic, a review of existing
taxonomies, a quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the concept itself, an investigation of
the collective intelligence potential that emerges from application usage. Finally, a framework
for harnessing collective intelligence in a more systematic manner is proposed.
In addition to the presented results, novel methodologies are also introduced throughout this
work. In order to provide interesting insight but also to illustrate analysis, a case study of the
recent financial crisis is considered. Some interesting results relating to the crisis are revealed
within user generated content data, and relevant issues are discussed where appropriate
at the 14th Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAEPIA 2011)
Technical Report TR-2011/1, Department of Languages and Computation. University of Almeria November 2011. JoaquĂn Cañadas, Grzegorz J. Nalepa, Joachim Baumeister (Editors)The seventh workshop on Knowledge Engineering and Software Engineering (KESE7) was held at the Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAEPIA-2011) in La Laguna (Tenerife), Spain, and brought together researchers and practitioners from both fields of software engineering and artificial intelligence. The intention was to give ample space for exchanging latest research results as well as knowledge about practical experience.University of AlmerĂa, AlmerĂa, Spain. AGH University of Science and Technology, KrakĂłw, Poland. University of WĂŒrzburg, WĂŒrzburg, Germany
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