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    A Framework for Ontology-based Context Base Management System

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    The effects of online social networking on retail consumer dynamics in the attractions industry: The case of β€˜E-da’ theme park, Taiwan

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    Purpose of this study is to examine the trends in retail consumers’ consumption dynamics and patterns of purchase behavior within this new-technology-mediated environment. A behavioral purchase model was developed and tested to understand the ways social networks influence the decision making of individuals planning to visit a theme park. In particular, the proposed model delineates how online social networking (OSN) experience factors affect actual use (AU) of social media for purchasing of theme park services through an assessment of perceived usefulness (PU) and perceived ease of use (PEOU). An electronic survey was conducted with members of a theme park’s brand fan page on the Facebook social media site namely, the E-da World Theme park in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung. Smart PLS 3, a partial least squares analysis, was employed to examine a series of eleven research hypotheses. The findings revealed a series of statistically significant influences from five exogenous variables on PU and PEOU, as well as the mediating role of PU on the PEOU – AU relationship. The results also provide important practical implications both for academics and practitioners by shedding light on the way social media works to encourage and support online purchasing of amusement services.

    ΠšΠΎΠ½Ρ‚Π΅ΠΊΡΡ‚Π½ΠΎ-Π·Π°Π»Π΅ΠΆΠ½Π΅ кСрування Π°Π²Ρ‚ΠΎΠ½ΠΎΠΌΠ½ΠΈΠΌΠΈ систСмами СлСктроТивлСння

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    Π£ ΠΌΠΎΠ½ΠΎΠ³Ρ€Π°Ρ„Ρ–Ρ— описано ΠΏΡ€ΠΈΠ½Ρ†ΠΈΠΏ контСкстно-Π·Π°Π»Π΅ΠΆΠ½ΠΎΠ³ΠΎ кСрування Π°Π²Ρ‚ΠΎΠ½ΠΎΠΌΠ½ΠΈΠΌΠΈ систСмами СлСктроТивлСння, який дозволяє Ρ–Π½Ρ‚Π΅Π³Ρ€ΡƒΠ²Π°Ρ‚ΠΈ Π΄ΠΆΠ΅Ρ€Π΅Π»Π° Π΅Π½Π΅Ρ€Π³Ρ–Ρ— силовому Ρ‚Π° Ρ–Π½Ρ„ΠΎΡ€ΠΌΠ°Ρ†Ρ–ΠΉΠ½ΠΎΠΌΡƒ Ρ€Ρ–Π²Π½Ρ– Π·Π° допомогою використання Ρ€Ρ–Π·Π½ΠΎΡ‚ΠΈΠΏΠ½ΠΈΡ… Π΄Π°Π½ΠΈΡ… – контСксту. ΠŸΡ€ΠΎΠ°Π½Π°Π»Ρ–Π·ΠΎΠ²Π°Π½ΠΎ особливості формування Ρ‚Π° прогнозування контСксту Π½Π° основі ΠΌΠ°Ρ‚Π΅ΠΌΠ°Ρ‚ΠΈΡ‡Π½ΠΈΡ… ΠΌΠΎΠ΄Π΅Π»Π΅ΠΉ Π΄ΠΆΠ΅Ρ€Π΅Π» Π΅Π½Π΅Ρ€Π³Ρ–Ρ— Ρ– особливості ΠΉΠΎΠ³ΠΎ використання ΠΏΡ€ΠΈ створСнні ΠΏΡ€Π°Π²ΠΈΠ» кСрування ΡΠΈΡΡ‚Π΅ΠΌΠΎΡŽ СлСктроТивлСння Π½Π° основі знань СкспСртів. Для забСзпСчСння цілісності Ρ‚Π° нСсупСрСчливості ΠΏΡ€Π°Π²ΠΈΠ» кСрування Ρ– підвищСння якості прийняття Ρ€Ρ–ΡˆΠ΅Π½ΡŒ Ρ„ΠΎΡ€ΠΌΡƒΠ²Π°Ρ‚ΠΈ контСкст ΠΏΡ€ΠΎΠΏΠΎΠ½ΡƒΡ”Ρ‚ΡŒΡΡ Π· використанням ΠΎΠ½Ρ‚ΠΎΠ»ΠΎΠ³Ρ–Ρ— – сукупності Π΄Π°Π½ΠΈΡ… ΠΏΡ€ΠΎ структуру систСми СлСктроТивлСння.The book describes the principle of a context-aware control of an autonomous power supply systems that allows integrating power converters on energy and information levels on basis context data. The features of formation and prediction of the context based on mathematical models and rules for the management of power system by using expert knowledge are analyzed. The context developed on the basis an ontology that is a data set about a structure of the power supply system. It ensures the integrity and consistency of the rules and quality control decisions shape.Π’ ΠΌΠΎΠ½ΠΎΠ³Ρ€Π°Ρ„ΠΈΠΈ описан ΠΏΡ€ΠΈΠ½Ρ†ΠΈΠΏ контСкстно-зависимого управлСния Π°Π²Ρ‚ΠΎΠ½ΠΎΠΌΠ½Ρ‹ΠΌΠΈ систСмами элСктропитания, ΠΊΠΎΡ‚ΠΎΡ€Ρ‹ΠΉ позволяСт ΠΈΠ½Ρ‚Π΅Π³Ρ€ΠΈΡ€ΠΎΠ²Π°Ρ‚ΡŒ источники энСргии силовом ΠΈ ΠΈΠ½Ρ„ΠΎΡ€ΠΌΠ°Ρ†ΠΈΠΎΠ½Π½ΠΎΠΌ ΡƒΡ€ΠΎΠ²Π½Π΅ с ΠΏΠΎΠΌΠΎΡ‰ΡŒΡŽ использования Ρ€Π°Π·Π½ΠΎΡ‚ΠΈΠΏΠ½Ρ‹Ρ… Π΄Π°Π½Π½Ρ‹Ρ… - контСкста. ΠŸΡ€ΠΎΠ°Π½Π°Π»ΠΈΠ·ΠΈΡ€ΠΎΠ²Π°Π½Ρ‹ особСнности формирования ΠΈ прогнозирования контСкста Π½Π° основС матСматичСских ΠΌΠΎΠ΄Π΅Π»Π΅ΠΉ источников энСргии ΠΈ особСнности Π΅Π³ΠΎ использования ΠΏΡ€ΠΈ создании ΠΏΡ€Π°Π²ΠΈΠ» управлСния систСмой элСктропитания Π½Π° основС Π·Π½Π°Π½ΠΈΠΉ экспСртов. Для обСспСчСния цСлостности ΠΈ нСпротиворСчивости ΠΏΡ€Π°Π²ΠΈΠ» управлСния ΠΈ ΠΏΠΎΠ²Ρ‹ΡˆΠ΅Π½ΠΈΡ качСства принятия Ρ€Π΅ΡˆΠ΅Π½ΠΈΠΉ Ρ„ΠΎΡ€ΠΌΠΈΡ€ΠΎΠ²Π°Ρ‚ΡŒ контСкст прСдлагаСтся с использованиСм ΠΎΠ½Ρ‚ΠΎΠ»ΠΎΠ³ΠΈΠΈ - совокупности Π΄Π°Π½Π½Ρ‹Ρ… ΠΎ структурС систСмы элСктропитания

    GECAF : a generic and extensible framework for developing context-aware smart environments

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    The new pervasive and context-aware computing models have resulted in the development of modern environments which are responsive to the changing needs of the people who live, work or socialise in them. These are called smart envirnments and they employ high degree of intelligence to consume and process information in order to provide services to users in accordance with their current needs. To achieve this level of intelligence, such environments collect, store, represent and interpret a vast amount of information which describes the current context of their users. Since context-aware systems differ in the way they interact with users and interpret the context of their entities and the actions they need to take, each individual system is developed in its own way with no common architecture. This fact makes the development of every context aware system a challenge. To address this issue, a new and generic framework has been developed which is based on the Pipe-and-Filter software architectural style, and can be applied to many systems. This framework uses a number of independent components that represent the usual functions of any context-aware system. These components can be configured in different arrangements to suit the various systems' requirements. The framework and architecture use a model to represent raw context information as a function of context primitives, referred to as Who, When, Where, What and How (4W1H). Historical context information is also defined and added to the model to predict some actions in the system. The framework uses XML code to represent the model and describes the sequence in which context information is being processed by the architecture's components (or filters). Moreover, a mechanism for describing interpretation rules for the purpose of context reasoning is proposed and implemented. A set of guidelines is provided for both the deployment and rule languages to help application developers in constructing and customising their own systems using various components of the new framework. To test and demonstrate the functionality of the generic architecture, a smart classroom environment has been adopted as a case study. An evaluation of the new framework has also been conducted using two methods: quantitative and case study driven evaluation. The quantitative method used information obtained from reviewing the literature which is then analysed and compared with the new framework in order to verify the completeness of the framework's components for different xiisituations. On the other hand, in the case study method the new framework has been applied in the implementation of different scenarios of well known systems. This method is used for verifying the applicability and generic nature of the framework. As an outcome, the framework is proven to be extensible with high degree of reusability and adaptability, and can be used to develop various context-aware systems.EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo

    Achieving Autonomic Web Service Compositions with Models at Runtime

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    Over the last years, Web services have become increasingly popular. It is because they allow businesses to share data and business process (BP) logic through a programmatic interface across networks. In order to reach the full potential of Web services, they can be combined to achieve specifi c functionalities. Web services run in complex contexts where arising events may compromise the quality of the system (e.g. a sudden security attack). As a result, it is desirable to count on mechanisms to adapt Web service compositions (or simply called service compositions) according to problematic events in the context. Since critical systems may require prompt responses, manual adaptations are unfeasible in large and intricate service compositions. Thus, it is suitable to have autonomic mechanisms to guide their self-adaptation. One way to achieve this is by implementing variability constructs at the language level. However, this approach may become tedious, difficult to manage, and error-prone as the number of con figurations for the service composition grows. The goal of this thesis is to provide a model-driven framework to guide autonomic adjustments of context-aware service compositions. This framework spans over design time and runtime to face arising known and unknown context events (i.e., foreseen and unforeseen at design time) in the close and open worlds respectively. At design time, we propose a methodology for creating the models that guide autonomic changes. Since Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) lacks support for systematic reuse of service operations, we represent service operations as Software Product Line (SPL) features in a variability model. As a result, our approach can support the construction of service composition families in mass production-environments. In order to reach optimum adaptations, the variability model and its possible con figurations are verifi ed at design time using Constraint Programming (CP). At runtime, when problematic events arise in the context, the variability model is leveraged for guiding autonomic changes of the service composition. The activation and deactivation of features in the variability model result in changes in a composition model that abstracts the underlying service composition. Changes in the variability model are refl ected into the service composition by adding or removing fragments of Business Process Execution Language (WS-BPEL) code, which are deployed at runtime. Model-driven strategies guide the safe migration of running service composition instances. Under the closed-world assumption, the possible context events are fully known at design time. These events will eventually trigger the dynamic adaptation of the service composition. Nevertheless, it is diffi cult to foresee all the possible situations arising in uncertain contexts where service compositions run. Therefore, we extend our framework to cover the dynamic evolution of service compositions to deal with unexpected events in the open world. If model adaptations cannot solve uncertainty, the supporting models self-evolve according to abstract tactics that preserve expected requirements.Alférez Salinas, GH. (2013). Achieving Autonomic Web Service Compositions with Models at Runtime [Tesis doctoral no publicada]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/34672TESI

    Methods of implementation of context-aware platforms and context-aware user interfaces for applications in consumer electronics

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    U okviru disertacije predstavljene su metode realizacije kontekstualnih platformi i kontekstualnih korisničkih sprega za ureΔ‘aje potroΕ‘ačke elektronike. PredloΕΎeni su algoritmi semantizacije konteksta i procene zauzetosti korisnika, arhitektura reΕ‘enja i rezultati evaluacije. Β In this dissertation methods of implementation of context-aware platforms and context-aware user interfaces for applications in consumer electronics are presented. The work includes the proposition of algorithms for context semantization and user availability estimation, architecture of the solution as well as the results of evaluation experiments
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