Mobile crowdsensing for road sustainability: exploitability of publicly-sourced data

ABSTRACTThis paper examines the opportunities and the economic benefits of exploiting publicly-sourced datasets of road surface quality. Crowdsourcing and crowdsensing initiatives channel the parti..

Structured reporting for fibrosing lung disease: a model shared by radiologist and pulmonologist

Objectives: To apply the Delphi exercise with iterative involvement of radiologists and pulmonologists with the aim of defining a structured reporting template for high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) of patients with fibrosing lung disease (FLD). Methods: The writing committee selected the HRCT criteria\ue2\u80\u94the Delphi items\ue2\u80\u94for rating from both radiology panelists (RP) and pulmonology panelists (PP). The Delphi items were first rated by RPs as \ue2\u80\u9cessential\ue2\u80\u9d, \ue2\u80\u9coptional\ue2\u80\u9d, or \ue2\u80\u9cnot relevant\ue2\u80\u9d. The items rated \ue2\u80\u9cessential\ue2\u80\u9d by < 80% of the RP were selected for the PP rating. The format of reporting was rated by both RP and PP. Results: A total of 42 RPs and 12 PPs participated to the survey. In both Delphi round 1 and 2, 10/27 (37.7%) items were rated \ue2\u80\u9cessential\ue2\u80\u9d by more than 80% of RP. The remaining 17/27 (63.3%) items were rated by the PP in round 3, with 2/17 items (11.7%) rated \ue2\u80\u9cessential\ue2\u80\u9d by the PP. PP proposed additional items for conclusion domain, which were rated by RPs in the fourth round. Poor consensus was observed for the format of reporting. Conclusions: This study provides a template for structured report of FLD that features essential items as agreed by expert thoracic radiologists and pulmonologists

L'accesso ai servizi in cloud per la crescita digitale. Un'esperienza nazionale: la Regione Marche

L’analisi delle politiche pubbliche in materia di agenda digitale e dei contesti socio-economici ed imprenditoriali del territorio rafforza l’idea che il progetto Marche Cloud e le iniziative per la crescita digitale e l’innovazione ICT perseguite dalla Regione Marche, nella programmazione 2014-2020, possano contribuire al potenziamento del tessuto produttivo marchigiano, in linea con i processi di trasformazione economica in atto a livello globale

Crowdsensing for road sustainability: validation of publicly sourced data for exploitation

Crowdsourcing and crowdsensing are social innovation paradigms that, through the participation of active citizens, allow communities to contribute to a shared goal and provide people with tools with the capacity to positively impacting society. Mobile crowdsensing in particular takes advantage of pervasive mobile devices with on-board sen- sors to enable efficient and inexpensive large-scale data collection. In this paper we present results from several public pilots of a crowdsensing system deployed with the purpose of collecting road quality data thanks to accelerometer data from mobile smartphones. We il- lustrate several approaches that aim at evaluating the quality of collected information and correlating it with real “ground truth” data from a variety of sources. Proposed approaches are evaluated in terms of effectiveness and applicability in exploitation processes by public administrations or other road maintenance entities

AN INTEGRATED FRAMEWORK FOR DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT: THE ROLE OF SEMANTIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE COOPERATION ABSTRACT

Nowadays, document management is one of the most important chalenges facing Public Administration‟s operators owing to the wide numbers of the PA information in form of documents such as agreements, forms, letters, contracts, deliberation, contracts, and so on. Moreover, most of the PA‟s business processes are based on document flows. In this context, the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can plan again inter-organizational relationships inter and intra PA to (a) improve digital flows, and (b) share digital information to make a good use of information systems. We present a general framework for intelligent document management – DODIBOX-. It allows good productivity and major performance increases by applying intelligent technology to documents and document processing. The framework is organized by two different subsystems considering the design time and the run time functionalities. We explain the use of the framework together with richer representation of PA documents

Mobile crowdsensing for road sustainability: exploitability of publicly-sourced data

This paper examines the opportunities and the economic benefits of exploiting publicly-sourced datasets of road surface quality. Crowdsourcing and crowdsensing initiatives channel the participation of engaged citizens into communities that contribute towards a shared goal. In providing people with the tools needed to positively impact society, crowd-based initiatives can be seen as purposeful drivers of social innovation from the bottom. Mobile crowdsensing (MCS), in particular, takes advantage of the ubiquitous nature of mobile devices with on-board sensors to allow large-scale inexpensive data collection campaigns. This paper illustrates MCS in the context of road surface quality monitoring, presenting results from several pilots adopting a public crowdsensing mobile application for systematic data collection. Evaluation of collected information, its quality, and its relevance to road sustainability and maintenance are discussed, in comparison to authoritative data from a variety of other sources