Telehealth is a flexible way of working which covers a wide range of health-related activities, all of which entail either working remotely from a traditional healthcare centre for a significant proportion of work tim...
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Telehealth is a flexible way of working which covers a wide range of health-related activities, all of which entail either working remotely from a traditional healthcare centre for a significant proportion of work time, on either a full-time or part-time basis. The work often involves electronic processing of information and always involves telecommunications to keep the remote healthcare centre and healthcare provider in contact with one another. This paper discusses the ramifications of technology-led change in the commercial healthcare environment, its impact on healthcare organizations, the social aspects of our lives and the shape of the telehealth industry we expect to see in the future.
The increasing use of the Internet of Things (IoT) has driven the demand for enhanced and robust access control methods to protect resources from unauthorized access. A cloud-based access control approach brings signi...
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Centralized semantic sensor network systems gradually show performance degradation as the scale of the sensor network increases. Thus systems based on distributed approaches with local, autonomous management features ...
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Centralized semantic sensor network systems gradually show performance degradation as the scale of the sensor network increases. Thus systems based on distributed approaches with local, autonomous management features are urgently required. In order to achieve local autonomy, it is necessary to push semantics towards the edge of the sensor network, but this is hampered by the lack of availability of lightweight ontology processing and reasoning technologies that are cognizant of the limited resources available in sensor network nodes. This paper proposes an approach to dynamically and automatically compose an ontology reasoner to provide only the level of OWL reasoning required for a given application. A design and prototype implementation are presented, with initial evaluations confirming that this approach saves memory without loss of reasoning ability, which facilitates OWL reasoning on the resource constrained devices typical in sensor networks.
Situational information can enrich the interactions between a user and the services they wish to utilize. Such information encompasses details about the user, the physical environment and the computing resources. Ther...
Situational information can enrich the interactions between a user and the services they wish to utilize. Such information encompasses details about the user, the physical environment and the computing resources. There are at least three key aspects in addressing this issue. Firstly, it is important to accurately capture or infer the requirements of the users in a timely fashion. Without precise information on what the users are hoping to achieve it is difficult to identify suitable services or sub-services that may fulfill (in part or fully) their information needs. Secondly, the nature of the available services determines the modes in which they may be adapted to the users' needs. Rigid, inflexible services may be difficult to tune to the information requirements of the users. Adaptive services, on the other hand, are well suited to dynamically modifying their behavior, within defined constraints. The third issue to be addressed is the on-the-fly combination of services to meet the users' requirements. This paper argues that current modeling (both of users and services) techniques, adaptive axes and personalization techniques used in current personalized information services, such as Adaptive Hypermedia Systems, may supply the basis for next generation adaptive collaborative services.
Search personalization is an area of considerable research interest. In this paper, we propose a framework for personalizing cross-language search using user models. Our work extends existing studies in two directions...
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Search personalization is an area of considerable research interest. In this paper, we propose a framework for personalizing cross-language search using user models. Our work extends existing studies in two directions. First, the framework extends to the area of cross-language information retrieval. Second, the study aims to elicit features of cross-language search behavior from multilingual search logs. We argue that we can infer a user model, that describes individual user interests and behavior, which can be partially bootstrapped based on choice of interface language. Our experiments involved mining multilingual search logs for interesting patterns of cross-language search behavior. Different patterns were exhibited for users of different languages. The results suggest that there is scope for further investigation on the use of log analysis to improve personalization of cross-language search.
Ontology-based information integration systems have been proposed to solve the problem of combining data residing at autonomous and heterogeneous sources. For such ontology based solutions to succeed in an industrial ...
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Ontology-based information integration systems have been proposed to solve the problem of combining data residing at autonomous and heterogeneous sources. For such ontology based solutions to succeed in an industrial context, the integration ontology and mappings need to be managed to allow them to evolve as the data sources evolve. This research has developed a technique to support the management of ontology-based integration systems by modeling the dependencies that arise in the system. This paper describes the management problem, a solution, an industrial case study using dependency modeling and an evaluation mechanism.
The analysis of human activity data is an important research area in the context of ubiquitous and social environments. Using sensor data obtained by mobile devices, e. g., utilizing accelerometer sensors contained in...
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As context-aware systems become more widespread and mobile there is an increasing need for a common distributed event platform for gathering context information and delivering to context-aware applications. The likely...
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As context-aware systems become more widespread and mobile there is an increasing need for a common distributed event platform for gathering context information and delivering to context-aware applications. The likely heterogeneity across the body of context information can be addressed using runtime reasoning over ontology-based context models. However, existing knowledge-based reasoning is not typically optimised for real-time operation so its inclusion in any context delivery platform needs to be carefully evaluated from a performance perspective. In this paper we propose a benchmark for knowledge-based context delivery platforms and in particular examine suitable knowledge benchmarks for assessing the ability of platforms to deal with semantic interoperability
We present a language independent approach for conflation that does not depend on predefined rules or prior knowledge of the target language. The proposed unsupervised method is based on an enhancement of the pure n-g...
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We present a language independent approach for conflation that does not depend on predefined rules or prior knowledge of the target language. The proposed unsupervised method is based on an enhancement of the pure n-gram model that is used to group related words based on a revised string-similarity measure. In order to detect and eliminate terms that are created by this process, but that are most likely not relevant for the query (”noisy terms”), an approach based on mutual information scores computed based on web statistical cooccurrences data is proposed. Furthermore, an evaluation of this approach is presented.
In this paper, we present the foundations for mining frequent tri-concepts, which extend the notion of closed item-sets to three-dimensional data to allow for mining folk-sonomies. We provide a formal definition of th...
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In this paper, we present the foundations for mining frequent tri-concepts, which extend the notion of closed item-sets to three-dimensional data to allow for mining folk-sonomies. We provide a formal definition of the problem, and present an efficient algorithm for its solution as well as experimental results on a large real-world example.
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