PIEZO 2015: Electroceramics for End-users VIII

Willingness of end users to pay for e-waste recycling

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The sheer volume of electrical and electronic waste (e-waste) has presently been generated in Vietnam, posing a growing concern regarding its impact can have on the environment and human health. Therefore, the need for developing policies and regulations towards the environmentally sound management of e-waste is becoming crucial. Although the municipa...

Service Composition for End-Users

RESTful services are becoming a popular technology for providing and consuming cloud services. The idea of cloud computing is based on on-demand services and their agile usage. This implies that also personal service compositions and workflows should be supported. Some approaches for RESTful service compositions have been proposed. In practice, such compositions typically present mashup applica...

Social Networks for End Users

Visualizations of Collaborative Information for End-Users

There is a growing need for methods and tools to illuminate the social contexts of interaction environments created by the World Wide Web, Usenet newsgroups, email lists, and other network interaction media. We present here a framework for creating visualizations of the social connections created in and through network interaction media. Using graph-drawing methods, visualizations can be create...

Flexible Plans for Adaptation by End-Users

Ubiquitous computing promotes flexibility for the enduser. This means that some design choices have to be shifted from design-time to run-time in order to involve the end-user into the decision process. In this paper, we study flexible plans, i.e. plans that let the end-user arrange tasks planned by an automated process seeking to achieve his needs. More precisely, we present an algorithm λ-gra...