Virtual learning has opened new vistas in meta-information handling. Large collections of portfolios and e-books, large communities of e-people and processes over widespread virtual campuses impose a new management strategy. The most appropriate solution for a global university is to use a grid architecture based on distributed warehouses in order to use its distributed processing power. This p...

Hardware implementation of artificial neural networks (ANNs) allows exploiting the inherent parallelism of these systems. Nevertheless, they require a large amount of resources in terms of area and power dissipation. Recently, Reservoir Computing (RC) has arisen as a strategic technique to design recurrent neural networks (RNNs) with simple learning capabilities. In this work, we show a new app...

Cloud computing (CC) almost all IT resources can be delivered as a cloud service: applications, compute power, storage capacity, networking, programming tools, even communications services and collaboration tools. In other word CC defines the data is mostly resident on servers ‘somewhere on the Internet’ and the application runs on both the ‘cloud servers’ and the user’s browser. Load balancing...

Big data in healthcare has drawn substantial attention in recent years. Current researches on big data in healthcare are highly interdisciplinary involving methodologies from engineering, computing, behavior science, information science, social science, management science, as well as many different areas in medicine and public health. However, the identification of major hot topics and related ...

Inspired by the latest development in cognitive informatics and contemporary denotational mathematics, cognitive computing is an emerging paradigm of intelligent computing methodologies and systems, which implements computational intelligence by autonomous inferences and perceptions mimicking the mechanisms of the brain. This article presents a survey on the theoretical framework and architectu...

background recognizing the significant impact of wait times for care for individuals with complex chronic conditions, we applied a lean methodology, namely – an adaptation of value stream mapping (vsm) to meet the needs of people with multiple chronic conditions and to improve wait times without additional resources or funding.   methods over an 18-month time period, staff applied a patient-cen...

IS departments have long wrestled with the concept of charging for both the use of computing resources and the services their staffs provide to customers. The growing complexity of the technical environment, especially the proliferation of client/server computing and the use of the Internet, introduces new issues into the chargeback debate. This article proposes alternative charging methodologi...

ME’13 focuses on potentials and challenges of mobile computing for the software engineering community. The workshop discusses emerging ideas, methodologies, frameworks, tools, as well as industrial experiences with the engineering and management of mobile services and applications, and aims at establishing a research community around these topics. Furthermore, the workshop provides an interacti...

The SSIX (Social Sentiment analysis financial IndeXes) project is a European Innovation Project sponsored by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 framework. SSIX aims to provide European SMEs with a collection of easy to interpret tools to analyse and understand social media sentiment for any given topic regardless of locale or language. The United Kingdom’s recent referendum on Europ...