The European Commission is developing a Single Transport Area and has promoted modal shift from road to rail achieve more competitive resource-efficient transport system [...]

This work is intended to foster a “quantum leap” in the reflection on learning in smart cities/territories. We try to move from a vision according to which education is identified with “infrastructures and services” needed to sustain the smart city “organism” (due also to the social capital that it may produce) toward a “new” vision that recovers the founding role of the educative processes, th...

With the ongoing rise and phenomenal success of machine learning (ML), particularly deep learning, efficient training of large neural network models in scalable cloud infrastructures becomes a priority. ML workloads have traditionally been run in high-performance computing (HPC) environments, where users log in to dedicated machines and utilize the attached GPUs to run jobs that train models on...

The evolution of the Web to a place for semantic data integration and the development of Linked Data infrastructures offer new possibilities and promise better and more effective ways of interaction, adaption, data sharing and re-use of data between applications. E-Learning and Web-based education have become essential building blocks of education in general, delivering course material over the...

This presentation and accompanying demonstration focuses on the development of a mobile platform for e-learning purposes with enhanced text-to-speech capabilities. It reports on an international consortium project entitled Mobile E-learning for Africa (MELFA), which includes a reading and literacy training component, particularly focusing on an African language, isiXhosa. The high penetration r...

The growth of the Internet and the World Wide Web has changed the way people are educated, and distance learning is amongst the most promising fields of new Web applications built from existing services with supporting infrastructures. In this paper, we introduce a number of new applications built from Stateless Client Systems to assist the learning of computer-based activities. Stateless Clien...

Since software systems play an important role in applications more than ever, the security has become one of the most important indicators of softwares.Cloud computing refers to services that run in a distributed network and are accessible through common internet protocols. Presenting a proper scheduling method can lead to efficiency of resources by decreasing response time and costs. This rese...

The transformation of our society into a knowledge society has made lifelong learning and education in general the predominant topics. Various education initiatives and statistics initiated by politicians emphasize the necessity of sustainable knowledge management. The global labour market also confronts people with completely new challenges. The technological progress and short half-life of kn...

background: we aimed to develop and evaluate outcomes of a blended learning (bl) program for nursing and midwifery education in iran. materials and methods: this was a participatory action research project. after designing bl website, providing technological infrastructures, and holding preparatory workshops, 22 blended courses were designed. bl method was implemented for one semester. students...

This paper explores how accountability metrics are enacted in unfolding healthcare practices. We examine the socio-technical infrastructures that underpin and enable quantification of care, and how users of quantified data not only react to quantitative practices and underlying infrastructures, but also actively give shape to them through practices of gamification. In the paper, we elucidate th...