Drivers' behavior is one of the most important factors in traffic safety. Understanding of this issue and its effective factors can be helpful to reduce the influences of human factors on traffic accidents. The objective of this study is to apply Manchester driver behavior questionnaire (DBQ) to a group of drivers who have overtaken on two-lane rural roads and to analyze their behavior. Also, t...

OBJECTIVE To investigate potential violations of patient confidentiality or other breaches of medical ethics committed by physicians and medical students active on the social networking site Twitter. DESIGN Population-based cross-sectional observational study. SETTING The social networking site Twitter (Swedish-speaking users, n=298819). POPULATION Physicians and medical students (Swedish...

In online social networks (OSNs), users are allowed to create and share content about themselves and others. When multiple entities start distributing content, information can reach unintended individuals and inference can reveal more information about the user. Existing applications do not focus on detecting privacy violations before they occur in the system. This thesis proposes an agent-base...

Maritime Intelligence is about empowering users in a port ecosystem with data and visual analytics to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of maritime operations. In this context, discovery and visualization of ship domain violations based on the analysis of trajectories generated by ships could serve important navigational and business purposes. Finding patterns of domain violations in a ...

In response to a long-lasting anticipation by the Java community, version 1.5 of the Java 2 platform referred to as Java 5 introduced generic types and methods to the Java language. The Java 5 generics are a significant enhancement to the language expressivity because they allow straightforward composition of new generic classes from existing ones while reducing the need for a plethora of type ...

This paper introduces key issues to the balance between data collection policies and privacy protection initiatives in an internationally unstructured legal framework. The right to privacy has been addressed and construed differently among jurisdictions, which leads to uncertainties regarding the cross-boarding data collection operations that often occur in the cyberspace. This paper focuses on...

A major deficiency in state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems is the lack of robustness in additive and convolutional noise. The model of auditory perception (PEMO), developed by Dau et al. (1996a) for psychoacoustical purposes, partly overcomes these difficulties when used as a front end for automatic speech recognition. To further improve the performance of this auditory-b...

In this section, we briefly present the formalism we use. This formalism aims at describing the state of a system and its dynamic behaviour in an algebraic framework [DG 94]. It was first introduced in a case study on a formal specification of the embedded safety part of an automatic subway pilot [DM 91], [Dau 92], [DGM 93], in order to cope with the large number of variables whose values made ...

Privacy is a major concern of Web systems. Traditional Web systems employ static privacy agreements to notify its users of how their information will be used. Recent social networks allow users to specify some privacy concerns, thus providing a partially personalized privacy setting. However, still privacy violations are taking place because of different privacy concerns, based on context, audi...