Data mining technology has emerged as a means for identifying patterns and trends from large quantities of data. The Data Mining technology normally adopts data integration method to generate Data warehouse, on which to gather all data into a central site, and then run an algorithm against that data to extract the useful Module Prediction and knowledge evaluation. Recommendation systems apply s...

Service discovery is a fundamental aspect of many services oriented applications; however, it cannot be directly applied to mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) due to their dynamic nature. The lack of central manager nodes results in the need of specific discovery solutions for this kind of networks. In this paper, we present a solution for the discovery of services in MANETs that is based on the cl...

The purpose of this paper is to describe the work in progress related to the customisation, the trial and the evaluation of an innovative e-learning platform for manager upgrade in Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) in the framework of an EC funded project named InTraServ and its forthcoming re-engineering process aimed to the adoption of distributed services in the framework of another EC fund...

Mobile devices, such as smartphones, provide a readily available basis for mobile offloading [2] and mobile applications [3]. Given the density of devices in urban scenarios, the key challenge is to discover and connect to devices participating in the same application, i.e., that provide or request content of interest. However, the network-centric design of 802.11 requires instantiation of and ...

Up-to-date geospatial information can help crisis management community to coordinate its response. In addition to data that is created and curated by experts, there is an abundance of user-generated, user-curated data on Social Web sites such as Flickr, Delicious, and Google Earth, that can be used to harvest knowledge to solve real-world problems. User-generated, or social, metadata can be use...

Grid resource management mainly schedules applications over the available resources. Such scheduling over a large scale distributed environment raises performance issues. Most of the current implementations paid a little consideration of performance issues that are raised at service discovery and advertisement processes. In this work an agent based resource management system, ARMS, is enhanced ...

While researchers have been exploring automatic presentation capture since the 1990’s, real world adoption has been limited. Our research focuses on simplifying presentation capture and retrieval to reduce adoption barriers. ProjectorBox is our attempt to create a smart appliance that seamlessly captures, indexes, and archives presentation media, with streamlined user interfaces for searching, ...

Learners learn differently. Research shows that learners learn best when the learning experience is personalized to individual needs. Open Education Resource (OER) platforms potentially provide an ideal learning environment to meet the diverse needs of learners, including learners with disabilities. Unfortunately accessibility was not a consideration when OER were initially designed or develope...

A powerful means to help users discover new content in the overwhelming amount of information available today is sharing in online communities such as social networks or crowdsourced platforms. This means comes short in the case of what we call communities of a place: people who study, live or work at the same place. Such people often share common interests but either do not know each other or ...