New Contributions in Information Systems and Technologies: Volume 1

Front Matter....Pages 1-28
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Projects as Knowledge Swirls in the Technological Innovation Romania’s Situation....Pages 3-12
Question Answering Track Evaluation in TREC, CLEF and NTCIR....Pages 13-22
Concurrency Detection on Finish-to-Start Activity Precedence Networks....Pages 23-31
Refactoring Rules for Graph Databases....Pages 33-42
Knowledge Asset Management Pertinent to Information Systems Outsourcing....Pages 43-55
Meta-model of Information Visualization Based on Treemap....Pages 57-68
Project Management: Evaluation of the Problems in the Portuguese Construction Industry....Pages 69-78
A Structural Prototype for Planning and Controlling a Manufacturing System....Pages 79-90
Towards a Multidimensional Information Retrieval....Pages 91-100
A Comparative Study of Platforms for Research Data Management: Interoperability, Metadata Capabilities and Integration Potential....Pages 101-111
Automatic Upload of Professional Profiles Directly from Sources....Pages 113-119
Prototype of Knowledge Management in Social Networks: Case LinkedIn....Pages 121-132
Strength Pareto Fitness Assignment for Generating Expansion Features....Pages 133-142
Towards Reusing Data Cleaning Knowledge....Pages 143-150
Big Data, Internet of Things and Cloud Convergence for E-Health Applications....Pages 151-160
User-Driven Methodology for Data Quality Assessment in the Context of Robbery Events....Pages 161-170
TIGER-Based Assessment of Nursing Informatics Competencies (TANIC)....Pages 171-177
An Assessment of Chronic Kidney Diseases....Pages 179-191
A Guideline for Using Knowledge Management in Telemedicine Systems Dedicated for Diabetes Patients in Saudi Arabia....Pages 193-201
Collaboration with AORN to Develop the Technology in the OR (TOR) Tool: How Does Technology Affect the Nature of Surgeries for PeriOperative Nurses – A Research Study....Pages 203-207
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Nursing Informatics Competencies Assessment Level 3 and Level 4 (NICA L3/L4)....Pages 209-214
A Comparison of Two Oversampling Techniques (SMOTE vs MTDF) for Handling Class Imbalance Problem: A Case Study of Customer Churn Prediction....Pages 215-225
A Supervised Approach to Arabic Text Summarization Using AdaBoost....Pages 227-236
Commercial Business Intelligence Suites Comparison....Pages 237-246
A Multi-agent Framework for Web Information Foraging: Application to MedlinePlus....Pages 247-256
The Length of Hospital Stay in Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Predictive Model with Laboratory and Administrative Data....Pages 257-264
Managing Academic Profiles on Scientific Social Networks....Pages 265-273
The Influence of the Use of Mobile Devices and the Cloud Computing in Organizations....Pages 275-284
QUALITUS: An Integrated Information Architecture for the Quality Management System of Hospitals....Pages 285-297
Digital Preservation and Criminal Investigation: A Pending Subject....Pages 299-309
Cyber Resilience – Fundamentals for a Definition....Pages 311-316
The Project of Electronic Monitoring of Insolvency Proceeding Results in the Czech Republic: Utilization of IT Reduces Information Asymmetry among Economic Subjects....Pages 317-327
Influence of Users’ Privacy Risks Literacy on the Intention to Install a Mobile Application....Pages 329-341
Types of Linkages between Business Processes and Regulations....Pages 343-349
Evolution of Methodological Proposals for the Development of Enterprise Architecture....Pages 351-359
Step towards of a Homemade Business Intelligence Solution – A Case Study in Textile Industry....Pages 361-370
A REstfull Approach for Classifying Pollutants in Water Using Neural Networks....Pages 371-380
Decentralized Human Resource Management in Public Service – The Italian National Research Council Approach....Pages 381-393
An Integrated Service Solution for Digital Discount Coupons Processing....Pages 395-401
Storing Archival Emigration Documents to Create Virtual Exhibition Rooms....Pages 403-409
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Agent-Oriented Based Enterprise Architecture Implementation Methodology....Pages 411-419
The Future of Mind Reading Computer....Pages 421-432
Front Matter....Pages 433-433
Maturity, Benefits and Project Management Shaping Project Success....Pages 435-448
‘Bricolage’ in the Implementation and the Use of IS by Micro-firms: An Empirical Study....Pages 449-458
Implementation of Information Systems Security Policies: A Survey in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises....Pages 459-468
OPM3 ® Portugal Project – Information Systems and Technologies Organizations – Outcome Analysis....Pages 469-479
Three New Dimensions to People, Process, Technology Improvement Model....Pages 481-490
The Associating Factors and Outcomes of Green Supply Chain Management Implementation – From the Technological and Non-technological Perspectives....Pages 491-501
Letting Organizations to Find the Correct Way to Start in the Implementation of Software Process Improvements....Pages 503-512
Applying Action Research in the Formulation of Information Security Policies....Pages 513-522
Sorting with One-Dimensional Cellular Automata Using Odd-Even Transposition....Pages 523-532
Bayesian and Graph Theory Approaches to Develop Strategic Early Warning Systems for the Milk Market....Pages 533-542
Supporting Workflow and Adaptive Case Management with Language Technologies....Pages 543-552
Decision Support System for the Agri-food Sector – The Sousacamp Group Case....Pages 553-563
Advanced System for Garden Irrigation Management....Pages 565-574
Media Brokerage: Agent-Based SLA Negotiation....Pages 575-584
An Information System for Management and Optimization of Materials in the Wood Industry....Pages 585-591
Aligning Business Requirements with Services Quality Characteristics by Using Logical Architectures....Pages 593-602
Maximize System Reliability for Long Lasting and Continuous Applications....Pages 603-612
Am I Really Who I Claim to Be?....Pages 613-616
Front Matter....Pages 617-617
An Overview of Decision Support Benchmarks: TPC-DS, TPC-H and SSB....Pages 619-628
The Yantai Urban Economic Development Assessment Simulator....Pages 629-639
Multi Criteria Decision Support System: Preference Information and Robustness....Pages 641-651
An Automated System for Offline Signature Verification and Identification Using Delaunay Triangulation....Pages 653-663
Based System on Decisions Making for Environmental Preservation....Pages 665-669
Prototyping the One-Dimensional Cutting Stock Problem with Usable Leftovers for the Furniture Industry....Pages 671-677
Big Data for Stock Market by Means of Mining Techniques....Pages 679-688
Using Data Mining Techniques to Support Breast Cancer Diagnosis....Pages 689-700
BeSmart2: A Multicriteria Decision Aid Application....Pages 701-710
Front Matter....Pages 711-711
Ubiquitous Self-Organizing Map: Learning Concept-Drifting Data Streams....Pages 713-722
Big Data in Cloud: A Data Architecture....Pages 723-732
Developing Health Analytics Design Artifact for Improved Patient Activation: An On-going Case Study....Pages 733-739
NoSQL Databases: A Software Engineering Perspective....Pages 741-750
Front Matter....Pages 751-751
VVSHOP - The Vinho Verde Electronic Retailers Directory Revisited....Pages 753-762
Scalability of Facebook Architecture....Pages 763-772
Creating Smart Tests from Recorded Automated Test Cases....Pages 773-780
Model for Evaluation and Cost Estimations of the Automated Testing Architecture....Pages 781-787
PCTgen: Automated Generation of Test Cases for Application Workflows....Pages 789-794
Gamification Proposal for a Software Engineering Risk Management Course....Pages 795-802
The Impact of Software Requirement Change – A Review....Pages 803-812
Front Matter....Pages 751-751
A Data Mining Framework for Primary Biodiversity Data Analysis....Pages 813-821
Open Source Backup Systems for SMEs....Pages 823-832
Semi-automatic Generation of Virtual Reality Environments for Electric Power Substations....Pages 833-842
iEcoSys – An Intelligent Waste Management System....Pages 843-853
Dynamic Replication and Deployment of Services in Mobile Environments....Pages 855-864
Towards an Augmented Assistance Dog....Pages 865-873
Exploring the Distance, Location, and Style of “Selfies” with the Self-Pano Mobile Application....Pages 875-884
Metrics Selection for Testability of Object-Oriented Systems....Pages 885-896
STTP – A Supporting Tool for the Teaching of Physics Using Android Platform....Pages 897-902
Communication Technologies in the Analysis of Online Reputation and Job Search....Pages 903-911
MoCaS: Mobile Carpooling System....Pages 913-922
Front Matter....Pages 923-923
An Efficient and Adaptive Threshold of Volumetric Segmentation....Pages 925-935
Transparent Handover Using WiFi Network Prediction for Mobile Video Streaming....Pages 937-946
Front Matter....Pages 947-947
Hybrid Distributed-Hierarchical Identity Based Cryptographic Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks....Pages 949-958
SPORANGIUM: Exploiting a Virtualization Layer to Support the Concept of Sporadic Cloud Computing with Users on the Move....Pages 959-966
An Approach for Resilient Hierarchical Routing in Mobile Networks....Pages 967-977
Improving Lifetime and Availability for Ad Hoc Networks to Emergency and Rescue Scenarios....Pages 979-989
Black Virus Decontamination in Arbitrary Networks....Pages 991-1000
Analytical and Simulation Modeling to Analyze Reliability State of Wireless Sensor Networks....Pages 1001-1011
Interacting and Making Personalized Recommendations of Places of Interest to Tourists....Pages 1013-1022
Front Matter....Pages 947-947
Use of Social Network Site´s Profile for the Employment Seeking Process....Pages 1023-1032
Performance Evaluation of Long-Distance 802.11n Networks....Pages 1033-1043
Architecture for Wireless Grids....Pages 1045-1054
Front Matter....Pages 1055-1055
Focus Group Foci: Employing Participants’ HCI and Application Domain Expertise in Interaction Design....Pages 1057-1063
Understanding the Effect of Techno-interruptions in the Workplace....Pages 1065-1071
New Solutions for Old Problems: Use of Interfaces Human/Computer to Assist People with Visual and/or Motor Impairment in the Use of DOSVOX and microFênix....Pages 1073-1079
Integrating Usability in the Software Development Process in the Main Development Companies of Ecuador (Quito, Guayaquil and Cuenca)....Pages 1081-1087
Human Evaluation of Online Machine Translation Services for English/Russian-Croatian....Pages 1089-1098
Controlled Vacuum Packed Particles as a Part of Machine Interface System....Pages 1099-1108
On the Boundaries of Telemedicine....Pages 1109-1119
Can Transparency Enhancing Tools Support Patient’s Accessing Electronic Health Records?....Pages 1121-1132
A Kinect-Based Virtual Reality System for Parkinson Disease Rehabilitation....Pages 1133-1139
Evaluating the Usability of Library Websites Using an Heuristic Analysis Approach on Smart Mobile Phones: Preliminary Findings of a Study in Saudi Universities....Pages 1141-1152
Using Serious Games to Train Children and Elicit Fire Safety Behaviour....Pages 1153-1162
Front Matter....Pages 1163-1163
Medical Data Integration with SNOMED-CT and HL7....Pages 1165-1171
A Data Preparation Methodology in Data Mining Applied to Mortality Population Databases....Pages 1173-1182
LabsMóveis: Innovation in the University Classroom through Mobile Devices....Pages 1183-1191
Student Participation in Researching Projects: A Practical Experience....Pages 1193-1199
Front Matter....Pages 1201-1201
A Methodology to Use Market Simulation Software in the Teaching of Business Management....Pages 1203-1212
Contemplation on Today’s Digital Education....Pages 1213-1220
Front Matter....Pages 1201-1201
New Algorithms for Smart Assessment of Math Exercises....Pages 1221-1230
Distance Education Evaluation: An Analysis of the β Factor from LV Model Subjectivity....Pages 1231-1241
Massive Open Online Course in Teacher Training: Between Limitations and Possibilities....Pages 1243-1245
Back Matter....Pages 1247-1250