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Two 1%s Don’t Make a Whole: Comparing Simultaneous Samples from Twitter’s Streaming API
We compare samples of tweets from the Twitter Streaming API constructed from different connections that tracked the same popular keywords at the same time. We find that on average, over 96% of the tweets seen ...
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Towards Anonymous Ciphertext Indistinguishability with Identity Leakage
Key escrow is a major drawback of identity-based encryption (IBE). The key generation centre (KGC) can generate the user secret key of any user by using the master secret key and the user’s identity. This pape...
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Inclusive Design: Bridging Theory and Practice
Large groups in society lack the necessary skills to be sufficiently self-reliant and are in need of personal assistance. These groups could be supported by information and information technology (ICT), but on...
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CogWatch – Automated Assistance and Rehabilitation of Stroke-Induced Action Disorders in the Home Environment
Stroke frequently causes apraxia, particularly if it affects the left-hemisphere. A major symptom of apraxia is the presence of deficits during the execution and organization of activities of daily living (ADL...
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Analyzing Deceptive Speech
This current work explored the speech-based attributes of participants who were being deceptive in an experimental interrogation setting. In particular, the study attempted to investigate the appropriateness o...
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A Low-Cost Classroom-Oriented Educational Robotics System
Over the past few years, there has been a growing interest in using robots in education. The use of these tangible devices in combination with problem-based learning activities results in more motivated studen...
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HySoN: A Distributed Agent-Based Protocol for Group Formation in Online Social Networks
On-line social networks allow people to easily interact with each other by means of social computer services. This scenario makes possible to search in a social network for affinities or new opportunities that...
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Hacking the Natural Habitat: An In-the-Wild Study of Smart Homes, Their Development, and the People Who Live in Them
Commercial home automation systems are becoming increasingly common, affording the opportunity to study technology-augmented homes in real world contexts. In order to understand how these technologies are bein...
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Payload Drop Application of Unmanned Quadrotor Helicopter Using Gain-Scheduled PID and Model Predictive Control Techniques
In this paper two useful control techniques are applied to a Quadrotor helicopter to control the height and while carrying a payload weighing one-fourth of its total weight as well as drop** the payload at a...
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Trustworthy Execution on Mobile Devices: What Security Properties Can My Mobile Platform Give Me?
We are now in the post-PC era, yet our mobile devices are insecure. We consider the different stake-holders in today’s mobile device ecosystem, and analyze why widely-deployed hardware security primitives on m...
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Power Reduction in WDM Mesh Networks Using Grooming Strategies
This work reports on the benefits of using energy-efficient grooming strategies in WDM mesh networks in terms of the overall network power consumption. We examine a key enabling node architecture called tap-or...
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A Hybrid System for Online Detection of Emotional Distress
Nowadays, people are familiar with online communication and tend to express their deeper feelings on the Web. In the light of this situation, we present a hybrid system based on affect analysis for mining emot...
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Multi-sorted Argumentation
In the theory of abstract argumentation, the acceptance status of arguments is normally determined for the complete set of arguments at once, under a single semantics. However, this is not always desired. In t...
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Using Properties to Compare Both Words and Clauses
There are many applications that use the semantic similarity of words to compare input to stored data, such as conversational agents. When a human thinks of a word they consider a meaning which has associated ...
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The Fundamental Principle of Coactive Design: Interdependence Must Shape Autonomy
This article presents the fundamental principle of Coactive Design, a new approach being developed to address the increasingly sophisticated roles for both people and agents in mixed human-agent systems. The fund...
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Capacity-Building in Nonprofit Organizations: Is There a Blended Learning Paradigm for the Sector?
Blended learning models are widely-used, successful training vehicles for e-learning and workplace training, in corporate as well as higher education environments. Increasingly, Web 2.0 applications, imbedded ...
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Evaluating Interaction of MAS Providing Context-Aware Services
Much effort has been spent on suggesting and implementing new architectures of MAS to specific domains. Often each new architecture is not even compared to any existing architectures in order to evaluate their...
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VigilAgent for the Development of Agent-Based Multi-robot Surveillance Systems
Usually, surveillance applications are developed following an ad-hoc approach instead of using a methodology to guide stakeholders in achieving quality standards expected from commercial software. To solve thi...
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Extending Learning Objects by Means of Social Networking
Learning objects have been the promise of providing people with high quality learning resources. Initiatives such as MIT OpenCourseWare, MERLOT and others have shown the real possibilities of creating and shar...
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Emo-dramatic Robotic Stewards
In this paper will be presented an heterogeneous colony of robots capable to cooperate with people as effective partners to provide different kind of support among various working environments, such as museums...
