Ambient Intelligence
14th European Conference, AmI 2018, Larnaca, Cyprus, November 12-14, 2018, Proceedings
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Air pollution has been shown to have serious negative effects on people’s health, the environment, and the economy. It is becoming more and more crucial to model, predict, and monitor air quality, particularly...
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It has been noted that during times of crisis, economic practices organized on principles of reciprocity often arise. In the last decade in Greece Social and Solidarity Economy seemed to gain a momentum under ...
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Self-assessment tools (SAT) are critical to educators’ professional development, allowing them to reflect upon the challenges they face towards accomplishing their teaching and learning goals and the necessary...
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More and more smart cities are emerging worldwide aiming to improved urban management and sustainable growth by the use of digital technologies. People comprise a crucial axis in these efforts, and a high-skil...
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One of the biggest challenges in building sustainable smart cities of the future is skill management and development. Develo** the digital skills of the municipalities’ workforce is crucial for all occupatio...
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Online learning has developed rapidly in the past decade, leading to increased scientific interest in e-learning environments. Specifically, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) attract a large number of people...
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The present research work proposes the development of an integrated framework for the personalization and parameterization of learning pathways, aiming at optimizing the quality of the offered services by the ...
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One of the main challenges to be confronted by modern tertiary sector, so as to improve quality is the personalization of learning, which has to be combined with a minimization of the respective costs. However...
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One of the main challenges to be confronted in Higher Education, so as to increase quality, is the personalization of education services, since each student constitutes a unique case. In this paper, we present...
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One of the main challenges to be confronted by Higher Educational Institutions (HEI), so as to increase quality, is the provision of personalized education services in a wide range of educational settings, oft...
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Internet of Things and other state-of-the-art technologies like mobile and ubiquitous computing present ample opportunities for develo** novel solutions almost in every domain of modern life. The research wo...
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14th European Conference, AmI 2018, Larnaca, Cyprus, November 12-14, 2018, Proceedings
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The objective of the knowledge architecture of ATRACO is to enhance communication, as well as to ensure effective knowledge sharing among ATRACO components. It is built around ontologies, Ontology Managers, an...
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12th European Conference, AmI 2015, Athens, Greece, November 11-13, 2015, Proceedings
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The population ageing trend has created an imperative need for ICT-based solutions that will support continuous care provision and help elders prolong the time they live independently in their own home environ...
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We explain basic features of an emerging area called Intelligent Environments. We give a short overview on how it has developed, what is the current state of the art and what are the challenges laying ahead. T...
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An Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) offers personalized education to each student in accordance with his/her learning preferences and his/her background. One of the most fundamental components of an ITS is th...
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One of the most important tasks in the process of designing educational material for distance learning is the representation and modeling of the cognitive domain to which the material refers. However, this rep...
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Java is a very popular programming language and many study programs in Informatics worldwide include courses particularly designed for its learning. It is considered as the best paradigm for introducing studen...
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The importance of Learning Objects (LOs) in the learning process - especially in the case of distance education - has been underlined significantly in the literature. The ability of administrating LOs in terms...