27 Result(s)
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Intelligent Hybrid Architecture for Tourism Services
This paper presents an artificial intelligence-based architecture to be used in various tourism services, namely the user modeling and recommender system components. Through the use of several machine learning...
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Scalable Intelligence and Adaptation in Scheduling DSS
The aim of this paper is to present an evolution of a Scheduling Decision Support System (SDSS) incorporating the concepts of Scalable Intelligence and Adaptation. The purpose of our work is to contribute for ...
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Shop** Center Tracking and Recommendation Systems
Shop** centers present a rich and heterogeneous environment, where IT systems can be implemented in order to support the needs of its actors. However, due to the environment complexity, several feasibility i...
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Some Evidences of the Impact of Environment’s Design Features in Routes Selection in Virtual Environments
This paper reports results from a research project investigating users’ navigation in a Virtual Environment (VE), using immersive Virtual Reality. The experiment was conducted to study the extent that certain ...
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Recommendation and Planning through Mobile Devices in Tourism Context
In this paper we present a mobile recommendation and planning system, named PSiS Mobile. It is designed to provide effective support during a tourist visit through context-aware information and recommendations...
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Lightweight User Modeling – A Case Study
In the context of previous publications, we propose a new lightweight UM process, intended to work as a tourism recommender system in a commercial environment. The new process tackles issues like cold start, g...
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Providing Location Everywhere
The ability to locate an individual is an essential part of many applications, specially the mobile ones. Obtaining this location in an open environment is relatively simple through GPS (Global Positioning Sys...
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Orientation System for People with Cognitive Disabilities
In health care there has been a growing interest and investment in new tools to have a constant monitoring of patients. The increasing of average life expectation and, consequently, the costs in health care du...
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Server to Mobile Device Communication: A Case Study
Develop a client-server application for a mobile environment can bring many challenges because of the mobile devices limitations. So, in this paper is discussed what can be the more reliable way to exchange in...
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Affect Recognition
This survey describes the advances in affect recognition from the first emotion theories and models to affective computer techniques used in affect detection. These techniques allow the recognition of human bo...
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Geo-localization System for People with Cognitive Disabilities
Technology is present in almost every simple aspect of the people’s daily life. As an instance, let us refer to the smartphone. This device is usually equipped with a GPS modulewhich may be used as an orientat...
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Web 2.0: Tagging Usefulness
User tagging in social networks has emerged in the recent years like a very promising way of new knowledge extraction. Our work focus is to understand tags importance and the correlation between them and user ...
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Person Localization Using Sensor Information Fusion
Nowadays the incredible grow of mobile devices market led to the need for location-aware applications. However, sometimes person location is difficult to obtain, since most of these devices only have a GPS (Gl...
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Including Emotion in Learning Process
The purpose of this paper is to propose new architecture that includes the student’s, learning preferences, personality traits and emotions to adapt the user interface and learning path to the students need an...
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Step Count and Classification Using Sensor Information Fusion
In order to suppress the GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) limitation to track persons in indoor or in dense environments, a pedestrian inertial navigation system can be used. However, this type of sys...
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Emotional Adaptive Platform for Learning
The aim of this paper is to present a new approach in user modeling process that use learning and cognitive styles and student emotional state to adapt the user interface, learning content and context. The mod...
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Commercial Business Intelligence Suites Comparison
Business Intelligence (BI) can be a powerful ally to organizations, in decision making processes. BI is not yet a reality in some companies in fact, it’s even unknown in many of them. It is essential that the ...
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Emotion Effects on Online Learning
Learning is understood as an educational activity which aims to help develop the capacities of individuals. These capabilities make individuals able to establish a personal relationship with the environment in...
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Using Functionality/Accessibility Levels for Personalized POI Recommendation
This paper describes a set of models and algorithms used under a Tourism Recommendation System based in Users and Points-of-Interest (POI) profiles. This work aims to propose a recommendation system that consi...
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Development of a Hybrid Application for Psychotic Disorders Self-Management
This paper describes iCOPE, a hybrid web/mobile application prototype with the purpose of improving the self-management of psychotic disorders. The development of iCOPE was driven by a multidisciplinary collab...
