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Decentralized service discovery and selection in Internet of Things applications based on artificial potential fields
The Internet of Things (IoT) vision involves a future Internet integrated with real-world objects that can commonly offer their functionality trough services. In such pervasive environments of IoT networks, lo...
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Linking Smart Energy and Smart Irrigation: Integration, System Architecture, Prototype Implementation and Experimentation
Irrigation is, for certain geographical regions, a vital activity which often happens to be an expensive one. For those regions, irrigation commonly accounts to significant energy consumption. In this paper, w...
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A Serious Game for Digital Skill Building Among Individuals at Risk, Promoting Employability and Social Inclusion
The EMPLOY project addresses the development of digital skills among young learners with the objective of enhancing their future employment opportunities in innovation-related sectors that are expected by poli...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Virtual City Environment for Engineering Problem Based Learning
Secondary education students often struggle with Mathematics and Science, preventing them to follow a successful career in Engineering. At a higher education level, problems still exist, including in their mot...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Gamified Community for Fostering Learning Engagement Towards Preventing Early School Leaving
Early school leaving is a complex phenomenon that may adversely affect on a learner’s future development. ESL is the result of a combination of factors, such as insufficient school curricula understanding, low...
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Serious Game Design for Vehicular Language Learning Addressing Work Needs
In today’s open business environment peer communication across borders is the norm. It is commonplace in face-to-face interaction as well as on-line communities that facilitate work related collaboration of cr...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Immune Inspired Information Filtering in a High Dimensional Space
Adaptive Information Filtering is a challenging computational problem that requires a high dimensional feature space. However, theoretical issues arise when vector-based representations are adopted in such a s...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Dynamic-Data-Driven Real-Time Computational Mechanics Environment
The proliferation of sensor networks in various areas of technology has enabled real-time behavioral monitoring of various physical systems in various length and time scales. The opportunity to use these data ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Agent-Based Simulation of Data-Driven Fire Propagation Dynamics
Real world problems such as fire propagation prediction, can often be considered as a compositional combination of multiple, simple but coupled subproblems corresponding to analytical and computational behavio...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Topic 16: Integrated Problem Solving Environments
Problem Solving Environments (PSEs) can be defined as integrated computing environments for develo**, executing and analysing applications in a specific domain. They provide a set of user-friendly mechanisms...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
DDEMA: A Data Driven Environment for Multiphysics Applications
In this paper we present the design of a multidisciplined problem solving environment (MPSE) for supporting an efficient prediction capability for the response of multiscale interdisciplinary continuous intera...
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Chapter
SoftLab: A Virtual Laboratory Framework for Computational Science
The new economic realities require the rapid prototy** of manufactured artifacts and rapid solutions to problems with numerous interrelated elements. In the SoftLab project, we investigate the issues involve...