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Open AccessEthical and legal considerations for nutrition virtual coaches
Choices and preferences of individuals are nowadays increasingly influenced by countless inputs and recommendations provided by artificial intelligence-based systems. The accuracy of recommender systems (RS) h...
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Open AccessExploring agent-based chatbots: a systematic literature review
In the last decade, conversational agents have been developed and adopted in several application domains, including education, healthcare, finance, and tourism. Nevertheless, chatbots still need to address sev...
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Study-Buddy: A Knowledge Graph-Powered Learning Companion for School Students
Large Language Models (LLMs) have the potential to substantially improve educational tools for students. However, they face limitations, including factual accuracy, personalization, and the lack of control ove...
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Open AccessCohort and Trajectory Analysis in Multi-Agent Support Systems for Cancer Survivors
In the past decades, the incidence rate of cancer has steadily risen. Although advances in early and accurate detection have increased cancer survival chances, these patients must cope with physical and psycho...
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A Platform for Difficulty Assessment and Recommendation of Hiking Trails
In recent years, the popularity of hiking has steadily increased across different segments of the population. Although there is considerable evidence of the benefits for hikers regarding physical and mental he...
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Towards Collaborative Creativity in Persuasive Multi-agent Systems
Persuasive systems play a crucial role in supporting and counseling people to achieve individual behavior change goals. Intelligent systems have been used for inducing a positive adjustment of attitudes and ro...
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Towards Explainable Visionary Agents: License to Dare and Imagine
Since their appearance, computer programs have embodied discipline and structured approaches and methodologies. Yet, to this day, equip** machines with imaginative and creative capabilities remains one of th...
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The Evolution of Chatbots in Tourism: A Systematic Literature Review
In the last decade, Information and Communication Technologies have revolutionized the tourism and hospitality sector. One of the latest innovations sha** new dynamics and fostering a remarkable behavioral c...
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Dynamic consent management for clinical trials via private blockchain technology
Clinical trials (CTs) are essential for the advancement of medical research, paving the way for the development and adoption of new treatments, and contributing to the evolution of healthcare. An essential fac...
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Open AccessAgent-based Modeling for Ontology-driven Analysis of Patient Trajectories
Patients are often required to follow a medical treatment after discharge, e.g., for a chronic condition, rehabilitation after surgery, or for cancer survivor therapies. The need to adapt to new lifestyles, me...
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SEAMLESS: Simulation and Analysis for Multi-Agent System in Time-Constrained Environments
The correctness of a system operating in time-constrained scenarios leverages on both precision and delivery time of its outcome. This paper presents SEAMLESS, a system enabling the design, simulation, and in-...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Personal Data Privacy Semantics in Multi-Agent Systems Interactions
In recent years, we have witnessed the growth of applications relying on the use and processing of personal data, especially in the health and well-being domains. Users themselves produce these data (e.g., thr...
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Semantic Data Models for Hiking Trail Difficulty Assessment
Hiking is a popular outdoor activity that if practiced regularly, can bring significant health benefits. Moreover, considering that hikers range from expert mountaineers to older adults with limited physical ...
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Autonomous RDF Stream Processing for IoT Edge Devices
The wide adoption of increasingly cheap and computationally powerful single-board computers, has triggered the emergence of new paradigms for collaborative data processing among IoT devices. Motivated by the b...
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Ethical Concerns and Opportunities in Binding Intelligent Systems and Blockchain Technology
Intelligent systems are becoming increasingly complex and pervade a broad range of application domains, including safety-critical systems such as e-health, finance, and energy management. Traditional approache...
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Towards Profile and Domain Modelling in Agent-Based Applications for Behavior Change
Health support programs play a vital role in public health and prev...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Startup Assessment Approach Based on Multi-Agent and Blockchain Technologies
The dynamic nature of startups is linked to both high risks in investments as well as potentially important financial benefits. A key aspect to manage interactions among investors, experts, and startups, is th...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
SanTour: Towards Personalized Recommendation of Hiking Trails to Health Profiles
Health tourism represents a promising niche still insufficiently exploited in Europe and Switzerland. Hiking has been a popular tourist activity for years and staying healthy is an important motivation for hik...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Multi-agent Interactions on the Web Through Linked Data Notifications
The evolution of the Web towards a semantically-enriched information space has risen several challenges and opportunities concerning the interaction, knowledge representation, and design of multi-agent systems...
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VoCaLS: Vocabulary and Catalog of Linked Streams
The nature of Web data is changing. The popularity of news feeds and social media, the rise of the Web of Things, and the adoption of sensor technologies are examples of streaming data that reached the Web sca...