Browsing by Subject "Computer science"
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Business Model Development Based on Sharing Systems and Data Exchange for Sustainable City Logistics
(2021)Transport is adapting to the rapid development of technology, adopting new trends and focusing on people and environment. At the same time, the needs of citizens’ mobility and goods’ transportation are complex, requiring ... -
Dialogue-based personalized reflective learning
(2004)The Web-Based Reflective Tutorial Dialogue System (W-ReTuDiS) is a system for personalized learning of historical text comprehension on the Web. The system offers a two level open interface: tutor level and learner level. ... -
An exact solution algorithm for maximizing the fleet availability of an aircraft unit subject to flight and maintenance requirements
(2013)Flight and Maintenance Planning (FMP) of mission aircraft addresses the question of which available aircraft to fly and for how long, and which grounded aircraft to perform maintenance operations on, in a group of aircraft ... -
Exploring the Concept of Cyberpark: What the Experts Think
(2019)The chapter aims to provide a contextualisation of the cyberpark concept as this is perceived by a wide range of experts in public space and information technologies. To do so it makes use of a questionnaire survey conducted ... -
Home Supporting Smart Systems for Elderly People
(2020)Smart devices are becoming more and more, over time, familiar tools to our lives. This, coupled with the need to support elderly people in their daily routine and their desire for aging-in-place, has led researchers to ... -
Introducing Non-Computer Science Undergraduates to Web Development: Results of an Investigative Study on Student Teachers
(2003)A series of workshops aming at introducing non-computer science undergraduates to web development were discussed. Forty-six second year student teachers participated in a series of eight two-hour workshops, organized within ... -
Introducing “Kodu” to Implement Cross Curricular Based Scenarios in English for K-12 Learners
(2018)In the present study the programming language of Kodu was used as a tool to implement a cross-curricular series of lessons combining the subjects of English and Computer Science. The purpose was to see the extent to which ... -
IRaaS: A cloud implementation of an interface relaxation method for the solution of PDEs
(2015)The solution of composite Partial Differential Equations is an indispensable step in numerous scientific applications. However, this is a computationally and memory demanding process for large-scale differential equations. ... -
Join-queries between two spatial datasets indexed by a single R*-tree
(2011)A spatial join, a common query in Spatial Databases and Geographical Information Systems (GIS), consists in testing every possible pair of data elements belonging to two spatial datasets against a spatial predicate. This ... -
The magic power of the … magic powerpoint to foster vocational learners’ participation and speaking skills in English! - A comparative study
(2017)This research is about a comparative study between four groups of learners regarding English. Specifically, it investigates the impact of power point on Vocational Secondary School learners’ communicative competence. Two ... -
A Measure Generator Tool for Sustainable Urban Mobility
(2021)The present paper details the development of a designated software that facilitates the selection of the appropriate measures to achieve high level sustainable urban mobility. The main objective of this tool is to combine ... -
Metrics and rankings: Myths and fallacies
(2017)In this paper we provide an introduction to the field of Bibliometrics. In particular, first we briefly describe its beginning and its evolution; we mention the main research fora as well. Further we categorize metrics ... -
A new slicing scheme for efficient use of wireless testbeds
(2009)The gradually growing need for testbed use so as networking algorithms to be validated in real environments, has given rise to optimal utilization of testbed resources. Despite the fact that, many laboratories around the ... -
New Tasks for a Dyslexia Screening Web Application
(2020)Dyslexia is the most common learning disability and it is characterized by a persistent failure to acquire reading skills despite normal intelligence, adequate cognitive abilities, conventional instruction and sociocultural ... -
Public Space Engagement and ICT Usage by University Students: An Exploratory Study in Three Countries
(2019)The new mobile information and communications technologies expand human connectivity to reconfigure public spatialities and to give rise to novel needs for, and practices of, public space usage. The research in this chapter ... -
Rapid prototype development for studying human activity
(2010)Recent years there is an extremely growing interest in the study of human motion. A large amount of scientific research projects deal with problems like monitoring human motion, gesture and posture recognition, fall detection ... -
Screening Executive Functions of Preschool Children via a Web Application
(2021)The present research protocol describes the tasks of a web application that was constructed in order to assess the executive functions of preschool aged children. A total of 65 children four and five years old participated ... -
Stathis zachos at 70!
(2017)This year we are celebrating the 70th birthday of Stathis! We take this chance to recall some of his remarkable contributions to Computer Science. © Springer International Publishing AG 2017. -
Tactile identification of embossed raised lines and raised squares with variable dot elevation by persons who are blind
(2016)We present a study on the identification accuracy of embossed tactile lines and squares in eight dot elevations and two dot densities. The results of correct and misclassified matched stimuli by ten congenitally blind ... -
Teenagers’ Perception of Public Spaces and Their Practices in ICTs Uses
(2019)The new information and communications technologies are expanding human connectivity, reconfiguring urban spatialities and generating a kind of social space that spans real and virtual, personal and impersonal, private and ...