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Some Results of Incidence Coloring on Generalized Petersen Graphs
Authors: Ding Kun-Fu  , Pai Kung-Jui  , Chang Jou-Ming  , Tsaur Rueiher
Published: February 2025

Let χi(G) denote the incidence coloring number of a graph G. In this paper, we study the incidence coloring on generalized Petersen graphs GP(n,k). We first assure that 4≤χi(GP(n,k))≤5. Furthermore, we provide the following results: (i) χi(GP(n,k))=5 if n is odd, (ii) χi(GP(n,2))=5, and (iii) χi(GP(n,k))=4 if n≡0(mod 4) and k is odd.
An efficient honeypot based malware classification system
Authors: Chen Chia-Mei  , Lai Gu-Hsin
Published: February 2025

The best way to detect new malware or their variants is malware classification. Static and dynamic analysis are most common ways for malware classification. Dynamic analysis is behavior based analysis approach, analysts perform malware in a sandbox (usually in a virtual machine) to observe their behavior. Static analysis is signature based analysis approach, analysts either applies reverse engineering approach or analyses binary code directly to get the signatures of malware. While deployment of honeypot in organizations have become popular, more and more malware which contain source codes and binary files could be captured. Most existing malware analysis approaches focused on analyzing of only single binary file that do not suitable for malware captured by honeypot. Therefore, a classification system for honeypot captured malware is needed in organizations. Moreover, as the number of captured malware increases, analysis and forensics become a new challenge. For IT security staff, how to identify which malware is new or serious attack which needs advanced analysis, and which malware is out-of-date attack which could be ignored from a great volume of captured malware is a critical issue.
Integrating Heuristic Evaluation with Cognitive Walkthrough: Development of a Hybrid Usability Inspection Method
Authors: Kushniruk Andre W.  , Monkman Helen  , Tuden Danica  , Bellwood Paule  , Borycki Elizabeth M.
Published: February 2025

Developing more usable healthcare information systems has become an important goal in health informatics. Although methods from usability engineering have appeared and been effectively applied in the design and evaluation of healthcare systems, there continues to be reports of deployment of unusable systems and issues with adoption of healthcare IT worldwide. In this paper we propose a new cost-effective usability engineering approach for healthcare IT that integrates two of the major usability inspection approaches (heuristic evaluation and cognitive walkthrough) into one combined approach that leverages the advantages of both heuristic evaluation and cognitive walkthrough. The approach will be described as will a pilot application of the method in evaluating the usability of a well-known electronic health record system. Implications and future work will also be described.
An Evaluation of Health Information Technology Outsourcing Success
Authors: Malovec Shannon N.  , Borycki Elizabeth M.  , Kushniruk Andre W.
Published: February 2025

Outsourcing involves contracting out functions performed by an organization to another organization. Many healthcare organizations are exploring outsourcing as a way to address demands for health information technology (HIT). This study researches the success of outsourcing in the health informatics industry in Canada. The study is designed to help understand whether outsourcing four functions of HIT (i.e. development, implementation, operations, and maintenance) can prove successful for an organization. Findings demonstrate that outsourcing these four functions occurs in Canada; however, the research from the semi-structured interviews finds that operations and maintenance may be more commonly outsourced in Canada, over development and implementation functions. Despite this, findings from this research suggest that outsourcing development and implementation may offer more benefits and fewer challenges than outsourcing operations and maintenance. The research also finds that there can be benefits of outsourcing, such as gaining access to expertise and improving service levels. A weakness of outsourcing may be that internal knowledge is lost and having to manage the change required from outsourcing. The study proposes that there are many factors that need to be considered when outsourcing to ensure it is successful.
Nurses: Extending Care Through Telehealth
Authors: Allen Maryah  , Aylott Mya  , Loyola Margarita  , Moric Mika  , Saffarek Lisa
Published: February 2025

Nurses have an immense impact on the growth and scope of Telehealth as they embrace diverse roles. TeleNursing introduces transformational change which positively impacts both clients and providers, increasing access to care and reducing the time and costs associated with traveling for health care. Integration of clinical support and remote diagnostic tools inspire new uses of Telehealth, thus enabling care previously only possible in person to be delivered virtually. Nurses currently leverage Telehealth to deliver care and education, monitor clients remotely and support medical consultations. Over 90% of Island Health nurses surveyed recommend Telehealth as a care modality to clients and 100% support Telehealth as a means to increase care to vulnerable communities. Programs wish to increase uptake of TeleNursing but face numerous challenges regarding funding, resourcing, scheduling and geographical ownership. TeleNursing goes beyond clinical support and has the potential to exponentially expand Telehealth services, normalizing Telehealth as a care modality. Nurses look to Telehealth to improve their ability to partner with clients over distance, providing surgical care, maternal/pediatric care and group education
Managing Geospatial Linked Data in the GeoKnow Project
Authors: Lehmann Jens  , Athanasiou Spiros  , Both Andreas  , Garcia Rojas Alejandra  , Giannopoulos Giorgos  , Hladky Daniel  , Le Grange Jon Jay  , Ngonga Ngomo Axel-Cyrille  , Sherif Mohamed Ahmed  , Stadler Claus  , Wauer Matthias  , Westphal Patrick  , Zaslawski Vadim
Published: February 2025

Within the GeoKnow project, various tools are developed and integrated which aim to simplify managing geospatial Linked Data on the web. In this article, we summarize the state of the art and describe the status of open geospatial data on the web. We continue by presenting the Linked Data Stack as technical underpinning of GeoKnow and give a first presentation of the platform providing a light-weight integration of those tools.
Design Of Home Automation Framework With Social Network Integration
Authors: Werapun Warodom  , Kamhang Amatawit  , Wachiraphan Aekawat
Published: February 2025

In present days, home devices with network capabilities are widely used and augmented for delivering several Home Services (HS) to more end users. The technology integration offers new and exciting opportunities to increase the device connectivity within a home for many proposals of home automation. This paper is designed and implemented for a cost effective, flexible, manageable home automation system. The proposed system consists of three main components: a device control using a microcontroller (e.g., Raspberry PI with control circuit), a notification system (Social network integration) and a user control from anywhere, any time and any device. This system can support a wide range of home appliances connecting through the network as the Internet of Things (IoT) concept. A user is able to easily control home automation system by several ubiquitous devices. Air conditioners and fans are sample devices to be controlled by our system in order to demonstrate the simplicity and effectiveness that will save usage energy.
Identifying Redundant and Missing Relations in the Gene Ontology
Authors: Mougin Fleur
Published: February 2025

Significant efforts have been undertaken for providing the Gene Ontology (GO) in a computable format as well as for enriching it with logical definitions. Automated approaches can thus be applied to GO for assisting its maintenance and for checking its internal coherence. However, inconsistencies may still remain within GO. In this frame, the objective of this work was to audit GO relationships. First, reasoning over relationships was exploited for detecting redundant relations existing between GO concepts. Missing necessary and sufficient conditions were then identified based on the compositional structure of the preferred names of GO concepts. More than one thousand redundant relations and 500 missing necessary and sufficient conditions were found. The proposed approach was thus successful for detecting inconsistencies within GO relations. The application of lexical approaches as well as the exploitation of synonyms and textual definitions could be useful for identifying additional necessary and sufficient conditions. Multiple necessary and sufficient conditions for a given GO concept may be indicative of inconsistencies.
Analysis of EU - USA cooperation opportunities on IT skills for healthcare workforce
Authors: Traver Vicente  , Konstantinidis Stathis Th.  , Bamidis Panagiotis D.  , Zary Nabil
Published: February 2025

An overview about the state of the art about IT skills education for the healthcare workforce in the EU and USA, making a specific analysis about the current educational programmes from different perspectives (technologies, users, IT skills, policies) is presented. Main result of this paper is a recommendation plan to address current needs on the field. Authors end with a set of conclusions and references that can provide the background enough for any reader interested on these subjects, creating awareness about the importance of transnational IT educational programmes for the EU-US healthcare workforce.
Room temperature self healing polyetherimides based on a long chain aliphatic diamine
Authors: Susa A.  , van der Zwaag S.  , Garcia S.J.
Published: February 2025

Traditional polyetherimides (PEIs) are synthesized from an aromatic diamine and an aromatic dianhydride (e.g. 3,4'-oxydianiline and 4,4'-oxydiphtalic anhydride) leading to the imide linkage and outstanding chemical, thermal and mechanical properties yet with a complete absence of self-healing functionality. In this work we have replaced the traditional aromatic diamine by an aliphatic dimer diamine made from renewable resources. Such an approach led to the synthesis of a whole family of self-healing polymers capable of healing at room temperature or at elevated temperatures and ranging from relatively soft elastomers to rigid polymers depending on the composition. Here we report preliminary data showing the effect of the offset from the theoretical stoichiometric ratio on the general performance and healing behaviour of a room temperature healing polyetherimide. The systems with a slight excess of branched linear diamine and a post treatment of 12 hours at 150 °C showed the highest stress-strain properties (8 MPa and 500% elongation at break at 80 mm/min in tensile mode) with a recovery of properties close to 50% after 24 hours of pressure-less healing at room temperature. Lower initial properties yet higher healing efficiencies are obtained for shorter post annealing treatments.
Basic Constructions of Secure Multiparty Computation
Authors: Laud Peeter  , Pankova Alisa  , Kamm Liina  , Veeningen Meilof
Published: February 2025

In this chapter, we formally define multiparty computation tasks and the security of protocols realizing them. We give a broad presentation of the existing constructions of secure multiparty computation (SMC) protocols and explain why they are correct and secure. We discuss the different environmental aspects of SMC protocols and explain the requirements that are necessary and sufficient for their existence.
Stateful Abstractions of Secure Multiparty Computation
Authors: Laud Peeter
Published: February 2025

In this chapter we present the Arithmetic Black Box (ABB) functionality. It is an ideal functionality that preserves the privacy of the data it stores and allows computations to be performed on the data stored, as well as retrieve certain pieces of data. We show that it is a very convenient abstraction of secure multiparty computation (SMC), which enables easy extensions and the construction of large privacy-preserving applications on top of it. In this chapter, we give a detailed definition of the ABB functionality and present different ways in which it can be implemented securely. We explain what extending an ABB means and how it is integrated into larger applications.
An e-Learning Approach to Hospital Information Systems
Authors: Minou Ioannis  , Mantas John
Published: February 2025

e-learning systems are advanced systems that are used to improve students learning capabilities as well as their accessibility by utilizing information and communication technology tools. The objective of this paper is to describe the methods which are used for the process of e-learning education in the program of distance learning at the National University of Athens for the course “Hospital Information Systems”. These methods include the designing of the program, the development of the courses and the exercises and finally the availability of the courses to the students through the Rea education management system. The study also outlines the difficulties and the limitations occurred during the development of the program and suggests alternative options for future improvements.
Water Quality of the Chao Phraya River
Authors: Kampaengthong S.  , Chawsithiwong B.
Published: February 2025

The objectives of this study carried out in 2011 were to study the variation of water quality along the distance of the river and seasons from the upper part down to the lower part of the river before flowing into the Gulf of Thailand. The water sample collection and analysis were accomplished conforming with the American Public Health Association (APHA) methods and the indicators of water quality for analysis were DO, BOD, NH3-N, TCB and FCB. The surface water quality standard of Thailand was used for the assessment of water quality. The study results indicated that most of the water in the Chao Phraya river was of lower quality than the established water quality standard. There were only 22% of water samples the quality of which reached officially established standard. The hypothesis testing found that the distance along the route of water mass had relationship with water quality and seasonal variation had no statistically significant relationship to water quality at 0.05.
The British National Formulary: Checking, medicines and clinicians
Authors: Dickson Jane
Published: February 2025

The British National Formulary underpins the way medical practice is made safe in the UK. Its move from book to digital product has been identified as welcome but with problematic aspects. This chapter describes and investigates the current use of the formulary in order to examine how a rapid, well-targeted project is designed and executed.
Open Access in Scientific Communication: Bulgaria's Current OA Policies within the International Context
Authors: Dimchev Aleksandar  , Stefanov Rosen
Published: February 2025

The following report aims to examine the current tendencies in the field of Open Access (OA) publishing. Ever since its inception in the 1990s, Open Access has been a topic of interest in regards to its potential to be viable alternative to more traditional publishing models for scientific information and communication. This report examines OA within the context of both international practices (with a focus on European experience in the Open Access field), as well as looking at the current tendencies regarding this publishing model in Bulgaria.
Special People in Routine Health Information Systems Implementation in South Africa
Authors: Hanmer Lyn A.  , Nicol Edward
Published: February 2025

An analysis of roles and decision making structures to facilitate routine health information system (RHIS) implementation and use in public health facilities in South Africa identified a wide range of stakeholders in these processes. Two broad categories of RHIS ‘special people’ are analysed, i.e. leaders (administrative and/or clinical) and bridgers/support staff. In addition to health system personnel with specific responsibility for RHIS, users with an interest in effective use of RHIS and RHIS outputs, and staff of external system and/or service providers, can play significant roles in RHIS implementation and use.
Developing an Open-Source Bibliometric Ranking Website Using Google Scholar Citation Profiles for Researchers in the Field of Biomedical Informatics
Authors: Sittig Dean F.  , McCoy Allison B.  , Wright Adam  , Lin Jimmy
Published: February 2025

We developed the Biomedical Informatics Researchers ranking website (rank.informatics-review.com) to overcome many of the limitations of previous scientific productivity ranking strategies. The website is composed of four key components that work together to create an automatically updating ranking website: (1) list of biomedical informatics researchers, (2) Google Scholar scraper, (3) display page, and (4) updater. The site has been useful to other groups in evaluating researchers, such as tenure and promotions committees in interpreting the various citation statistics reported by candidates. Creation of the Biomedical Informatics Researchers ranking website highlights the vast differences in scholarly productivity among members of the biomedical informatics research community.
Computer Experience of Nurses
Authors: Schleder Gonçalves Luciana  , Cândida Castro Talita  , Fialek Soraya
Published: February 2025

This study aimed to identify the computing experience of nurses in southern Brazil, through exploratory survey research. The results, which were obtained from the application of The Staggers Nursing Computer Experience Questionnaire®, were analyzed by statistical tests. The survey was conducted with nurses working both in hospitals, as in public health, in a capital in southern Brazil. There is the predominance of novice nurses in the application of computer tools in their practices but most often declare the use the computers to develop their professional and also personal life activities. We conclude that the computer and health information systems are part of the working reality of the participants, being considered indispensable resources his activity, while noting limitations on the potential use of these tools. This study reflects on how the issue has been addressed in educational schools and the challenges of inclusion of the theme of Nursing Informatics in the curricula in Brazil.
Extracting Dependence Relations from Unstructured Medical Text
Authors: Jochim Charles  , Lassoued Yassine  , Sacaleanu Bogdan  , Deleris Léa A.
Published: February 2025

Dependence relations among disease and risk factors are a key ingredient in risk modeling and decision support models. Currently such information is either provided by experts (costly and time consuming) or extracted from data (if available). The published medical literature represents a promising source of such knowledge; however its manual processing is practically infeasible. While a number of solutions have been introduced to add structure to biomedical literature, none adequately recover dependence relations. The objective of our research is to build such an automatic dependence extraction solution, based on a sequence of natural language processing steps, which take as input a set of MEDLINE abstracts and provide as output a list of structured dependence statements. This paper presents a hybrid pipeline approach, a combination of rule-based and machine learning algorithms. We found that this approach outperforms a strictly rule-based approach.
Text Mining and Data Modeling of Karyotypes to aid in Drug Repurposing Efforts
Authors: Abrams Zachary B.  , Peabody Andrea L.  , Heerema Nyla A.  , Payne Philip R. O.
Published: February 2025

Karyotyping, or visually examining and recording chromosomal abnormalities, is commonly used to diagnose and treat disease. Karyotypes are written in the International System for Human Cytogenetic Nomenclature (ISCN), a computationally non-readable language that precludes full analysis of these genomic data. In response, we developed a cytogenetic platform that transfers the ISCN karyotypes to a machine-readable model available for computational analysis. Here we use cytogenetic data from the National Cancer Institute (NCI)-curated Mitelman database1 to create a structured karyotype language. Then, drug-gene-disease triplets are generated via a computational pipeline connecting public drug-gene interaction data sources to identify potential drug repurposing opportunities.
National Healthcare Policies in Chile: An Ontological Meta-Analysis
Authors: Núñez Mondaca Alicia  , Ramaprasad Arkalgud  , Syn Thant
Published: February 2025

We present an ontological meta-analysis of the national healthcare policies in Chile. Using a logically constructed ontology based on the common body of knowledge as a lens, we map the 39 key policies. The ontological map provides a synoptic, systematic, and systemic view of the policies, and highlight their emphases and biases.
Clinical application of the integrated multicenter discharge summary database
Authors: Takahiro Suzuki  , Shunsuke Doi  , Yutaka Hatakeyama  , Masayuki Honda  , Yasushi Matsumura  , Gen Shimada  , Mitsuhiro Takasaki  , Shusaku Tsumoto  , Hideto Yokoi  , Katsuhiko Takabayashi
Published: February 2025

We performed the multi-year project to collect discharge summary from multiple hospitals and made the big text database to build a common document vector space, and developed various applications. We extracted 243,907 discharge summaries from seven hospitals. There was a difference in term structure and number of terms between the hospitals, however the differences by disease were similar. We built the vector space using TF-IDF method. We performed a cross-match analysis of DPC selection among seven hospitals. About 80% cases were correctly matched. The use of model data of other hospitals reduced selection rate to around 10%; however, integrated model data from all hospitals restored the selection rate.
Streaming Physiological Data: General Public Perceptions of Secondary Use and Application to Research in Neonatal Intensive Care
Authors: McGregor Carolyn  , Heath Jennifer  , Choi Yvonne
Published: February 2025

High speed physiological data represents one of the most untapped resources in healthcare today and is a form of Big Data. Physiological data is captured and displayed on a wide range of devices in healthcare environments. Frequently this data is transitory and lost once initially displayed. Researchers wish to store and analyze these datasets, however, there is little evidence of any engagement with citizens regarding their perceptions of physiological data capture for secondary use. This paper presents the findings of a self-administered household survey (n=165, response rate = 34%) that investigated Australian and Canadian citizens' perceptions of such physiological data capture and re-use. Results indicate general public support for the secondary use of physiological streaming data. Discussion considers the potential application of such data in neonatal intensive care contexts in relation to our Artemis research. Consideration of the perceptions of secondary use of the streaming data as early as possible will assist in building appropriate use models, with a focus on parents in the neonatal context.
An Ecosystem of Intelligent ICT Tools for Speech-Language Therapy Based on a Formal Knowledge Model
Authors: Robles-Bykbaev Vladimir  , López-Nores Martín  , Pazos-Arias José  , Quisi-Peralta Diego  , García-Duque Jorge
Published: February 2025

The language and communication constitute the development mainstays of several intellectual and cognitive skills in humans. However, there are millions of people around the world who suffer from several disabilities and disorders related with language and communication, while most of the countries present a lack of corresponding services related with health care and rehabilitation. On these grounds, we are working to develop an ecosystem of intelligent ICT tools to support speech and language pathologists, doctors, students, patients and their relatives. This ecosystem has several layers and components, integrating Electronic Health Records management, standardized vocabularies, a knowledge database, an ontology of concepts from the speech-language domain, and an expert system. We discuss the advantages of such an approach through experiments carried out in several institutions assisting children with a wide spectrum of disabilities.
Improving Clinical Decisions on T2DM Patients Integrating Clinical, Administrative and Environmental Data
Authors: Segagni Daniele  , Sacchi Lucia  , Dagliati Arianna  , Tibollo Valentina  , Leporati Paola  , De Cata Pasqale  , Chiovato Luca  , Bellazzi Riccardo
Published: February 2025

This work describes an integrated informatics system developed to collect and display clinically relevant data that can inform physicians and researchers about Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) patient clinical pathways and therapy adherence. The software we developed takes data coming from the electronic medical record (EMR) of the IRCCS Fondazione Maugeri (FSM) hospital of Pavia, Italy, and combines the data with administrative, pharmacy drugs (purchased from the local healthcare agency (ASL) of the Pavia area), and open environmental data of the same region. By using different use cases, we explain the importance of gathering and displaying the data types through a single informatics tool: the use of the tool as a calculator of risk factors and indicators to improve current detection of T2DM, a generator of clinical pathways and patients' behaviors from the point of view of the hospital care management, and a decision support tool for follow-up visits. The results of the performed data analysis report how the use of the dashboard displays meaningful clinical decisions in treating complex chronic diseases and might improve health outcomes.
On the Automated Segmentation of Epicardial and Mediastinal Cardiac Adipose Tissues Using Classification Algorithms
Authors: Oliveira Rodrigues Érick  , Cordeiro de Morais Felipe Fernandes  , Conci Aura
Published: February 2025

The quantification of fat depots on the surroundings of the heart is an accurate procedure for evaluating health risk factors correlated with several diseases. However, this type of evaluation is not widely employed in clinical practice due to the required human workload. This work proposes a novel technique for the automatic segmentation of cardiac fat pads. The technique is based on applying classification algorithms to the segmentation of cardiac CT images. Furthermore, we extensively evaluate the performance of several algorithms on this task and discuss which provided better predictive models. Experimental results have shown that the mean accuracy for the classification of epicardial and mediastinal fats has been 98.4% with a mean true positive rate of 96.2%. On average, the Dice similarity index, regarding the segmented patients and the ground truth, was equal to 96.8%. Therfore, our technique has achieved the most accurate results for the automatic segmentation of cardiac fats, to date.
Restructuring an EHR system and the Medical Markup Language (MML) standard to improve interoperability by archetype technology
Authors: Kobayashi Shinji  , Kume Naoto  , Yoshihara Hiroyuki
Published: February 2025

In 2001, we developed an EHR system for regional healthcare information inter-exchange and to provide individual patient data to patients. This system was adopted in three regions in Japan. We also developed a Medical Markup Language (MML) standard for inter- and intra-hospital communications. The system was built on a legacy platform, however, and had not been appropriately maintained or updated to meet clinical requirements. To improve future maintenance costs, we reconstructed the EHR system using archetype technology on the Ruby on Rails platform, and generated MML equivalent forms from archetypes. The system was deployed as a cloud-based system for preliminary use as a regional EHR. The system now has the capability to catch up with new requirements, maintaining semantic interoperability with archetype technology. It is also more flexible than the legacy EHR system.
Health Information Needs for Child-in-Care
Authors: Thompson Cori
Published: February 2025

When a child is taken into care the State is legally required to provide healthcare. Six forms were reviewed by medical care providers, foster parents and government social workers to understand their health information needs in caring and planning for child-in-care. The qualitative study used a sociotechnical systems framework and NVivo 10 for encoding. Interview findings include that the forms, if completed and available, meet most basic health information needs with additional forms used for complex health needs. The majority of participants indicate interest in electronic options. Focus groups will enable further study.
Providers Expectations on Telemedicine: A Qualitative Research in a Large Healthcare Network of Latin America
Authors: Giussi Bordoni M.V.  , Plazzotta F.  , Sommer J.  , Benítez S.  , García G.  , Luna D.  , González B. De Quirós F.
Published: February 2025

The benefits of Telemedicine make it a viable, reliable and useful discipline for dispensing health care. This qualitative study is aimed to understand the expectations, opinions and previous knowledge of the professionals about telemedicine at the Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires. Results: Professionals realize that Telemedicine is inserted into their usual practice in an informal way. They consider telemedicine as an alternative to the traditional delivery of health care, but are afraid of their role in health care is undermined. Professionals point out very specific applications of Telemedicine such as monitoring the health of patients remotely, drug doses adjustments and sharing clinical information. Conclusion: Results suggest that professionals are not familiar with telemedicine and will be necessary to develop a training plan before implementation.
Precedent Approach to Decision Making in Clinical Processes
Authors: Malykh Vladimir L.  , Guliev Yadulla I.
Published: February 2025

This poster describes the results of promising research in the field of clinical processes management and decision making support. The authors formulated common scientific problems connected with the modelling of treatment processes. The research is supported by grants from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (the project RFMEFI60714X0089).
New Tools to Convert PDF Math Contents into Accessible e-Books Efficiently
Authors: Suzuki Masakazu  , Terada Yugo  , Kanahori Toshihiro  , Yamaguchi Katsuhito
Published: February 2025

New features in our math-OCR software to convert PDF math contents into accessible e-books are shown. A method for recognizing PDF is thoroughly improved. In addition, contents in any selected area including math formulas in a PDF file can be cut and pasted into a document in various accessible formats, which is automatically recognized and converted into texts and accessible math formulas through this process. Combining it with our authoring tool for a technical document, one can easily produce accessible e-books in various formats such as DAISY, accessible EPUB3, DAISY-like HTML5, Microsoft Word with math objects and so on. Those contents are useful for various print-disabled students ranging from the blind to the dyslexic.
Intuitive tactile algorithms to guide blind runners by means of a belt with vibrators
Authors: Durá-Gil Juan V.  , Bazuelo-Ruiz Bruno  , Mollà Fernando  , Barberà-Guillem Ricard  , Jakab Àgnes  , Csielka Tamás
Published: February 2025

Visually impaired people do not have equal possibilities to practice sports. In the case of running they need a sighted guide. This paper compare different possibilities for indicating direction to blind people by means of a belt that transmits tactile messages, and defines design requirements based on anthropometric analysis. The results shows that intuitive tactile messages are achieved with tactile stimuli applied in the ventral section, from the iliac crests to the navel.
Knowledge Exchange: selecting research opportunities through estimation
Authors: Cudd Peter  , Fowler-Davis Sally  , Evans Laura  , Mawson Sue
Published: February 2025

A systematic way to select new ideas for research and development between two organisations is reported. It was applied to ideas that were generated from acute clinical settings by Occupational Therapists with a view to collaborate with nearby university academics from many disciplines. The process, assessment factors, use of ordinal scales with thresholding and an arbitrary formula are described. Challenges in the approach are discussed. Suitability for use by others in the AT field, other care related or even very different contexts is noted with some adaption and caveats.
Publication and Reuse of Linked Data: The Fusepool Publish-Process-Perform Platform for Linked Data
Authors: Gschwend Adrian  , Neuroni Alessia C.  , Gehrig Thomas  , Combetto Marco
Published: February 2025

Linked open government data can be a catalyst in the production of value-added services and products. The vision of the presented R&D-project is to make publishing and reuse of linked data as easy as possible for the end user thanks to a thriving marketplace with data publishers, developers, and consumers along the value chain. The project develops tourism-related applications and software components that support data owners and open data enthusiasts in transforming legacy data to Linked Data. It does that by providing tightly integrated components and supports the multilingual data value chain from data exploration, extraction, enrichment, and delivery. In the paper we present first results of the project and reflections on the methodology in order to increase sustainability by focusing on users-driven development.
Defining Smart City Architecture for Sustainability
Authors: Anthopoulos Leonidas
Published: February 2025

Smart city has been evolved since late 1990s to a rapidly emerged domain, where the academia, the industry and the government have mutual interest in transforming cities to innovation-based sustainable spaces. However, this evolution has come to a critical point of argument, where existing efforts are being developed mainly with public spending, which serve industrial purposes. As such, governments focus on smart city standardization in an attempt to clarify the smart city domain. Such standardization concerns smart city architecture too, which has to serve all potential innovations. This paper aims to define a common smart city architecture, which serves government purposes for innovation and sustainability, while it utilizes experiences from prestigious cases and corresponding theoretical context.
Digitalize Building Permits Procedure: Canton of Valais, Switzerland
Authors: Kourakou Georgia  , Glassey Olivier
Published: February 2025

A growing interest in e-Government practices is currently expressed within public administrations. This paper describes the evolution of our study in the field of impacts of digitization on the management of administrative procedures. We present a full description of the methodology used, the assumptions and the analysis model on which our study is based. Due to its complexity and its interdepartmental characteristic, the building permit procedure is selected to be the representative administrative process of concern. As Swiss public administrations is the central subject of our research, a description of the relevant legal framework of the country is presented. Specifically, the case study of the Canton of Valais is described in detail. The experience gained from the semi-structured interviews conducted for this case study is exposed
Collaborative Problem Solving for Regional Development? – A New Approach of Public Participation
Authors: Mietzner Dana  , Vandenhouten Ralf  , Hartmann Frank
Published: February 2025

In this paper, we present a concept prototype for a socio-technical assistant (s.TAS) as a collaborative problem-solving approach to support the regional development in a selected rural district. The presented concept considers insides from citizen participation as an open government instrument and strongly incorporates collaborative value creation to address regional development issues. The presented approach incorporates citizens and other regional stakeholders (e.g., companies, organizations, associations) as problem-solvers and strongly enables regional stakeholders and the public administration to develop solutions jointly as an ongoing learning process. In this sense, s.TAS addresses participation approaches and elaborates participation to collaboration. For the development of this participatory problem-solving approach, we conducted (1) a broad literature review on participatory approaches and (2) we implemented a qualitative, collaborative research approach with participants from different stakeholder groups. In several workshop rounds, supported by interviews and surveys we developed a concept prototype for the socio-technical assistant s.TAS, which is a technical, smart system, which supports information, communication, participation and collaboration in the selected region.
Formative evaluation and user engagement: A model to ensure value from e-government
Authors: Berger Jesper B.
Published: February 2025

Governments are investing in e-government to enhance public sector efficiency. It has been argued by e-government scholars that citizens' demand for e-government does not meet expectations; hence governments might not achieve the expected benefits. This study investigates formative evaluation as a method to ensure e-government benefits realization. The case is ex-post evaluation of value from digital communication in a citizen service center at a Danish municipality and was conducted as Action Research. Barriers to adoption were revealed, addressed and eliminated during the formative evaluation process. Clear expectations from top management, assessments and disclosure of workers' behavior and commitment from managers proved pivotal in the benefits realization process. Further research into the internal e-government adoption processes and the impact from external factors is needed in order to understand more profoundly the challenges for realizing benefits from e-government.
A Data Oriented Approach to Derive Public Administration Business Processes
Authors: Cognini Riccardo  , Corradini Flavio  , Fornari Fabrizio  , Polini Andrea  , Re Barbara
Published: February 2025

The delivery of services to citizens by Public Administrations requires to set up and coordinate complex Business Processes. Typically homogeneous Public Administrations, such as municipalities, have to provide the same services to all citizens. Nevertheless their concrete implementation, and the supporting Business Process model and data object models, can slightly differ from one Public Administration to the other due to organizational factors. If such variability is not explicitly represented and managed, each office will have to reflect on and analyse the requirements posed by the delivery of the service; then they will have to derive a specific process and data model. On the other hand the explicit modeling of variability can reduce the work to be done and permits to define general specifications from which specific model variants can be derived according to specific needs. In this paper we propose a novel approach, inspired by Feature Modeling techniques, for data object variability modeling that can be used to provide high level blueprints from which detailed Business Processes and data object specifications can be derived. Finally, a complex scenario has been applied to validate the approach with encouraging results.
Metadata management requirements and existing solutions in EU Institutions and Member States
Authors: Dekkers Makx  , Loutas Nikolaos  , Goedertier Stijn  , Karalopoulos Athanasios  , Peristeras Vassilios  , Wigard Suzanne
Published: February 2025

EU Member States and Institutions deal in daily basis with a considerably big amount of data. It is of high priority for them to focus on applying different solutions for better managing and governing their metadata to achieve better handling of their data. We conducted an in-depth analysis of selected cases via structured interviews. The input was used to identify a number of observations of good practices put forward by the selected case studies and a number of recommendations.
Virtual applications: analysis of forums and mechanisms for participation in virtual environments and the public policy process
Authors: de Magalhães Larissa Galdino
Published: February 2025

The debate on the internet and democracy seeks to highlight the importance of the contributions of the theories of participation and deliberation with respect to innovative digital experiences pro-democracy. However studies treat analysis watertight, escaping the perception of the established correlation between the context and the mechanisms of political practice everyday. Assuming that the use of the internet can impact or influence political participation, to include virtual environments and its manner of use as a significant impact on public policy process, and not necessarily in response to possible democratic deficiencies pointed out by the literature current. The project deals with the bodies and mechanisms of participation in virtual environments, virtual appliances in the national context, therefore, relies on the perspective of institutionalized participation on the Internet experiments, and the prospect of gradual integration into the assembly's agenda, policy formulation , decision making, implementation and evaluation of public policy process. In other words analyzes virtual applications created by governments on the internet, into the process of public policy, emphasizing specifically its manner of use, either function assigned to the phases or cycles of the policy process, or on its function “politics” of formation of public opinion, voting behavior and communication flow. The analytical scenario speculates that the virtual applications, while instances and mechanisms of participation in virtual environments can help to foster functions in the “cycle of public policies”, although secondarily, admits the possibility of those virtual appliances, in its manner of use, do not have role in the process, but political function.
Long-Range and Low Cost Technologies: Proposing Guidelines for the use of SMS in the Public Sector
Authors: Lanza Beatriz B. B.
Published: February 2025

Mobile government could be conceptualized as the use of diverse mobile technologies to provide information and services to citizens, businesses, and other stakeholders. Governments around the world, particularly in developing countries are finding mobile strategies to be useful ways to reach to their citizens, including disadvantaged groups. In fact, individuals are increasingly using mobile phones for accessing information and this trend is becoming stronger with the improvement of long-range technologies and the high penetration of mobile devices in developing countries. However, their use to deliver government services to citizens remains generally low. This research argues that the government use of Short Message Service (SMS) to offer information and services to citizens is low because of a lack of a clear and actionable business model for this technology. So, it proposes guidelines for SMS-based government services.
From data to data's transparency
Authors: Sokhn Maria  , Cotting Alexandre  , Maalouf Eliane  , Zufferey Arnaud
Published: February 2025

Decades ago governments, businesses and other actors used to make benefit of generated data in order to manage and monitor their activities. However traditionally data cleaning and analysis have been time consuming and thus used to be kept limited of access. Making the governmental data available and easily accessible and reusable increases the information visibility and decision makers, thus it improves the transparency and efficiency. In this paper we present an ongoing project, which aims to enhance the transparency and efficiency in Swiss public administration, by making use of dashboards communication power.
Instrument Categories for Open Societal Innovation
Authors: von Lucke Jörn  , Große Katharina
Published: February 2025

In this paper, we introduce a new categorisation for innovation tools, which we employed to structure the Toolbox for Open Societal Innovation (TosiT) – a database of innovation software and services, which was developed in the international research project eSociety Bodensee 2020. The suggested categories are designed with the user in mind to make the toolbox easily accessible for interested actors. Open Societal Innovation (OSI) is a concept that combines the notions of open innovation and social innovation, in order to foster innovation from the society for the society.
Probabilistic Methodology for Seismic Deformation Assessment of Slopes in Regions with Low to Moderate Seismicity
Authors: Zugic Zeljko
Published: February 2025

Earthquake-induced sliding deformations are commonly used to assess the seismic performance of slopes. These deformations are the cumulative, downslope movement of a sliding mass occurred due to earthquake shaking, and represent the valuable indicator of risk and possible damage above slope. Current probabilistic procedures that use seismic slope displacements to evaluate the potential for slope instability typically are developed on basis of significant seismic data. The most common procedures are based on a deterministic approach or a pseudo-probabilistic approach, in which the variability in the expected ground motion, soil properties, water level, geometry and predicted displacement are either ignored or not treated rigorously. Thus, beside all existing methods, the concept of actual hazard (i.e., the annual probability of exceedance) associated with the computed displacement has so far not been developed in cases of low to moderate seismic excitation when in most cases except the design code there is no valuable seismic data.
Calibration of partial factors for basal reinforced piled embankments
Authors: van Duijnen P.G.  , Schweckendiek T.  , Calle E.O.F.  , van Eekelen S.J.M.
Published: February 2025

In the Netherlands, the design guideline for basal reinforced piled embankments has been revised (CUR226:2015) adopting a new analytical design model (Van Eekelen et al., 2013; Van Eekelen et al., 2015). The model provides geosynthetic reinforcement (GR) strains which were compared with laboratory and in situ measurements (Van Eekelen et al., 2015). The corresponding discrepancies between the measured values and the values calculated with the new model have been assessed statistically in order to obtain model error statistics as suggested in Eurocode 0 (EC 1990). Monte Carlo (MC) simulations were carried out to obtain model, material and load factors using several reference cases, in order to calibrate the semi-probabilistic design approach for the revised Dutch Design guideline for Piled Embankments (CUR226:2015). This paper discusses both the assessment of the model error as well as the calibration of the partial factors, including the lessons learnt.