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Future Internet, Volume 4, Issue 3

September 2012 - 14 articles

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Articles (14)

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
24 Citations
17,571 Views
13 Pages

When the Social Meets the Semantic: Social Semantic Web or Web 2.5

  • Salvatore F. Pileggi,
  • Carlos Fernandez-Llatas and
  • Vicente Traver

21 September 2012

The social trend is progressively becoming the key feature of current Web understanding (Web 2.0). This trend appears irrepressible as millions of users, directly or indirectly connected through social networks, are able to share and exchange any kin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
10,074 Views
22 Pages

Semantic Web Approach to Ease Regulation Compliance Checking in Construction Industry

  • Khalil Riad Bouzidi,
  • Bruno Fies,
  • Catherine Faron-Zucker,
  • Alain Zarli and
  • Nhan Le Thanh

11 September 2012

Regulations in the Building Industry are becoming increasingly complex and involve more than one technical area, covering products, components and project implementations. They also play an important role in ensuring the quality of a building, and to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
9,003 Views
23 Pages

Semantic Observation Integration

  • Sven Schade,
  • Frank Ostermann,
  • Laura Spinsanti and
  • Werner Kuhn

3 September 2012

Although the integration of sensor-based information into analysis and decision making has been a research topic for many years, semantic interoperability has not yet been reached. The advent of user-generated content for the geospatial domain, Volun...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
9,176 Views
19 Pages

30 August 2012

This paper describes the results of a collaborative effort that has reconciled the Open Annotation Collaboration (OAC) ontology and the Annotation Ontology (AO) to produce a merged data model [the Open Annotation (OA) data model] to describe Web-base...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
8,194 Views
12 Pages

27 August 2012

Being familiar with all the benefits of e-Health and the strategic plan for the Slovenian health sector’s informatization, Telekom Slovenia and the Faculty of Medicine from the University of Maribor, along with other partners, have initiated an e-Hea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,917 Views
14 Pages

Knowledge Representation for Prognosis of Health Status in Rehabilitation

  • Laia Subirats,
  • Luigi Ceccaroni and
  • Felip Miralles

20 August 2012

In this article, key points are discussed concerning knowledge representation for clinical decision support systems in the domain of physical medicine and rehabilitation. Information models, classifications and terminologies, such as the “virtual med...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,941 Views
18 Pages

14 August 2012

This paper uses Social Network Analysis indexes to study Greek political blogs. The indexes describe bloggers’ community recommendations, centrality and bloggers’ attempt to form spheres of influence. Five Social Network Analysis indexes are used: in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
11,091 Views
25 Pages

Context-Based Orchestration for Control of Resource-Efficient Manufacturing Processes

  • Matthias Loskyll,
  • Ines Heck,
  • Jochen Schlick and
  • Michael Schwarz

14 August 2012

The increasing competition between manufacturers, the shortening of innovation cycles and the growing importance of resource-efficient manufacturing demand a higher versatility of factory automation. Service-oriented approaches depict a promising pos...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
10,360 Views
19 Pages

9 August 2012

In the recent past, the so-called “Web 2.0” became a powerful tool for decision making processes. Politicians and managers, seeking to improve participation, embraced this technology as if it simply were a new, enhanced version of theWorldWideWeb, be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,924 Views
12 Pages

6 August 2012

In Norway, it is a national goal to provide more patients with thrombolytic treatment. A referring hospital and a specialist hospital have implemented videoconferencing (VC) equipment to share knowledge and discuss stroke patients, regarding thrombol...

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