Pub Date : 2018-07-01DOI: 10.4018/IJCSSA.2018070101
M. Wheatman
Because, as an act of verbal reasoning, is described in terms of its transitivity, composite assertions and reasoning. The latter includes induction through X because Y and the deduction subsequently afforded by why X. Once the component assertions X and Y are disavowed, it illustrates the third level of Peircean reasoning, abduction. The language engine, Enguage, is introduced and positioned as a novel approach to language processing. Three utterance repertoires of the Enguage test suite, which support because and why, are described. These are then applied using Enguage, and the resultant output is presented. A user can thus demonstrate reasoning interactively, via text-to-speech software, with a machine that can be said to understand why.
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Pub Date : 2018-07-01DOI: 10.4018/IJCSSA.2018070103
Amel Meliouh, A. Chaoui
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Pub Date : 2018-07-01DOI: 10.4018/IJCSSA.2018070102
B. Urquhart, W. Haque
Patient safety and quality of health care services continue to be an issue within healthcare organizations. Quality improvement of healthcare processes at a systems level requires a shared language so the system is well understood across and between business areas. Business ontology provides the ability to create a shared language which can be used to integrate business process management (BPM) and business architecture (BA) concepts to identify, prioritize, and plan system wide improvement. The effective application of this comprehensive management approach has been demonstrated using medication management services within a publicly funded Canadian healthcare organization. This article illustrates how the foundational ontology developed by the Global University Alliance and the related Business Process Management Ontology (BPMO) can be used to facilitate the integration of BA and BPM concepts to improve quality of medication management. The development of business artefacts resulted in a prioritized list of improvement initiatives and an action plan to implement and monitor the initiatives. The integration of BPM and BA using an ontology in a healthcare setting yields improved services at the systems level.
患者安全和医疗保健服务质量仍然是医疗保健组织内部的一个问题。系统级医疗保健流程的质量改进需要一种共享语言，以便在各个业务领域之间很好地理解系统。业务本体提供了创建共享语言的能力，该语言可用于集成业务流程管理(BPM)和业务体系结构(BA)概念，以识别、确定优先级并计划系统范围的改进。这种综合管理方法的有效应用已经在加拿大一家公共资助的医疗保健组织内通过药物管理服务得到了证明。本文阐述了如何使用Global University Alliance开发的基础本体和相关的业务流程管理本体(Business Process Management ontology, BPMO)促进BA和BPM概念的集成，从而提高药物管理的质量。业务工件的开发产生了改进计划的优先级列表，以及实现和监视这些计划的行动计划。在医疗保健设置中使用本体集成BPM和BA可以在系统级别上改进服务。
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Pub Date : 2017-07-01DOI: 10.4018/IJCSSA.2017070102
S. Lomax, S. Vadera
The advent of price and product comparison sites now makes it even more important to retain customers and identify those that might be at risk of leaving. The use of data mining methods has been widely advocated for predicting customer churn. This paper presents two case studies that utilize decision tree learning methods to develop models for predicting churn for a software company. The first case study aims to predict churn for organizations which currently have an ongoing project, to determine if organizations are likely to continue with other projects. While the second case study presents a more traditional example, where the aim is to predict organizations likely to cease being a subscriber to a service. The case studies include presentation of the accuracy of the models using a standard methodology as well as comparing the results with what happened in practice. Both case studies show the significant savings that can be made, plus potential increase in revenue by using decision tree learning for churn analysis.
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Pub Date : 2017-07-01DOI: 10.4018/IJCSSA.2017070101
Goonjan Jain, D. K. Lobiyal
Automated evaluation systems for objective type tests already exist. However, it is challenging to make an automated evaluation system for subjective type tests. Therefore, focus of this paper is on evaluation of simple text based subjective answers using Natural Language Processing techniques. A student's answer is evaluated by comparing it with a model answer of the question. Model answers cannot exactly match with the students' answers due to variability in writing. Therefore, researchers create conceptual graphs for both student as well as model answer and compute similarity between these graphs using techniques of graph similarity measures. Based on the similarity, marks are assigned to an answer. Lastly, in this manuscript authors compare the results obtained by human graders and the proposed system using Pearson correlation coefficient. Also, comparison has been drawn between the results of proposed system with other existing evaluation systems. The experimental evaluation of the proposed system shows promising results.
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Pub Date : 2016-07-01DOI: 10.4018/IJCSSA.2016070102
L. Hernandez-Munoz, Gerald Feldman, Vahid Javidroozi, A. King, Raj Mack
Since the amount of people living in cities is expected to increase to 70% by 2050, cities will face many social and urbanisation challenges, and they will need to operate with reduced budgets and limited number of staff. The productivity of computers offers means to address city challenges and do more with less. In this paper, two Smart City projects carried out in Birmingham UK are presented. Firstly, in the Innovation Engine project, conceptual graphs were used to translate innovation experts' ideas into the specification of an open innovation model that may address the needs of large organisations with the capabilities of SMEs and citizens. Secondly, we present results of the pilot evaluation of the Digital Log Book, a smart web portal that enables citizens to access a whole range of public and private services including social housing, universal job match and jobseeker's allowance benefits. We can conclude that smart applications can be very useful to produce better public services and to support cities in the co-creation of new tools that empower citizens and organisations.
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Pub Date : 2016-07-01DOI: 10.4018/IJCSSA.2016070104
A. Fernández-Ares, A. García, M. G. Arenas, P. García-Sánchez, G. Romero, Suhail M. Odeh, P. Castillo
This paper presents a mobility monitoring system, based on the detection of Bluetooth and WiFi signals emitted by personal portable devices. The work also describes its possibilities of tracking in two real scenarios, one inside the Spanish city of Granada, and another one in a highway between Granada and Malaga, both with several detection nodes. They have been deployed trying to solve one of the most difficult issues in the city, namely the automatic and accurate hourly monitoring of traffic, in order to synchronise the traffic lights, for instance. Moreover, their deployment in a highway might be very useful for other traffic issues, such as computing the average speed in a section of the road. Thus, this system could be used as a tool for smart city and smart traffic. In the experiments, the datasets gathered by the system nodes are analysed, yielding useful information for the automatic detection of rush hours, the identification of traffic flows and computing speed rates.
{"title":"A Novel Wireless Mobility Monitoring and Tracking System: Applications for Smart Traffic","authors":"A. Fernández-Ares, A. García, M. G. Arenas, P. García-Sánchez, G. Romero, Suhail M. Odeh, P. Castillo","doi":"10.4018/IJCSSA.2016070104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/IJCSSA.2016070104","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a mobility monitoring system, based on the detection of Bluetooth and WiFi signals emitted by personal portable devices. The work also describes its possibilities of tracking in two real scenarios, one inside the Spanish city of Granada, and another one in a highway between Granada and Malaga, both with several detection nodes. They have been deployed trying to solve one of the most difficult issues in the city, namely the automatic and accurate hourly monitoring of traffic, in order to synchronise the traffic lights, for instance. Moreover, their deployment in a highway might be very useful for other traffic issues, such as computing the average speed in a section of the road. Thus, this system could be used as a tool for smart city and smart traffic. In the experiments, the datasets gathered by the system nodes are analysed, yielding useful information for the automatic detection of rush hours, the identification of traffic flows and computing speed rates.","PeriodicalId":277615,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Concept. Struct. Smart Appl.","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123747578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-07-01DOI: 10.4018/IJCSSA.2016070103
Hung-Pin Hsu
Parks and green spaces have been allocated for city residents to offer them healthier natural environments. However, people living in cities may have less opportunity to engage with the natural environment since parks seem to be passive locations of activity. We investigated how to proactively enhance the attraction of green space to improve people's health. First, we surveyed how 683 city residents were engaged in physical activities. From them, 30 people were recruited for depth interviews. Results showed that the park environment and the health activities that feature 'inner-attraction' could enhance the frequency and persistence of the city residents to engage in healthy activities. We also evaluated the service experience and attraction of 40 users in a 3-month program in the Daan Forest Park of Taipei City in Taiwan. Using the culture probes method, we found that the experience cycle and the use of social media enhanced the park's inner and inter attraction, and that the role of the park was transformed from a passive green space provider to an active service operator.
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Pub Date : 2016-07-01DOI: 10.4018/IJCSSA.2016070105
Hind Lamharhar, I. Zaoui, A. Kabbaj, D. Chiadmi
The main objective of many e-government solutions is establishing smart government through developing user oriented, integrated and interoperable services. However, the heterogeneous and distributed nature of public administrations and the limit of traditional service discovery approaches does not enable achieving efficiently this objective. Rather achieving semantic interoperability through the development of shared e-government knowledge can be the key to smart government. As its main contribution, this paper presents a semantic modelling approach of data and public services, and a service discovery approach for building smart government applications. Our approach uses both semantic web services and conceptual structures technologies. Applying these technologies was shown to have an extremely high potential impact in smart government development. They enabled the improvement of the data and services description, of multiple resources, with additional semantic information, which allowed an automatic processing of information and services.
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