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Abstract Advancement in the area of software engineering, mobile computing together with web technologies have paved way for myriad range of applications, including good quality E-learning software’s…

Varun Gupta, Durg Singh Chauhan & Kamlesh Dutta

Abstract In this paper, a mechanism generating RDF Semantic Web schema from Web document set as the semantic metadata is proposed. Analyzing both the structural and un-structural content of Web docum…

Hsiang-Yuan Hsueh, Chun-Nan Chen & Kun-Fu Huang

Abstract In this paper, the development of a shared virtual presentation board (VPB) for real-time e-Meeting on the Web-based e-Learning System (WebELS) platform is introduced. WebELS is a general-pu…

Arjulie John Berena, Sila Chunwijitra, Hitoshi Okada & Haruki Ueno

Abstract This paper explains design decisions forming a foundation of WordBricks — an intelligent computer-assisted language learning environment, recently initiated at our institution. WordBricks is…

Maxim Mozgovoy & Roman Efimov

Abstract Inter-Vehicle Communication (IVC) is an important component of the ITS architecture, that enables Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) communications. GeoNet project …

Ziya Cihan Taysi & Ali Gokhan Yavuz

Abstract This paper presents an adaptive neuro/fuzzy system which can be trained to detect the current human emotions from a set of measured responses. Six models are built using different types of i…

Mohammad Malkawi & Omayya Murad

Abstract Position information is an important aspect of a mobile device’s context. While GPS is widely used to provide location information, it does not work well indoors. Wi-Fi network infrastructur…

Yan Luo, Orland Hoeber & Yuanzhu Chen

Abstract In service oriented computing, service providers and service requesters are main interacting entities. A service provider publishes the services it wishes to make public using service regist…

Naseem Ibrahim, Mubarak Mohammad & Vangalur Alagar

Abstract There currently exist widely used mobile phone emergency applications for the smartphone and limited mobile emergency applications for indoor environments. However, the outdoor applications …

Junho Ahn & Richard Han

Abstract Well-designed instructional material is equally important for successful e-Learning implementation. Teachers and instructors play a major role in terms of designing and building learning con…

Royyana M Ijtihadie, Bekti C Hidayanto, Achmad Affandi, Yoshifumi Chisaki & Tsuyoshi Usagawa Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences

Abstract IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) introduces important advantages for users of LTE-femtocell heterogeneous access networks. In order to access services hosted in the IMS layer, the user has to u…

Madhu J Sharma & Victor CM Leung

Abstract Background In the cloud computing environments, numerous ambient services may be created speedily and provided to a variety of users. In such a situation, people may be annoyed by how to ma…

Yishui Zhu & Qun Jin

Abstract Background In this paper, we report on development of a non-intrusive student mental state prediction system from his (her) unintentional hand-touch-head (face) movements. Methods Hand-…

Akhtar Hussain, Abdul Rehman Abbasi & Nitin Afzulpurkar Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences

Abstract The wireless sensor networks have long been an attractive field to the researchers and scientists for its ease in deployment and maintenance. In this research, we focus on the maximization o…

Buddha Singh & Daya Krishan Lobiyal Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences

Abstract Background Feature selection techniques use a search-criteria driven approach for ranked feature subset selection. Often, selecting an optimal subset of ranked features using the existing m…

Alex Pappachen James & Sima Dimitrijev Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences volume