Unified InterPlanetary Smart Parking Network for Maximum End-User Flexibility

Technological breakthroughs have offered innovative solutions for smart parking systems, independent of the use of computer vision, smart sensors, gap sensing, and other variations. We now have a high degree of confidence in spot classification or object detection at the parking level. The only thing missing is end-user satisfaction, as users are forced to use multiple interfaces to find a parking spot in a geographical area. We propose a trustless federated model that will add a layer of abstraction between the technology and the human interface to facilitate user adoption and responsible data acquisition by leveraging a federated identity protocol based on Zero Knowledge Cryptography. No central authority is needed for the model to work; thus, it is trustless. Chained trust relationships generate a graph of trustworthiness, which is necessary to bridge the gap from one smart parking program to an intelligent system that enables smart cities. With the help of Zero Knowledge Cryptography, end users can attain a high degree of mobility and anonymity while using a diverse array of service providers. From an investor’s standpoint, the usage of IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) lowers operational costs, increases service resilience, and decentralizes the network of smart parking solutions. A peer-to-peer content addressing system ensures that the data are moved close to the users without deploying expensive cloud-based infrastructure. The result is a macro system with independent actors that feed each other data and expose information in a common protocol. Different client implementations can offer the same experience, even though the parking providers use different technologies. We call this InterPlanetary Smart Parking Architecture NOW—IPSPAN.

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The Effects of Usability and Accessibility for E-Government Services on the End-user Satisfaction

International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM) ◽

10.3991/ijim.v14i13.14659 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 14 (13) ◽

pp. 78

Author(s):

Mohammad H Alshira'H

Keyword(s):

User Interfaces ◽

User Satisfaction ◽

Positive Impact ◽

End User ◽

Government Services ◽

Website Usability ◽

High Degree ◽

Government Website ◽

Positive Effect ◽

Good Agreement

The research aimed to discover the effects of website usability and accessibility on the satisfaction of the end-user. To achieve the aims of the research, the questionnaire was used. The outcomes of the research found that all the participants had a positive agreeing that website usability for e-government services. Also, the participants were agreeing that website accessibility for e-government services designs in Jordan have good agreement, responses were positive towards that. Besides, there is a positive effect of website usability on the satisfaction of the end-user on e-government website designs in Jordan. In addition, the result showed that there is a positive impact of website accessibility on the satisfaction of the end-user on e-government website designs in Jordan. The research recommended that the user interfaces and website accessibility in the Jordanian e-government website designs must further be developed to attract more users and maintaining user satisfaction. And, Jordan e-government systems must be maintaining a high degree of integration and flexibility to attract more users.

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ANALYSIS OF THE USE OF THE BEBUNGE APPLICATION USING END USER COMPUTING SATISFACTION MODEL

Jurnal Teknologi Informasi dan Pendidikan ◽

10.24036/tip.v14i2.423 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 83-87

Author(s):

Resad Setyadi ◽

Muhammad Hamzah Baqi

Keyword(s):

User Satisfaction ◽

Smart Cities ◽

Moderate Intensity ◽

End User ◽

Average Value ◽

Level Of Satisfaction ◽

The Status ◽

District Government ◽

Service Application ◽

End User Computing

The Bekasi district Government already has an integrated service application, namely Bebunge or Bekasi Nyambung Bae. This application is the beginning of a part of the Bekasi district plan to prepare Bekasi for a Smart City. Through the Bebunge application, Bekasi residents can get information for population needs. However, to what extent is the satisfaction of Bekasi society with the Bebunge application so that the Bekasi government can get an evaluation of application usage by looking at the level of user satisfaction. This study analyzes the level of user satisfaction of the Bebunge application using the End User Computing Satisfaction (EUCS) model. The questionnaire analysis method uses inferential statistical analysis with Smart PLS media. Based on the guidelines for the level of satisfaction, the results of the study show that if the satisfaction level of Bekasi society is at an average value of 3.45, which is at level 4, it means that Bekasi society generally uses the Bebunge application with moderate intensity and find the Bebunge practical application. The recommendation for the Bebunge application is that additional features are needed to access job vacancies, information on the latest status updates for COVID-19 in Bekasi, and an Update on the status of the COVID-19 zone in Bekasi. The contribution of this study is to improve the functionality of the Bebunge application for Bekasi society. The second contribution of this study is to become a reference for researchers from the subdomain of smart cities, namely smart society

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A Regulatory View on Smart City Services

Sensors ◽

10.3390/s19020415 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 19 (2) ◽

pp. 415 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Mario Weber ◽

Ivana Podnar Žarko

Keyword(s):

Value Chain ◽

Smart City ◽

Service Providers ◽

Smart Cities ◽

Good Practice ◽

Vast Number ◽

Crowd Sensing ◽

Legal Implications ◽

Smart Parking

Even though various commercial Smart City solutions are widely available on the market, we are still witnessing their rather limited adoption, where solutions are typically bound to specific verticals or remain in pilot stages. In this paper we argue that the lack of a Smart City regulatory framework is one of the major obstacles for a wider adoption of Smart City services in practice. Such framework should be accompanied by examples of good practice which stress the necessity of adopting interoperable Smart City services. Development and deployment of Smart City services can incur significant costs to cities, service providers and sensor manufacturers, and thus it is vital to adjust national legislation to ensure legal certainty to all stakeholders, and at the same time to protect interests of the citizens and the state. Additionally, due to a vast number of heterogeneous devices and Smart City services, both existing and future, their interoperability becomes vital for service replicability and massive deployment leading to digital transformation of future cities. The paper provides a classification of technical and regulatory characteristics of IoT services for Smart Cities which are mapped to corresponding roles in the IoT value chain. Four example use cases are chosen—Smart Parking, Smart Metering, Smart Street Lighting and Mobile Crowd Sensing—to showcase the legal implications relevant to each service. Based on the analysis, we propose a set of recommendations for each role in the value chain related to regulatory requirements of the aforementioned Smart City services. The analysis and recommendations serve as examples of good practice in hope that they will facilitate a wider adoption and longevity of IoT-based Smart City services.

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A QoS-based approach for cloud-service matchmaking, selection and composition using the Semantic Web

Journal of Systems and Information Technology ◽

10.1108/jsit-01-2017-0006 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

pp. 63-89 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Kirit J. Modi ◽

Sanjay Garg

Keyword(s):

Semantic Web ◽

Response Time ◽

User Satisfaction ◽

Service Providers ◽

Cloud Service ◽

Academic Community ◽

Cloud Services ◽

End User ◽

Content Type ◽

Integrated Framework

PurposeCloud computing provides a dynamic, heterogeneous and elastic environment by offering accessible ‘cloud services’ to end-users. The tasks involved in making cloud services available, such as matchmaking, selection and composition, are essential and closely related to each other. Integration of these tasks is critical for optimal composition and performance of the cloud service platform. More efficient solutions could be developed by considering cloud service tasks collectively, but the research and academic community have so far only considered these tasks individually. The purpose of this paper is to propose an integrated QoS-based approach for cloud service matchmaking, selection and composition using the Semantic Web.Design/methodology/approachIn this paper, the authors propose a new approach using the Semantic Web and quality of service (QoS) model to perform cloud service matchmaking, selection and composition, to fulfil the requirements of an end user. In the Semantic Web, the authors develop cloud ontologies to provide semantic descriptions to the service provider and requester, so as to automate the cloud service tasks. This paper considers QoS parameters, such as availability, throughput, response time and cost, for quality assurance and enhanced user satisfaction.FindingsThis paper focus on the development of an integrated framework and approach for cloud service life cycle phases, such as discovery, selection and composition using QoS, to enhance user satisfaction and the Semantic Web, to achieve automation. To evaluate performance and usefulness, this paper uses a scenario based on a Healthcare Decision-Making System (HDMS). Results derived through the experiment prove that the proposed prototype performs well for the defined set of cloud-services tasks.Originality/valueAs a novel concept, our proposed integrated framework and approach for cloud service matchmaking, selection and composition based on the Semantic Web and QoS characterisitcs (availability, response time, throughput and cost), as part of the service level agreement (SLA) will help the end user to match, select and filter cloud services and integrate cloud-service providers into a multi-cloud environment.

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El Prestige: comparativa de los regímenes internacionales de responsabilidad civil

Studies of Applied Economics ◽

10.25115/eea.v37i3.2771 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 37 (3) ◽

pp. 31

Author(s):

Raquel Fernández González ◽

Marcos Íñigo Pérez Pérez

Keyword(s):

Institutional Economics ◽

Geographical Area ◽

New Institutional Economics ◽

Rigorous Analysis ◽

Judicial Process ◽

Main Research ◽

Civil Responsibility ◽

The One ◽

High Degree ◽

The Prestige

The return of institutions to the main research agenda has highlighted the importance of rules in economic analysis. The New Institutional Economics has allowed a better understanding of the case studies that concern different areas of knowledge, also the one concerning the management of natural resources. In this article, the institutional analysis focuses on the maritime domain, where two large civil liability regimes for pollution coexist (OPA 90-IMO), each in a different geographical area (United States - Europe). Therefore, a comparative analysis is made between the two large regimes of civil responsibility assignment applying them to the Prestige catastrophe. In this way, the allocation and distribution of responsibilities in the investigation and subsequent judicial process of the Prestige is compared with an alternative scenario in which the applicable compensation instruments are governed by the provisions of the Oil Polution Act of 1990 (OPA 90), in order to establish a rigorous analysis on the effects that the different norms can have in the same scenario. In the comparative established in the case of the Prestige, where the responsibilities were solved very slowly in a judicial process with high transaction costs, the application of rules governed by the OPA 90 would not count with such a high degree of imperfection. This is so, since by applying the preponderance of the evidence existing in OPA 90 there would be no mitigation for the presumed culprits. On the other hand, the agents involved in the sinking would not be limited only to the owner, but also that operators or shipowners would be responsible as well. In addition, the amount of compensation would increase when counting in the damage count the personal damages, the taxes without perceiving and the ecological damage caused in a broad sense, damages not computable in the IMO.

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Assessing Team Detailing End-user Satisfaction

10.21236/ada427712 ◽

2004 ◽

Author(s):

Kimberly P. Whittam ◽

Zannette A. Uriell ◽

Rorie N. Harris

Keyword(s):

User Satisfaction ◽

End User

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Effect of the COVID ‐19 induced phase of massive telehealth uptake on end‐user satisfaction

Internal Medicine Journal ◽

10.1111/imj.15222 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 51 (2) ◽

pp. 206-214

Author(s):

Nicole J. Bate ◽

Simon C. Xu ◽

Maurizio Pacilli ◽

Lynden J. Roberts ◽

Chris Kimber ◽

...

Keyword(s):

User Satisfaction ◽

End User

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Results of the Behavioral Health Readiness Evaluation and Decision-Making Instrument Study

Military Medicine ◽

10.1093/milmed/usaa401 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 186 (Supplement_1) ◽

pp. 142-152

Author(s):

Justin M Curley ◽

Katie L Nugent ◽

Kristina M Clarke-Walper ◽

Elizabeth A Penix ◽

James B Macdonald ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Behavioral Health ◽

User Satisfaction ◽

Safety Issue ◽

Walter Reed Army Institute ◽

End User ◽

Chi Square ◽

Proficiency Level ◽

Wide Range ◽

Decision Making Support

ABSTRACT Introduction Recent reports have demonstrated behavioral health (BH) system and individual provider challenges to BH readiness success. These pose a risk to winning on the battlefield and present a significant safety issue for the Army. One of the most promising areas for achieving better BH readiness results lies in improving readiness decision-making support for BH providers. The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) has taken the lead in addressing this challenge by developing and empirically testing such tools. The results of the Behavioral Health Readiness Evaluation and Decision-Making Instrument (B-REDI) field study are herein described. Methods The B-REDI study received WRAIR Institutional Review Board approval, and BH providers across five U.S. Army Forces Command installations completed surveys from September 2018 to March 2019. The B-REDI tools/training were disseminated to 307 providers through random clinic assignments. Of these, 250 (81%) providers consented to participate and 149 (60%) completed both initial and 3-month follow-up surveys. Survey items included a wide range of satisfaction, utilization, and proficiency-level outcome measures. Analyses included examinations of descriptive statistics, McNemar’s tests pre-/post-B-REDI exposure, Z-tests with subgroup populations, and chi-square tests with demographic comparisons. Results The B-REDI resulted in broad, statistically significant improvements across the measured range of provider proficiency-level outcomes. Net gains in each domain ranged from 16.5% to 22.9% for knowledge/awareness (P = .000), from 11.1% to 15.8% for personal confidence (P = .001-.000), and from 6.2% to 15.1% for decision-making/documentation (P = .035-.002) 3 months following B-REDI initiation, and only one (knowledge) failed to maintain a statistically significant improvement in all of its subcategories. The B-REDI also received high favorability ratings (79%-97% positive) across a wide array of end-user satisfaction measures. Conclusions The B-REDI directly addresses several critical Army BH readiness challenges by providing tangible decision-making support solutions for BH providers. Providers reported high degrees of end-user B-REDI satisfaction and significant improvements in all measured provider proficiency-level domains. By effectively addressing the readiness decision-making challenges Army BH providers encounter, B-REDI provides the Army BH health care system with a successful blueprint to set the conditions necessary for providers to make more accurate and timely readiness determinations. This may ultimately reduce safety and mission failure risks enterprise-wide, and policymakers should consider formalizing and integrating the B-REDI model into current Army BH practice.

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Political Interaction Beyond Party Lines: Communication Ties and Party Polarization in Parliamentary Twitter Networks

Social Science Computer Review ◽

10.1177/0894439320987569 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 089443932098756

Author(s):

Marc Esteve Del Valle ◽

Marcel Broersma ◽

Arnout Ponsioen

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Political Parties ◽

Geographical Area ◽

Political Polarization ◽

Exponential Random Graph Models ◽

Party Polarization ◽

Exponential Random Graph ◽

Political Networks ◽

Use Of Social Media ◽

High Degree

A growing body of research has examined the uptake of social media by politicians, the formation of communication ties in online political networks, and the interplay between social media and political polarization. However, few studies have analyzed how social media are affecting communication in parliamentary networks. This is especially relevant in highly fragmented political systems in which collaboration between political parties is crucial to win support in parliament. Does MPs’ use of social media foster communications among parliamentarians who think differently, or does it result in like-minded clusters polarized along party lines, confining MPs to those who think alike? This study analyzes the formation of communication ties and the degree of homophily in the Dutch MPs’ @mention Twitter network. We employed exponential random graph models on a 1-year sample of all tweets in which Dutch MPs mentioned each other ( N = 7,356) to discover the network parameters (reciprocity, popularity, and brokerage) and individual attributes (seniority, participation in the parliamentary commissions, age, gender, and geographical area) that facilitate communication ties among parliamentarians. Also, we measured party polarization by calculating the external–internal index of the mentions. Dutch MPs’ communication ties arise from network dynamics (reciprocity, brokerage, and popularity) and from MPs’ participation in the parliamentary commissions, age, gender, and geographical area. Furthermore, there is a high degree of cross-party interactions in the Dutch MPs’ mentions Twitter network. Our results refute the existence of “echo chambers” in the Dutch MPs’ mentions Twitter network and support the hypothesis that social media can open up spaces for discussion among political parties. This is particularly important in fragmented consensus democracies where negotiation and coordination between parties to form coalitions is key.

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