Discovering Services in Mobile Environments

2014 ◽  
pp. 299-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salma Bradai ◽  
Sofien Khemakhem ◽  
Mohamed Jmaiel
Keyword(s):  
Financial Management ◽  
Service Discovery ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Mobile Service ◽  
Mobile Environments ◽  
Service Description ◽  
Resource Constrained Devices ◽  
Constrained Devices

Mobile services have gained in importance for their ability to be consumed by mobile users regardless of their location. Mobile consumers are exposed to a large pool of services such as location-based applications, medical information, financial management, investments, and more. However, mobile service discovery needs further research to efficiently and effectively support mobility-related constraints such as availability, heterogeneity, and resource constrained devices. In this chapter, the authors define several criteria relating to mobile service discovery and categorize state-of-the-art service discovery approaches according to those criteria while paying particular attention to architectural choices, service description, and service discovery using semantic and reasoning techniques. The authors evaluate the approaches to identify their advantages and shortcomings and propose guidelines for future research for service discovery in mobile environments.

Semantic Information Retrieval on Medical Texts

2022 ◽  
Vol 54 (7) ◽  
pp. 1-38
Author(s):  
Lynda Tamine ◽  
Lorraine Goeuriot
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Semantic Search ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Cross Model ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Search Systems

The explosive growth and widespread accessibility of medical information on the Internet have led to a surge of research activity in a wide range of scientific communities including health informatics and information retrieval (IR). One of the common concerns of this research, across these disciplines, is how to design either clinical decision support systems or medical search engines capable of providing adequate support for both novices (e.g., patients and their next-of-kin) and experts (e.g., physicians, clinicians) tackling complex tasks (e.g., search for diagnosis, search for a treatment). However, despite the significant multi-disciplinary research advances, current medical search systems exhibit low levels of performance. This survey provides an overview of the state of the art in the disciplines of IR and health informatics, and bridging these disciplines shows how semantic search techniques can facilitate medical IR. First,we will give a broad picture of semantic search and medical IR and then highlight the major scientific challenges. Second, focusing on the semantic gap challenge, we will discuss representative state-of-the-art work related to feature-based as well as semantic-based representation and matching models that support medical search systems. In addition to seminal works, we will present recent works that rely on research advancements in deep learning. Third, we make a thorough cross-model analysis and provide some findings and lessons learned. Finally, we discuss some open issues and possible promising directions for future research trends.

scholarly journals Investigating readiness to use Internet and mobile services of diabetic patients of a middle-income country

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javad Jafari ◽  
Hossein Karimi Moonaghi ◽  
Soleiman Ahmady ◽  
Nabil Zary ◽  
Italo Masiello
Keyword(s):  
Medical Information ◽  
Mobile Services ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Diabetic Patients ◽  
Mobile Service ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Validated Questionnaire ◽  
Use Of The Internet

Background: Diabetes mellitus is increasing worldwide, especially in developing countries, as a consequence of urbanization. The use of the Internet and mobile service are increasing as well. The independent use of the Internet and mobile technologies by the patients could be a key step towards self-care management of the disease. Methods: A validated questionnaire with two parts was used and was completed by patients who came to two diabetic clinics for routine checkup. The first part consisted of 16 items collecting demographics information. The second part contained 26 items about the specific use of the Internet and mobile services to access information. Results: 407 questionnaires were completed. 108 (26,5 %) had routine access to Internet, of which 95,4 % had routine access to mobile services and 77,8 % were positive to the use of a Persian website for medical information. Yet, 55 % of respondents preferred to get information from TV, radio and educational courses. Conclusions: Data suggest that most diabetic patients who use the Internet in this study were willing to receive educational material by the Internet. However, many still prefer traditional means of information. Our future research is going to focus on early adopters.

scholarly journals Investigating readiness to use Internet and mobile services of diabetic patients of a middle-income country

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javad Javad Jafari ◽  
Hossein Karimi Moonaghi ◽  
Soleiman Ahmady ◽  
Nabil Zary ◽  
Italo Masiello
Keyword(s):  
Medical Information ◽  
Mobile Services ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Diabetic Patients ◽  
Mobile Service ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Validated Questionnaire ◽  
Use Of The Internet

Background: Diabetes mellitus is increasing worldwide, especially in developing countries, as a consequence of urbanization. The use of the Internet and mobile service are increasing as well. The independent use of the Internet and mobile technologies by the patients could be a key step towards self-care management of the disease. Methods: A validated questionnaire with two parts was used and was completed by patients who came to two diabetic clinics for routine checkup. The first part consisted of 16 items collecting demographics information. The second part contained 26 items about the specific use of the Internet and mobile services to access information. Results: 407 questionnaires were completed. 108 (26,5 %) had routine access to Internet, of which 95,4 % had routine access to mobile services and 77,8 % were positive to the use of a Persian website for medical information. Yet, 55 % of respondents preferred to get information from TV, radio and educational courses. Conclusions: Data suggest that most diabetic patients who use the Internet in this study were willing to receive educational material by the Internet. However, many still prefer traditional means of information. Our future research is going to focus on early adopters.

scholarly journals Scabbard: a suite of efficient learning with rounding key-encapsulation mechanisms

2021 ◽  
pp. 474-509
Author(s):  
Jose Maria Bermudo Mera ◽  
Angshuman Karmakar ◽  
Suparna Kundu ◽  
Ingrid Verbauwhede
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
General Purpose ◽  
The State ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Memory Footprint ◽  
Post Quantum Cryptography ◽  
Efficient Learning ◽  
Hardware Platforms ◽  
Resource Constrained Devices ◽  
Constrained Devices

In this paper, we introduce Scabbard, a suite of post-quantum keyencapsulation mechanisms. Our suite contains three different schemes Florete, Espada, and Sable based on the hardness of module- or ring-learning with rounding problem. In this work, we first show how the latest advancements on lattice-based cryptographycan be utilized to create new better schemes and even improve the state-of-the-art on post-quantum cryptography. We put particular focus on designing schemes that can optimally exploit the parallelism offered by certain hardware platforms and are also suitable for resource constrained devices. We show that this can be achieved without compromising the security of the schemes or penalizing their performance on other platforms.To substantiate our claims, we provide optimized implementations of our three new schemes on a wide range of platforms including general-purpose Intel processors using both portable C and vectorized instructions, embedded platforms such as Cortex-M4 microcontrollers, and hardware platforms such as FPGAs. We show that on each platform, our schemes can outperform the state-of-the-art in speed, memory footprint, or area requirements.

The Ubiquitous Semantic Web

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuan-Fang Li ◽  
Jeff Z. Pan ◽  
Shonali Krishnaswamy ◽  
Manfred Hauswirth ◽  
Hai H. Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
Service Discovery ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
Mobile Service ◽  
Semantic Technologies ◽  
Important Research ◽  
Online Data ◽  
Research Problems ◽  
Art Research

The Semantic Web represents an evolution of the World Wide Web towards one of entities and their relationships, rather than pages and links. Such a progression makes it possible to represent, integrate, query and reason about structured online data. Recent years have witnessed tremendous growth of mobile computing, represented by the widespread adoption of smart phones and tablets. The versatility of such smart devices and the capabilities of semantic technologies form a great foundation for a ubiquitous Semantic Web that will contribute to further realising the true potential of both disciplines. In this paper, the authors argue for values provided by the ubiquitous Semantic Web using a mobile service discovery scenario. They also provide a brief overview of state-of-the-art research in this emerging area. Finally, the authors conclude with a summary of challenges and important research problems.

scholarly journals Investigating readiness to use Internet and mobile services of diabetic patients of a middle-income country

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javad Jafari ◽  
Hossein Karimi Moonaghi ◽  
Soleiman Ahmady ◽  
Nabil Zary ◽  
Italo Masiello
Keyword(s):  
Medical Information ◽  
Mobile Services ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Diabetic Patients ◽  
Mobile Service ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Validated Questionnaire ◽  
Use Of The Internet

Background: Diabetes mellitus is increasing worldwide, especially in developing countries, as a consequence of urbanization. The use of the Internet and mobile service are increasing as well. The independent use of the Internet and mobile technologies by the patients could be a key step towards self-care management of the disease. Methods: A validated questionnaire with two parts was used and was completed by patients who came to two diabetic clinics for routine checkup. The first part consisted of 16 items collecting demographics information. The second part contained 26 items about the specific use of the Internet and mobile services to access information. Results: 407 questionnaires were completed. 108 (26,5 %) had routine access to Internet, of which 95,4 % had routine access to mobile services and 77,8 % were positive to the use of a Persian website for medical information. Yet, 55 % of respondents preferred to get information from TV, radio and educational courses. Conclusions: Data suggest that most diabetic patients who use the Internet in this study were willing to receive educational material by the Internet. However, many still prefer traditional means of information. Our future research is going to focus on early adopters.

A Systematic Literature Review of the EFQM Excellence Model from 1991 to 2019

1970 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-15
Author(s):  
Muhammad Yousaf ◽  
Petr Bris
Keyword(s):  
Quality Management ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Future Research ◽  
European Foundation ◽  
The Subject

A systematic literature review (SLR) from 1991 to 2019 is carried out about EFQM (European Foundation for Quality Management) excellence model in this paper. The aim of the paper is to present state of the art in quantitative research on the EFQM excellence model that will guide future research lines in this field. The articles were searched with the help of six strings and these six strings were executed in three popular databases i.e. Scopus, Web of Science, and Science Direct. Around 584 peer-reviewed articles examined, which are directly linked with the subject of quantitative research on the EFQM excellence model. About 108 papers were chosen finally, then the purpose, data collection, conclusion, contributions, and type of quantitative of the selected papers are discussed and analyzed briefly in this study. Thus, this study identifies the focus areas of the researchers and knowledge gaps in empirical quantitative literature on the EFQM excellence model. This article also presents the lines of future research.

SIBSC: Separable Identity-Based Signcryption for Resource-Constrained Devices

Informatica ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 193-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tung-Tso Tsai ◽  
Sen-Shan Huang ◽  
Yuh-Min Tseng
Keyword(s):  
Resource Constrained ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
Resource Constrained Devices ◽  
Constrained Devices
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