Browsing Electrical and Electronic Engineering by Author "Breslin, John G."
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An abstract framework for modeling argumentation in virtual communities
Groza, Tudor; Handschuh, Siegfried; Breslin, John G.; Decker, Stefan (IGI Global, 2009)Classic argumentative discussions can be found in a variety of domains from traditional scientific publishing to today’s modern social software. An interactive argumentative discussion usually consists of an initial ... -
Architecture for gathering and integrating collaborative information for decision support in emergency situations
Marino, Tiago; De Campos, Maria Luiza Machado; Borges, Marcos R.S.; Breslin, John G.; Dabrowski, Maciej (Inderscience, 2018-01-16)The involvement of citizens in supporting crisis situations is no longer a new phenomenon. In the past, the lack of data was one of the main barriers faced by public managers in the decision-making process. Today the ... -
Challenges for semantically driven collaborative spaces
Molli, Pascal; Breslin, John G.; Vidal, Maria-Esther (Springer, 2016)Linked Data initiatives have fostered the publication of more than one thousand of datasets in the Linking Open Data (LOD) cloud from a large variety of domains, e.g., Life Sciences, Media, and Government. Albeit large ... -
Crowdsourcing, citizen sensing and sensor web technologies for public and environmental health surveillance and crisis management: trends, OGC standards and application examples
Boulos, Maged N Kamel; Resch, Bernd; Crowley, David N.; Breslin, John G.; Sohn, Gunho; Burtner, Russ; Pike, William A.; Jezierski, Eduardo; Chuang, Kuo-Yu Slayer (BioMed Central, 2011-12-21)'Wikification of GIS by the masses' is a phrase-term first coined by Kamel Boulos in 2005, two years earlier than Goodchild's term 'Volunteered Geographic Information'. Six years later (2005-2011), OpenStreetMap and Google ... -
Do as I tweet, not as I do: comparing physical activity data between fitness tweets and Healthy People 2020
Vickey, Ted; Breslin, John G. (JMIR Publications, 2015-11-30)Background: The goal of this research was to compare the self-reported estimates of daily physical-activity data provided to the Healthy People 2020 research team via a telephone survey to the mobile fitness app real-time ... -
Handheld solutions for the retail sector
Coughlan, Sean; Breslin, John G. (The Institution of Engineers of Ireland, 2003-11-09)[No abstract available] -
Integrating tagging into the web of data: Overview and combination of existing tag ontologies
Kim, Hak-Lae; Scerri, Simon; Passant, Alexandre; Breslin, John G.; Handschuh, Siegfried; Decker, Stefan; Kim, Hong-Gee (Taiwan Academic Network, 2011-07)As the number of social websites offering tagging facilities increases, tagging has become not only a common basis for user participation, but also an important aspect of social content. Tagging is primarily based on the ... -
The KEYSTONE IC1302 COST Action
Guerra, Francesco; Velegrakis, Yannis; Cardoso, Jorge; Breslin, John G. (Springer International Publishing, 2018)As more and more data becomes available on the Web, as its complexity increases and as the Web’s user base shifts towards a more general non-technical population, keyword searching is becoming a valuable alternative to ... -
Leveraging social media and IoT to bootstrap smart environments
Crowley, David N.; Curry, Edward; Breslin, John G. (Springer International Publishing, 2014-03-12)As we move towards an era of Smart Environments, mixed technological and social solutions must be examined to continue to allow users some control over their environment. Realisations of Smart Environments such as Smart ... -
Online influence and sentiment of fitness tweets: Analysis of two million fitness tweets
Vickey, Theodore; Breslin, John G. (JMIR Publications, 2017)Objective: The goal of this experimental approach using the fitness Twitter dataset is two-fold: (1) to determine if there is a correlation between the type of activity tweet (either workout or workout+, which contains the ... -
Online social and business networking communities
O'Murchu, Ina; Breslin, John G.; Decker, Stefan (IUP Publications, 2007)[No abstract available] -
Preface to Semantic Web Collaborative Spaces: Second International Workshop, SWCS 2013, Montpellier, France, May 27, 2013, Third International Workshop, SWCS 2014, Trentino, Italy, October 19, 2014, Revised Selected and Invited Papers
Molli, Pascal; Breslin, John G.; Vidal, Maria-Esther (Springer, 2016)This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Semantic Web Collaborative Spaces, SWCS 2013, held in Montpellier, France, in May 2013, and the Third International ... -
RDF dataset profiling – a survey of features, methods, vocabularies and applications
Ellefi, Mohamed Ben; Bellahsene, Zohra; Breslin, John G.; Demidova, Elena; Dietze, Stefan; Szymanski, Julian; Todorov, Konstantin (IOS Press, 2018-07-12)The Web of Data, and in particular Linked Data, has seen tremendous growth over the past years. However, reuse and take-up of these rich data sources is often limited and focused on a few well-known and established RDF ... -
Representing and sharing tagging data using the social semantic cloud of tags
Kim, Hak-Lae; Breslin, John G.; Deckar, Stefan; Kim, Hong-Gee (IGI Global, 2009-07)Social tagging has become an essential element for Web 2.0 and the emerging Semantic Web applications. With the rise of Web 2.0, websites that provide content creation and sharing features have become extremely popular. ... -
Semantic community portals
O’Murchu, Ina; Zhdanova, Anna V.; Breslin, John G. (IGI Global, 2007)Many virtual communities have surfaced and come together on the World Wide Web. Web-based community portals serve as a one-stop place for all information needs serving a group of users that have common interests. As ... -
SIOC browser- towards a richer blog browsing experience
Bojars, Uldis; Breslin, John G.; Passant, Alexandre (Books on Demand, 2006)[No abstract available] -
Towards semantically-interlinked online communities
Bojars, Uldis; Breslin, John G.; Harth, Andreas; Decker, Stefan (CEPIS Member Society, Asociación de Técnicos de Informática (ATI), 2005-12)Online community sites have replaced the traditional means of keeping a community informed via libraries and publishing. At present, online communities are islands that are not interlinked. Ontologies and Semantic Web ... -
Trust models for community aware identity management
Choi, Hee-Chul; Kruk, Sebastian Ryszard; Grzonkowski, S\lawomir; Grzonkowski, Slawomir; Stankiewicz, Katarzyna; Davis, Brian; Breslin, John G. (IUP Publications, 2008)[No abstract available] -
Understanding online communities by using semantic web technologies
Passant, Alexandre; Kinsella, Sheila; Bojars, Uldis; Breslin, John G.; Decker, Stefan (IGI Global, 2011)During the last few years, the Web that we used to know as a read-only medium shifted to a read-write Web, often known as Web 2.0 or the Social Web, in which people interact, share and build content collaboratively within ... -
A URI is worth a thousand tags: From tagging to linked data with MOAT
Passant, Alexandre; Laublet, Philippe; Breslin, John G.; Decker, Stefan (IGI Global, 2009)Although tagging is a widely accepted practice on the Social Web, it raises various issues like tags ambiguity and heterogeneity, as well as the lack of organization between tags. We believe that Semantic Web technologies ...