Browsing Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Scholarly Articles) 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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...