Our research theme is evolving around the concept of computer profiling. The aim of our work is to propose an approach that will detect web profiles in a unique way and to model a print web for each profile. Our main concern is to find this signature ...

Understanding the dynamics of reciprocation is of great interest in sociology and computational social science. The recent growth of Massively Multi-player Online Games (MMOGs) has provided unprecedented access to large-scale data which enables us to ...

What do large networks look like? Can we visually tell the topological difference between networks such as the Web graph and Facebook network? Due to the huge size of the network, the overall structure will not be discernible if all the nodes and edges ...

Schedule management of hospitalization is important to maintain or improve the quality of medical care. Application of a clinical pathway has been proposed as one of the important solutions for the management. This research proposed an data-oriented ...

The early development of medical decision support systems (appeared as expert systems (ES)) mainly focused on, among others, rule-based reasoning (RBR) and decision table/tree (DT) methods as problem solving strategies. These efforts were novel at the ...

Complexity is usually referred to as the degree of interrelatedness of components within a system. This paper explores the interrelatedness of components within complex social networks by using social network concepts adapted from 'structural holes' ...

The mounting pressure to enable widespread access to electronic health record systems is being felt by healthcare providers. The federal government's Meaningful Use incentives are reason alone for providers to address this significant usability issue. ...

The paper presents a general methodology to implement a flexible Focused Crawler for investigation purposes, monitoring, and Open Source Intelligence (OSINT). The resulting tool is specifically aimed to fit the operational requirements of law-...

Optometry is an essential health care profession that has existed for many centuries and is still evolving. However, the training approaches for optometrists are not yet on par with the latest technological evolution. The traditional supervisor-student ...

This demonstration exhibit combines discrete event simulation and social network analysis to provide a lens on the complexity of socio-technical systems such as in healthcare.

Complexity is generally accepted to be the interrelatedness of components within a system. Treating the general practitioner (GP)-patient encounter as a complex system, we argue that complexity (resulting from the degree of interactions between GP, ...

New topics of discussion emerge continuously as political and cultural environments shift. These topics can convey a range of ideas, stories, values, and shared experiences. In open source data, discourse is often infused with emotionally-charged prose ...

Medical images are fundamental in medical processes particularly in the disease surveillance which is a practice that enables to monitor the evolution of patients' states. This practice cannot be understood and described only by a current image but ...

The rapid development of information and communication technologies, especially the invention of digital computers and the Internet, pushed almost a whole world into information age, where information became so powerful that it can be directly used as a ...

We present a demo that shows Twitter hashtag usage in Egypt from the angle of Islamist vs. secular polarization. The demo not only provides insights about current events in Egypt, but also reveals differences in attitudes of the two political camps with ...

Most of the criminals choose each other to commit crime together. They choose each other based on their similarity or need for particular skills and expertise. Research shows that some features of crime and criminals are important for their decisions to ...

Noncompliance is the main reason for treatment failure. Approximately 50 to 75% [1, 2] of patients misuse their medication due to forgetfulness and busy schedule. Instead of heavily depending on patient's memory for following medication deadlines, we ...

Numerical schemes research on clustering model has been quite intensive in the past decade. The difficulties associated with curse of dimensionality and cost functions to reflect the general knowledge about internal structures and distributions of ...

This paper describes traces of user activity around a alleged online social network profile of a Boston Marathon bombing suspect, after the tragedy occurred. The analyzed data, collected with the help of an automatic social media monitoring software, ...

The paper shows how different concepts and technologies, such as high quality multimedia content production and delivery, social media interaction, and methodologies for monitoring and analysing social network activity, can be practically combined with ...