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This book contains a selection of articles from The 2014 World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST'14), held between the 15th and 18th of April in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss recent results and innovations, current trends, professional experiences and challenges of modern Information Systems and Technologies research, technological development and applications.
The main topics covered are: Information and Knowledge Management; Organizational Models and Information Systems; Intelligent and Decision Support Systems; Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools; Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems; Radar Technologies; Human-Computer Interaction; Health Informatics and Information Technologies in Education.
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Language Technology for e Government - Business Cases.- Using a Multi-criteria Approach in Early Warning Information System (MCEWIS).- Evaluation of an integrated mobile payment, ticketing and couponing solution based on NFC.- Learning from the experience. Systemic thinking for e-government development in developing countries: a question unsolved.- An Architecture for Serious Games in Health Rehabilitation.- Integrating Public Transportation Data: Moving Towards an Extended GTFS Data Model.- From trash to cash: A case of waste management business model formation.- The Effects of Effort-Feedback on Time Spent for Information Processing in Multi-criteria Decision Making.- Use of a Game Theory model to simulate competition in Next Generation Networks.- Cross Artefacts for Educational Purposes.- Developing a Learning Objects Recommender System based on Competences to Education: experience report.- User Behavior Detection Based on Statistical Traffic Analysis for Thin Client Services.- Toward a Cloud based Knowledge Management System of E-learning Best Practices.- Leveraging Web Information for E-Learning.- Mobile Botnet Attacks: A Thematic Taxonomy.- An approach to stigmergy issues based on the recursive application of binary elementary operations.- Model and application architecture indicators of evaluation the enterprise architecture.- Software Tools for Project Management - Focus on Collaborative Management.- A Web System based on a Sports Injuries Model towards Global Athletes Monitoring.- Using individual interactions to infer group interests and to recommend content for groups in public spaces.- Ontological Modeling Applied to Engineering and Governance Processes of Customer Complaints.- ARTE: an Embryo Quality Assessment Tool.- An Adaptable Infrastructure to Generate Training Datasets for Decompilation Issues.- Augmented Reality Mobile Tourism Application.- A Novel Approach to Endoscopic Exams Archiving.- An Approach for Graphical User Interface Bad Smells Detection.- A numeric/linguistic interface for smart phones with accelerometer.- Pedagogical and organizational concerns for the deployment of interactive public displays at schools.- Methodology for clustering cities affected by natural disasters.- Converging the streams: Information Systems Governance Unifying Framework.- Reengineering of Software Requirement Specification.- Reengineering Requirements Specification based on IEEE 830 Standard and Traceability.- Intelligent Wheelchair Driving: A Comparative Study of Cerebral Palsy Adults with Distinct Boccia Experience.- A Survey on Intelligent Wheelchair Prototypes and Simulators.- Collaborative Training Tools for Emergency Restoration of Critical Infrastructure Systems.- ClassIN: A Class Inheritance Metric Tool.- Identifying Improvement Findings in IT SMEs through an Ontological Model for CMMI-DEV v1.3.- Discrimination of Class Inheritance Hierarchies - A Vector Approach.- The key project managers competences for different types of projects.- Service Orientation of Information Technology Professionals: The Effect of Personal and Environmental Factors.- Expanding Scientific Knowledge Frontiers: Open repositories in Developing Countries Supported by NRENs.- Authoring Environment for Location Decision Games for Decision-Making Skills Development.- Application of Virtual and Augmented Reality Technology in Education of Manufacturing Engineers.- From Ontologies to Questions -Answer Pairs - A template language for automated and customizable transformations.- Transformation of Coloured Petri Nets to UML 2 Diagrams.- Quantitative Scenario-Based Assessment of Contextual Factors for ICT4D Projects: Design and Implementation in a Web Based Tool.- A distributed architecture for remote validation of software licenses using USB/IP protocol.- Evolutionary Nonlinear Prediction Model for Temperature Forecast.- Toward Prediction Algorithm for Heavy Precipitation Using Cartesian Genetic Programming.- Mobile Games for Children.- Current Is