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Temporal Pooling (TP) is a recent technique for processing temporal events by forming declarative representations of the complete sequences. In this paper, we examine and extend the functionality of the existing TP algorithm from the Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM) framework and introduce the Self-Organising Temporal Pooling (SOTP) architecture. The SOTP draws together the Merge Self-Organising...
Currently, we witness dramatically increasing interest in immersive media technologies like Virtual Reality (VR), particularly in omnidirectional video (OV) streaming. Omnidirectional (also called 360-degree) videos are panoramic spherical videos in which the user can look around during playback and which therefore can be understood as hybrids between traditional movie streaming and interactive VR...
The Internet of Things (IoT) involves intelligent, heterogeneous, autonomous and often distributed things which interact and collaborate to achieve common goals. A useful concept for supporting this effort is Emergent Configuration (EC), which consists of a dynamic set of things, with their functionalities and services, that cooperate temporarily to achieve a goal. In this paper we introduce a commitment-based...
This paper presents the findings of a PhD research that aims to evaluate the processes of electronic participation (e-Participation) and electronic democracy (e-Democracy) introduction in Switzerland. The choice of the Swiss case study can be explained by a seeming paradox between, on the one hand, highly developed system of direct democracy, which determines the character of the Swiss policy-making...
The Internet of Things (IoT) has a great potential to change our lives. Billions of heterogeneous, distributed, intelligent, and sometimes mobile devices, will be connected and offer new types of applications and ways to interact. The dynamic environment of the IoT, the involvement of the human in the loop, and the runtime interactions among devices and applications, put additional requirements on...
Throughout a semester students use textbooks to reference key fragments especially in response to assigned homework problems. We present an extension to an existing web-based Question and Answer (Q&A) system by incorporating the course textbook as a collection of annotated and chunked resources in a website. To characterize student interaction with the textbook contents, we capture the progress...
The FeesMustFall movement is an ongoing electronic and physical movement protesting against the need to pay fees for tertiary education in South Africa (SA). This paper reports on the online component of the movement under the Twitter handle FeesMustFall. Previous research has, through the lens of Role Theory, reported on the different roles social media users play in terms of propagating Twitter...
The growing use of informal social text messages on Twitter is one of the known sources of big data. These type of messages are noisy and frequently rife with acronyms, slangs, grammatical errors and non-standard words causing grief for natural language processing (NLP) techniques. In this study, our contribution is to target non-standard words in the short text and propose a method to which the given...
IP telephony has evolved following a structure inherited from traditional telephony, that is, a relay-based, station to station model. This philosophy has deeply influenced the evolution of the traditional support protocols, SIP/SDP. However, with the emergence of an embedded form of voice and video communications, supported by new platforms such as WebRTC, other models for user communications become...
implementing leaderboard is one of the most popular gamification strategies which allows triggering various types of engagement and potentially links to different performances in skill acquisition and knowledge transfer. Although leaderboards are currently implemented in various domains and many kinds of leaderboards are currently employed, previous studies reported that not all participants engaged...
Knowledge sharing has emerged as a core process of knowledge management. By doing knowledge sharing, organization can solve problems and improve individual work performance of its member. Individual members involved in knowledge sharing have different characteristics. These characteristics related to the role in knowledge sharing, which are knowledge provider and knowledge receiver. Besides the characteristics...
In this paper, with the help of controllable active near-infrared (NIR) lights, we construct near-infrared differential (NIRD) images. Based on reflection model, NIRD image is believed to contain the lighting difference between images with and without active NIR lights. Two main characteristics based on NIRD images are exploited to conduct spoofing detection. Firstly, there exist obviously spoofing...
Document writing can tend to be rather laborious and time-consuming. A good document requires substantial research to be performed on the subject of the document, followed by the additional task of aggregating the surveyed research into a comprehensive document with accurate and coherent content. In this paper, a dynamic content suggestion system is presented for document writing. The proposed system...
Exponential growth of media generated in online social networks demands effective recommendation to improve the efficiency of media access especially for mobile users. In particular, content, objective quality or general popularity are less decisive for the prediction of user-click behavior than friendship-conditioned patterns. Existing recommender systems however, rarely consider user behavior in...
Word embedding techniques (e.g., Word2Vec, GloVe) have been recently used for variety of applications with quite good rate of success. They allow to capture word semantics and syntactics with decreased dimensionality based on the concept of distributional vector representations. Vector representations can be then used for similarity comparison. However, if we treat the word embeddings as a kind of...
Twitter provides a platform for information sharing and diffusion, and has quickly emerged as a mechanism for organizations to engage with their consumers. A driving factor for engagement is providing relevant and timely content to users. We posit that the engagement via tweets offers a good potential to discover user interests and leverage that information to target specific content of interest....
The choice of expressions used in news reports is dependent on their language, the perspective of the journalist and the purpose of the news. Previous research by Miyata (2002) and Chomsky (2003) shows that religious language has often been used in the media to convey political ideas and legitimize political acts to the public. Based on that theory this research will try to clarify the reasons for...
Social media creates a novel marketing mechanism to boost opinion formation and information diffusion. As a crucial idea, social influence sheds light on individuals' features in the process of communicating brand stories, and changes other consumers' opinions and behavior. Social media marketing has drawn great interests from scholars in a past decade, but the extant work neglects to establish an...
The purpose of this 14-week study was to investigate the influence of digital storytelling (DST) on elementary school students' creative thinking and their responses to the use of DST in the English class. 27 sixth graders were assigned randomly in the experimental and control groups. It was found DST enhanced students' creative thinking significantly. Also, students' responses to the use of and English...
The overload of information can become a significant challenge in relation to information retrieval systems. Often users will need to carry out extensive research to get the information they desire. This issue will only become more challenging as the quantity of data available on the internet increases. This increase shows no signs of slowing down and inevitably demands better solutions. One such...
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