Eleni Stroulia

TL;DR: The level of technology readiness for smart homes and home health monitoring technologies is still low and the highest level of evidence found was in a study that supported home health technologies for use in monitoring activities of daily living, cognitive decline, mental health, and heart conditions in older adults with complex needs.

TL;DR: UMLDiff is presented, an algorithm for automatically detecting structural changes between the designs of subsequent versions of object-oriented software and enables subsequent design-evolution analyses from multiple perspectives in support of various evolution activities.

TL;DR: The history of virtual worlds back to its antecedents in electronic gaming and on-line social networking is traced, and an overview of extant virtual worlds is provided - including education-focused, theme-based, community-specific, children- focused, and self-determined worlds - and the relationship among these worlds is analyzed according to an initial taxonomy.

TL;DR: A suite of methods that assess the similarity between two WSDL (Web Service Description Language) specifications based on the structure of their data types and operations and the semantics of their natural language descriptions and identifiers are developed.

TL;DR: The approach to tackle the API-evolution problem in the context of reuse-based software development is discussed, which automatically recognizes the API changes of the reused framework and proposes plausible replacements to the "obsolete" API based on working examples of the framework code base.