IT managers in administration must decide how to contribute to cross-organisational integration and what strategy and means to choose for achieving interoperability. Comparing the frameworks and guidelines provided by central European and U.S. governmental units, we find information integration and process integration as prominent concepts to guide interoperability efforts, but they seem to point to different directions. This paper aims at contrasting the different characteristics of both approaches and concludes with recommendations according to the intended organisational scope of integration. To be successful in these efforts it is important to understand that (a) interoperability requires a guiding vision of integration, (b) each type of integration points to a different set of interrelated ideas, assumptions and technical means, and (c) integration implies a strategic commitment to explicit forms of cross-organisational cooperation and their implementation.

Information integration or process integration? How to achieve interoperability in administration

Midgar: Generation of heterogeneous objects interconnecting applications. A Domain Specific Language proposal for Internet of Things scenarios

Humankind has the ability of learning new things automatically due to the capacities with which we were born.
We simply need to have experiences, read, study… live. For these processes, we are capable of acquiring new
abilities or modifying those we already have. Another ability we possess is the faculty of thinking, imagine,
create our own ideas, and dream. Nevertheless, what occurs when we extrapolate this to machines? Machines
can learn. We can teach them. In the last years, considerable advances have been done and we have seen cars
that can recognise pedestrians or other cars, systems that distinguish animals, and even, how some artificial
intelligences have been able to dream, paint, and compose music by themselves. Despite this, the doubt is
the following: Can machines think? Or, in other words, could a machine which is talking to a person and is
situated in another room make them believe they are talking with another human? This is a doubt that has
been present since Alan Mathison Turing contemplated it and it has not been resolved yet. In this article, we
will show the beginnings of what is known as Artificial Intelligence and some branches of it such as Machine
Learning, Computer Vision, Fuzzy Logic, and Natural Language Processing. We will talk about each of them,
their concepts, how they work, and the related work on the Internet of Things fields.

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A Review of Artificial Intelligence in the Internet of Things

Comparative analysis of relevance feedback methods based on two user studies

在过去的十年，社会标注系统吸引了增加注意从物理并且计算机科学社区。除标注系统的内在的结构和动力学以外，许多努力被探讨了统一标注信息揭示用户行为和偏爱，在项目之中提取潜伏的语义关系，等等做建议。明确地，这篇文章关于标签知道的 recommender 系统总结最近的进步，在从三个主流的观点和途径的贡献上强调：基于网络的方法，基于张肌的方法，和基于话题的方法。最后，我们构画出一些另外的标签相关的研究和标签知道的建议算法的未来挑战。

Tag-Aware Recommender Systems：A State-of-the-Art Survey

Creating recommendations on electronic books

Web recommendation systems usually brings a content list to users based on previous ratings made by them to other similar contents through some social voting mean. This paper aims to present a comparison of the main explicit rating methods used by web recommendation systems. The goal of this survey is to determine which of the studied methods fits better to user preferences when they rate a content on the web; based on the obtained results, a recommendation system can be implemented using an explicit feedback method to achieve this goal.

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Social Voting Techniques: A Comparison of the Methods Used for Explicit Feedback in Recommendation Systems

The development of applications for mobile devices is a constantly growing market which and more and more enterprises support the development of applications for this kind of devices. In that sense, videogames for mobile devices have become very popular worldwide and are now part of highly profitable and competitive industry. Due to the diversity of platforms and mobile devices and the complexity of this kind of applications, the development time and the number of errors within that development process have increased. The productivity of the developers has also decreased due to the necessity of using many programming languages in the development process. One of the most popular strategies is to employ specialized people to perform the development tasks more efficiently, but this involves an increase of the costs, which makes some applications economically unviable. In this article we present the Gade4all Project, consisting in a new platform that aims to facilitate the development of videogames and entertainment software through the use of Domain Specific Languages and Model Driven Engineering. This tool makes possible for users without previous knowledge in the field of software development to create 2D videogames for multiplatform mobile devices in a simple and innovative way.

https://dialnet.unirioja.es/descarga/articulo/4335742.pdf

Gade4all: developing multi-platform videogames based on domain specific languages and model driven engineering

Knowledge-based public service transactions

There is an explosion of different software platforms and protocols used to achieve systems interoperation. Among those platforms are the e-government transactions systems used mainly by public sector organizations to deliver demanded services to citizens. This scenario brings the appearance of communications gap among public organizations that share common processes, services, and regulations. Therefore, to find a solution to integrate these platforms becomes a relevant issue to be treated. This chapter proposes a rule-based domain-specific modeling environment for public services and process integration formed by common public service elements and a set of process integration rules. This approach provides a mechanism to integrate the conforming pieces of public transactions among different platforms. In addition, a service and a process meta-model is proposed in order to formalize the information structures. A set of process integration rules is also presented to complete the proposed model.

Guillermo Infante Hernández

Papers

Creating recommendations on electronic books

Social Voting Techniques: A Comparison of the Methods Used for Explicit Feedback in Recommendation Systems

Gade4all: developing multi-platform videogames based on domain specific languages and model driven engineering

Knowledge-based public service transactions

Rule-Based Domain-Specific Modeling for E-Government Service Transactions