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Research-Centres Centred Living Labs

Developing means to conduct shared evaluation in the user modelling, adaptation and personalization (UMAP) space is inherently difficult. Not least because of privacy concerns and individual differences in behaviours between users of systems. In this paper we propose a research-centre centred living labs approach as one potential way to overcome these difficulties and to allow for shared task g...

CALL CENTERS (CENTRES) Research Bibliography with Abstracts

The collection of vehicular tolls at Port Authority tunnels and bridges is one of the most important operations conducted by the police personnel. More than 250 traffic officers are utilized, and the payroll costs exceed a million dollars annually. In staffing its toll plazas, the Port Authority attempts to handle traffic with a minimum number of toll collectors consistent with uniformly good s...

Integrated health research centres for Australia.

Open Data in Global Environmental Research: The Belmont Forum’s Open Data Survey

This paper presents the findings of the Belmont Forum's survey on Open Data which targeted the global environmental research and data infrastructure community. It highlights users' perceptions of the term "open data", expectations of infrastructure functionalities, and barriers and enablers for the sharing of data. A wide range of good practice examples was pointed out by the respondents which ...

Open Source and Open Content: a Framework for Global Collaboration in Social-Ecological Research

This paper discusses opportunities for alternative collaborative approaches for socialecological research in general and, in this context, for modeling land-use/land-cover change. In this field, the rate of progress in academic research is steady but perhaps not as rapid or efficient as might be possible with alternative organizational frameworks. The convergence of four phenomena provides new ...