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Personal Information Management Behavior among Postgraduate Students of University of Birjand in Digital Environment

Background and Aim: Personal Information Management (PIM) process consists of four activities; acquisition, organization, maintenance and retrieval. Obviously this process is due to human limitations and expanding scope of personal space of information which has become an exhausting and difficult process. Use of technology and tools related to PIM could facilitate this procedure. This survey st...

Adaptation in Adaptable Personal Information Environment

In order to support knowledge workers during their tasks of searching, locating and manipulating information, a system that provides information suitable for a particular user’s needs, and that is also able to facilitate annotation, sharing and reuse information is essential. This paper presents Adaptable Personal Information Environment (a-PIE); a service-oriented framework using Open Hypermed...

From Personal Environment to Personal Learning Environment

In the scientific literature, the Personal Environment has been described as a “new” resource to the learning process and named Personal Learning Environment. However, it has not yet been demonstrated in what way and to what extent Personal Environments contribute significantly and efficiently to the learning processes and outcomes framed by Higher Education programs. Our position paper aims fi...

Using Thematic Information In Statistical Headline Generation

We explore the problem of single sentence summarisation. In the news domain, such a summary might resemble a headline. The headline generation system we present uses Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) to guide the generation of a headline towards the theme that best represents the document to be summarised. In doing so, the intuition is that the generated summary will more accurately reflect th...

Personal medical information: Privacy or personal data protection? A theoretical approach to understanding the Canadian environment