This article introduces and discusses bot-based collective blocklists (or blockbots) in Twitter, which have been developed by volunteers to combat harassment in the social networking site. Blockbots support the curation of a shared blocklist of accounts, where subscribers to a blockbot will not receive any notifications or messages from those on the blocklist. Blockbots support counterpublic co...

We propose an integrated management system model for the establishment of a smart campus, such as digital library and card capable providing various services using zigbee, which is currently prominent. The can provide higher quality education environment through transparent efficient administrative one-stop service provision, away from labor-intensive educational institutions, users personalize...

In this paper, we present a CORBA directory which serves for the easy deployment of intelligent services in VHE scenarios. This approach bridges the gap between LDAP and CORBA technology as the de-facto standards for directory and distributed object technology, respectively. We have implemented both pure CORBA servers and LDAP wrappers, each of which providing fully transparent CORBA access to ...

The emergence of expert system methodology as the cutting edge of the application of artificial intelligence techniques has tended to refocus the issues of the nature of intelligence. Expert systems are clearly not intelligent in the meaning espoused by early workers in AI. Indeed, they are intended to be transparent in operation to the user. However, they are competent in their domain of appli...

The paper presents some of the results obtained within a research project aimed at developing ET (English Tutor), an intelligent tutoring system which supports Italian students in learning the English verbs. We concentrate on one of the most important modules of the system, the domain (i.e. verb) expert which is devoted to generate, in a cognitively transparent way, the right tense for the verb...

Good governance reforms aim at transforming African state bureaucracies into efficient, transparent, and accountable institutions. These policies are inserted into the national administrative apparatus by means of conditions attached to the financial support of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Although the conditions exactly match the priorities of these international f...

One of the main aims of representative governance surrounds the ability of citizens to hold their elected leaders accountable for their actions. In principle, this is only possible when voters know and comprehend the policy positions of their elected leaders, which of course requires political parties and politicians to be transparent and consistent in staking out issue positions. One particula...

A landmark report by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) issued in 2015 is the latest in a series of scientific studies to assess the feasibility of geoengineering with stratospheric aerosols to offset anthropogenic global warming and to conclude that they offer a possibly viable supplement or back-up alternative to reducing carbon dioxide emissions. The known past effect of major explosive ...

This paper describes the approach being used to engage stakeholders for the development of the River Manager river systems modelling tool, which is designed to simulate river system hydrology and water management rules for water management planning. River Manager software is being developed to replace three river system models (MSM-Bigmod, REALM, IQQM) that are currently applied in different pa...

Due to the good photocatalytic activity, the TiO2@CNTs thin film is highly desirable to apply to the self-cleaning glass for green intelligent building. Here, the TiO2@CNTs thin film has been successfully achieved by polymer-assisted approach of an aqueous chemical solution method. The polymer, polyethylenimine, aims to combine the Ti4+ with CNTs for film formation of TiO2@CNTs. The resultant t...