The service concept is widely used in distinct research and application areas. Particularly in Collaborative Networks, Service Orientation represents a main trend in the development of support platforms. Nevertheless, a literature review shows that it does not gather a common understanding, namely from the software and business perspectives. This paper proposes a conceptual framework aiming at ...

The blog as a type of social software has been used in education for several years, and its positive effect in the field has been asserted in many studies. This study presents the factors of participants and blogs that predict blogging activeness during teaching practice and induction year. During the teaching practice and induction year all participants could use a blog to share experiences, a...

Trustworthy computing has recently attracted significant interest from researchers in several fields including multi-agent systems, social network analysis, and recommender systems. As an additional dimension of information to past rating history, trust has been shown to be helpful for improving the accuracy of recommendations. Studies on the relationship between trust and rating behaviors may ...

The objective of this study was to increasing vocabulary and learning activeness fifth grade students at InsanMandiriCendekia Palembang. method which used in is classroom action research where it took place 2 cycles. result found that there improvement students’ activeness. score minimum completeness criteria English lesson 70. In test cycle 1, were 16students who passed the or 49% students. ...

∗1Faculty of Science and Engineering, Chuo University 1-13-27 Kasuga, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8551, Japan E-mail: [email protected] ∗2Recruit Marketing Partners, Co., Ltd. 1-9-2 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-6640, Japan ∗3Research Organization of Science and Technology, Ritsumeikan University 1-1-1 Nojihigashi, Kusatsu-shi, Shiga 525-8577, Japan ∗4Department of Neuropsychiatry, Keio Uni...

Proactive attitude of hypertensive patients seeking follow-up services (FUS) lies at the core of self-efficacy. However, few evidence have shown the activeness of seeking FUS in the context of blood pressure control among hypertensive patients. Improvements in follow-up visits may not just by services itself cause better control of blood pressure among hypertensive patients, rather due to the p...

Research has found that relatively few people engage in regular exercise or other physical activities. Despite the availability of numerous mobile applications and specialized devices for self-tracking, people mostly lack the motivation for performing physical activities. In this article we present SmartFit, a mobile application that uses step count for promoting the physical activities in adul...