The recent emergence of multimedia services, such as Network Based Personal Video Recording and Broadcast TV over traditional DSL based access networks, has introduced stringent Quality of Experience (QoE) requirements. It is generally assumed that the wide variety of services and user profiles introduces the need for a per-user or per-subscriber QoE management. Such a complex QoE management re...

Electric distribution system planning is to provide an economic expansion plan to meet the future demands in its territory. A forecast of the future electric demand and its geographic distribution is a prerequisite for distribution planning. The quality and accuracy of this forecast have large influence on the quality of the electrical distribution system planning. Spatial load forecasting emer...

Social media sites have appeared during the last 10 years and their use has exploded all over the world. Twitter is a microblogging service that has currently 320 million user profiles and over 100 million daily active users. Many celebrities and leading politicians have a verified profile on Twitter, including Justin Bieber, president Obama, and the Pope. In this paper we investigate the '‘hun...

Along with the emergence of theWeb 2.0, E-learning more often takes place in open environments such as wikis, blogs, and resource sharing platforms. Nowadays, many companies deploy social media technologies to foster the knowledge transfer in the enterprise. They offer Enterprise 2.0 platforms where knowledge workers can share contents according to their different topics of interest. In this ar...

Mobile social network is essentially relational rather than attribute based on the unit analysis the individual but structures that consist of at least two social entities and the links among them. Search a friend in mobile social network profile matching two users comparing their personal profiles and conflicts with users growing privacy concerns about disclosing the personal profile to comple...

Twitter, a microblogging service, is today’s most popular platform for communication in the form of short text messages, called Tweets. Users use Twitter to publish their content either for expressing concerns on information news or views on daily conversations. When this expression emerges, they are experienced by the worldwide distribution network of users and not only by the interlocutor(s)....

The emergence of new information and communication system technologies allow the appearance of new techniques of data processing. Thus, it is increasingly difficult to user to find pertinent information in reasonable duration, unless knowing what exactly is looking-for, where and how getting it. We propose an Internet based filtering system that integrates user profile (i.e. identity and prefer...

PURPOSE The emergence profile concept of an implant restoration is one of the most important factors for the esthetics and health of peri-implant soft tissue. This paper reports on two cases of gingival recontouring by the fabrication of a provisional implant restoration to produce an optimal emergence profile of a definitive implant restoration. METHODS After the second surgery, a preliminar...

OBJECTIVE Many techniques have been developed to enhance the gingival thickness, gingival level and emergence profile around the implant in the esthetic zone. INTRODUCTION In this study, a buccal rotational flap was used to improve the implant site in the esthetic zone and increase gingival tissue thickness. METHODS Two cases involved the use of a rotational flap during second-stage implant...