This paper investigates the prediction of two aspects of human behavior using smartphones as sensing devices. We present a framework for predicting where users will go and which app they will use in the next ten minutes by exploiting the rich contextual information from smartphone sensors. Our first goal is to understand which smartphone sensor data types are important for the two prediction ta...

We apply gene expression programing to evolve a player for a real-time strategy (RTS) video game. The paper describes the game, evolutionary encoding of strategies and the technical implementation of experimental framework. In the experimental part, we compare two setups that differ with respect to the used approach of task decomposition. One of the setups turns out to be able to evolve an effe...

This paper reports on work related to the modelling of Human-Robot Communication on the basis of multimodal and multisensory human behaviour analysis. A primary focus in this framework of analysis is the definition of semantics of human actions in interaction, their capture and their representation in terms of behavioural patterns that, in turn, feed a multimodal human-robot communication syste...

Patterns of Protocols are introduced for describing communication across networks, providing conceptual patterns for behaviors of protocols and common terminology for their operations. The two basic structural patterns are Protocol-ProviderPeer-Pair-Packet and User-Provider-Agent, orthogonal to one another. The first views protocols in a common manner related to instances at each node, addresse...

This paper reports the findings from a seven-year study on the UK National Health Service on the introduction of an electronic health record for 50 million citizens. Using a longitudinal research method, data is collected on the policy-practice nexus. We apply institutional theory using a conceptual model by Tolbert and Zucker on the component processes of institutionalization. Our findings sug...

Inhabitants' behaviour is a significant factor that influences energy consumption and has been previously incorporated as static activity profiles within simulation for energy control & management. In this paper an agent-based approach to simulate reactive/deliberative group behaviour has been proposed and implemented. It takes into account perceptual, psychological (cognitive), social behaviou...

Personalization in the “museum visit” scenario is extremely challenging, especially since in many cases visitors come to the museum for the first, and may be the last time in their life. There is therefore a need to generate an effective user model quickly without any prior knowledge. Furthermore, the initial definition of a user model is also challenging since it should be built in a non-intru...

In this paper we demonstrate how a gamification approach increases the attractiveness of an assessment exercise in the context of expertise profiling. We present an online game, in two difficulty modes, where users have to guess the authors of publications. We analyze the collected data along different dimensions and identify four types of gaming personalities based on behavioral patterns. Furt...

This article reviews the development of institutional theory in direct relations to historical changes within the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) with an eye to contributing to the theoretical specification of healthcare information processes. This is done partly by extending certain paradigms (see Meyer & Rowan, 1991; Powell & DiMaggio, 1991; Tolbert & Zucker, 1994) through a proposed model...

We propose a general approach for defining behavioural preorders over process terms as the maximal pre–congruences induced by basic observables. We will consider three of these, that provide information about the initial communication capabilities of processes and about the possibility that processes get engaged in divergent computations. We show that the pre–congruences induced by our basic ob...