Context-aware applications realise the vision of ubiquitous computing by utilising information gathered from their environment to automatically adapt behaviour. To support the development of such applications, researchers have developed infrastructures, architectures, middlewares, and toolkits. This paper presents a taxonomy based on a review of these support infrastructures for context-aware c...

There are many interface schemes that allow users to work at, and move between, focused and contextual views. We review and categorise these schemes according to the interface mechanisms used to separate and blend views. The four approaches are spatial separation, typified by overview+detail interfaces; temporal separation, typified by zoomable interfaces; seamless focus+context, typified by fi...

The purpose of this article is to review the literature on military leadership and highlight research opportunities for leadership scholars. The review uses a context specific approach and turns to a simplified version of Hunt’s (Hunt, J. G. (1991). Leadership: A new synthesis. Newbury Park, CA: Sage) extended multilevel leadership model as a template to examine the many facets of military lead...

Recommender systems are important building blocks in many of today’s e-commerce applications including targeted advertising, personalized marketing and information retrieval. In recent years, the importance of contextual information has motivated many researchers to focus on designing systems that produce personalized recommendations in accordance with the available contextual information of us...

BACKGROUND Health care systems will integrate new computing paradigms in the coming years. Context-awareness computing is a research field which often refers to health care as an interesting and rich area of application. AIM Through a survey of the research literature, we intended to derive an objective view of the actual dynamism of context awareness in health care, and to identify strengths...

non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (nafld) is the leading cause of chronic liver disease in the united states and other industrialized countries, and the reported prevalence in the developing countries is also rather high. this disease is associated with a high rate of morbidity and mortality and damage to the other organs. the cardiovascular system is, perhaps, the most vulnerable organ to nafl...

abstract: according to the statistics over 30000 deaths occur annually in iran due to cancer with an incidence of over 70000 new cases; this growing rate is similar to the developing world. these figures do not take into account other chronic illnesses like diabetes, heart failure, gastro-intestinal disorders, chronic neurological disorders and lung disease, which all warrant palliative care. a...