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2016
Wasif Hasan Baig; Samina Abidi; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
An Ontological Model of Behaviour Theory to Generate Personalized Action Plans to Modify Behaviours Proceedings Article
In: Exploring Complexity in Health: An Interdisciplinary Systems Approach. 26th European Medical Informatics Conference (MIE2016), Munich, pp. 399-403, IOS Press, 2016.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Action Plans, Behaviour Modelling, Information Personalization, Ontology
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booktitle = {Exploring Complexity in Health: An Interdisciplinary Systems Approach. 26th European Medical Informatics Conference (MIE2016), Munich},
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abstract = {Behavior change approaches aim to assist patients in achieving self-efficacy in managing their condition. Social cognitive theory (SCT) stipulates self-efficacy as a central element to behavior change and provides constructs to achieve self-efficacy guided by person-specific action plans. In our work, to administer behaviour change in patient with chronic conditions, our approach entails the computerization of SCT-based self-efficacy constructs in order to generate personalized action plans that are suitable to an individual's current care scenario. We have taken a knowledge management approach, whereby we have computerized the SCT-based self-efficacy constructs in terms of a high-level SCT knowledge model that can be operationalized to generate personalized behaviour change action plans. We have collected and computerized behavior change content targeting healthy living and physical activity. Semantic web technologies have been used to develop the SCT knowledge model, represented in terms of an ontology and SWRL rules. The ontological SCT model can inferred to generate personalized self-management action plans for a given patient profile. We present formative evaluation of the clinical correctness and relevance of the generated personalized action plans for a range of test patient profiles},
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Samina Raza Abidi; Jafna Cox; Ashraf Abusharekh; Nima Hashemian; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
A Digital Health System to Assist Family Physicians to Safely Prescribe NOAC Medication Proceedings Article
In: Exploring Complexity in Health: An Interdisciplinary Systems Approach. 26th European Medical Informatics Conference (MIE2016), Munich, pp. 519-523, IOS Press, 2016.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Clinical Decision Support Systems, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Digital Health
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title = {A Digital Health System to Assist Family Physicians to Safely Prescribe NOAC Medication},
author = {Samina Raza Abidi and Jafna Cox and Ashraf Abusharekh and Nima Hashemian and Syed Sibte Raza Abidi},
doi = {10.3233/978-1-61499-678-1-519},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-08-15},
booktitle = {Exploring Complexity in Health: An Interdisciplinary Systems Approach. 26th European Medical Informatics Conference (MIE2016), Munich},
volume = {228},
pages = {519-523},
publisher = {IOS Press},
series = {Studies in Health Technology and Informatics},
abstract = {Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia. Generally, the therapeutic options for managing AF include the use of anticoagulant drugs that prevent the coagulation of blood. New Oral Anticoagulants (NOACs) are not optimally prescribed to patients, despite their efficacy. In Canada, NOAC medications are not directly available to patients who belong to provincial benefits programs, rather a NOAC special authorization process establishes the eligibility of a patient to receive a NOAC and be paid by the provincial Pharmacare program. This special authorization process is tedious and paper-based which inhibits physicians to prescribe NOAC leading to suboptimal AF care to patients. In this paper, we present a computerized NOAC Authorization Decision Support System (NOAC-ADSS), accessible to physicians to help them (a) determine a patient eligibility for NOAC based on Canadian AF clinical guidelines, and (b) complete the special authorization form. We present a semantic web based system to ontologically model the NOAC eligibility criteria and execute the knowledge to determine a patient NOAC eligibility and dosage},
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Soude Fazeli; Enayat Rajabi; Leonardo Lezcano; Hendrik Drachsler; Peter Sloep
Supporting Users of Open Online Courses with Recommendations: an Algorithmic Study Proceedings Article
In: Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2016 IEEE 16th International Conference on, Austin, TX, USA, IEEE , 2016, ISSN: 2161-377X.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Learning technology
@inproceedings{Fazeli2016,
title = {Supporting Users of Open Online Courses with Recommendations: an Algorithmic Study},
author = {Soude Fazeli and Enayat Rajabi and Leonardo Lezcano and Hendrik Drachsler and Peter Sloep
},
doi = {10.1109/ICALT.2016.119},
issn = {2161-377X},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-07-25},
booktitle = {Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2016 IEEE 16th International Conference on, Austin, TX, USA},
publisher = {IEEE },
abstract = {Almost all studies on course recommenders in online platforms target closed online platforms that belong to a University or other provider. Recently, a demand has developed that targets open platforms. Such platforms lack rich user profiles with content metadata. Instead they log user interactions. We report on how user interactions and activities tracked in open online learning platforms may generate recommendations. We use data from the OpenU open online learning platform in use by the Open University of the Netherlands to investigate the application of several state-of-the-art recommender algorithms, including a graph-based recommender approach. It appears that user-based and memory-based methods perform better than model-based and factorization methods. Particularly, the graph-based recommender system outperforms the classical approaches on prediction accuracy of recommendations in terms of recall.
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Enayat Rajabi; Seyed-Mehdi-Reza Beheshti
Interlinking Big Data to Web of Data Book Chapter
In: vol. 18, pp. 133-145, Springer International Publishing, 2016, ISBN: 978-3-319-30263-8.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Big Data, Linked Data
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title = {Interlinking Big Data to Web of Data},
author = {Enayat Rajabi and Seyed-Mehdi-Reza Beheshti},
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year = {2016},
date = {2016-05-27},
volume = {18},
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abstract = {The big data problem can be seen as a massive number of data islands, ranging from personal, shared, social to business data. The data in these islands is getting large scale, never ending, and ever changing, arriving in batches at irregular time intervals. Examples of these are social and business data. Linking and analyzing of this potentially connected data is of high and valuable interest. In this context, it will be important to investigate how the Linked Data approach can enable the Big Data optimization. In particular, the Linked Data approach has recently facilitated the accessibility, sharing, and enrichment of data on the Web. Scientists believe that Linked Data reduces Big Data variability by some of the scientifically less interesting dimensions. In particular, by applying the Linked Data techniques for exposing structured data and eventually interlinking them to useful knowledge on the Web, many syntactic issues vanish. Generally speaking, this approach improves data optimization by providing some solutions for intelligent and automatic linking among datasets. In this chapter, we aim to discuss the advantages of applying the Linked Data approach, towards the optimization of Big Data in the Linked Open Data (LOD) cloud by: (i) describing the impact of linking Big Data to LOD cloud; (ii) representing various interlinking tools for linking Big Data; and (iii) providing a practical case study: linking a very large dataset to DBpedia.
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Hossein Mohammadhassanzadeh; William Van Woensel; Samina Raza Abidi; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
A Semantic Web-based Approach to Plausible Reasoning for Improving Clinical Knowledge Engineering Proceedings Article
In: IEEE International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics, Las Vegas, 2016.
Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: Clinical Decision Support Systems, Plausbile Reasoning, Semantic Web
@inproceedings{Mohammadhassanzadeh2016,
title = {A Semantic Web-based Approach to Plausible Reasoning for Improving Clinical Knowledge Engineering},
author = {Hossein Mohammadhassanzadeh and William Van Woensel and Samina Raza Abidi and Syed Sibte Raza Abidi},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-02-24},
urldate = {2016-02-24},
booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics, Las Vegas},
abstract = {In this paper, we present a semantic web based knowledge engineering approach to extend the coverage of medical knowledge-based systems in order to solve complex medical queries that demand the integration of deterministic and plausible knowledge. We leverage plausible reasoning mechanisms, which exploit associations between the underlying domain-specific data, as well as tentative domain knowledge, to extend the coverage of a medical knowledge base. We demonstrate that Semantic Web technologies, due to their efficient solutions for federated data management and built-in DL-based inferencing methods, offer useful opportunities to support plausible reasoning for medical decision support tasks. We evaluated our multi-strategy medical reasoning approach using real-world medical data. Our results illustrate that plausible reasoning improved the knowledge coverage of the original medical knowledge base by 10-12%, and in turn helped to solve complex disease diagnostic queries.},
keywords = {Clinical Decision Support Systems, Plausbile Reasoning, Semantic Web},
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William Van Woensel; Sven Casteleyn
A Mobile Query Service for Integrated Access to Large Numbers of Online Semantic Web Data Sources Journal Article
In: Web Semant., vol. 36, no. C, pp. 58–76, 2016, ISSN: 1570-8268.
Links | BibTeX | Tags: Cache replacement, Data caching, Data indexing, Data integration, Mobile Computing, Open world assumption
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title = {A Mobile Query Service for Integrated Access to Large Numbers of Online Semantic Web Data Sources},
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IEEE, 2016, ISBN: 978-1-5090-2455-1.
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William Van Woensel; Patrice C. Roy; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
SmartRL: A Context-Sensitive, Ontology-Based Rule Language for Assisted Living in Smart Environments Proceedings Article
In: Rule Technologies. Research, Tools, and Applications - 10th International Symposium, RuleML 2016, Stony Brook, NY, USA, July 6-9, 2016. Proceedings, pp. 341–349, 2016.
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url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42019-6_22},
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José Júlio Alferes; Leopoldo E. Bertossi; Guido Governatori; Paul Fodor; Dumitru Roman (Ed.)
Springer, vol. 9718, 2016, ISBN: 978-3-319-42018-9.
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title = {Rule Technologies. Research, Tools, and Applications - 10th International Symposium, RuleML 2016, Stony Brook, NY, USA, July 6-9, 2016. Proceedings},
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Nelofar Kureshi; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi; Christian Blouin
A Predictive Model for Personalized Therapeutic Interventions in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer. Journal Article
In: IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 424-431, 2016, ISSN: 2168-2208.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Cancer, Data Mining, Decision Trees, Health Data Analytics, Personalized Medicine, Prediction Model
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title = {A Predictive Model for Personalized Therapeutic Interventions in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer.},
author = {Nelofar Kureshi and Syed Sibte Raza Abidi and Christian Blouin},
url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6974996&isnumber=7369993},
doi = {10.1109/JBHI.2014.2377517},
issn = {2168-2208},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-01-01},
journal = {IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics},
volume = {20},
number = {1},
pages = {424-431},
abstract = {Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) constitutes the most common type of lung cancer and is frequently diagnosed at advanced stages. Clinical studies have shown that molecular targeted therapies increase survival and improve quality of life in patients. Nevertheless, the realization of personalized therapies for NSCLC faces a number of challenges including the integration of clinical and genetic data and a lack of clinical decision support tools to assist physicians with patient selection. To address this problem, we used frequent pattern mining to establish the relationships of patient characteristics and tumor response in advanced NSCLC. Univariate analysis determined that smoking status, histology, EGFR mutation, and targeted drug were significantly associated with response to targeted therapy. We applied four classifiers to predict treatment outcome from EGFR-TKIs. Overall, the highest classification accuracy was 76.56% and the AUC was 0.76. The decision tree used a combination of EGFR mutations, histology, and smoking status to predict tumor response and the output was both easily understandable and in keeping with current knowledge. Our findings suggest that support vector machines and decision trees are a promising approach for clinical decision support in the patient selection for targeted therapy in advanced NSCLC},
keywords = {Cancer, Data Mining, Decision Trees, Health Data Analytics, Personalized Medicine, Prediction Model},
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Borna Jafarpour; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi; Samina Raza Abidi
Exploiting Semantic Web Technologies to Develop OWL-Based Clinical Practice Guideline Execution Engines Journal Article
In: IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 388-398, 2016, ISSN: 2168-2194.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Clinical Decision Support Systems, Clinical Practice Guidelines, OWL, Semantic Web
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title = {Exploiting Semantic Web Technologies to Develop OWL-Based Clinical Practice Guideline Execution Engines},
author = {Borna Jafarpour and Syed Sibte Raza Abidi and Samina Raza Abidi},
url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6990486&isnumber=7369993},
doi = {10.1109/JBHI.2014.2383840},
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year = {2016},
date = {2016-01-01},
journal = {IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics},
volume = {20},
number = {1},
pages = {388-398},
abstract = {Computerizing paper-based CPG and then executing them can provide evidence-informed decision support to physicians at the point of care. Semantic web technologies especially Web Ontology Language (OWL) ontologies have been profusely used to represent computerized CPG. Using semantic web reasoning capabilities to execute OWL based computerized CPG unties them from a specific custom-built CPG execution engine and increases their shareability as any OWL reasoner and triple store can be utilized for CPG execution. However, existing semantic web reasoning based CPG execution engines suffer from lack of ability to execute CPG with high levels of expressivity, high cognitive load of computerization of paper-based CPG and updating their computerized versions. In order to address these limitations, we have developed three CPG execution engines based on OWL 1 DL, OWL 2 DL and OWL 2 DL + Semantic Web Rule Language (SWRL). OWL 1 DL serves as the base execution engine capable of executing a wide range of CPG constructs, however for executing highly complex CPG the OWL 2 DL and OWL 2 DL + SWRL offer additional executional capabilities. We evaluated the technical performance and medical correctness of our execution engines using a range of CPG. Technical evaluations show the efficiency of our CPG execution engines in terms of CPU time and validity of the generated recommendation in comparison to existing CPG execution engines. Medical evaluations by domain experts show the validity of the CPG-mediated therapy plans in terms of relevance, safety, and ordering for a wide range of patient scenarios.},
keywords = {Clinical Decision Support Systems, Clinical Practice Guidelines, OWL, Semantic Web},
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2015
Enayat Rajabi; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
Interlinking Datasets to LOD cloud using Interlinking Tools: a Medical case study Proceedings Article
In: 6th Atlantic Workshop on Semantics, The; 2015), Services (AWoSS (Ed.): The 6th Atlantic Workshop on Semantics and Services (AWoSS 2015) , 2015.
BibTeX | Tags: Linked Data, Semantic Web
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title = {Interlinking Datasets to LOD cloud using Interlinking Tools: a Medical case study},
author = {Enayat Rajabi and Syed Sibte Raza Abidi },
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year = {2015},
date = {2015-12-09},
urldate = {2015-12-09},
booktitle = {The 6th Atlantic Workshop on Semantics and Services (AWoSS 2015)
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keywords = {Linked Data, Semantic Web},
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William Van Woensel
Mobile Semantic Query Distribution with Graph-Based Outsourcing of Subqueries Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of International Workshop on Mobile Deployment of Semantic Technologies (MoDeST 2015), 2015.
Links | BibTeX | Tags: Mobile Computing, Querying Distributed RDF
@inproceedings{van_woensel_modest2015,
title = {Mobile Semantic Query Distribution with Graph-Based Outsourcing of Subqueries},
author = {William Van Woensel},
url = {http://web.cs.dal.ca/~woensel/paper/Mobile Semantic Query Distribution with Graph-Based Outsourcing of Subqueries.pdf},
year = {2015},
date = {2015-10-11},
booktitle = {Proceedings of International Workshop on Mobile Deployment of Semantic Technologies (MoDeST 2015)},
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William Van Woensel; Hossein Mohammadhassanzadeh; Samina Raza Abidi; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
Multi-Strategy Semantic Web Reasoning for Medical Knowledge Bases Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of International Workshop on Biomedical Data Mining, Modeling, and Semantic Integration: A Promising Approach to Solving Unmet Medical Needs (BDM2I2015), 2015.
Links | BibTeX | Tags: Health Informatics, Knowledge Based Systems, Ontology, Semantic Web
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title = {Multi-Strategy Semantic Web Reasoning for Medical Knowledge Bases},
author = {William Van Woensel and Hossein Mohammadhassanzadeh and Samina Raza Abidi and Syed Sibte Raza Abidi},
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year = {2015},
date = {2015-10-11},
booktitle = {Proceedings of International Workshop on Biomedical Data Mining, Modeling, and Semantic Integration: A Promising Approach to Solving Unmet Medical Needs (BDM2I2015)},
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Amina Russell; William Van Woensel; Samina Raza Abidi
The Shared Decision Making Frontier: Managing Non-Critical Chronic Illness by Combining Behavioural & Decision Theory with Online Technology Proceedings Article
In: MEDINFO 2015: eHealth-enabled Health, 2015.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Biomedical Technology Intervention, Choice Architecture, Chronic Illness, Shared Decision Making
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year = {2015},
date = {2015-09-19},
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abstract = {Objective: To determine if shared decisions for managing non-critical chronic illness, made through an online biomedical technology intervention, proves feasible and usable. The technology intervention incorporates behavioural and decision theory to increase patient engagement, and ultimately long term adherence to health behaviour change.
Method: We devised the iheart web intervention as a “proof of concept” in five phases: 1) conceptual, 2) design, 3) application development, 4) testing and 5) study assessment. The implementation incorporates the Vaadin web application framework, Drools, EclipseLink and a MySQL database.
Results and discussion: Two-thirds of the study participants favoured the technology intervention, based on Likert-scale questions from a post-study questionnaire. Qualitative analysis of think aloud feedback, video screen captures and open-ended questions from the post-study questionnaire, uncovered six main areas or themes for improvement.
Conclusion: Online shared decisions for managing a non-critical chronic illness proved feasible and usable through the iheart web intervention. Areas needing improvement have been identified for the next application revision. An efficacy study is recommended as a next step.
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Method: We devised the iheart web intervention as a “proof of concept” in five phases: 1) conceptual, 2) design, 3) application development, 4) testing and 5) study assessment. The implementation incorporates the Vaadin web application framework, Drools, EclipseLink and a MySQL database.
Results and discussion: Two-thirds of the study participants favoured the technology intervention, based on Likert-scale questions from a post-study questionnaire. Qualitative analysis of think aloud feedback, video screen captures and open-ended questions from the post-study questionnaire, uncovered six main areas or themes for improvement.
Conclusion: Online shared decisions for managing a non-critical chronic illness proved feasible and usable through the iheart web intervention. Areas needing improvement have been identified for the next application revision. An efficacy study is recommended as a next step.
William Van Woensel; Patrice C. Roy; Samina Raza Abidi; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
A Mobile and Intelligent Patient Diary for Chronic Disease Self-Management Proceedings Article
In: MEDINFO 2015: eHealth-enabled Health - Proceedings of the 15th World Congress on Health and Biomedical Informatics, Sao Paulo, Brazil, pp. 118–122, IOS Press, 2015, ISBN: 978-1-61499-563-0.
Links | BibTeX | Tags: Chronic Disease Management, Mobile Health, Patient Diary, Patient Empowerment, Self-Management
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title = {A Mobile and Intelligent Patient Diary for Chronic Disease Self-Management},
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Borna Jafarpour; Samina Raza Abidi; Ahmad Marwan Ahmad; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
INITIATE: An Intelligent Adaptive Alert Environment Proceedings Article
In: MEDINFO 2015: eHealth-enabled Health - Proceedings of the 15th World Congress on Health and Biomedical Informatics, Sao Paulo, Brazil, pp. 285–289, IOS Press, 2015, ISBN: 978-1-61499-563-0.
Links | BibTeX | Tags: Alert Fatigue, Clinical Decision Support Systems, Knowledge Management
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author = {Borna Jafarpour and Samina Raza Abidi and Ahmad Marwan Ahmad and Syed Sibte Raza Abidi},
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Ashraf Abusharekh; Samuel Alan Stewart; Nima Hashemian; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
H-DRIVE: A Big Health Data Analytics Platform for Evidence-Informed Decision Making Proceedings Article
In: IEEE International Congress on Big Data, New York City, NY, USA, pp. 416–423, IEEE Press, 2015, ISBN: 978-1-4673-7278-7.
Links | BibTeX | Tags: Clinical Decision Support Systems, Decision Support, Health Informatics, Information Personalization, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Modelling, Ontology
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title = {H-DRIVE: A Big Health Data Analytics Platform for Evidence-Informed Decision Making},
author = {Ashraf Abusharekh and Samuel Alan Stewart and Nima Hashemian and Syed Sibte Raza Abidi},
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year = {2015},
date = {2015-06-27},
booktitle = {IEEE International Congress on Big Data, New York City, NY, USA},
pages = {416--423},
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keywords = {Clinical Decision Support Systems, Decision Support, Health Informatics, Information Personalization, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Modelling, Ontology},
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Syed Sibte Raza Abidi; Samina Raza Abidi; Ashraf Abusharekh; Jafna Cox
A Clinical Decision Support Framework to Monitor and Manage Atrial Fibrillation Patients Proceedings Article
In: 17th International Symposium on Health Information Management Research, York, UK, 2015.
BibTeX | Tags: Chronic Disease Management, Clinical Decision Support Systems, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Knowledge Management, Mobile Health
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year = {2015},
date = {2015-06-25},
booktitle = {17th International Symposium on Health Information Management Research, York, UK},
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Ghdeer Tashkandi, Samina Abidi, Raza Abidi
Interface Design Models Based on Psychological Theories Proceedings
The Centre for Health Information Management Research (CHIMER) The Seventeenth International Health Information Management Research (ISHIMR), York St. John University, York, England, UK, 2015.
Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: Health Informatics
@proceedings{Tashkandi2015,
title = {Interface Design Models Based on Psychological Theories },
author = {Ghdeer Tashkandi, Samina Abidi, Raza Abidi},
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year = {2015},
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address = {York St. John University, York, England, UK},
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abstract = {1. Introduction
Patient portals facilitate interaction between physicians and
patients, empower and engage patients in participate in the
decision-making process [1]. Despite being useful tools, they
frequently fail to realize their full potential due to usability
issues related to user interface (UI) design. Poorly designed
interfaces may lead to stress, confusion, frustration,
translation of knowledge, and eventual abandonment of the
application [2]. A UI can be designed using general UI design
guidelines, but it might not be tailored towards user’s
perceptual and cognitive abilities and health care needs. Such
personalization can be achieved by integrating psychological
theories that concentrate on users’ needs and cognition.
User-centric (UC) model is concerned about knowing the users’
needs, goals, and what are the requirements needed to fulfill
their goals [2,3]. Cognitive load (CL) model is mainly about the
human short-term memory that might affect the human ability to
memorize or complete a certain task, improve the productivity,
usability, and benefit from the application [4,5]. The objective
of this research is to integrate UC and CL models in UI design of
a patient portal application and study its impact on user’s
satisfaction and experience.
2. Methods
General UI guidelines were gathered from the literature review.
UI design specifications were then derived from UC and CL models.
These specifications were integrated with general UI guidelines
to create two individual and comprehensive sets of UI
specifications. These were used to implement two patient portal
UI prototypes based on the two psychological theories (i.e. UC
and CL). Although both UI prototypes, encompass similar features
in terms of task specification, system and interface
functionality, the actual representation of these features is
different and in accordance with the two sets of specifications. A
cognitively-based usability testing such as Think Aloud Protocol
will be used to gather user feedback on the two prototypes [6].
3. Results
Two models for UI design were created based on UC and CL
theories. The UC interface exhibit a background picture, personal
photo and information about the patient in the header section;
which make it more personalized and user oriented. Presentation
of information is done in a table format to facilitate the
user’s needs and goals. On the other hand, CL model included
less information on each page and used color coding to connect
categories and subcategories together. It also contains more
visualization and navigational options of data to reduce the
cognitive load on users. Usability testing will be done with
patients to gather their feedback and compare the two models in
regard to ease of use, screen layout design and navigation, and
overall satisfaction of users.
4. Conclusions
UI specifications based on two psychological theories were used
to design and develop the two interfaces for a patient portal.
The impact of these theories on the acceptability and usability
of the interfaces will be studied through a usability study. The
study will also enable us to compare the two theories in regard
to the user’s satisfaction and preferences in UI design of a
health care application.},
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Patient portals facilitate interaction between physicians and
patients, empower and engage patients in participate in the
decision-making process [1]. Despite being useful tools, they
frequently fail to realize their full potential due to usability
issues related to user interface (UI) design. Poorly designed
interfaces may lead to stress, confusion, frustration,
translation of knowledge, and eventual abandonment of the
application [2]. A UI can be designed using general UI design
guidelines, but it might not be tailored towards user’s
perceptual and cognitive abilities and health care needs. Such
personalization can be achieved by integrating psychological
theories that concentrate on users’ needs and cognition.
User-centric (UC) model is concerned about knowing the users’
needs, goals, and what are the requirements needed to fulfill
their goals [2,3]. Cognitive load (CL) model is mainly about the
human short-term memory that might affect the human ability to
memorize or complete a certain task, improve the productivity,
usability, and benefit from the application [4,5]. The objective
of this research is to integrate UC and CL models in UI design of
a patient portal application and study its impact on user’s
satisfaction and experience.
2. Methods
General UI guidelines were gathered from the literature review.
UI design specifications were then derived from UC and CL models.
These specifications were integrated with general UI guidelines
to create two individual and comprehensive sets of UI
specifications. These were used to implement two patient portal
UI prototypes based on the two psychological theories (i.e. UC
and CL). Although both UI prototypes, encompass similar features
in terms of task specification, system and interface
functionality, the actual representation of these features is
different and in accordance with the two sets of specifications. A
cognitively-based usability testing such as Think Aloud Protocol
will be used to gather user feedback on the two prototypes [6].
3. Results
Two models for UI design were created based on UC and CL
theories. The UC interface exhibit a background picture, personal
photo and information about the patient in the header section;
which make it more personalized and user oriented. Presentation
of information is done in a table format to facilitate the
user’s needs and goals. On the other hand, CL model included
less information on each page and used color coding to connect
categories and subcategories together. It also contains more
visualization and navigational options of data to reduce the
cognitive load on users. Usability testing will be done with
patients to gather their feedback and compare the two models in
regard to ease of use, screen layout design and navigation, and
overall satisfaction of users.
4. Conclusions
UI specifications based on two psychological theories were used
to design and develop the two interfaces for a patient portal.
The impact of these theories on the acceptability and usability
of the interfaces will be studied through a usability study. The
study will also enable us to compare the two theories in regard
to the user’s satisfaction and preferences in UI design of a
health care application.
Amina Russell
Dalhousie University, http://hdl.handle.net/10222/56331, 2015.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Behavioural Change Theory, Choice Architecture, Decision Theory, Integrated Change Model, Internet Intervention, Knowledge Modelling, Lifestyle Medicine, Ontology Model, Shared Decision Making, Web Technology Intervention
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title = {The Shared Decision Making Frontier: Managing Non-Critical Chronic Illness by Combining Behavioural & Decision Theory with Online Technology},
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abstract = {Shared decision making between patient and provider is considered the cornerstone of patient-centred care but transpires in only 10% of face-to-face encounters. Technology interventions have been explored as a means of filling the shared decision making gap but fall short in patient engagement. Recent studies indicate that combining multiple approaches could lead to greater commitment towards achieving positive health outcomes. The objective of this study is to demonstrate that a behavioural theory and decision theory can complement one another within a technology intervention for shared decision making. This novel approach integrates multiple theories within a single computerized ontology knowledge model that is flexible, expressive and extensible. A mixed method study assessed the solution using goal-based scenarios for hypertension reduction. Usability data was captured primarily using the “think aloud protocol”. Both quantitative and qualitative data were analyzed independently and in combination, revealing two-thirds of the study participants favoured the technology intervention.},
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Sangwhan Cha; Ashraf Abusharekh; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
Towards a 'Big' Health Data Analytics Platform Proceedings Article
In: First IEEE International Conference on Big Data Computing Service and Applications, BigDataService, Redwood City, CA, USA, pp. 233–241, IEEE Press, 2015, ISBN: 978-1-4799-8128-1.
Links | BibTeX | Tags: Big Data, Data Mining, Decision Support, Health Data Analytics
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title = {Towards a 'Big' Health Data Analytics Platform},
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Maria-Cruz Valiente Miguel-Angel Sicilia,; Elena Garcia-Barriocanal,; Enayat Rajabi
Adopting the metadata approach to improve the search and analysis of educational resources for online learning Journal Article
In: Computers in Human Behavior, 2015.
BibTeX | Tags:
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title = {Adopting the metadata approach to improve the search and analysis of educational resources for online learning},
author = {Maria-Cruz Valiente Miguel-Angel Sicilia, and Elena Garcia-Barriocanal, and Enayat Rajabi},
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Enayat Rajabi; Ivana Marenzi
Linking a Community Platform to the Linked Open Data Cloud Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web Companion, pp. 701–703, International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee 2015.
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Enayat Rajabi; Kostas Vogias; Salvador Sanchez-Alonso; Ilias Hatzakis
e-Learning Object Ingestion in an Open Educational Environment Journal Article
In: Bulletin of the IEEE Technical Committee on Learning Technology, vol. 17, no. 1-2, 2015.
BibTeX | Tags:
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Enayat Rajabi, Salvador Sanchez-Alonso, Miguel-Angel Sicilia; Nikos Manouselis
A linked and open dataset from a network of learning repositories on organic agriculture Journal Article
In: British Journal of Educational Technology, 2015.
BibTeX | Tags:
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title = {A linked and open dataset from a network of learning repositories on organic agriculture},
author = {Enayat Rajabi, Salvador Sanchez-Alonso, Miguel-Angel Sicilia and Nikos Manouselis},
year = {2015},
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Indra Neil Sarkar; Andrew Georgiou; Paulo Mazzoncini de Azevedo Marques (Ed.)
MEDINFO 2015: eHealth-enabled Health - Proceedings of the 15th World Congress on Health and Biomedical Informatics, São Paulo, Brazil, 19-23 August 2015 Proceedings
IOS Press, vol. 216, 2015, ISBN: 978-1-61499-563-0.
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Indra Neil Sarkar; Andrew Georgiou; Paulo Mazzoncini de Azevedo Marques (Ed.)
MEDINFO 2015: eHealth-enabled Health - Proceedings of the 15th World Congress on Health and Biomedical Informatics, São Paulo, Brazil, 19-23 August 2015 Proceedings
IOS Press, vol. 216, 2015, ISBN: 978-1-61499-563-0.
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Alexander Safatli
Sampling Discrete Combinatorial Spaces in Phylogenetics Masters Thesis
Dalhousie University, 2015.
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Alexander Safatli; Christian Blouin
Pylogeny: an open-source Python framework for phylogenetic tree reconstruction and search space heuristics Journal Article
In: PeerJ Computer Science, vol. 1, pp. e9, 2015.
BibTeX | Tags:
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Alexander Safatli; Christian Blouin
Application of Ant Colony Optimization for Mapping the Combinatorial Phylogenetic Search Space Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms 2015 (BIOINFORMATICS 2015), Lisbon, Portugal, 2015.
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Enayat Rajabi, Miguel-Angel Sicilia,; Salvador Sanchez-Alonso
Interlinking educational resources to web of data through IEEE LOM Journal Article
In: Computer Science and Information Systems, no. 00, pp. 88–88, 2015.
BibTeX | Tags:
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title = {Interlinking educational resources to web of data through IEEE LOM},
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Enayat Rajabi, Miguel-Angel Sicilia,; Salvador Sanchez-Alonso
Discovering duplicate and related resources using an interlinking approach: The case of educational datasets Journal Article
In: Journal of Information Science, pp. 0165551515575922, 2015.
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2014
Amina Russell; Samina Raza Abidi; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
Shared Decision Making: Using Technologies and Theories to Engage the Patient in their Health Journey Proceedings Article
In: 26th European Medical Informatics Conference (MIE2014), Istanbul, Turkey, 2014.
BibTeX | Tags: Behavioural Theory, Choice Architecture, Decision Theory, Integrated Change Model, Patient Empowerment, Shared Decision Making
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William Van Woensel
Mobile, Client-Side Discovery of Semantic Services in the Physical World Proceedings Article
In: 5th Atlantic Workshop on Semantics and Services, 2014.
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William Van Woensel; Newres Al Haider; Ahmad Marwan Ahmad; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
A Cross-Platform Benchmark Framework for Mobile Semantic Web Reasoning Engines Proceedings Article
In: The Semantic Web - ISWC 2014 - 13th International Semantic Web Conference, Riva del Garda, Italy, October 19-23, 2014. Proceedings, Part I, pp. 389–408, 2014.
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William Van Woensel; Newres Al Haider; Patrice C. Roy; Ahmad Marwan Ahmad; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
A Comparison of Mobile Rule Engines for Reasoning on Semantic Web Based Health Data Proceedings Article
In: Śl?zak, Dominik; Nguyen, Hung Son; Reformat, Marek; Jr., Eugene Santos (Ed.): 2014 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2014), pp. 126–133, IEEE Computer Society Press, Warsaw, Poland, 2014.
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Patrice C. Roy; Newres Al Haider; William Van Woensel; Ahmad Marwan Ahmad; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
Towards Guideline Compliant Clinical Decision Support System Integration in Smart and Mobile Environments: Formalizing and Using Clinical Guidelines For Diagnosing Sleep Apnea Proceedings Article
In: AAAI Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Applied to Assistive Technologies and Smart Environments (ATSE 2014), AAAI Press, Quebec, Canada, 2014.
Links | BibTeX | Tags: Clinical Decision Support Systems, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Health Informatics
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Mei Kuan Wong; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi; Ian D. Jonsen
A Multi-Phase Correlation Search Framework for Mining Non-Taxonomic Relations from Unstructured Text Journal Article
In: Knowl. Inf. Syst., vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 641–667, 2014.
Links | BibTeX | Tags: Non-Taxonomic Relations, Ontology, Text Mining
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Newres Al Haider; Samina Raza Abidi; William Van Woensel; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
Integrating Existing Large Scale Medical Laboratory Data into the Semantic Web Framework Proceedings Article
In: 2014 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Big Data 2014, Washington, DC, USA, October 27-30, 2014, pp. 1040–1048, 2014.
Links | BibTeX | Tags: Health Data Analytics, Health Informatics, Semantic Web
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Samuel Alan Stewart; Samina Raza Abidi; Louise Parker; Mark Bernstein; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
Clinical Guideline-Driven Personalized Self-Management Diary for Paediatric Cancer Survivors Proceedings Article
In: e-Health - For Continuity of Care - Proceedings of MIE2014, the 25th European Medical Informatics Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, August 31 - September 3, 2014, pp. 18–22, 2014.
Links | BibTeX | Tags: Chronic Disease Management, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Information Personalization, Patient Diary, Patient Education, Self-Management
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Amina Russell; Samina Raza Abidi; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
Shared Decision Making: Using Theories and Technology to Engage the Patient in Their Health Journey Proceedings Article
In: e-Health - For Continuity of Care - Proceedings of MIE2014, the 25th European Medical Informatics Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, August 31 - September 3, 2014, pp. 303–307, 2014.
Links | BibTeX | Tags: Behaviour Modelling, Behavioural Theory, Health Informatics, Shared Decision Making
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Syed Sibte Raza Abidi; Ali Daniyal; Syed Farrukh Mehdi
Web Service Matchmaking Using a Hybrid of Signature and Specification Matching Methods Proceedings Article
In: 2014 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conferences on Web Intelligence (WI) and Intelligent Agent Technologies (IAT), Warsaw, Poland, August 11-14, 2014 - Volume I, pp. 266–273, 2014.
Links | BibTeX | Tags: Specification Matching, Web Services
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Samina Abidi; Michael Vallis; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi; Helena Piccinini-Vallis; Syed Ali Imran
D-WISE: Diabetes Web-Centric Information and Support Environment: conceptual specification and proposed evaluation. Journal Article
In: Can J Diabetes, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 205-11, 2014, ISSN: 2352-3840.
Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: Behaviour Modelling, Behavioural Theory, Diabetes Management, Health Informatics, Mobile Health, Patient Education
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title = {D-WISE: Diabetes Web-Centric Information and Support Environment: conceptual specification and proposed evaluation.},
author = {Samina Abidi and Michael Vallis and Syed Sibte Raza Abidi and Helena Piccinini-Vallis and Syed Ali Imran},
issn = {2352-3840},
year = {2014},
date = {2014-01-01},
journal = {Can J Diabetes},
volume = {38},
number = {3},
pages = {205-11},
address = {Canada},
abstract = {OBJECTIVE: To develop and evaluate Diabetes Web-Centric Information and Support Environment (D-WISE) that offers 1) a computerized decision-support system to assist physicians to A) use the Canadian Diabetes Association clinical practice guidelines (CDA CPGs) to recommend evidence-informed interventions; B) offer a computerized readiness assessment strategy to help physicians administer behaviour-change strategies to help patients adhere to disease self-management programs; and 2) a patient-specific diabetes self-management application, accessible through smart mobile devices, that offers behaviour-change interventions to engage patients in self-management. METHODS: The above-mentioned objectives were pursued through a knowledge management approach that involved 1) Translation of paper-based CDA CPGs and behaviour-change models as computerized decision-support tools that will assist physicians to offer evidence-informed and personalized diabetes management and behaviour-change strategies; 2) Engagement of patients in their diabetes care by generating a diabetes self-management program that takes into account their preferences, challenges and needs; 3) Empowering patients to self-manage their condition by providing them with personalized educational and motivational messages through a mobile self-management application. The theoretical foundation of our research is grounded in behaviour-change models and healthcare knowledge management. We used 1) knowledge modelling to computerize the paper-based CDA CPGs and behaviour-change models, in particular, the behaviour-change strategy elements of A) readiness-to-change assessments; B) motivation-enhancement interventions categorized along the lines of patients' being ready, ambivalent or not ready; and C) self-efficacy enhancement. The CDA CPGs and the behaviour-change models are modelled and computerized in terms of A) a diabetes management ontology that serves as the knowledge resource for all the services offered by D-WISE; B) decision support services that use logic-based reasoning algorithms to utilize the knowledge encoded within the diabetes management ontology to assist physicians by recommending patient-specific diabetes-management interventions and behaviour-change strategies; C) a mobile diabetes self-management application to engage and educate diabetes patients to self-manage their condition in a home-based setting while working in concert with their family physicians. RESULTS: We have been successful in creating and conducting a usability assessment of the physician decision support tool. These results will be published once the patient self- management application has been evaluated. CONCLUSIONS: D-WISE will be evaluated through pilot studies measuring 1) the usability of the e-Health interventions; and 2) the impact of the interventions on patients' behaviour changes and diabetes control},
keywords = {Behaviour Modelling, Behavioural Theory, Diabetes Management, Health Informatics, Mobile Health, Patient Education},
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Enayat Rajabi, Salvador Sanchez-Alonso,; Miguel-Angel Sicilia
Analyzing broken links on the web of data: An experiment with DBpedia Journal Article
In: Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, vol. 65, no. 8, pp. 1721–1727, 2014.
BibTeX | Tags:
@article{rajabi2014analyzing,
title = {Analyzing broken links on the web of data: An experiment with DBpedia},
author = {Enayat Rajabi, Salvador Sanchez-Alonso, and Miguel-Angel Sicilia},
year = {2014},
date = {2014-01-01},
journal = {Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology},
volume = {65},
number = {8},
pages = {1721--1727},
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Enayat Rajabi; Miguel-Angel Sicilia; Salvador Sanchez-Alonso
An empirical study on the evaluation of interlinking tools on the Web of Data Journal Article
In: Journal of Information Science, vol. 40, no. 5, pp. 637–648, 2014.
BibTeX | Tags:
@article{rajabi2014empirical,
title = {An empirical study on the evaluation of interlinking tools on the Web of Data},
author = {Enayat Rajabi and Miguel-Angel Sicilia and Salvador Sanchez-Alonso},
year = {2014},
date = {2014-01-01},
journal = {Journal of Information Science},
volume = {40},
number = {5},
pages = {637--648},
publisher = {SAGE Publications},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Enayat Rajabi; Salvador Sanchez-Alonso
Enriching the e-learning contents using interlinking Proceedings Article
In: 5th conference on e-Learning 2014, Metropolitan University, Belgrade 2014.
BibTeX | Tags:
@inproceedings{rajabi2014enriching,
title = {Enriching the e-learning contents using interlinking},
author = {Enayat Rajabi and Salvador Sanchez-Alonso},
year = {2014},
date = {2014-01-01},
booktitle = {5th conference on e-Learning 2014},
organization = {Metropolitan University, Belgrade},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}
Enayat Rajabi, Miguel-Angel Sicilia; Salvador Sanchez-Alonso
Research Objects Interlinking: The Case of Dryad Repository Book Section
In: Metadata and Semantics Research, pp. 14–21, Springer International Publishing, 2014.
BibTeX | Tags:
@incollection{rajabi2014research,
title = {Research Objects Interlinking: The Case of Dryad Repository},
author = {Enayat Rajabi, Miguel-Angel Sicilia and Salvador Sanchez-Alonso},
year = {2014},
date = {2014-01-01},
booktitle = {Metadata and Semantics Research},
pages = {14--21},
publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {incollection}
}
Enayat Rajabi; Carlos Rodriguez-Solano; Salvador Sanchez-Alonso; Miguel Angel Sicilia
Exposici'on de metadatos de objetos de aprendizaje como datos enlazados: el caso del proyecto Open Discovery Space Journal Article
In: Conferencias LACLO, vol. 5, no. 1, 2014.
BibTeX | Tags:
@article{rajabi2014exposicion,
title = {Exposici'on de metadatos de objetos de aprendizaje como datos enlazados: el caso del proyecto Open Discovery Space},
author = {Enayat Rajabi and Carlos Rodriguez-Solano and Salvador Sanchez-Alonso and Miguel Angel Sicilia},
year = {2014},
date = {2014-01-01},
journal = {Conferencias LACLO},
volume = {5},
number = {1},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
2013
Patrice C. Roy; Bruno Bouchard; Abdenour Bouzouane; Sylvain Giroux
Ambient activity recognition in smart environments for cognitive assistance Journal Article
In: International Journal of Robotics Applications and Technologies, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 29-56, 2013, ISSN: 2166-7195.
BibTeX | Tags:
@article{Roy2013,
title = {Ambient activity recognition in smart environments for cognitive assistance},
author = {Patrice C. Roy and Bruno Bouchard and Abdenour Bouzouane and Sylvain Giroux},
issn = {2166-7195},
year = {2013},
date = {2013-12-03},
journal = {International Journal of Robotics Applications and Technologies},
volume = {1},
number = {1},
pages = {29-56},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}