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Volume 18

Content of Issue 1
DOI: 10.3217/jucs-018-01
Outcomes of International Research Projects on Technology Applied to Education F.J. García-Peñalvo, R. Colomo-Palacios, M.D. Lytras 1
Exploiting Semantics for Constructing and Comparing Occupational and Educational-driven Qualifications: the TIPTOE Project V. Gatteschi, F. Lamberti, C. Demartini, R. van Wezel, S. Bettiol 5
CC-LO: Embedding Interactivity, Challenge and Empowerment into Collaborative Learning Sessions S. Caballe, D. Ganan, I. Dunwell, A. Pierri, T. Daradoumis 25
Educational Innovation with Learning Networks: Tools and Developments P.B. Sloep, A.J. Berlanga, W. Greller, S. Stoyanov, M. van der Klink, S. Retalis, J. Hensgens 44
Accessible Lifelong Learning at Higher Education: Outcomes and Lessons Learned at two Different Pilot Sites in the EU4ALL Project J.G. Boticario, A. Rodriguez-Ascaso, O.C. Santos, E. Raffenne, L. Montandon, D. Roldán, F. Buendía 62
PLAYER - a European Project and a Game to Foster Entrepreneurship Education for Young People B. Fonseca, Â. Pereira, R. Sanders, V. Barracho, U. Lapajne, M. Rus, M. Rahe, A. Mostert, T. Klein, V. Bojovic, S. Bošnjak, L. Morgado, Z. Bošnjak, J. Carvalho, I. Duarte, A. Casaramona, A. Soraci, H. Paredes, P. Martins, R. Gonçalves, P. Neves, R. Rodrigues Nunes, J. Lima, J. Varajão 86
Clustering Projects for eLearning Interoperability M. Alier, E. Mayol, M.J. Casañ, J. Piguillem, J.W. Merriman, M.Á. Conde, F.J. García-Peñalvo, W. Tebben, C. Severance 106
OER Development and Promotion.
Outcomes of an International Research Projecton the OpenCourseWare Model
E. Tovar, N. Piedra, J. Chicaiza, J. Lopez, O. Martinez-Bonastre 123
Content of Issue 2
DOI: 10.3217/jucs-018-02
Managing Editor's Column C. Gütl 142
Supporting End-User Development through a New Composition Model: An Empirical Study D. Lizcano, F. Alonso, J. Soriano, G. López 143
Generic Temporal and Fuzzy Ontological Framework (GTFOF) for Developing Temporal-Fuzzy Database Model for Managing Patient's Data N. Mahmood, S.M.A. Burney, K. Ahsan 177
MaF: An Ontology Matching Framework J. Martinez-Gil, I. Navas-Delgado, J.F. Aldana-Montes 194
Performance Evaluation of Recent Windows Operating Systems G. Martinovic, J. Balen, B. Cukic 218
Reconfigurable VBSME Architecture Using RBSAD J. Olivares 264
RESTifying a Legacy Semantic Search System: Experience and Lessons Learned G. Vega-Gorgojo, E. Gómez-Sánchez, M.L. Bote-Lorenzo, J.I. Asensio-Pérez 286
Content of Issue 3
DOI: 10.3217/jucs-018-03
Rethinking Education in the Knowledge Society L. Cantoni, I. Rega 312
Computer Generated Voice-Over in a Medical E-Learning Application: The Impact on Factual Learning Outcome S. Minder, M. Notari, F. Schmitz, R. Hofer, U. Woermann 314
Co-Designing Collaborative Smart Classroom Curriculum for Secondary School Science M. Tissenbaum, M. Lui, J.D. Slotta 327
Boys are like Girls: Insights in the Gender Digital Divide in Higher Education in Switzerland and Europe L. Botturi, C. Bramani, S. McCusker 353
University Students and Social Media: Reflections from an Empirical Research P. Ferri, A. Pozzali 377
Pedagogical Design of an eTandem Chinese-French Writing Course J. Wang, C. Berger, N. Szilas 393
Measuring Primary Schools Teachers' Perception of ICT through Self-Efficacy: A Case Study I. Rega, F. Fanni 410
AT-HOME 2.0 - An Educational Framework for Home-based Healthcare I. van Zyl, R. de la Harpe 429
Content of Issue 4
DOI: 10.3217/jucs-018-04
Advances on Social Network Applications J.J. Jung, P. Kazienko 454
Fuzziness and Overlapping Communities in Large-Scale Networks Q. Wang, E. Fleury 457
Uncovering the Social Dynamics of Online Elections J.B. Lee, G. Cabunducan, F.G.C. Cabarle, R. Castillo, J.A. Malinao 487
The Unification and Assessment of Multi-Objective Clustering Results of Categorical Datasets with H-Confidence Metric O.C. Sert, K. Dursun, T. Özyer, J. Jida, R. Alhajj 507
Social Network Based Reputation Computation and Document Classification J.Y. Lee, Y. Duan, J.C. Oh, W. Du, H. Blair, L. Wang, X. Jin 532
Understanding Microblog Users for Social Recommendation Based on Social Networks Analysis I.-H. Ting, P.S. Chang, S.-L. Wang 554
Key Person Analysis in Social Communities within the Blogosphere A. Zygmunt, P. Bródka, P. Kazienko, J. Koźlak 577
Content of Issue 5
DOI: 10.3217/jucs-018-05
Managing Editor's Column C. Gütl 598
Decision Strategies for a P2P Computing System G. Chmaj, K. Walkowiak 599
Improving the Extraction of Text in PDFs by Simulating the Human Reading Order I. Hasan, J. Parapar, Á. Barreiro 623
Wikipedia-Based Semantic Interpreter Using Approximate Top-k Processing and Its Application J.W. Kim, A. Kashyap, S. Bhamidipati 650
Modeling and Performance Evaluation of a Contract-based Electronic Signature Process A. Nait-Sidi-Moh, M. Bakhouya, W. Ait-Cheik-Bihi, J. Gaber 676
Applying a Modular Framework to Develop Mobile Applications and Services M. Vazquez-Briseno, P. Vincent, J.I. Nieto-Hipolito, J. de Dios Sanchez-Lopez 704
Content of Issue 6
DOI: 10.3217/jucs-018-06
Security in Information Systems: New Challenges and Opportunities D.G. Rosado, L.E. Sánchez, E. Fernández-Medina, J. Jürjens 728
Success Rate of Remote Code Execution Attacks - Expert Assessments and Observations H. Holm, T. Sommestad, U. Franke, M. Ekstedt 732
Combating Mobile Spam through Botnet Detection using Artificial Immune Systems I. Vural, H.S. Venter 750
Qos-Security Metrics Based on ITIL and COBIT Standard for Measurement Web Services P. Charuenporn, S. Intakosum 775
A Systematic Review of Information Security Governance Frameworks in the Cloud Computing Environment O. Rebollo, D. Mellado, E. Fernández-Medina 798
Syntactic and Semantic Extensions to Secure Tropos to Support Security Risk Management R. Matulevičius, H. Mouratidis, N. Mayer, E. Dubois, P. Heymans 816
A Framework for the Comparison of Best Practice Recommendations and Legal Requirements for South African Banks C.-L. Botha, E. Kritzinger, M. Loock 845
Countermeasures to Prevent Misbehaviour in VANETs J. Molina-Gil, P. Caballero-Gil, C. Caballero-Gil 857
Adaptive Group Key Management Protocol for Wireless Communications S. Gharout, A. Bouabdallah, Y. Challal, M. Achemlal 874
Content of Issue 7
DOI: 10.3217/jucs-018-07
Adaptive Methodologies and Designs for Network-on-Chip based Systems N. Nedjah, L. de Macedo Mourelle 899
Mapping and Scheduling in Heterogeneous NoC through Population-Based Incremental Learning F. Bolanos, J.E. Aedo, F. Rivera, N. Bagherzadeh 901
ACO-based Algorithms for Search and Optimization of Routes in NoC Platform L. Silva Junior, N. Nedjah, L. de Macedo Mourelle 917
Designing Robust Routing Algorithms and Mapping Cores in Networks-on-Chip: A Multi-objective Evolutionary-based Approach M. Palesi, R. Tornero, J.M. Orduñna, V. Catania, D. Panno 937
Content of Issue 8
DOI: 10.3217/jucs-018-08
Understanding Online Social Networking Services J.J. Jung, P. Kazienko 970
Discovering Consumer Insight from Twitter via Sentiment Analysis W. Chamlertwat, P. Bhattarakosol, T. Rungkasiri, C. Haruechaiyasak 973
Establishing Knowledge Networks via Analysis of Research Abstracts M.G. Suryanarayanan, D.S. Sam, S. Selvaraju 993
Beating Social Pulse: Understanding Information Propagation via Online Social Tagging Systems X.H. Pham, J.J. Jung, D. Hwang 1022
Automatic Tag Attachment Scheme based on Text Clustering for Efficient File Search in Unstructured Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Systems T.T. Qin, S. Fujita 1032
Modeling, Mining and Analysis of Multi-Relational Scientific Social Network V. Ströele, G. Zimbrão, J.M. Souza 1048
Content of Issue 9
DOI: 10.3217/jucs-018-09
Internet of Things D. Zhang, H. Ning, K. Xu, F. Lin, L. Yang 1069
A Metropolitan Taxi Mobility Model from Real GPS Traces H. Huang, D. Zhang, Y. Zhu, M. Li, M.-Y. Wu 1072
Context-based Ontology Matching: Concept and Application Cases F. Lin, K. Sandkuhl, S. Xu 1093
Directed Path Based Authentication Scheme for the Internet of Things H. Ning, H. Liu, Q. Liu, G. Ji 1112
Goal-Driven Process Navigation for Individualized Learning Activities in Ubiquitous Networking and IoT Environments J. Chen, Q. Jin, R. Huang 1132
Localized Processing and Analysis of Accelerometer Data in Detecting Traffic Events and Driver Behaviour B. Predic, D. Stojanovic 1152
Low Complexity H.264/AVC Intraframe Coding for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Network X. Liu, J. Liu, K.-Y. Yoo, H. Cho 1177
Network Planning for WiMAX-R Networks Q. Liu, M. Chen, J. Zhang, B. Shen, Z. Chu 1194
Security-enhanced Search Engine Design in Internet of Things X. Qian, X. Che 1218
Content of Issue 10
DOI: 10.3217/jucs-018-10
Managing Editor's Column C. Gütl 1236
The Method of Logistic Optimization in E-commerce R. Bucki, P. Suchanek 1238
Web-based Environment for Learning Discrete Event Simulation M. Despotović-Zrakić, D. Barać, Z. Bogdanović, B. Jovanić, B. Radenković 1259
Automating the Analysis of Problem-solving Activities in Learning Environments: the Co-Lab Case Study R. Duque, L. Bollen, A. Anjewierden, C. Bravo 1279
Usability Evaluation Methods for a Scientific Internet Information Portal J. Hellmers, J. Thomaschewski, E.-M. Holt, T. Wriedt 1308
Product Presentation Strategy for Online Customers M. Jovic, D. Milutinovic, A. Kos, S. Tomazic 1323
A General Qualitative Spatio-Temporal Model Based on Intervals E. Martínez-Martín, M.T. Escrig, A.P. del Pobil 1343
BDI Agent Architecture for Multi-Strategy Selection in Automated Negotiation C. Mukun, M.Y. Kiang 1379
Content of Issue 11
DOI: 10.3217/jucs-018-11
Some Reflections about Service Oriented Architectures, Cloud Computing Applications, Services and Interoperability F.J. García-Peñalvo, M. Alier Forment, M.D. Lytras 1405
A Simple Model Based on Web Services to Exchange Context Information between Web Browsers and Web Applications J. Pascual Espada, O. Sanjuán Martínez, B.C. Pelayo G-Bustelo, J.M. Cueva Lovelle, P. Ordóñez de Pablos 1410
The Wookie Widget Server: a Case Study of Piecemeal Integration of Tools and Services D. Griffiths, M. Johnson, K. Popat, P. Sharples, S. Wilson 1432
Orchestration of E-Learning Services for Automatic Evaluation of Programming Exercises R. Queirós, J.P. Leal 1454
Docs4Learning: Getting Google Docs to work within the LMS with IMS BLTI M. Alier Forment, M.J. Casany, E. Mayol, J. Piguillem, N. Galanis, F.J. García-Peñalvo, M.Á. Conde 1483
Design Choices Underlying the Software as a Service (SaaS) Business Model from the User Perspective: Exploring the Fourth Wave of Outsourcing A. Joha, M. Janssen 1501
Utilization-level and Serviceability of a Social Name-card Portal for QoS in a Cloud Social Networking Service Y.B. Kim 1523
Human and Intellectual Capital Management in the Cloud: Software Vendor Perspective R. Colomo-Palacios, E. Fernandes, M. Sabbagh, A. de Amescua Seco 1544
Interoperability Framework for Multimodal Biometry: Open Source in Action M. Milovanović, M. Minović, S. Dušan 1558
Towards a Practical Solution for Data Grounding in a Semantic Web Services Environment M. García Rodríguez, J.M. Alvarez Rodríguez, D. Berrueta Muñoz, L. Polo Paredes, J.E. Labra Gayo, P. Ordóñez de Pablos 1576
Content of Issue 12
DOI: 10.3217/jucs-018-12
An Overview of Current Information Systems Security Challenges and Innovations D. Mellado, D.G. Rosado 1598
Aligning Security and Privacy to Support the Development of Secure Information Systems H. Mouratidis, C. Kalloniatis, S. Islam, M.-P. Huget, S. Gritzalis 1608
Information Security Service Culture - Information Security for End-users R. Rastogi, R. von Solms 1628
A Novel Identity-based Network Architecture for Next Generation Internet P. Martinez-Julia, A.F. Gómez-Skarmeta 1643
Analysing the Security Risks of Cloud Adoption Using the SeCA Model: A Case Study T. Baars, M. Spruit 1662
Risk-Driven Security Metrics in Agile Software Development - An Industrial Pilot Study R.M. Savola, C. Frühwirth, A. Pietikäinen 1679
HC+: Towards a Framework for Improving Processes in Health Organizations by Means of Security and Data Quality Management I. Caballero, L.E. Sánchez, A. Freitas, E. Fernández-Medina 1703
The Modelling of a Digital Forensic Readiness Approach for Wireless Local Area Networks S. Ngobeni, H. Venter, I. Burke 1721
New Results of Related-key Attacks on All Py-Family of Stream Ciphers L. Ding, J. Guan, W.-l. Sun 1741
Content of Issue 13
DOI: 10.3217/jucs-018-13
Recent Advances in Bio-Inspired Computing: Theory and Applications A.K. Nagar, T. Robinson 1757
A Variant of Distributed P Systems for Real Time Cross Layer Optimization S. Elias, V. Gokul, K. Krithivasan, M. Gheorghe, G. Zhang 1760
P Systems with Shuffle Operation and Catalytic-Like Rules Y. Niu, J. Xu, K. Subramanian, R. Abdullah 1782
Array P System with Shuffle on Trajectories A.P. Venkatesan, D. Thomas, T. Robinson, A.K. Nagar 1802
A Novel Membrane Algorithm Based on Particle Swarm Optimization for Solving Broadcasting Problems G. Zhang, F. Zhou, X. Huang, J. Cheng, M. Gheorghe, F. Ipate, R. Lefticaru 1821
Solving Economic Dispatch Problems with Valve-point Effects using Particle Swarm Optimization K. Deep, J.C. Bansal 1842
Two Local Search Strategies for Differential Evolution M. Ali, M. Pant, A.K. Nagar, C.W. Ahn 1853
Real-time Implementation of a Class of Optimised Multirate Quadrature Mirror Filter Bank Using Genetic Algorithms G. Singh Baicher 1871
Assessing Alpha Band Event-related Synchronisation/Desynchronisation Using a Bio-Inspired Computational Model B. Sen Bhattacharya, D. Coyle, L.P. Maguire 1888
Content of Issue 14
DOI: 10.3217/jucs-018-14
Managing Editor's Column C. Gütl 1905
A Hybrid Metaheuristic Strategy for Covering with Wireless Devices A.L. Bajuelos, S. Canales, G. Hernández, M. Martins 1906
An Exploratory Study of Game-based M-learning for Software Project Management A.Y. Chua, R.S. Balkunje 1933
Behavioral and Temporal Pattern Detection within Financial Data with Hidden Information D. Drusinsky 1950
Multilevel Steganography: Improving Hidden Communication in Networks W. Frączek, W. Mazurczyk, K. Szczypiorski 1967
Optimized On-Chip-Pipelining for Memory-Intensive Computations on Multi-Core Processors with Explicit Memory Hierarchy J. Keller, C.W. Kessler, R. Hultén 1987
Controlled Pure Grammar Systems A. Meduna, P. Zemek 2024
Software Cost Modelling and Estimation Using Artificial Neural Networks Enhanced by Input Sensitivity Analysis E. Papatheocharous, A.S. Andreou 2041
Modeling the Value of End-to-End Multipath Protocols H. Suomi, K. Kilkki, H. Hämmäinen 2071
Content of Issue 15
DOI: 10.3217/jucs-018-15
Technology for Learning across Physical and Virtual Spaces C. Delgado Kloos, D. Hernández-Leo, J.I. Asensio-Pérez 2093
Design-Oriented Pedagogy for Technology-Enhanced Learning to Cross Over the Borders between Formal and Informal Environments H. Vartiainen, A. Liljeström, J. Enkenberg 2097
A Review of Mobile Location-based Games for Learning across Physical and Virtual Spaces N. Avouris, N. Yiannoutsou 2120
ARLearn: Augmented Reality Meets Augmented Virtuality S. Ternier, R. Klemke, M. Kalz, P. van Ulzen, M. Specht 2143
SOS: Orchestrating Collaborative Activities across Digital and Physical Spaces Using Wearable Signaling Devices D. Hernández-Leo, R. Nieves, E. Arroyo, A. Rosales, J. Melero, J. Blat 2165
Architecture for Collaborative Learning Activities in Hybrid Learning Environments M.B. Ibáñez, D. Maroto, J.J. García Rueda, D. Leony, C. Delgado Kloos 2187
Content of Issue 16
DOI: 10.3217/jucs-018-16
Managing Editor's Column C. Gütl 2203
Constructor-based Logics D. Găină, K. Futatsugi, K. Ogata 2204
Enriching Ontology Concepts Based on Texts from WWW and Corpus T.F. Gharib, N. Badr, S. Haridy, A. Abraham 2234
The Educational Affordances of Widgets and Application Stores D. Griffiths, M.W. Johnson, K. Popat, P. Sharples, S. Wilson 2252
Digital Learning Resources in Higher Education: Designing for Large-scale Use R.J. Hartog, A.J. Beulens, J. Tramper 2274
Weaving Scholarly Legacy Data into Web of Data A. Latif, M.T. Afzal, H. Maurer 2301
Learning to Classify Neutral Examples from Positive and Negative Opinions M.-T. Martín-Valdivia, A. Montejo-Ráez, A. Ureña-López, M.R. Saleh 2319
A Review of Constructivist Learning Methods with Supporting Tooling in ICT Higher Education: Defining Different Types of Scaffolding J. Melero, D. Hernández-Leo, J. Blat 2334
Content of Issue 17
DOI: 10.3217/jucs-018-17
Conceptual Modelling of Services H. Ma, K.-D. Schewe, B. Thalheim, Q. Wang 2361
Towards Model-Driven Engineering Support for Service Evolution J.M. Vara, V. Andrikopoulos, M.P. Papazoglou, E. Marcos 2364
Behavior Alignment and Control Flow Verification of Process and Service Choreographies J. Roa, P. Villarreal, O. Chiotti 2383
A Metadirectory of Web Components for Mashup Composition J.I. Fernández-Villamor, C.Á. Iglesias, M. Garijo 2407
A Formal Approach for Risk Assessment in RBAC Systems J. Ma 2432
A Conceptual Model for IT Service Systems A. Dahanayake, B. Thalheim 2452
Service-Oriented Development of Web Information Systems V. de Castro, J.M. Vara, E. Marcos 2474
A Conceptual Ontology-based Resource Meta-Model towards Business-driven Information System Implementation H. Cai, B. Xu, F. Bu 2493
Content of Issue 18
DOI: 10.3217/jucs-018-18
Trends in Immersive Education Research C. Delgado Kloos, C. Gütl, F. Kappe 2514
A Proposal to Create Learning Environments in Virtual Worlds Integrating Advanced Educative Resources D. Griol, J.M. Molina, A.S. de Miguel, Z. Callejas 2516
The ShanghAI Lectures: A Global Education Project on Artificial Intelligence N. Labhart, B.S. Hasler, A. Zbinden, A. Schmeil 2542
Creating Test Questions for 3D Collaborative Virtual Worlds: the WorldOfQuestions Authoring Environment M.B. Ibáñez, J.J. Garcia Rueda, D. Morillo, C. Delgado Kloos 2556
MareMonstrum: a Contribution to Empirical Research about How the Use of MUVEs May Improve Students' Motivation P. Sancho, J. Torrente, B. Fernández-Manjón 2576
Content of Issue 19
DOI: 10.3217/jucs-018-19
Distributed Development of Information System A. Mishra, J. Münch, D. Mishra 2599
Obtaining Requirements for Designing a Tool to Support Distributed Development J.L. Hernández, A. Vizcaíno, I. Caballero, G. Aranda 2602
Division of Effort, Productivity, Quality, and Relationships in FLOSS Virtual Teams: Evidence from the FreeBSD Project G.M. Giaglis, D. Spinellis 2625
A Study of the Impact of Global Software Development in Packaged Software Release Planning R. Colomo-Palacios, P. Soto-Acosta, F.J. García-Peñalvo, Á. García-Crespo 2646
Metamodeling the Structure and Interaction Behavior of Cooperative Component-based User Interfaces L. Iribarne, N. Padilla, J. Criado, C. Vicente-Chicote 2669
An Integrated Approach of Software Development and Test Processes to Distributed Teams G.C. Lapasini Leal, A.P. Chaves, E.H.M. Huzita, M.E. Delamaro 2686
Knowledge Management Initiatives in Offshore Software Development: Vendors' Perspectives A. Mathrani, D. Parsons, S. Mathrani 2706
A Global Software Inspection Process for Distributed Software Development D. Mishra, A. Mishra 2731
Content of Issue 20
DOI: 10.3217/jucs-018-20
Managing Editor's Column C. Gütl 2747
The Forum for Negative Results (FNR)
Guest Editorial
L. Prechelt 2748
Computational Analysis of Medieval Manuscripts: A New Tool for Analysis and Mapping of Medieval Documents to Modern Orthography M. Ahmad, S. Gruner, M.T. Afzal 2750
Distributed Load Balancing Algorithms for Heterogeneous Players in Asynchronous Networks L.F. Bittencourt, F.K. Miyazawa, A.L. Vignatti 2771
Crossing the Undecidability Border with Extensions of Propositional Neighborhood Logic over Natural Numbers D. Della Monica, V. Goranko, A. Montanari, G. Sciavicco 2798
Non-Marker based Mobile Augmented Reality and its Applications using Object Recognition D. Kim, D. Hwang 2832
Points-to Analysis: A Fine-Grained Evaluation J. Lundberg, W. Lowe 2851
The Contrapositive of Countable Choice for Inhabited Sets of Naturals I. Petrakis 2879
Ontology-based Approach to Competence Profile Management V. Tarasov 2893
Engineering Security into Distributed Systems: A Survey of Methodologies A.V. Uzunov, E.B. Fernandez, K. Falkner 2920