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Integrating a variety of perspectives into one digital platform, back to the “drawing” board! A workshop paper prototyping for platforms in integrated care.

This workshop fits best in the pillar ‘digital solutions’ of integrated care. The facilitator would like to share some of the learning experiences during a research project in dementia health care, and introduce a methodology: paper prototyping. This workshop is interesting for all types of (non-)professionals that are interested in the topic “digital solutions” and co-design methodologies, such as paper prototyping. The main idea is to integrate multiple perspectives, therefore a diverse group of participants is advantageous for the workshop. In the workshop participants will be encouraged integrate several perspectives of stakeholders in dementia healthcare, such as those of care professionals and people with dementia in a prototype platform. The idea behind paper prototyping is that it is an efficient way to sketch a prototype using paper and creative tools. Interviewing can then be used to find out how the creator feels and why certain decisions were made.
 Nathalie Stolwijk will be the facilitator. She is a researcher at Vilans (The Netherlands) in the area of long term care and has experience in design research and psychology, currently working on the HAAL project. The HAAL project provides input for the workshop assignments. The main goal in the HAAL project to decrease workload in times of long term care personnel shortages. In the HAAL project a digital platform is developed, incorporating insights from data from digital care solutions (such as GPS data, sleep monitoring etc). In this platform different end-user needs are integrated to create a decision-aid tool for a variety of caregivers in several countries. This decision-aid tool gives a supplementary perspective on the health and wellbeing status of the client, and could therefore promote person-centred care. In the project the methodology of paper prototyping was used to gather user requirements for a variety of stakeholders. 
 The preferred time for the workshop is 90 minutes, however adjustments can be made to fit it into 60 minutes. Introduction to the topic, the HAAL project and the first workshop assignment will take 15 minutes. Followed by 10 minutes of brainstorming in subgroups to gather the different perspectives of participants. During this phase participants can also look into existing persona’s or other data sources. The facilitator will walk around to give advice and help group(member)s that are facing difficulties. Afterwards there will be 30-45 minutes of paper prototyping, starting individually, and finally emerging all the different designs into one paper prototype. The subgroups will get a clear instructions. We end the workshop with a short, plenary wrap up. We will discuss the challenges the subgroups encountered when integrating the different perspectives, and how they solved this. This will be done by short pitches from each of the subgroups (10 minutes total).
 In the workshop the take home message is that the participants realise the importance, and challenge, of incorporating multiple end users perspectives when developing a digital solution for healthcare. Getting people to work together with different backgrounds and fields of experience can also be a learning experience.

Report on the 10th Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems (IntRS 2023) at ACM RecSys 2023

The 10th edition of the Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems was held as part of the 17th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys), the premier international forum for the presentation of new research results, systems and techniques in the broad field of recommender systems. The workshop was organized as a hybrid event: the physical session took place on September 18th at the venue of the main conference, Singapore, with the possibility for authors to present remotely. The IntRS workshop brings together an interdisciplinary community of researchers and practitioners who share research on new recommender systems (informed by psychology), including new design technologies and evaluation methodologies, and aim to identify critical challenges and emerging topics in the field. This year we focused particularly on topics related to Human-Centered AI, Explainability of decision-making models, User-adaptive XAI systems, which are becoming more and more popular in the last years, especially in domains where recommended options might have ethical and legal impacts on users. The integration of XAI with recommender systems is crucial for enhancing their transparency, interpretability, and accountability. This topic attracted a lot of interest from the community, as demonstrated by the fact that several workshop papers proposed methods for recommendation explanations. Date : 18 September 2023. Website : https://intrs2023.wordpress.com.

2022 IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference Awards: Comments by the Chair

On Behalf of the Committee, I am pleased to announce the 2022 IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC) awards. In a strong field of candidate papers, one paper stood out in terms of relative ranking and scoring, and a second paper received evaluations well above those of the remaining papers. Accordingly, it was decided to award a best paper and a meritorious paper for NSREC 2022. The Outstanding Student Paper was the highest-ranking finalist paper first authored and presented by a student. The Outstanding Data Workshop paper was judged on the basis of the quality and impact of the poster at NSREC. The award recipients include:

Embeddings for Automatic Short Answer Grading: A Scoping Review

Automatic grading of short answers is an important task in computer-assisted assessment (CAA). Recently, embeddings, as semantic-rich textual representations, have been increasingly used to represent short answers and predict the grade. Despite the recent trend of applying embeddings in automatic short answer grading (ASAG), there are no systematic reviews of literature reporting on their usage. Therefore, following the PRISMA-ScR guidelines, this scoping review summarises relevant literature on the use of embeddings in ASAG, and reports on the current state of the art in that research area and on the identified knowledge gaps. We searched seven research databases for the relevant journal, conference, and workshop papers published from 2016 to July 2021. The inclusion criteria were based on the type of publication, its venue ranking, study focus, and evaluation methods. Upon the full-text screening, 17 articles were included in the scoping review. Among these, most of the articles used word embeddings, mainly to estimate the similarity of student and model answers using the cosine similarity measure or to initialise a neural network-based classification model. The contribution of embeddings to the performance of ASAG models compared to non-embedding features is inconclusive. Models employing embeddings were mostly evaluated on four public ASAG datasets using earlier ASAG methods as baselines. We summarise the reported evaluation results and draw conclusions on the performance of the state-of-the-art ASAG models.

Codex Sierra: A Nahuatl-Mixtec Book of Accounts from Colonial Mexico

Codex Sierra: A Nahuatl-Mixtec Book of Accounts from Colonial Mexico

Administrative Legal Accountability for B3 Waste Management Receiving Companies In Environmental Pollution Environmental

Problems are essentially ecological problems. The essence of environmental problems is the reciprocal relationship between living things and their environment. Therefore, wise development (especially in the environmental field) must be based on environmental insight as a means to achieve sustainability and become a guarantee for the welfare of present and future generations. carried out by companies or legal entities besides having a positive effect, can also have negative effects such as pollution or environmental damage. including B3 waste management. Waste treatment is closely related to the factory production system. pollution occurs, the B3 waste management company is held accountable, but in practice there is a discrepancy in the B3 waste processing carried out by the company that accepts work. This research is normative legal research, which collects secondary data through literature studies, to obtain secondary data in the form of primary, secondary and tertiary legal materials. The primary legal materials are in the form of the 1945 Constitution, other laws, decisions of judges, which are relevant to this writing and research. Secondary legal material in the form of opinions from legal experts through textbooks, journals, articles, results of previous research, workshop papers, seminars, symposiums, discussions, magazines/newspapers, theses, dissertations, etc., which have something to do with the object of this research. Tertiary legal materials in the form of dictionaries and encyclopedias, relevant bibliographies and dictionaries. Field research was conducted to complement library data.
 The results of the study show that legal liability to the employer due to negligence by the company that accepts B3 waste management in the event of environmental pollution is an unlawful act contained in Article 1365 of the Civil Code, Environmental Law Number 32 of 2009, which is contained in Article 87 (1) and Regulation of the Minister of Environment Number 5 of 2014 Concerning Wastewater Quality Standards, or waste being processed according to company operational standards (SOP) agreed between the management of PT. Medco with companies. Furthermore, the waste that has been processed internally in each industry will be sent to the Installation

B3 Waste Management From the View of Civil Law

Environmental problems are essentially ecological problems. The core of environmental problems is the reciprocal relationship between living things and their environment. Therefore, wise development (especially in the environmental field) must be based on environmental insight as a means to achieve sustainability and become a guarantee for the welfare of present and future generations. carried out by companies or legal entities in addition to bringing positive effects, can also bring negative effects such as pollution or environmental destruction. This research is a normative legal research,which collects secondary data through literature studies, to obtain secondary data in the form of primary, secondary and tertiary legal materials. Primary legal materials are in the form of the 1945 Constitution, other laws, judges' decisions, which are relevant to this writing and research. Secondary legal material in the form of opinions of legal experts through textbooks, journals, articles, results of previous research, workshop papers, seminars, symposiums, discussions, magazines/newspapers, theses, dissertations, and others, which have something to do with the object of this research. Tertiary legal materials in the form of dictionaries and encyclopedias, relevant bibliographies and dictionaries. Field research was conducted to complement library data. The results of the study show that legal liability to the employer company due to negligence by the company accepting the work of B3 waste management in the event of environmental pollution is an unlawful act contained in Article 1365 of the Civil Code, Environmental Law Number 32 of 2009. which is stated in Article 87 (1 ). And the Minister of Environment Regulation Number 5 of 2014 concerning Wastewater Quality Standards, or waste is processed according to the company's operational standards (SOP) as agreed between the managers of PT. Medco with companies. Furthermore, the waste that has been processed internally within the respective industries will be sent to the Installation.

Special Issue 19th international workshop on algorithms, models and tools for parallel computing on heterogeneous platforms (HeteroPar'21)

Heterogeneity has emerged as one of the most profound and challenging characteristics of today's parallel environments. From the macro level, where networks of distributed computers, composed of diverse node architectures, are interconnected with potentially heterogeneous networks, to the micro level, where deeper memory hierarchies and various accelerator architectures are increasingly common, the impact of heterogeneity on all computing tasks is increasing rapidly. Traditional parallel algorithms, programming environments, and tools, designed for legacy homogeneous multiprocessors, achieve a small fraction of the efficiency and the potential performance that can be obtained in current and future heterogeneous computing platforms. New ideas, innovative algorithms, and specialized programming environments and tools are needed to efficiently use these modern parallel and heterogeneous architectures. The International workshop on algorithms, models and tools for parallel computing on heterogeneous platforms (HeteroPar) is a forum for researchers working on algorithms, programming languages, tools, and theoretical models for efficiently solving complex problems on heterogeneous parallel platforms. HeteroPar 2021 took place (virtually) in Lisbon, Portugal, organized for the 13th time in conjunction with the Euro-Par annual international conference. The format of the workshop included one keynote and 11 technical presentations. The workshop papers represented an interesting mix of topics, addressing the implementation of algorithms and kernels for heterogeneous computing, programming models, data management, runtime and resource management, energy efficiency, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence-based methods oriented towards heterogeneous platforms, as the basis for the next generation exascale computers. The selected papers cover a good spectrum of research topics in the area of heterogeneous computing showing the challenges present on these modern platforms.

Significance of collaborative synergies in executing EIA and audits for environmental sustainability

The journey of environmental auditing began in the USA in the early 1970s. An environmental impact assessment is defined as an assessment of the impacts of planned activities on the environment, biodiversity, vegetation and ecology, water, and air. Research objective was to elucidate the significance of collaborative synergies in executing EIA and Audits for environmental sustainability. The researcher applied the descriptive design in carrying out the survey in Laikipia County where a comprehensive review of literature review was done from relevant journals, conference and workshop papers, review papers, theses, books, reports, informative flyers/booklets and information available on the internet published by individual researchers, NEMA, NETFUND, UNEP and questionnaires were administered to 400 sampled respondents were the main sources of data for this paper. Findings revealed that 30% NEMA officials carried out environmental impact assessments during the planning phase; 20% UNEP Officials provided information via conferences, workshop papers, review papers, theses, books, reports, informative flyers/booklets & responded to questionnaires on significance of collaborative synergies in executing EIA & Audits for environmental sustainability and 20% Laikipia county residents took part in Public participation on the significance of collaborative synergies in executing EIA and Audits for environmental sustainability & responded to questionnaires. 20% of NETFUND officials disseminated information on EIA & Audit Case Studies. The researcher recommended environmental safeguarding measures such as, introduction of corporate environmental policies and strategies, adequate human and institutional capacity; environmental impact assessments during the planning phase.

An evaluation of institutional repository development in African universities

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the development of institutional repositories in university libraries in Africa. An online questionnaire and institutional repository site investigation methods were used to collect data from 134 university libraries in English-speaking countries in Africa. The study finds that there is an increasing wave of development of institutional repositories in English-speaking countries in Africa. The majority of the institutional repositories contain high numbers of theses and dissertations, followed by journal articles and conference and workshop papers. The challenges that are identified include inadequate facilities, unstable Internet connectivity, a lack of funds, an irregular power supply, collecting material for institutional repositories, a lack of skilled information and communications technology personnel, copyright issues and an absence of institutional repository policies. The results from the study provide important data and insight into the development of institutional repositories in university libraries in the context of developing countries, and offer suggestions for university librarians and management teams.

Content recruiting: Obstacle to institutional repository development in university libraries in Nigeria and South Africa

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to bring to light the obstacles to collecting contents from faculty members in universities in Nigeria and South Africa. Design/methodology/approach: The study adopted a survey research design. OpenDOAR database search, online questionnaire, and IRs investigation methods were used to collect data from 41 institutional repositories in universities in Nigeria and South Africa. Findings: The study found that the most popular content submitted to IRs in Nigeria and South Africa are electronic theses and dissertations, journal articles, special items (Africana collections, images, artifacts, paintings), conference and workshop papers, and research and technical reports. The comparison of institutional repository development between the two countries revealed that, South Africa is far ahead of Nigeria in terms of institutional repository development using contents emanating from the universities. South Africa is a leading African country in terms of Open Access (OA) policies and South Africa embraced open access movement earlier than Nigeria. The study identified some factors such as: lack of awareness of the existence of institutional repositories by faculty members; lack of mandatory self-archiving policy by institutions or funding bodies; considering copyright and intellectual property issues; some faculty members are skeptical on the principle of open access; some faculty members are not interested in IR; some faculty members believe it is too risky to submit their research work to IR; lack of technical skills for some faculty members to self-archive as obstacles which are peculiar to collecting contents from various contributors in both counties. Research Implication: The findings will inform University Librarians, University management and policy makers on possible ways to overcome the obstacles to recruiting content to IRs. Originality/value: The study reported on the obstacles of recruiting content from faculty members in universities in Nigeria and South Africa and the findings will inform stakeholders by designing strategies to overcome such obstacles and populate the IRs with different contents.

Preface to the JOT special issue on ECOOP 2021: selected workshop papers.

Preface to the JOT special issue on ECOOP 2021: selected workshop papers.

SuperWarp: Supervised Learning and Warping on U-Net for Invariant Subvoxel-Precise Registration.

In recent years, learning-based image registration methods have gradually moved away from direct supervision with target warps to instead use self-supervision, with excellent results in several registration benchmarks. These approaches utilize a loss function that penalizes the intensity differences between the fixed and moving images, along with a suitable regularizer on the deformation. However, since images typically have large untextured regions, merely maximizing similarity between the two images is not sufficient to recover the true deformation. This problem is exacerbated by texture in other regions, which introduces severe non-convexity into the landscape of the training objective and ultimately leads to overfitting. In this paper, we argue that the relative failure of supervised registration approaches can in part be blamed on the use of regular U-Nets, which are jointly tasked with feature extraction, feature matching and deformation estimation. Here, we introduce a simple but crucial modification to the U-Net that disentangles feature extraction and matching from deformation prediction, allowing the U-Net to warp the features, across levels, as the deformation field is evolved. With this modification, direct supervision using target warps begins to outperform self-supervision approaches that require segmentations, presenting new directions for registration when images do not have segmentations. We hope that our findings in this preliminary workshop paper will re-ignite research interest in supervised image registration techniques. Our code is publicly available from http://github.com/balbasty/superwarp.

画像認識技術を用いたコンピュータビジョン分野の論文における図表の使用の分析

In scientific publications, information is conveyed in the form of figure and table as well as text. Among the many fields of research, computer vision focuses on visual information like image and video. Therefore, figure and table are useful to convey information in computer vision paper such as image used in the experiment or output of the proposed method. In the field of computer vision, conference papers are important, which is different from journal publications considered important in other fields. In this work, we study the use of figures and tables in computer vision papers in conference proceedings. We utilize object detection and image recognition techniques to extract and label figures in papers. We conducted the experiments from five aspects including (1) comparison with other field, (2) comparison among different conferences in computer vision, (3) comparison with workshop papers, (4) temporal change, and (5) comparison among different research topics in computer vision. Thorough the experiments, we observed that the use of figure and table has been changing between 2013 and 2020. We also revealed that the tendency in the use of figure is different among topics even in computer vision papers.

Green Brand Equity—Empirical Experience from a Systematic Literature Review

Our study aims to analyze factors determining the green brand equity (GBE) based on a systematic literature review (SLR) according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) statement. We posed 3 research questions and searched five databases (Scopus, Web of Sciences, Google Scholar, EBSCO, and Elsevier) for studies containing the term ‘green brand equity’ and the combination of two terms: ‘brand equity’ and ‘green’. Additionally, the backward and forward snowballing methods were applied. In our SLR, we included empirical studies published between 2006 and 2021 as peer-reviewed papers in English. Exclusion criteria included studies with theoretical models, studies describing brand equity not related to GBE, Ph.D. thesis, short reports, workshop papers, practice guidelines, book chapters, reviews, and conference publications. Finally, 33 articles were analyzed as part of the SLR in two fields: general information (authorship, year of publication, type of study, research country or location, sample size, and product categories), and research specifications (factors or variables, number and type of hypotheses, scale or measurement items, type of statistical analysis, and selected indicators of statistical methods). Image, trust, value, satisfaction, and loyalty appeared to be the most studied determinants of GBE. Less frequently analyzed were quality, awareness, attributes, particular promotional activities, and the fact of purchase. The results obtained are important in practical terms, showing what to consider when creating GBE in different categories of products and services.

The importance of the role of financial analysis in making investment decisions in securities - Case Study: Khartoum Stock Exchange: أهمية دور التحليل المالي في اتخاذ القرارات الاستثمارية في الأوراق المالية دراسة حالة: سوق الخرطوم للأوراق المالية

This research aimed at the followings: Identifying the important role of financial analysis depending on information cited on financial statements and reports in making the right investment decision in Khartoum Stock Exchange. Adopting a reliable financial analysis that can assist to analyze and evaluate the financial and non-financial information to make decisions of buying، selling or reserving stocks with rational investment decisions at Khartoum Stock Exchange. In order to discuss the research problem، the researcher tests the hypotheses: The rational financial analysis is considered an effective tool in making a good investment decision, the accounting information helps investors in stock markets in making the right investment decision. The research adopts the deductive methodology to formulate the research problem and hypotheses; the inductive method to collect data from primary and secondary sources; the historical method to tackle the previous studies; whereas the analytical-descriptive method to test the validity of the hypotheses. The important results of the research could be summarized as Adopting modern financial analysis techniques provide information that help in making the right investment decisions Failure to make the rational investment decision is related to inefficiency of the information and financial reports depended upon in each stage of making investment decision and Whereas the most important recommendations are to adopt modern techniques in analyzing financial statements by using SPSS. Provide sufficient information about stock exchange rates and dealings regularly on the internet websites and workshop papers.

Safe and secure cyber‐physical systems

AbstractCyber‐Physical Systems (CPSs) differ from traditional Information Technology (IT) systems in such a way that they interact with the physical environment, i.e., they can monitor and manipulate real objects and processes. For this special issue, the authors of the best papers of IWCFS 2019 were invited to submit extended versions of their workshop papers. Additionally, we received eight submissions from around the globe as a result of an open call. After thorough and stringent reviews, we selected six articles that provide relevant contributions to the field of safety and security for CPSs.

MLC Libraries – a school library’s journey with students, staff and Web 2.0 technologies

This workshop paper explores the Web 2.0 journey of the MLC Libraries’ teacher-librarians, librarian, library and audio visual technicians. Our journey was initially inspired by Will Richardson and supported by the School Library Association of Victoria (SLAV) Web 2.0 professional development program. The 12 week technological skills program ‘23 things’ assisted in motivating the MLC Libraries’ team to adopt Web 2.0 technologies into their daily work with students and staff

Workshop MEA 2020 peer review declaration

All papers published in this volume of IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering have been peer reviewed through processes administered by the Editors. Reviews were conducted by expert referees to the professional and scientific standards expected of a proceedings journal published by IOP Publishing. Type of peer review:Double-blind, that is author and reviewer identities are hidden to each other. Criteria used by Reviewers when accepting/declining papers:technical, quality and presentation criteria according to IOP Conference Series peer review policy. The most part ( 75%) of the accepted papers were resubmitted after two or three revisions. Conference submission management system:through editors and reviewers personal e-mail, the special submission management systems were not employed because the total number of Workshop papers is not great. Number of submissions received: 51. Number of submissions sent for review: 44. Number of submissions accepted: 33. Acceptance Rate (Number of Submissions Accepted / Number of Submissions Received X 100): 65%. Average number of reviews per paper: 2. Total number of reviewers involved: 21. Any additional info on review process : the editors paid the especial attention on the stylistics of the papers because for all the authors English is a foreign language. Contact person for queries:Evgeny V. Nikulchev, Dr., Professor of MIREA – Russian Technological University, nikulchev@mail.ruOleg N. Korsun, Dr., Prof., Head of the laboratory, State Research Institute of Aviation Systems, marmottoduo@yandex.ru The scientific editors of MEA2020 Proceedings:Evgeny V. NikulchevOleg N. Korsun

Workshop 7 report: Assessing the wider benefits of public transport projects

Workshop 7 concluded that the terminology, ‘wider benefits’, tends to reinforce a narrow impact assessment-based approach to transport policy and project evaluation. Participants argued that a preferred approach is to concentrate on identifying (triple bottom line) societal goals and identifying initiatives to achieve those goals, in which case ‘wider benefits’ become core rather than add-ons. This shifts the planning/policy cycle focus to the starting point: need identification and initiative definition, as distinct from narrowly based impact assessment of initiatives conceived elsewhere. Against this background, Workshop papers examined a range of economic and social goals whose achievement can be enhanced, or set back, by transport initiatives, considering issues such as land use transport integration, land value uplift, customer amenity benefits, new technologies, social justice and mobility-related social exclusion, together with ways to identify those at risk of such exclusion and engage them in initiative identification and assessment. Recommendations for policy and research are outlined, together with discussion suggestions for Thredbo 17.