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New Contributions in Information Systems and Technologies

Volume 2

  • Latest research and new perspectives in Information Systems and Technologies
  • Results of the 2015 World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST'15), held in Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, Azores, Portugal, 1 - 3 April 2015
  • Discusses the most recent innovations, trends, results, experiences and concerns in the several perspectives of Information Systems and Technologies

Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (AISC, volume 354)

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Table of contents (36 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-21
  2. Information Technologies in Radiocommunications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Novel Varactor-Loaded Phasing Line for Reflectarray Unit Cell with Large Reconfigurability Frequency Range

      • Sandra Costanzo, Francesca Venneri, Antonio Raffo, Giuseppe Di Massa, Pasquale Corsonello
      Pages 3-9
    3. Low-Cost Radars Integrated into a Landslide Early Warning System

      • Sandra Costanzo, Giuseppe Di Massa, Antonio Costanzo, Luca Morrone, Antonio Raffo, Francesco Spadafora et al.
      Pages 11-19
    4. Cylindrical Rectangular Antenna for Wireless Communications

      • Almir Souza e Silva Neto, George de Araujo Farias, Diego Oliveira da Silva, Artur Luís Torres de Oliveira, Antonio de Paula Dias Queiroz
      Pages 21-31
    5. Antenna for Fifth Generation (5G) Using a EBG Structure

      • Almir Souza e Silva Neto, Marta Laís de Macedo Dantas, Joicy dos Santos Silva, Humberto César Chaves Fernandes
      Pages 33-38
  3. Applied Statistics and Data Analysis Using Computer Science

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 39-39
    2. A Density-Based Clustering of Spatio-Temporal Data

      • Ehab Zaghlool, Saleh ElKaffas, Amani Saad
      Pages 41-50
    3. A Platform for Assessing Cancer Patients’ Quality of Life

      • Brígida Mónica Faria, Joaquim Gonçalves, Luís Paulo Reis, Álvaro Rocha
      Pages 51-61
    4. Assessing Diabetes Health Literacy, Knowledge and Empowerment in Northern Portugal

      • Carminda S. Morais, Rui E. Pimenta, Pedro Lopes Ferreira, José M. Boavida, José P. Amorim
      Pages 63-71
  4. Business Intelligence in Organisations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73
    2. Action Research Study on Individual Knowledge Use in Organizational Innovation Processes

      • Maria José Sousa, Teresa Cascais, João Paulo Rodrigues
      Pages 75-82
    3. Intelligent Business Process Based Cloud Services

      • Lacheheub Mohammed Nassim, Maamri Ramdane
      Pages 83-92
    4. Business Intelligence Applied to Human Resources Management

      • Ivo Dias, Maria José Sousa
      Pages 105-113
    5. A Multi-driven Approach to Improve Data Analytics for Multi-value Dimensions

      • Gabriel Pestana, Pedro Catelas, Isabel Rosa
      Pages 115-128
    6. A Decision Support System for Municipal Budget Plan Decisions

      • Hugo Rego, Armando B. Mendes, Hélia Guerra
      Pages 129-139
  5. Pervasive Information Systems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141
    2. Decision Support in E-Government – A Pervasive Business Intelligence Approach

      • Rui Teixeira, Fernando Afonso, Bruno Oliveira, José Machado, António Abelha, Manuel Filipe Santos et al.
      Pages 155-166

About this book

This book contains a selection of articles from The 2015 World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST'15), held between the 1st and 3rd of April in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss recent results and innovations, current trends, professional experiences and challenges of modern Information Systems and Technologies research, technological development and applications.

The main topics covered are: Information and Knowledge Management; Organizational Models and Information Systems; Intelligent and Decision Support Systems; Big Data Analytics and Applications; Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools; Multimedia Systems and Applications; Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems; Human-Computer Interaction; Health Informatics; Information Technologies in Education; Information Technologies in Radio communications.

Editors and Affiliations

  • DEI/FCT, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Alvaro Rocha

  • Instituto Superior de Estatística e Gestão de Informação, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Estatistica, Lisboa, Portugal

    Ana Maria Correia

  • DEIS, Università della Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende, Italy

    Sandra Costanzo

  • DIS, Universidade do Minho, Guimarães, Portugal

    Luis Paulo Reis

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: New Contributions in Information Systems and Technologies

  • Book Subtitle: Volume 2

  • Editors: Alvaro Rocha, Ana Maria Correia, Sandra Costanzo, Luis Paulo Reis

  • Series Title: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16528-8

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-16527-1Published: 27 March 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-16528-8Published: 16 March 2015

  • Series ISSN: 2194-5357

  • Series E-ISSN: 2194-5365

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 398

  • Number of Illustrations: 148 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Computational Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence

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