Arturo González, C. V. Lücken, J. Paciello, Tito Ocampos, Juan Pane
{"title":"Critical Overview of the Use of Contact Tracing Apps in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic","authors":"Arturo González, C. V. Lücken, J. Paciello, Tito Ocampos, Juan Pane","doi":"10.5220/0010480400910099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0010480400910099","url":null,"abstract":"Contact tracing determines the chain of contacts of an infected person to isolate them. Implementing contact tracing requires an enormous effort that generally falls on the different governments and their respective health authorities. Emerging technologies can be quite useful in supporting contact tracing. The most relevant advantages of using mobile applications based on digital technologies to perform contact tracing are the fast collection of reliable data and the rapid detection of possible contacts at risk. However, despite these advantages, many countries have not reported a high penetration of these tools. As a relevant and actual research area, this paper presents a critical overview of the current literature regarding contact tracing applications to answer the following research questions: What is the most used technology to develop contact tracing apps? What were the main lessons on using contact tracing applications so far?, How are ethics, privacy, and security issues handled?, What is the use that is given to the data collected by the applications, and what happens to them? Who applies these types of tools, and what implications did they have?","PeriodicalId":414016,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Complex Information Systems","volume":"588-589 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116915549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Computational Pipeline for Modeling and Predicting Wildfire Behavior","authors":"Nuno Fachada","doi":"10.5220/0011073900003197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0011073900003197","url":null,"abstract":": Wildfires constitute a major socioeconomic burden. While a number of scientific and technological methods have been used for predicting and mitigating wildfires, this is still an open problem. In turn, agent-based modeling is a modeling approach where each entity of the system being modeled is represented as an independent decision-making agent. It is a useful technique for studying systems that can be modeled in terms of interactions between individual components. Consequently, it is an interesting methodology for modeling wildfire behavior. In this position paper, we propose a complete computational pipeline for modeling and predicting wildfire behavior by leveraging agent-based modeling, among other techniques. This project is to be developed in collaboration with scientific and civil stakeholders, and should produce an open decision support system easily extendable by stakeholders and other interested parties.","PeriodicalId":414016,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Complex Information Systems","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134640547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rasika Irpenwar, Nikhil Gupta, Rahul Ignatius, M. Ramachandran
{"title":"Data Driven Web Experimentation on Design and Personalization","authors":"Rasika Irpenwar, Nikhil Gupta, Rahul Ignatius, M. Ramachandran","doi":"10.5220/0006379801520158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0006379801520158","url":null,"abstract":"In today's world for we use online medium for virtually every aspect of our lives. Companies run controlled web experiments to make data driven decisions, to provide an intuitive online experience. We see a big correlation between online customer behaviors and designs and personal treatment, which could be used to create better customer engagement. In this paper we have studied the impact of design elements on chat invites*, by running experiments on a small population, using machine learning algorithms. Based on this we identify significant elements and build the most opportune personalized messages on invites. Statistical results show that, more visitors on the website accept chat invites which are personalized and optimized for the design. At [24]7, we have experimented extensively on user interface designs and journey based personalization which resulted in positive impact on our annual revenue.","PeriodicalId":414016,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Complex Information Systems","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132084637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Abstraction of Prevention Conceived in Distributed Knowledge Base","authors":"S. Yamasaki, Mariko Sasakura","doi":"10.5220/0011708600003485","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0011708600003485","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":414016,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Complex Information Systems","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127893969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social Complex Systems as Multiscale Phenomena: From the Genome to Animal Societies","authors":"Ilvanna Salas, S. Abades","doi":"10.5220/0010492801000106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0010492801000106","url":null,"abstract":"For decades, researchers have studied animal social phenomena and aimed to answer: What is social complexity? Are some animals more socially complex than others? However, social complexity concepts are far from agreed and the field is still open to new research approaches. In this position paper, we propose to frame social complexity as a problem of organized complexity (whereby multiple scales and interactions across components produce patterns and organization). To improve our understanding of sociality, we encourage building a “social complexity theory” at the intersection of complex systems, behavioral ecology, and social systems concepts. This manuscript highlights the importance of considering social complexity as a multiscale phenomenon and raise the presence of trade-offs between scales. We illustrate the relationship between complexity and scales with examples from genomic to population scale in animal societies. Moreover, we suggest giving special attention to genome-scale studies to provide a common ground for comparing complexity among animal species and put forward comparative genomics as an approximation to drive the understanding of the evolution of social complexity.","PeriodicalId":414016,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Complex Information Systems","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129150275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Berraouna Abdelkader, Amirat Abdelkrim, D. Meslati
{"title":"A Meta-model for Dynamic Workflow Evolution","authors":"Berraouna Abdelkader, Amirat Abdelkrim, D. Meslati","doi":"10.5220/0005858900590065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0005858900590065","url":null,"abstract":"Workflow systems such as they are today do not provide sufficient flexibility needed to deal with certain situations that may arise during the execution, especially in critical environments such as medical systems and banking systems. In this context, this paper treat the adaptive workflow based on Meta-Model approach and components-based software approach. These provide granularity, flexibility and reliability needed for effective and safe development of the workflow. The work is both in terms of the development process and in terms of the support platform, which should ensure the adaptability and propose a generic componentoriented framework to build, run and develop dynamic workflow templates. Our research objectives are: First, the proposal of a proper workflow development approach that takes into account the evolution of these systems appearance. Then the realization of a framework environment that takes advantage of the component approach and the meta-model approach and its features.","PeriodicalId":414016,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Complex Information Systems","volume":"79 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121010200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Code-Prompting Auto-Catalytic Sets and the Origins of Coded Life","authors":"Itay Fayerverker, T. Mor","doi":"10.5220/0006681300530063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0006681300530063","url":null,"abstract":"The genetic code and genetic evolution are at the core of complexity in biology, however, there is no reasonable explanation yet for the emergence of the genetic code. We present here a possible scenario accounting for the emergence of “coded life” in nature: We describe the emergence of the genetic code from molecular evolution (prior to genetic evolution). This process is based on increase in concentration of chemical self-replicating sets of molecules, located within (probably non-biological) compartments. Our scenario is obtained by combining the conceptual idea of “code-prompting autocatalytic sets” (Agmon and Mor, 2015), with recent results about non-enzymatic template replication methods (Prywes et al, 2016), possibly relevant to the prebiotic stage preceding RNA-world. In the scenario described here, we often use computer science viewpoint and abstraction: We consider sets of strings composed of letters, such that each letter represents a molecular building block — mainly nucleotides and amino acids, and each string represents a more complex molecule which is some concatenation of the simpler molecules represented by letters; the biochemical rules are described in an abstract language of rules and statistics of letters and strings. We then suggest a novel path, containing several phases, for the emergence of “coded life”.","PeriodicalId":414016,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Complex Information Systems","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127293884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Product Lifecycle De-trending for Sales Forecasting","authors":"Albert F. H. M. Lechner, S. Gunn","doi":"10.5220/0009324300250033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0009324300250033","url":null,"abstract":": This work introduces a new way to improve the sales forecasting accuracy of time series models using product’s life cycle information. Most time series forecasts utilize historic data for forecasting because there is no data available for the future. The proposed approach should change this process and utilize product life cycle specific data to obtain future information including product life cycle changes. Therefore a decision tree regression was used to predict the shape parameters of the bass curve, which reflects a product’s life cycle over time. This curve is used in a consecutive step to de-trend the time series to exclude the underlying trend created through the age of a product. The sales forecasts accuracy was increased for all 11 years of a luxury car manufacturer, comparing the newly developed product life cycle de-trending approach to a common de-trending by differencing approach in a seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average framework.","PeriodicalId":414016,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Complex Information Systems","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131086995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. Bel-Enguix, Ángels Massip-Bonet, Gerardo E Sierra
{"title":"Complexity as a Paradigm for Social Sciences and Linguistics: Theoretical Basis and Perspectives","authors":"G. Bel-Enguix, Ángels Massip-Bonet, Gerardo E Sierra","doi":"10.5220/0009579901360142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0009579901360142","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses the relevance and significance of the use of complexity as a scientific paradigm in social and human sciences, focusing on linguistics. For this, a review of the concept of paradigm is made, and its evolution in the last decades. In this framework, the controversy between quantitative and qualitative methods and their validity in the twentieth century is discussed. In this dichotomy, we claim that the theory of complexity is prepared to assume the use of the so-called Mixed Methods Research (MMR). The paper develops the impact of Complex Systems (CS) and Complex Adaptive systems (CAS) in science, as well as the epistemological and methodological implications this entails. Moreover, natural language is defined as a CAS. In general, the article defends the adoption of this paradigm in linguistics, both in synchronous and diachronic research, providing some examples of these new lines of study. In spite of the still emerging nature of some formulations, we envision a deep theoretical breakthrough in linguistics thanks to this interdisciplinary","PeriodicalId":414016,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Complex Information Systems","volume":"15 10","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113976353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ECGraph: A Complex Networks Tool to Classify Critical Points of Ecological Corridors","authors":"G. Fenu, E. Podda","doi":"10.5220/0010388800470054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0010388800470054","url":null,"abstract":"The analysis of large amounts of information and its representation in a simple model has always been one of the main purposes of computer science. The field of territorial study is an excellent example to observe the complexity of the process, from the basic search for information through simple but expensive geometric calculations to the connection that the information itself has concerning the rest of the territory. The study of the natural areas identified by the European project Natura 2000 and their interconnection through the use of ecological corridors is an example of how difficult it can be to define, study and represent a complex problem. In order to simplify the mentioned tasks, allowing specialists to consult valuable data, the paper exposes how ECGraph works. This open source software allows extracting important information from any corridor related to areas of the Natura 2000 project, and can potentially be generalized to any similar case.","PeriodicalId":414016,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Complex Information Systems","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114242584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}