ERCIM NewsPub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.18420/BLOCKCHAIN2018_07
W. Prinz, Sabine Kolvenbach, R. Ruland
{"title":"Blockchain for Education: Lifelong Learning Passport","authors":"W. Prinz, Sabine Kolvenbach, R. Ruland","doi":"10.18420/BLOCKCHAIN2018_07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18420/BLOCKCHAIN2018_07","url":null,"abstract":"Certificates play an important role in education and in professional development in companies. Individual learning records become essential for people’s professional careers. It is therefore important that these records are stored in long-term available and tamper-proof ledgers. A blockchain records transactions in a verifiable and permanent way, therefore it is very suitable to store fingerprints of certificates or other educational items. Blockchain reveals forgery of certificates and it supports learning histories. In this paper, we present the Blockchain for Education platform as a practical solution for issuing, validating and sharing of certificates. At first, we describe the conceptual system overview and then we present in detail the platform implementation including management of certification authorities and certificates, smart contracts as well as services for certifiers, learners and third parties such as employers. Finally, we describe use cases and first evaluation results that we gathered from end user tests with certifiers and conclude with a discussion.","PeriodicalId":44543,"journal":{"name":"ERCIM News","volume":"2020 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67642557","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}
ERCIM NewsPub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/psz9y
Peter Kieseberg, Lukas Daniel Klausner, Andreas Holzinger
{"title":"Distortion in Real-World Analytic Processes","authors":"Peter Kieseberg, Lukas Daniel Klausner, Andreas Holzinger","doi":"10.31219/osf.io/psz9y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/psz9y","url":null,"abstract":"In discussions on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), anonymisation and deletion are frequently mentioned as suitable technical and organisational methods (TOMs) for privacy protection. The major problem of distortion in machine learning environments, as well as related issues with respect to privacy, are rarely mentioned. The Big Data Analytics project addresses these issues.","PeriodicalId":44543,"journal":{"name":"ERCIM News","volume":"2019 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69636826","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}
ERCIM NewsPub Date : 2018-10-03DOI: 10.1201/9781315218854-15
Katie Weeks
{"title":"The UK National Grid Service","authors":"Katie Weeks","doi":"10.1201/9781315218854-15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1201/9781315218854-15","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44543,"journal":{"name":"ERCIM News","volume":"2007 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46367028","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}
ERCIM NewsPub Date : 2017-10-23DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-69459-7_16
Elisjana Ymeralli, G. Flouris, T. Patkos, D. Plexousakis
{"title":"APOPSIS: A Web-Based Platform for the Analysis of Structured Dialogues","authors":"Elisjana Ymeralli, G. Flouris, T. Patkos, D. Plexousakis","doi":"10.1007/978-3-319-69459-7_16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69459-7_16","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44543,"journal":{"name":"ERCIM News","volume":"2018 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43296247","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}
ERCIM NewsPub Date : 2017-09-27DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-79090-9_16
Patrizio Dazzi
{"title":"BASMATI - Cloud Brokerage Across Borders For Mobile Users And Applications","authors":"Patrizio Dazzi","doi":"10.1007/978-3-319-79090-9_16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-79090-9_16","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44543,"journal":{"name":"ERCIM News","volume":"2016 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42677414","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}
ERCIM NewsPub Date : 2017-07-01DOI: 10.5167/uzh-145292
T. Bocek, S. Rafati, B. Rodrigues, B. Stiller
{"title":"Coinblesk - A Real-time, Bitcoin-based Payment Approach and App","authors":"T. Bocek, S. Rafati, B. Rodrigues, B. Stiller","doi":"10.5167/uzh-145292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-145292","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44543,"journal":{"name":"ERCIM News","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44632424","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}
ERCIM NewsPub Date : 2016-12-28DOI: 10.5220/0001968501130122
F. Falchi, T. Fagni, F. Sebastiani
{"title":"Adaptive Committees of Feature-Specific Classifiers for Image Classification","authors":"F. Falchi, T. Fagni, F. Sebastiani","doi":"10.5220/0001968501130122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0001968501130122","url":null,"abstract":"We present a system for image classification based on an adaptive committee of five classifiers, each specialized on classifying images based on a single MPEG-7 feature. We test four different ways to set up such a committee, and obtain important accuracy improvements with respect to a baseline in which a single classifier, working an all five features at the same time, is employed.","PeriodicalId":44543,"journal":{"name":"ERCIM News","volume":"2009 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2016-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70832657","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}