ERCIM News, Volume 2007, 2007

Number 68, January 2007

Section Special Theme: Traffic Planning and Logistics

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  Jo van Nunen:
  Traffic Planning and Logistics - Introduction to the Special Theme.
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  Leo G. Kroon:
  Mathematics for Railway Timetabling.
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  Per Kreuger, Martin Aronsson:
  Railyard Shunting: A Challenge for Combinatorial Optimisation.
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  Martin Aronsson, Per Kreuger:
  The Art of Stacking.
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  Tamás Luspay, István Varga, Balázs Kulcsár:
  Freeway Applications Based on the Macroscopic Model of Traffic Flow.
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  Puspita Deo, Heather J. Ruskin:
  Performance Evaluation of Traffic at Urban Single-Lane Junctions and Roundabouts.
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  Gabriella Bretti, Roberto Natalini, Benedetto Piccoli:
  Fluid-Dynamic Approach to Traffic Flow Problems.
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  Anders Holst, Markus Bohlin:
  Dynamic Routing of Rail Vehicles.
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  Poulicos Prastacos, Yiannis Kamarianakis:
  Statistical Models for Urban Traveller Information and Traffic Management Systems.
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  John Polak:
  Mobile Environmental Sensor Systems Across a Grid Environment - the MESSAGE Project.
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  Arnaud de La Fortelle, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes, Cyril Furtlehner:
  Statistical Physics Algorithms for Traffic Reconstruction.
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  Arnaud de La Fortelle, Angel Talamona, Mikaël Kais:
  From Traffic Prediction to Collaborative Navigation Solutions.
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  Jianyang Zhou, Jianyi Zhou, Jiande Zhou, Yann Courtet, Weiping Wu, Hua Ni:
  Logistics Planning Using the POEM Language System.
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  Günter Kiechle:
  Using GIS for Optimisation in Transportation Planning.
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  Cyril Ray, Thomas Devogele, Valérie Noyon, Mathieu Petit, Sébastien Fournier, Christophe Claramunt:
  GIS Technology for Maritime Traffic Systems.
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  David Hausheer, Burkhard Stiller:
  PeerMart: Decentralized Auctions for Bandwidth Trading on Demand.
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  François Fages, Abder Aggoun:
  Net-WMS - A New Generation of Warehouse Management Systems Networked Services.
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  François Dolivo:
  The IBM Secure Trade Lane Solution.
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  Günter Karjoth, Paul A. Moskowitz:
  Clipped RFID Tags Protect Consumer Privacy.
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  Zsolt Kemény, Marcell Szathmári:
  TraSer - Identity-Based Tracking and Web Services for SMEs.
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  Tamás Máhr, Alfons H. Salden:
  Distributed Engine for Advanced Logistics.
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  Matthieu Molinier:
  Supporting City Planning with Traffic Monitoring in Image Sequences.
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  Antonio Lucas:
  Traffic Planning and Logistics: A View from the Edge.

Section R&D and Technology Transfer

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  Fabrizio Fabbrini, Mario Fusani, Giuseppe Lami:
  Software Travels in the Fast Lane: Good News or Bad?
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  Gerhard Chroust:
  Coping with System Complexity: Identifying Dichotomic Architectural Alternatives.
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  Lars Rasmusson:
  Power on Tap.
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  László Kovács, Máté Pataki:
  New Hungarian National Cancer Registry.
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  Oliver Heckmann:
  Efficiency and Quality of Service of Internet Service Providers.

Number 69, April 2007

Section Special Theme: The Digital Patient

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  Ioannis G. Tollis, Nicholas Ayache:
  The Digital Patient - Introduction to the special theme.
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  Marco Viceconti:
  The Virtual Physiological Human.
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  Vangelis Sakkalis, Ioannis G. Tollis:
  Modelling the Pathophysiological Human Brain Function.
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  Xavier Pennec:
  From Riemannian Geometry to Computational Anatomy of the Brain.
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  Alejandro F. Frangi, Aurelio Ruiz, Martin Hofmann-Apitius:
  Understanding Cerebral Aneurysms - The @neurIST Project.
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  Christian Barillot:
  The Digital Patient in Clinical Neuroscience: The 'VISAGES' Point of View.
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  Olivier Clatz, Ender Konukoglu, Pierre-Yves Bondiau, Simon K. Warfield, Hervé Delingette, Nicholas Ayache:
  Computational Brain Tumours.
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  Georgios S. Stamatakos:
  Towards Virtual Oncology.
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  Robert G. Belleman, Michael Scarpa, Bram Stolk:
  Cancer Treatment Planning with Grid-Based Technology.
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  Jean Clairambault, François Fages, Sylvain Soliman:
  Patient-Tailored Cancer Therapeutics - The Tempo Project.
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  Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Benjamin Gilles:
  An Individualised Physiological Model of the Musculoskeletal System.
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  Miguel Ángel González Ballester, Philippe Büchler, Nils Reimers:
  Combined Statistical Model of Bone Shape.
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  Gábor Renner, György Szántó:
  Model Based System for Computer Assisted Knee Surgery.
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  Hervé Delingette, Maxime Sermesant, Nicholas Ayache, Dominique Chapelle, Miguel A. Fernández, Jean-Frédéric Gerbeau, Michel Sorine:
  CardioSense3D.
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  Esra Neufeld:
  Development of a New Hyperthermia Treatment Planning Tool.
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  Matej Oresic, Jyrki Lötjönen, Catherine Bounsaythip:
  megNet®: Visualization and Modelling Environment for Translational Medicine.
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  Tom Vercauteren, Aymeric Perchant, Nicholas Ayache:
  In Vivo Microscopy for Real-Time Structural and Functional Cellular Imaging.
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  Sara Colantonio, Davide Moroni, Ovidio Salvetti:
  Extraction and Deployment of New Features for Cardiac Shape and Function Representation.
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  Kostas Marias, Thanasis Margaritis, Ioannis G. Tollis:
  Validating 4D Models of Human Pathophysiology.
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  Filippo Geraci, Mauro Leoncini, Manuela Montangero, Marco Pellegrini, Maria Elena Renda:
  High-Throughput Analysis of Gene Expression Data for Personalized Medicine.
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  Ioannis Tsamardinos:
  Causal Data Mining in Bioinformatics.
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  Jurriaan D. Mulder:
  Desktop Virtual Reality for 3D and 4D Medical and Biological Data Analysis.
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  Frank Klefenz:
  New Digital Speech Processing Strategies for Cochlea Implants.
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  Hugo G. Schnack:
  Oranges-In-A-Box Simulations help to Classify Brain Tissues from MRI.
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  Tomá Bílý, Michal Karásek:
  Digital Biological Cell.
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  Lakshmi Sastry, Srikanth Nagella:
  An Interactive Computational Framework for Integrative Biology.
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  Mike Holcombe:
  Delving Beneath the Skin.
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  Martin Reczko, Panayiota Poirazi, Anastasis Oulas, Eleftheria Tzamali, Maria Manioudaki, Vassilis Tsiaras, Ioannis G. Tollis:
  The Impact of Systems Biology on the Digital Patient.
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  Vincent G. Duffy:
  Digital Human Modeling and Perception-Based Safety Design.

Section R&D and Technology Transfer

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  Petr Hanzlícek, Petra Precková, Jana Zvárová:
  Semantic Interoperability in the Structured Electronic Health Record.
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  Ivan B. Vermeulen, Sander M. Bohte, Han La Poutré:
  Adaptive Patient Scheduling with Dynamic Resource Usage.
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  Loriano Galeotti, Matteo Paoletti, Andrea Vannucci, Stefano Diciotti, Massimo Carradori, Massimo Pistolesi, Carlo Marchesi:
  Technology to Assist the Sick, the Elderly and People with Disabilities.
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  Massimo Busuoli:
  OLDES: A Low-Cost System for Caring for the Elderly.
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  Christian Weigand, Janina Schmidt:
  Mobile Health Assistant.
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  Zoltán Tóth:
  Research Institute Supporting Electronic Governance.
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  Gilbert Kalb:
  The Bridge Project: Cooperation between Europe and China to Develop Grid Applications.

Number 70, July 2007

Section Special Theme: Service-Oriented Computing

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  Jana Koehler, Gustavo Alonso:
  Service-Oriented Computing - Introduction to the Special Theme.
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  Katie Weeks:
  The UK National Grid Service.
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  Tom Kirkham, Fredrik Solsvik, Robert B. Piotter:
  Mobile Service Management in Service-Oriented Grids.
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  Hasan, Peter Racz, Cristian Morariu, David Hausheer, Burkhard Stiller:
  A4C Support for Commercialization of Next-Generation Grid Services.
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  Magnus Boman, Kristofer Franzén, Fredrik Espinoza:
  Collective Completion: How do YOU Complete your Unknown Colleagues?
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  Carmen Bratosin, Wil M. P. van der Aalst:
  Workflow Management Systems for Grid Computing.
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  Christophe Ponsard, Gautier Dallons, Stéphane Mouton, Philippe Massonet:
  Towards a Commercial IT Service Delivery.
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  Radu Jurca, Walter Binder, Boi Faltings:
  Reliable and Inexpensive QoS Monitoring in Service Markets.
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  Luca Console, Mariagrazia Fugini:
  WS-DIAMOND: An Approach to Web Services - Monitoring and Diagnosis.
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  Maurice H. ter Beek, Stefania Gnesi, Fabio Martinelli, Franco Mazzanti, Marinella Petrocchi:
  Formal Modelling and Verification in Service-Oriented Computing.
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  Wolfgang Reisig, Karsten Wolf, Jan Bretschneider, Kathrin Kaschner, Niels Lohmann, Peter Massuthe, Christian Stahl:
  Challenges in a Service-Oriented World.
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  Ottmar Krämer-Fuhrmann:
  RCE and SESIS - Service-Oriented Integration Environment for Collaborative Engineering.
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  Andrea Chiodi, Fabrizio Silva, Andrea Ballarino:
  The ITIA-CNR Customized Shoe Production Service.
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  Paul Klint:
  The ToolBus: A Service-Oriented Architecture for Language-Processing Tools.
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  Manolis Tsiknakis:
  Open Grid Services for Improving Medical Knowledge Discovery.
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  Adrian Grenham:
  Application of SensorWebs for Intelligent Satellite Tasking.
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  Pascal Bauler, Nicolas Biri:
  Open-Source SOA for Small and Medium Organisations.
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  Spiros Alexakis, Alexa Schumacher:
  FUSION: Business Process Fusion Based on Semantically Enabled Service-Oriented Business Applications.
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  Jarmo Kalaoja, Julia Kantorovitch, Toni Piirainen, Ilkka Niskanen:
  VantagePoint: Seeing is Believing.
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  Frédéric Pourraz, Hervé Verjus:
  Diapason: An Engineering Environment for Designing, Implementing and Evolving Service Orchestrations.
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  Matthias Born, Christian Drumm, Ivan Markovic, Ingo Weber:
  SUPER - Raising Business Process Management Back to the Business Level.
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  László Kovács, András Micsik, Tomás Pariente Lobo:
  Life-Cycle Support of Semantic Web Services.
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  Mikko Salonen, Jyrki Haajanen:
  Aligning Virtual Organizations with SOA.
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  Schahram Dustdar, Hong Linh Truong:
  A Pervasive, Service-Oriented Architecture for Supporting Teamwork.
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  Mike P. Papazoglou:
  Engineering Services.
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  Veronica Gacitua, Claus Pahl:
  Business Process-Driven Service Architecture.
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  Valérie Issarny, Mauro Caporuscio, Pierre-Guillaume Raverdy:
  A Service-Oriented Middleware for B3G Networking.
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  Alberto Fernández, Sascha Ossowski:
  Exploiting Organizational Models for Semantic Service Description, ..
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  Victoria Torres, Vicente Pelechano, Pau Giner:
  Building Service-Oriented Web Applications for Business Processes.

Section R&D and Technology Transfer

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  Annette Kik:
  Coordination of Emergency Communication in Safe Hands.
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  Harry Rudin:
  Super Progress in Super Computing.
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  Baudouin Raoult, Clemens-August Thole, Ute Gärtel-Zafiris:
  Grid Technology Makes Weather Forecasts without Boundaries a Reality.
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  Karl-Filip Faxén:
  Meeting the Multicore Challenge: Dynamic Dependence Analysis for Parallelization.
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  Olga Vybornova, Monica Gemo, Benoit M. Macq:
  Multimodal Multi-Level Fusion using Contextual Information.
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  Claudio Gennaro, Raffaele Perego, Fausto Rabitti:
  The SAPIR Project: Executing A/V Complex Queries in Peer-to-Peer Systems.
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  Jacco van Ossenbruggen:
  Getting your Data Back by Giving it Away.
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  Antonio Luis Lova, María Pilar Tormos, Federico Barber:
  OPTIHPER: A Computer-Based Decision Support System for Employee Timetabling Problems.

Number 71, October 2007

Section: Special Theme: Technology-Enhanced Learning

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  Peter Scott, Christine Vanoirbeek:
  Introduction to the Special Theme.
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  Sybille Hambach:
  Developing Products and Services for E-learning.
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  Gavin McArdle, Teresa Monahan, Michela Bertolotto:
  Collaborative and Engaging Online Learning.
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  Matthias R. Brust, Adrian Andronache, Steffen Rothkugel:
  HyLearn: Cooperative M-Learning in Hybrid Networks.
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  Wolf Hilzensauer:
  The MOSEP E-Portfolio Course: A New Didactic Concept for Teachers and Vocational Trainers.
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  Guntram Geser, Sandra Schaffert:
  Open Educational Resources: Features, Trends and Implications.
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  Anne Morris, Ann O'Brien, Panos Balatsoukas:
  User-Centred Learning Object Metadata for Effective and Efficient E-learning Environments.
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  Erich Gams, Georg Güntner:
  InterEDU: Supplying Teachers and Students with Educational Resources.
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  Carola Salis, Eva Lorrai:
  The Web Geographic Information System for Culture as Preliminary Learning Phase.
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  Sandrine Reiter, Brice Bucciarelli, Luc Vandenabeele:
  Supporting Organizational Learning: AnaXagora.
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  Dimitris Kotzinos, Vassilis Christophides, Liisa Ilomäki:
  The KP-Lab Framework for Knowledge Creation Practices.
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  Orazio Miglino:
  The SISINE Project: Developing an E-Learning Platform for Educational Role-Playing Games.
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  Eric Ras, Jörg Rech:
  Bringing Together Knowledge Management and E-Learning in Software Engineering: The Software Organiza.
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  Nikos I. Karacapilidis, Dora Nousia, Manolis Tzagarakis:
  CoPe_it! - Supporting Incremental Formalization in Collaborative Learning Environments.
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  Thibaud Latour, Romain Martin:
  TAO: An Open and Versatile Computer-Based Assessment Platform Based on Semantic Web Technology.
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  Gabriele Lenzini, Bob Hulsebosch:
  Context-Based Adaptive and Responsive Authentication.
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  Denis Gillet, Chiu-Man Yu, Sandy El Helou:
  Turning Web 2.0 Social Software into Collaborative Learning and Knowledge Management Solutions.
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  Giuseppe Ghiani, Fabio Paternò, Carmen Santoro, Lucio Davide Spano:
  Interactive Games in Multi-Device Environments to Enhance the Learning Experience of Museum Visitors.
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  Steve Hinske, Matthias Lampe:
  Interactive Educational Play with Augmented Toy Environments.
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  Barnabás Takács:
  BabyTeach: Using Ambient Facial Interfaces for Interactive Education.
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  Claire Kenny, Claus Pahl:
  Interactive Correction and Recommendation in the Learning of Computer Languages.
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  Torsten Ullrich, Dieter W. Fellner:
  Client-Side Scripting in Blended Learning Environments.
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  Stéphanie Gerbaud, Bruno Arnaldi, Jacques Tisseau:
  GVT: Virtual Training in Maintenance Procedures.
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  Markus Wulff, Torsten Braun:
  OSLab: An Interactive Operating System Laboratory.
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  Emanuele Carpanzano, Andrea Cataldo:
  Technology-Enhanced Learning on Industrial Automation Solutions Development.

Section R&D and Technology Transfer

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  Monica Nicoli, Vittorio Rampa:
  Bayesian Algorithms for Indoor Radio Localization.
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  Bram Vermeer:
  More Efficient CT Scans with Discrete Mathematics.
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  Bram Vermeer, Harry Buhrman:
  Quantum Information Processing.
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  Fabrizio Clarelli, Antonio Fasano, Roberto Natalini:
  Mathematical Models for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage.
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