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Adaptivity and personalisation technology
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Adaptivity and personalization is a research topic spanning several application areas. These technologies are commonly used to overcome the overflow of information and service providers adopt them in... |
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Collaborative environment
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Collaborative environments have a high potential for supporting e-participation as they offer a variety of tools for synchronous and asynchronous communication and collaboration among different stake... |
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Computer supported argument visualisation
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Computer Supported Argument Visualisation (CSAV), can be designed to constructively encourage debate and deliberation by citizens on public issues and to support the analysis and management of contri... |
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Content mangement
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Content Management is a computer or web-based technology that supports the creation, update and maintenance of digital information. The term describes a set of processes and technologies that provide... |
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Data mining
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Data Mining (DM) can be defined as a "nontrivial extraction of implicit, previously unknown, and potentially useful information from data". DM is usually associated with an institution's ne... |
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Database
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A database is a structured collection of records or data. A computer database relies upon software to organize the storage of data. |
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Devices, channels and mobile technologies
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An inclusive European information society and the accessibility of services through a range of communication channels are crucial to enable eParticipation for all. To allow access for various user ty... |
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Knowledge management and knowledge engineering
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The public sector is dealing with a significant amount of information and knowledge resources. This knowledge has to be appropriately managed and smoothly integrated. Especially in policy formulation... |
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Natural language processing (NLP)
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NLP is a highly interdisciplinary field, close to Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Sciences, Philosophy of Language, Linguistics, Computer Science, Statistics, and Engineering. It is not a new area... |
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Ontology
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The concept of ontology is not a new concept as such. It has been used by philosophers (e.g. Aristotle) since ancient times to analyse and categorise what exists. With the increasing use of sophistic... |
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Semantic web
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Semantic technologies, e.g. ontologies and intelligent web services, are an integral part of actual research and already used in many application areas. Ontologies play a key role in the semantic web... |
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Semantic web service
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Semantic Web Services is a technology that extends the very popular computing paradigms of Web Services and Service Oriented Computing by facilitating semantic annotation of web services though the u... |
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Social networking
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Social network theory focuses on the chains of relationships that social actors use for communication and action – which also underpin democratic participation. Social networking services on th... |
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Web 2.0
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Web 2.0 is a concept that appeared in October 2004. One of the key enablers for Web 2.0 is the emergence of a new generation of technologies and standards. This has been underpinned by the idea of th... |
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Web application
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In software engineering, a Web application is an application that is accessed via Web browser over a network such as the Internet or an intranet. |