Contemporary healthcare delivery is based on state-of-the-art scientific best practices captured in systematically developed formal care plans which include guidelines, clinical protocols, integrated care pathways, etc. ...

In this report we give an overview of our participation in the TREC 2015 Clinical Decision Support Track. We present two approaches for pre-processing and indexing of the open-access PubMed articles, and four methods for ...

We present Pythia, a privacy-enhanced non-invasive contextual suggestion system for tourists, with important architectural innovations. The system offers high quality personalized recommendations, non-invasive operation ...

Personalizing healthcare applications requires capturing patient specific information, including medical history, health status, and mental aspects such as behaviors, intentions, and attitudes. This paper presents a ...

We present a personal data management framework called Polis, which abides by the following principle: Every individual has absolute control over her personal data, which reside only at her own side. Preliminary results ...

Internet-enabled television systems (SmartTVs) are a development that introduces these devices into the interconnected environment of the Internet of Things. We propose a privacy-preserving application for computing ...

Patient empowerment delivers health and social care services that enable people to gain more control of their healthcare needs. With the advancement of sensor technologies, it is increasingly possible to monitor people’s ...

We focus on personal data generated by the sensors and through the everyday usage of smart devices and take advantage of these data to build a non-invasive contextual suggestion system for tourism. The system, which we ...

We consider the problem of privacy leaks suffered by Internet users when they perform web searches, and propose a framework to mitigate them. In brief, given a ‘sensitive’ search query, the objective of our work is to ...

In this paper, we propose a user-centric software architecture for managing Ubiquitous Health Monitoring Data (UHMD) generated from wearable sensors in a Ubiquitous Health Monitoring System (UHMS), and examine how these ...

In this work, we define the Nearest Doctor Problem for finding the nearest doctor in case of an emergency and present a privacy-preserving protocol for solving it. The solution is based on cryptographic primitives and makes ...

This paper presents a privacy-preserving system for participatory sensing, which relies on cryptographic techniques and distributed computations in the cloud. Each individual user is represented by a personal software ...

We propose a method for search privacy on the Internet, focusing on enhancing plausible deniability against search engine query-logs. The method approximates the target search results, without submitting the intended query ...

Κατά τη Μέση Βυζαντινή Περίοδο (8 0 ς - 1 σος αι.), το ζήτημα της εμφάνισης αλλόδοξων εθνοτήτων στη βυζαντινή περιφέρεια δεν ήταν νέο. Η διαφορετική ωστόσο αντιμετώπιση, κατανόηση και αποδοχή όλων αυτών των λαών ...

βυζαντινός ναός της Αγίας Παρασκευής στη Γεροσκήπου αποτελεί αντικείμενο μελέτης και αναφοράς Ελλήνων και ξένων βυζαντινολόγων και ερευνητών. Το μνημείο βρίσκεται στο δρόμο προς την Πάφο, εντούτοις είναι αξιοσημείωτο ...

Introduction: An immovable property is, for most people, their biggest and most important asset. However, in Cyprus, efficient property management, particularly in cases of jointly owned buildings is rarely achieved. As a ...

Marketing is an ever-growing industry that is more complex nowadays than it was a century ago. To evaluate its effectiveness, we always have to be aware of what goal we are pursuing. Marketing is no longer just a straight ...

Ο κατασκευαστικός τομέας έχει συσχετιστεί με καταστροφικές επιπτώσεις στη Γη, όμως αυτή η μελέτη επικεντρώνεται στη σημασία της εφαρμογής των αρχών της βιωσιμότητας κατά τη διάρκεια της τρέχουσας ραγδαίας κατασκευαστικής ...

The development of Technology and the advancement of Internet of things (Iot) over the last decade, has influenced almost everything that we do in our lives. Along with technology advancement, the Real Estate Sector has ...

In this work, we show that the structural features of the Twitter online social network can divulge valuable information about the political affinity of the participating nodes. More precisely, we show that Twitter followers ...