TY - JOUR A1 - Prieto-González, Lisardo A1 - Stantchev, Vladimir A1 - Colomo-Palacios, Ricardo T1 - Applications of ontologies in knowledge representation of human perception JF - International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies N2 - Information overload is becoming bigger as internet grows. This entails several problems such as difficulty in finding information and redundancy of knowledge. In this paper, a solution of these problems is presented as a global representation of knowledge based on human perception, and modelled by means of ontologies. In this study we present the approach with several advantages as well as some drawbacks related to state of the art technologies. KW - human perception KW - knowledge representation KW - ontologies KW - modelling Y1 - 2014 N1 - Online: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262247874_Applications_of_ontologies_in_knowledge_representation_of_human_perception SP - 74 EP - 80 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Álvarez-Rodríguez, Jose María A1 - Colomo-Palacios, Ricardo A1 - Stantchev, Vladimir T1 - Skillrank: towards a Hybrid Method to Assess Quality and Confidence of Professional Skills in Social Networks JF - Scientific Programming N2 - The present paper introduces a hybrid technique to measure the expertise of users by analyzing their profiles and activities in social networks. Currently, both job seekers and talent hunters are looking for new and innovative techniques to filter jobs and candidates where candidates are trying to improve and make their profiles more attractive. In this sense, the Skillrank approach is based on the conjunction of existing and well-known information and expertise retrieval techniques that perfectly fit the existing web and social media environment to deliver an intelligent component to integrate the user context in the analysis of skills confidence. A major outcome of this approach is that it actually takes advantage of existing data and information available on the web to perform both a ranked list of experts in a field and a confidence value for every professional skill. Thus, expertise and experts can be detected, verified, and ranked using a suited trust metric. An experiment to validate the Skillrank technique based on precision and recall metrics is also presented using two different datasets: (1) ad hoc created using real data from a professional social network and (2) real data extracted from the LinkedIn API. Y1 - 2015 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0298-opus4-7264 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Prieto-González, Lisardo A1 - Stantchev, Vladimir A1 - Colomo-Palacios, Ricardo T1 - Applications of ontologies in knowledge representation of human perception JF - International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologie N2 - Information overload is becoming bigger as internet grows. This entails several problems such as difficulty in finding information and redundancy of knowledge. In this paper, a solution of these problems is presented as a global representation of knowledge based on human perception, and modelled by means of ontologies. In this study we present the approach with several advantages as well as some drawbacks related to state of the art technologies. Y1 - 2014 N1 - Online: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262247874_Applications_of_ontologies_in_knowledge_representation_of_human_perception VL - 9 IS - 1 SP - 74 EP - 80 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Dzombeta, Srdan A1 - Stantchev, Vladimir A1 - Colomo-Palacios, Ricardo A1 - Brandis, Knud A1 - Haufe, Knut T1 - Governance of Cloud Computing Services for the Life Sciences JF - IT Professional N2 - This analysis of the legal regulations for cloud computing in healthcare is based on the authors’ expertise in cloud-based data processing for healthcare and life sciences organizations. The proposed implementation roadmap should help organizations govern health data processing and storage. Y1 - 2014 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0298-opus4-5908 VL - 16 IS - 4 SP - 2 EP - 9 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Stantchev, Vladimir A1 - Colomo-Palacios, Ricardo A1 - Soto Acosta, Pedro A1 - Misra, Sanjay T1 - Learning management systems and cloud file hosting services: a study on students’ acceptance JF - Computers in Human Behavior N2 - The aim of this paper is to investigate the motivations that lead higher education students to replace several Learning Management Systems (LMS) services with cloud file hosting services for information sharing and collaboration among them. The research approach is based on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). More specifically, the model is devoted to identifying barriers and enablers to the acceptance of these technologies. A questionnaire comprising three factors (Attitude toward using technology, Perceived ease of use and Perceived usefulness) was applied to a sample consisting of 121 higher education students. Results show that the perceived ease of use of cloud file hosting services is above that of LMS tools and services and that cloud file hosting services presented higher levels of perceived usefulness than standard learning management tools. In addition, attitude toward using cloud file hosting services is well above that of using LMS tools. KW - Learning Management Systems KW - Technology Acceptance Model KW - Attitude toward using Technology KW - Perceived Ease of Use KW - Perceived Usefulness Y1 - 2014 N1 - Online: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261959989_Learning_management_systems_and_cloud_file_hosting_services_A_study_on_students'_acceptance VL - 31 SP - 612 EP - 619 ER -