Publications associées à Social Software Modeling and Mashup based on Actors, Activities and Assets

OSSCAR, an open platform for collaborative development of computational tools for education in science

In this paper we present the Open Software Services for Classrooms and Research (OSSCAR) platform. OSSCAR provides an open collaborative environment to develop and access educational resources in the form of web applications, for which various deployment m ...

ELSEVIER2023

BigNeuron: a resource to benchmark and predict performance of algorithms for automated tracing of neurons in light microscopy datasets

Pascal Fua, Sean Lewis Hill, Amos Sironi, Jiancheng Yang, Jian Zhou, Siqi Liu, Xiang Li, Jie Zhou

BigNeuron is an open community bench-testing platform with the goal of setting open standards for accurate and fast automatic neuron tracing. We gathered a diverse set of image volumes across several species that is representative of the data obtained in m ...

2023

Prompting Large Language Models to Power Educational Chatbots

Denis Gillet, Sandy Ingram, Juan Carlos Farah, Fanny Kim-Lan Lasne

The recent rise in both popularity and performance of large language models has garnered considerable interest regarding their applicability to education. Technologies like ChatGPT, which can engage in human-like dialog, have already disrupted educational ...

Springer2023

Supporting Developers in Creating Web Apps for Education via an App Development Framework

Denis Gillet, Sandy Ingram, Juan Carlos Farah

As more educational activities are conducted online, the need for interactive applications (apps) that can effectively support educators in their practice is increasing. These apps are often created by web developers or by researchers, educators, and even ...

Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València2022

ECCE: Entity-centric Corpus Exploration Using Contextual Implicit Networks

Maud Ehrmann, Matteo Romanello, Andreas Oliver Spitz

In the Digital Age, the analysis and exploration of unstructured document collections is of central importance to members of investigative professions, whether they might be scholars, journalists, paralegals, or analysts. In many of their domains, entities ...

ACM Digital Press2022

A large scale study of reader interactions with images on Wikipedia

Tiziano Piccardi, Daniele Rama

Wikipedia is the largest source of free encyclopedic knowledge and one of the most visited sites on the Web. To increase reader understanding of the article, Wikipedia editors add images within the text of the article's body. However, despite their widespr ...

SPRINGER2022

MoleculARweb: A Web Site for Chemistry and Structural Biology Education through Interactive Augmented Reality out of the Box in Commodity Devices

Matteo Dal Peraro, Luciano Andres Abriata, Lucien Fabrice Krapp, Fabio Jose Cortes Rodriguez

Augmented/virtual realities (ARs/VRs) promise to revolutionize STEM education. However, most easy-to-use tools are limited to static visualizations, which limits the approachable content, whereas more interactive and dynamic alternatives require costly har ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Bringing Computational Thinking to non-STEM Undergraduates through an Integrated Notebook Application

Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Juan Carlos Farah

Computational thinking courses are no longer exclusive to engineering and computer science students in higher education but have become a requirement in other fields, as well as for students in secondary, primary, and even early childhood education. Comput ...

2020

Yacora on the Web: Online collisional radiative models for plasmas containing H, H-2 or He

Maurizio Giacomin

Yacora on the Web (www.yacora.de ) is a web application providing access to collisional radiative models based on the flexible solver Yacora. The main application range is plasma diagnostics in low-pressure plasmas. Available online are three collisional r ...

2020

Dynamic pattern recognition in large-scale graphs with applications to social networks

Volodymyr Miz

A graph is a versatile data structure facilitating representation of interactions among objects in various complex systems. Very often these objects have attributes whose measurements change over time, reflecting the dynamics of the system. This general da ...

EPFL2020

Topics in Educational Cyber-Physical Labs : Configurations, Data Collection and Analysis

Wissam Halimi

Recent advances in remote sensing and actuation technologies, coupled with the large reach of the internet, allowed for the emergence of applications such as cyber-physical labs. Cyber-physical labs are the digital and remotely-accessible equivalent of the ...

EPFL2018

Wikipedia Chemical Structure Explorer: substructure and similarity searching of molecules from Wikipedia

Luc Patiny, Michaël Giuseppe Zasso

Background: Wikipedia, the world's largest and most popular encyclopedia is an indispensable source of chemistry information. It contains among others also entries for over 15,000 chemicals including metabolites, drugs, agrochemicals and industrial chemica ...

Biomed Central Ltd2015

Scalable and Reactive Programming for Semantic Web Developers

Jean Paul Calbimonte Perez

The Semantic Web brings a powerful set of concepts, standards and ideas that are already changing the shape of the Web. However, in order to put these notions into practice we need to translate them into code. That is why the broad notion of programming th ...

CEUR-WS2015

Result Selection and Summarization for Web Table Search

Karl Aberer, Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen, Thành Tâm Nguyên

The amount of information available on the Web has been growing dramatically, raising the importance of techniques for searching the Web. Recently, Web Tables emerged as a model, which enables users to search for information in a structured way. However, e ...

2015

Reactive Processing of RDF Streams of Events

Karl Aberer, Jean Paul Calbimonte Perez

Events on the Web are increasingly being produced in the form of data streams, and are present in many different scenarios and applications such as health monitoring, environmental sensing or social networks. The heterogeneity of event streams has raised t ...

2015

Minimizing Efforts in Validating Crowd Answers

Karl Aberer, Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen, Chi Thang Duong

In recent years, crowdsourcing has become essential in a wide range of Web applications. One of the biggest challenges of crowdsourcing is the quality of crowd answers as workers have wide-ranging levels of expertise and the worker community may contain fa ...

2015

Studying Web Content Credibility by Social Simulation

Karl Aberer

The Internet has become an important source of information that significantly affects social, economical and political life. The content available in the Web is the basis for the operation of the digital economy. Moreover, Web content has become essential ...

University of Surrey, Department of Sociology2014

B-hist: Entity-centric search over personal web browsing history

Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Karl Aberer, Michele Catasta, Jean-Eudes Marie Ranvier

Web Search is increasingly entity centric; as a large fraction of common queries target specific entities, search results get progressively augmented with semi-structured and multimedia information about those entities. However, search over personal web br ...

Elsevier2014

ChemCalc: a building block for tomorrow’s chemical infrastructure

Alain Borel, Luc Patiny

Web services, as an aspect of cloud computing, are becoming an important part of the general IT infrastructure, and scientific computing is no exception to this trend. We propose a simple approach to develop chemical web services, through which servers cou ...

2013