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Handbook of Research on ICTs and Management Systems for Improving Efficiency in Healthcare and Social Care
A representation of a Website as a tool for understanding its quality.
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Quality of Health Web Sites: Dimensions for a Broad Evaluation Methodology
Álvaro Rocha (Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Portugal) and Patrícia Leite Brandão (Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e Ave, Portugal)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-3990-4.ch048
Abstract
The use of a methodology for the evaluation, comparison, and quality improvement of Health Web Sites is justified by its widespread adoption and visibility to Internet users. Due to the sensitiveness of their content and impact on users, health related sites should be evaluated. This chapter proposes three different dimensions for the development of quality evaluation methodologies of Health Web Sites: contents, services, and technical. The authors consider that these dimensions should be addressed transversally, providing an integrated and better overall evaluation.
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The Evolution of UML
A conceptual diagram used to represent a system.
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Architecture as a Problem Solving Tool
A standard pattern or example to follow.
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Systems Biology Applied to Cancer Research
A commonly used but very misleading term which heavily depends on the background of the investigator. In the broad sense, a model is used in any attempt to describe and explain a system of interest which can not be directly observed. A set of hypotheses are required to represent a simplification of it (i.e: a model).
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Evaluating UML Using a Generic Quality Framework
An abstraction represented in a modeling language.
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Event Generation for Emergency Scenarios Simulation
A physical, mathematical, or otherwise logical representation of a system, entity, phenomenon, or process.
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Architecture as a Tool to Solve Business Planning Problems
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Synthesis of MOF, MDA, PIM, MVC, and BCE Notations and Patterns
Abstract representation of a product or system, enabling verification of its traits before commencement of its production, constitutes a set of assumptions, notions and relationships between them enabling description (modeling) a determined aspect of reality in a given context; model is not simplification, it is an abstraction; it can be expressed with mathematic formulas or a flow chart (nominal, abstract model) or as a simplified real construction (real model).
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Soft Computing Based Statistical Time Series Analysis, Characterization of Chaos Theory, and Theory of Fractals
Graphical, mathematical (symbolic), physical, or verbal illustration or simplified version of a perception, observable fact, association, organization, scheme, or a feature of the real world to investigate the properties of the system or to predict the future outcome or to analyze the system quantitatively and technically.
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Beyond Surface Linguistics: Assessing the Cognitive Limitations of GPT Through the Long Memory Test
A representation or implementation of a concept, idea, or system, either in software or hardware, designed to exhibit specific properties or behaviors.
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Attitudes to Online Reading and Web-Based Instructions in Developing Societies
A framework designed as a blue print for achieving desired objectives. In the case of this chapter, it refers to blue prints of online information use.
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Understanding and Assessing Quality of Models and Modeling Languages
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Formal and Emergent Standards in KM
Any useful representation of reality.
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Privacy Preservation of Image Data With Machine Learning
A structure summarizing a description or prediction of dataset. The unique demands of an application may be tailored to each design. Big-data applications contain enormous datasets with many predictions and characteristics which are too complicated to extract relevant information from a basic functional form. The learning process synthesizes a model from a given collection of attributes and features. Models may usually be classified as parametric or not parametric. Simple and flexible non-parameter models are less assumptive; however, more datasets are needed to arrive at correct results.
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Software Process Improvement for Web-Based Projects Comparative View
An abstract and simplifying representation of an object or phenomenon of the real world.
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Governance and the Open Source Repository
A meta-model defines the basic structure of the information being collected about an asset.
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Towards the Integration of Trajectory Information Sources for Semantic Conflicts Detection Purpose: A Trajectory Ontology Based Approach
An abstraction of a system designed as a set of facts constructed in a particular intention. It must be used to answer questions about the system under study. In the field of trajectory data, models are used to formalize and analyze trajectories of mobile objects.
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Interoperability of ERP Software
A means of measuring ERP software quality.
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Supply Chain Simulation
A model is a simplified representation of a system at some particular point in time or space intended to promote understanding of the real system.
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A Stakeholder's Analysis of the Effect of Mobile Money in Developing Countries: The Case of Orange Money in Mali
A system of statements targeted at describing, explaining, and predicting real-world phenomena. A scientific model is a system composed of two core constituents that have been tested and validated: (1) factors and (2) hypotheses.
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The Past, Present, and Future of UML
A conceptual diagram used to represent a system.
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The Use of Soft Computing in Management
Simplification and representation of something on a smaller scale.
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How to Evaluate a PBL Program in Higher Education
A description of a sample to assist with understanding of the positives and negatives of a program.
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The Visualization of a Critical Element in K-20 Learning: Trust from the Learner’s Perspective
An example worthy of imitation, for educators it means exemplifying the lesson being taught.
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Demand Forecasting Models With Time Series and Random Forest
A mathematical representation of a real and complex system that formulates the relation between an input and an output.
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Determinants of Compliance With Information Systems Security Controls: A Case of a Business Organization in South Africa
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A Systematic Review of eHealth Studies on the COVID-19 Pandemic
A system of statements targeted at describing, explaining, and predicting real-world phenomena. A scientific model is a system composed of two core constituents that have been tested and validated: (1) factors and (2) hypotheses.
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Project-Design Activity as a Condition for the Formation of Research Competence Among Students
The system research of that serves as means for the receipt of information about other system; presentation of some real process, device or conception.
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Emotions and Social Evolution: A Computational Approach
A representation of something, either as a physical object which is usually smaller than the real object, or as a simple description of the object which might be used in calculations. Here then, the main idea is that a model is a surrogate of a real thing or event, that constitutes a basic practice within scientific activities, and that its conceptual role lies somewhere between those of empirical data and theory.
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Fidelity and Play Model: Balancing Seriousness
A graphical representation with more outstanding dynamics among the components that build the structure of the system it aims to represent, having an abstract nature and not being decisive to guide the implementation or operation of the specific design actively.
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Formal Modeling and Verification of Virtual Community Systems
An abstraction of some characteristic of the business or system, as seen from a particular viewpoint.
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Model-Centric Fulfillment Operations and Maintenance Automation
A model is an intelligent representation of a device or service that indicates the available configuration attributes, default values, required values, decision points based on values entered, and the ability to be translated into network device understandable language to deploy the configuration. Common modelling languages include YANG and TOSCA.
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The Edgard Project: Towards a Discussion of Ethical Tech in Art and Design
A series of abstract and simplified representations of the world translated into rules used in Artificial Intelligence.
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Unified Modeling Language 2.0
A model is a particular product of conceptual modeling. It is a description of a domain using a particular language.
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Using Wiki for Agile Software Development
A simplification, with respect to some goal, of a thing.
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The Cognitive Emotional Behavioral and Physical Effects of Cartoons on Children
Anything that conveys information to an observer. In Bandura’s theory, a model can be a person, film, picture, instructions, description, animal, television, or newspaper.
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AI and Individualized Education in Phys Ed and Sport
An abstract representation of a physical entity or process.
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Valuing Intellectual Capital at the Postgraduate Level in Higher Education Institutions
A representation of a phenomenon or problem which helps to obtain information to answer scientific questions.
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Social Impact Measurement and Management: Between Theory and Practice
A model is a simplification of the reality. It allow to better understand the organization.
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Leadership Thinking Through Managerial Psychology
A simplified representation of a system over some time period or spatial extent intended to promote understanding of the real system (Systems Thinking Handout, 2020).
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Information Seeking Models in the Digital Age
A model may be defined as a structure for thinking about a perceived problem and may evolve into a statement of the relationships among theoretical propositions.
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An Overview of Structural Equation Modeling and Its Application in Social Sciences Research
This is a statistical statement, expressed with equations or a diagram, about the hypothesized relationships among variables based on theory and research. In short, a model is the representation of theory.
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E-Government: Some Factors for a Conceptual Model
A mimic of the real environment. In this chapter, the conceptual e-Governmental model entails a representative of the actual e-Government factors and dimensions that may be present in the study area.
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A Survey on Intelligence Tools for Data Analytics
In the context of machine learning, model refers to a transformation engine that helps to express a mathematical problem.e to express the dependent variables as a function of independent variables.
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Of Paradigms, Theories, and Models: A Conceptual Hierarchical Structure for Communication Science and Technoself
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Modelling Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes: A Hybrid Approach to a Coastal Area
A simplified and approximate representation of a phenomenon, structure, or system of the real world.
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Connections-Based Learning: A Model for Learning Interactions
A system or thing used as an example to follow or imitate.
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Modelling Concepts for BIM
A model is a representation containing some essential structure of some object or event in the real world. The boundaries and type of this representation is influenced by the scope, purpose and the viewpoint of the model (Adopted from Stockburger, 1996).
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Alzheimer's Electroencephalogram Event Scalp and Source Localization
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Application of Playful Robotics to Advance Cognitive Development and Meaningful Learning Among Early Learners
A model represents both physical and mental attributes and deepens understanding when used as an object to support critical thinking and reflection.
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The Use of Simulation as an Experimental Methodology for DMSS Research
A model is a construct that represents another usually complex entity’s or process’s characteristics or behavior.
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A Trajectory Ontology Design Pattern for Semantic Trajectory Data Warehouses: Behavior Analysis and Animal Tracking Case Studies
An abstraction of a system designed as a set of facts constructed in a particular intention. It must be used to answer questions about the system under study. In the field of trajectory data, models are used to formalize and analyze trajectories of mobile objects.
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Formation of an Effective Multi-Functional Model of the Research Competence of Students
The system research of that serves as means for the receipt of information about other system; presentation of some real process, device or conception.
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Decision Support Software
It’s a conceptual representation of reality that helps creating forecast and simulations. It allows decision makers to convert data into useful information that can be used in specific plans for decision making.
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Compliance With Information Systems Security Controls in Higher Education in South Africa
A system of statements targeted at describing, explaining, and predicting real-world phenomena. A scientific model is a system composed of two core constituents that have been tested and validated: (1) factors and (2) hypotheses.
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Model vs. Continuum
A description of a program that can be used for special needs students.
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The Exploitation of Models in Artificial Emotions
In a generic definition it is an information entity corresponding with a system in a formal relationship that condenses several essential features to define the system . Commonly, systems need models to incorporate usable knowledge concerning the structural and functional baselines of readiness operative. Models are abstractions of reality that contain just the essential aspects of this reality concerning the system ( Selic, 2003 ). The function of a model regards both the interpretation and the understanding of the system, as well as the drawing of conclusions in the form of other subsequent and usable models. This work proposes to build models that provide causal connections with the inner context of the system at runtime.
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Healthcare Conversational Chatbot for Medical Diagnosis
The mathematical function of a machine learning algorithm that consists of all the weights and which when fed with a structured input as modeled, produces the output trained by the algorithm.
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Models for Design: From Geometries to Generative Algorithms
possible representation of an idea. This can be 2D, 3D, digital, physical and other, in relation to the type of project. Overall, the models are useful to investigate the project.
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An Enterprise Integration Method for Machine Learning-Driven Business Systems
Data and a matching algorithm that represent a candidate solution to a ML problem.
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Dilemma of Child Actors and the Nigerian Video Film Industry
Emulate, copying to be like another person or an individual whom another person copies or aspire to be like.
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Machine Learning and Data Science Project Management From an Agile Perspective: Methods and Challenges
Representation of a ML problem by using a learner algorithm, test, and training data.
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Curriculum Development Models for Quality Educational System
Is the process of utilizing concepts diagrammatically or otherwise to convey an enhanced meaning and semantics during various instruction-based activities.
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An Integrated Approach to Supply Chain Simulation
A model is a simplified representation of a system at some particular point in time or space intended to promote understanding of the real system.
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Web-Based Course Design Models
Models are designs that are not real themselves, but facilitate a better understanding of phenomena in the physical world. Models facilitate the conceptualization of a process or system by simplifying the complexity of real situations and classifying them in groups of general steps that can be applied to many different contexts.
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The Adoption and Transformation of Capability Maturity Models in Government
An abstraction or representation which captures the essence of an organization, process, or operation to improve performance.
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How People Learn with Computer Simulations
A model is a representation of a physical or conceptual system. Certain aspects of the system may be represented in the model, and other aspects may be missing, often in the interest of simplifying the model.
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Model-Driven Engineering of Distributed Applications
A representation, for a specific purpose, of certain aspects of a real system.
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University Training on Communities of Practice
A physical or ideal system created to represent a physical or ideal system at certain level.
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Better Executive Information with the Dashboard Approach
A simplified representation of reality that concentrates on predicting how a factor or a series of related factors would evolve based on the variation of a set of parameters. Also, a simplified representation of reality.
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An Integrated Approach to Supply Chain Simulation
A model is a simplified representation of a system at some particular point in time or space intended to promote understanding of the real system.
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Data Guided Public Healthcare Decision Making
Model is an abstraction of the reality.
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Firm Performance and Business Models Based on Exports: Can This Shy Flirtation Become a True Love Story?
Simplification of reality, commonly using mathematics, which aims to obtain relevant conclusions about the relationships of the variables that compose it.
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Social Simulation and its Process in Learning
It is a representation of a system or a structure. Model is a bridge between theory and reality. It uses certain theory to frame the reality. It not only includes common elements or themes, but also the process and procedures of how to do things based on certain theory.
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Racing Ahead With Innovation: The Case for Hybrid Models and Ethical Decisions
A representation of something in the world, used to reason about the world and to develop understanding. Models include artefacts, process descriptions, ideas, computer software (amongst others) that reflect aspects of past, current, or imagined future reality.
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Computer Assisted Problem Solving Environment (PSE)
Expression of a real world in its handleable form. Model includes physical model, mathematical model and numerical model.
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A Survey on the Applications of Swarm Intelligence to Software Verification
In the context of software development, a model refers to an abstract representation of the certain aspects of software systems.
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Adaptive Principal Component Analysis-Based Outliers Detection Through Neighborhood Voting in Wireless Sensor Networks
The input to a machine learning algorithm built upon some training data and used to make a future prediction about some relevant unseen data.
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