Η παρούσα μελέτη παρουσιάζει τη διερεύνηση της προθυμίας του καταναλωτή για την οικονομική ενίσχυση της περιβαλλοντικής προστασίας με κάποιας μορφής εισφοράς. Η ιδιαιτερότητα της μελέτης εστιάζεται στο γεγονός ότι ...

Participatory sensing is a crowd-sourcing technique which relies both on active contribution of citizens and on their location and mobility patterns. As such, it is particularly vulnerable to privacy concerns, which may ...

Phubbing or the cell phone-induced ostracism is defined as “snubbing someone by being busy oneself with one’s mobile phone and ignore social surroundings”. Thus, “phubber” is the subject, whereas, ‘phubbee’ is the target ...

Internet-enabled television systems, often referred to as Smart TVs, are a new development in television and home entertainment technologies. In this work, we propose a new, privacy-preserving, approach for Television ...

In this paper, a new platform, called Quantum, for distributed computations among independent agents, is presented. Quantum is capable to operate on infrastructures that are formed by massive numbers of agents communicating ...

In this paper, we propose a new architecture for managing data in a Ubiquitous Health Monitoring System (UHMS). The purpose of this architecture is to enhance the privacy of patients and furthermore to decongest the Health ...

We consider the problem of privacy leaks suffered by Internet users when they perform web searches, and propose a framework to mitigate them. Our approach, which builds upon and improves recent work on search privacy, ...

In this report we give an overview of our participation in the TREC 2013 Contextual Suggestion Track. We present an approach for context processing that comprises a newly designed and fine-tuned POI (Point Of Interest) ...

Everyday the following question is posed: Are businesses more successful when they adapt green strategies in producing and marketing their products?. To address this issue, we should investigate to what determines the ...

Online gambling, unlike other mediums of addiction and problematic behaviour, such as tobacco and alcohol, offers unprecedented opportunities for monitoring and understanding an addict's behaviour in real-time and adapting ...