Gregoris Mentzas

Babis Magoutas, Gregoris Mentzas

Adaptivity and personalization technologies appear not to be very much used in eparticipation projects to date. These technologies are commonly used to overcome the overflow of information and service providers adopt them in order to acquire a better knowledge of their end-users and optimize their service offerings. In this paper we investigate the potential of adaptivity and personalization principles and technologies when applied to the eParticipation field and more specifically, to eParticipation websites. Potential application scenarios of these technologies in the context of policy engagement and active participation of citizens in democratic decision-making are defined and their impact in eParticipation is examined.

Babis Magoutas, Dimitris Apostolou, Gregoris Mentzas

Modern organizations need real-time awareness about the current business conditions and the various events that occur from multiple and heterogeneous environments and influence their business operations. Moreover, based on real-time awareness they need a mechanism that allows them to respond quickly to the changing business conditions, in order to either avoid problematic situations or exploit opportunities that may arise in their business environment. In this paper we present BEAM, an event-driven framework that enables awareness about the situations happening in business environments and increases organizations responsiveness to them. We illustrate how BEAM increases the awareness of managers about the running business processes, as well as their flexibility by presenting a practical application of the framework in the transportation and logistics domain.

Efthimios Bothos, Babis Magoutas, Brian Caulfield et al.

This workshop invites researchers and practitioners to participate in exploring behavioral change support intelligent transportation applications. We welcome submissions that explore intelligent transportation systems (ITS), which interact with travelers in order to persuade them or nudge them towards sustainable transportation behaviors and decisions. Emerging opportunities including the use of data and information generated by ITS and users' mobile devices in order to render personalized, contextualized and timely transport behavioral change interventions are in our focus. We invite submissions and ideas from domains of ITS including, but not limited to, multi-modal journey planners, advanced traveler information systems and in-vehicle systems. The expected outcome will be a deeper understanding of the challenges and future research directions with respect to behavioral change support through ITS.

Evangelia Anagnostopoulou, Efthimios Bothos, Babis Magoutas et al.

In recent years, the persuasive interventions for inducing sustainable urban mobility behaviours has become a very active research field. This review paper systematically analyses existing approaches and prototype systems and describes and classifies the persuasive strategies used for changing behaviour in the domain of transport. It also studies the results and recommendations derived from pilot studies, and as a result of this analysis highlights the need for personalizing and tailoring persuasive technology to various user characteristics. We also discuss the possible role of context-aware persuasive systems for increasing the number of sustainable choices. Finally, recommendations for future investigations on scholarly persuasive systems are proposed.