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The global outburst of COVID-19 introduced severe issues concerning the capacity and adoption of healthcare systems and how vulnerable citizen classes might be affected. The pandemic generated the most remarkable transformation of health services, appropriating the increase in new information and communication technologies to bring sustainability to health services. This paper proposes a novel, methodological, and collaborative approach based on patient-centered technology, which consists of a recommender system architecture to assist the health service level according to medical specialties. The system provides recommendations according to the user profile of the citizens and a ranked list of medical facilities. Thus, we propose a health attention factor to semantically compute the similarity between medical specialties and offer medical centers with response capacity, health service type, and close user geographic location. Thus, considering the challenges described in the state-of-the-art, this approach tackles issues related to recommenders in mobile devices and the diversity of items in the healthcare domain, incorporating semantic and geospatial processing. The recommender system was tested in diverse districts of Mexico City, and the spatial visualization of the medical facilities filtering by the recommendations is displayed in a Web-GIS application. © 2022 by the authors.
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The advancement of modern Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) along with e-governments initiatives and the new digital world, during Covid-19, forced users to look for Free Open Source Software (FOSS) solutions, to serve different normal or specific needs, which is the real drawback of some Commercial software. The digital world is here and it needs modern management using advanced FOSS technology. We will present an overview of the Architecture of the Free Open Source Web GIS platform to demonstrate its easiness, practicality, and ability to perform effectively and better than commercial GIS tools. The developed platform proposed will be explained based on the succession of published applications of a project which is a “Sewage Infrastructure Network”. A Web Map application for the project has been developed;starting from loading the software and data collection to publishing the results on the web. The Add-ons and other complementary software tools were used for full GIS creation and functions with database management, Applications, and an easy online updating of the published data. Applications, publishing, and easy online updating at low cost are major issues to future success and the OS is the solution © 2022 Jordan Journal of Earth and Environmental Sciences. All rights reserved
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Educational institutions seek to find optimal ways to provide educational services with the need for alternative solutions due to the requirements of the Covid-19 pandemic. The current study proposed a system that aims to identify the most critical new technologies built on Web-GIS for data analysis and associated information retrieval. It presents an algorithm to analyze the spatial information frequented by the user on the campus and determine the services that target the user based on predetermined spatial information. Provide a system based on integrating location-based services (LBS) using Web-GIS through the Android platform to help campus attendees take full advantage of services information granted to them in their whereabouts. The system employs the rule extraction algorithm to give a recommendations list (using extracted rules with confidence=100% and support= 0.7 to achieve high accuracy for the most points of interest (POI) based on the user's preferences. The proposed system evaluates the given recommendation and the application usage to produce satisfactory results. The average overall F-measure and accuracies are 94.8 % and 94.2, respectively. © 2022 Little Lion Scientific
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BACKGROUND: Various applications have been developed worldwide to contain and to combat the coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic. In this context, spatial information is always of great significance. The aim of this study is to describe the development of a Web GIS based on open source products for the collection and analysis of COVID-19 cases and its feasibility in terms of technical implementation and data protection. METHODS: With the help of this Web GIS, data on this issue were collected voluntarily from the Cologne area. Using house perimeters as a data basis, it was possible to check, in conjunction with the Official Topographic Cartographic Information System object type catalog, whether buildings with certain functions, for example residential building with trade and services, have been visited more frequently by infected persons than other types of buildings. In this context, data protection and ethical and legal issues were considered. RESULTS: The results of this study show that the development of a Web GIS for the generation and evaluation of volunteered geographic information (VGI) with the help of open source software is possible. Furthermore, there are numerous data protection and ethical and legal aspects to consider, which not only affect VGI per se but also affect IT security. CONCLUSIONS: From a data protection perspective, more attention needs to be paid to the intervention and post-processing of data. In addition, official data must always be used as a reference for the actual spatial consideration of the number of infections. However, VGI provides added value at a small-scale level, so that valid information can also be reliably derived in the context of health issues. The creation of guidelines for the consideration of data protection, ethical aspects, and legal requirements in the context of VGI-based applications must also be considered. Trial registration The article does not report the results of a health care intervention for human participants.