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Specyfikacja Systemu IP QoS opartego na architekturze DiffServ
PublicationArtykuł przedstawia ogólną specyfikację systemu IP QoS (ang. Internet Protocol Quality of Service), który to system jest obecnie implementowany w ramach projektu krajowego "Zarządzanie ruchemw sieciach IP". System ten jest zgodny z architekturą DiffServ (ang. Differentiated Services) i architekturą NGN (Next Generation Networks). W szczególności, artykuł pokrótce omawia architekturęsystemu, oferowane klasy usług w systemie oraz...
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Badania systemów powstrzymujących pojazd przed wypadnięciem z drogi - cz. I
PublicationTransportation systems are designed and used so as to effectively and safely relocate people, goods and services. Despite this there are numerous hazards that disrupt or damage these systems. Risks such as extreme weather conditions, terrorist threats, landsliders or earthquakes are difficult to predict, manage and mitigate. One of the hazards for transportation systems are accidents, and their impact on the transport functioning...
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On the Disaster Resiliency within the Context of 5G Networks : The RECODIS Experience
PublicationNetwork communications and the Internet pervade our daily activities so deeply that we strongly depend on the availability and quality of the services they provide. For this reason, natural and technological disasters, by affecting network and service availability, have a potentially huge impact on our daily lives. Ensuring adequate levels of resiliency is hence a key issue that future network paradigms, such as 5G, need to address. This...
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Język opisu usług sieciowych WSDL.
PublicationNiniejszy rozdział opisuje WSDL - język opisu usług sieciowych. Rozdział zawiera wprowadzenie w tematykę usług sieciowych (Web Services), również w odniesieniu do innych technologii przetwarzania rozproszonego jak CORBA, RMI. W szczególności przedstawiono podobieństwa i różnice w opisie metod udostępnianych do wywołania klientowi w WSDL oraz IDL. Elementy standardu WSDL omówiono na przykładzie usługi sieciowej do zdalnego uruchomienia...
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Stakeholders Satisfaction Index as an Important Factor of Improving Quality Management Systems of Universities in Poland Stakeholders Satisfaction
PublicationThe following article analyses selected methods of assessing the quality of educational services of universities and discusses the role of stakeholders in, required by law, quality assurance and quality management systems according to Common Assessment Framework for education. Furthermore, it presents the Stakeholders Satisfaction Index (SSI) which is an original proposal of an aggregate measure of satisfaction perceived by stakeholders....
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Siedmiokryterialny miernik oceny niepotokowych procesów produkcyjnych
PublicationGrowing expectations of clients, who demand products adapted to their individual needs is inducing the development of batch processes. The author developed a model of batch processes rating based on the following criterions: • Economical criterion applies to evaluation of the productions’ cost levels connected with the process subjected to analysis and necessary investment funds. • Ecological criterion is about means of natural...
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Blockchain technologies to address smart city and society challenges
PublicationNew Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) are changing the way in which the world works. These technologies provide new tools to face the issues of contemporary society (poverty, migrations, sustainable development challenges, governance, etc.). Among them, blockchain emerge as a disruptive technology able to make things in a completely different and innovative way. They can provide solutions where before there were...
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Functioning and legal regulations of perpetual usufruct right in Poland in relation to similar rights in other countries of the European Union
Publication1 May 2004, Poland became part of the European Union, which main aim is the political, economic and social integration of democratic European countries as well as the construction of a common market ensuring of persons, goods, services and capital move freely. The Accession Treaty provides some transitional periods for the adjustment of the right of Member States to the EU regulations. Next year, 12 years after joining the EU,...
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Looking for the Optimal Location of an Eco-District within a Metropolitan Area: The Case of Tricity Metropolitan Area
PublicationCompact housing structures located in city centers are considered to be the most energy and environmentally eective, mainly due to the access to services, transport networks and municipal infrastructures. There is the question of why so many of the acknowledged ecological housing complexes are located on the outskirts of cities or suburbs. Numerous cities decide to introduce strategies either to densify city centers, hoping to...
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Game theory-based virtual machine migration for energy sustainability in cloud data centers
PublicationAs the demand for cloud computing services increases, optimizing resource allocation and energy consumption has become a key factor in achieving sustainability in cloud environments. This paper presents a novel approach to address these challenges through an optimized virtual machine (VM) migration strategy that employs a game-theoretic approach based on particle swarm optimization (PSO) (PSO-GTA). The proposed approach leverages...
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Lack of control over work and organizational citizenship behavior: overwork climate as a suppressor variable
Open Research DataThis study investigates a suppressor effect in the relationship between lack of control over work and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). Suppressor effects operate when the addition of a predictor (in our study it is an overwork climate) increases the predictive power of another variable (lack of control over work) in predicting an outcome variable...
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Interaction Design in Agile IT Projects
PublicationIn recent years, interactive systems, such as various types of software, online services or mobile applications, have become an integral part of everyday life. Interactive systems and digital services should be easy to use and provide a positive User Experience (UX). For this reason, interaction design has recently emerged as a distinct professional area of information technology (IT). Easy interaction and user experience (UX)...
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Music Information Retrieval – Soft Computing versus Statistics . Wyszukiwanie informacji muzycznej - algorytmy uczące versus metody statystyczne
PublicationMusic Information Retrieval (MIR) is an interdisciplinary research area that covers automated extraction of information from audio signals, music databases and services enabling the indexed information searching. In the early stages the primary focus of MIR was on music information through Query-by-Humming (QBH) applications, i.e. on identifying a piece of music by singing (singing/whistling), while more advanced implementations...
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Creating Dynamic Maps of Noise Threat Using PL-Grid Infrastructure
PublicationThe paper presents functionality and operation results of a system for creating dynamic maps of acoustic noise employing the PL-Grid infrastructure extended with a distributed sensor network. The work presented provides a demonstration of the services being prepared within the PLGrid Plus project for measuring, modeling and rendering data related to noise level distribution in city agglomerations. Specific computational environments,...
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Dilemmas associated with the implementation of quality management systems in Polish smaller health care units
PublicationThe article presents the considerations and recommendations for the implementation of the process-oriented quality management systems (QMS) in small health care units. As an example, the unit providing services for children with disabilities (therapy and rehabilitation) localized in northern part of Poland have been selected. The essential elements of the implementation of the quality system, taking into account the objectives...
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Aspect-Oriented Management of Service Requests for Assurance of High Performance and Dependability
PublicationA new approach to service requests management in case of insufficient hardware resources is proposed. It is based on wide aspects of requests analysis and it assures reliable and fast access to priority services. Requests are analyzed for, among others, time of occurrence, category of user who made the request, type of service, current system load and hardware utilization. Deterministic but dynamic rules help to manage system load...
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Stakeholders Satisfaction Index as an Important Factor of Improving Quality Management Systems of Universities in Poland
PublicationThe following article analyses the role of stakeholders in selected methods of assessing the quality of educational services of universities and discusses quality management systems according to Common Assessment Framework for education. Furthermore, it presents the example of method of stakeholder satisfaction measurement called Stakeholders Satisfaction Index (SSI) which is an original proposal of an aggregate measure of satisfaction...
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Hidden Champions of Poland
PublicationPoland is a country with a strong entrepreneurial spirit. The hidden champions’ performance has been closely related to political and economic changes: the fall of communism in 1989 and the transition from a centrally planned economy to a market economy. This led to the emergence of small private businesses focused on the domestic market. The accession to the European Union in 2004 created new perspectives for the hidden champions’...
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The smartest location for an eco-district– investigation of urban spatial energy efficiency
Publicationncreasing awareness concerning environmental aspects of spatial and architectural planning led to more deliberated projects of eco-districts. Located all over the world and constantly being improved, apart from excellent energetical parameters, most of them have one specific characteristic in common, which is location in the outskirts. The aim of this article was to understand the importance of ecological district location depending...
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KM Challenges in Small KIBS Companies: Multi-case Analysis in Two Countries
PublicationKnowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS) – i.e. companies like e.g. computer services, consulting, engineering, business communication, and R&D support - are key players in the modern economies. They stimulate the innovativeness of businesses and societies. Their competitiveness is based on knowledge, which is their key production factor and also the kind of “goods” they sell. The large majority of KIBS companies have a small...
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Gender Disparity in the FinTech Sector: Systematic Literature Review
PublicationThe main objective of this chapter is to identify research areas of FinTech activity in which gender disparity has been observed. In addition, we shall identify how the development of FinTech reduces the gender gap. A systematic literature review using the PRISMA concept is the preferred research method. Publications were searched in the following databases: Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar using the formula “FinTech AND...
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Elgold: gold standard, multi-genre dataset for named entity recognition and linking
Open Research DataThe dataset contains 276 multi-genre texts with marked named entities, which are linked to corresponding Wikipedia articles if available. Each entity was manually verified by at least three people, which makes the dataset a high-quality gold standard for the evaluation of named entity recognition and linking algorithms.
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Elgold intermediate: verified by verification team
Open Research DataThe dataset contains the texts from Elgold intermediate: annotated raw additionaly verified by the five-person verification team. arly 25% of the mentions were corrected in some aspect.
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Elgold intermediate: annotated raw
Open Research DataThe dataset contains a subset of texts from Elgold intermediate: raw texts with named entities marked and linked to corresponding Wikipedia articles. The texts were annotated by 31 participants during the 1.5-hour session.
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Knowledge Exchange Between KIBS Firms and Their Clients: Case Study Analysis
PublicationPurpose: This paper aims to analyse knowledge exchange between KIBS firms and their clients, and their potential determinants (e.g. client’s education, type of the service offered, channel of the knowledge exchange, and willingness of the customer to accept the knowledge). The paper is based on a literature analysis and a case study research, examining 5 KIBS firms located in the Pomeranian region in Poland. Methodology: On the...
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Autonomous Vehicle Navigation in Dense Urban Area in Global Positioning Context
PublicationAutonoumous vehicle services are likely to be adopted in dense urban area. Some research prove that autonomous transport might be capable of improving the transport needs of few times and as a consequence sustainability, congestion and safety may be improved. The world, hopefully is close to a transport revolution age. These studies are perhaps exaggerated, over-optimistic and far fro fully operational. The paper takes into account...
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Schematiclab.com – A web tool for the design and analysis of electrical circuits
PublicationAlong with a general progress in the modern computational tools, dynamic development of Internet applications using the cloud methodology and solutions is now observed. Clearly, also the applications installed locally, and being commonly used previously, are gradually gaining their counterparts in computational network clouds. The clouds have also brought new service sales opportunities. Namely, the service sales model based on...
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KOALA Graph Theory Internet Service
PublicationKOALA has been created with the idea of C++ library templates, implementing a broad set of procedures in the fields of algorithmic graph theory and network problems in discreate optimization. During the C2NIWA project, a library has been greatly ectended, the code refactored and enclosed with the internet service available in the public repository of thr project. Today it contains interconnected educational materials in the form...
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Analysis of IMS/NGN call processing performance using G/G/1 queuing systems approximations
PublicationThe paper concerns the Next Generation Network (NGN), which is standardized for distribution of multimedia services based on the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). To guarantee quality, accurate traffic models of IMS/NGN should be proposed. In the paper we compare results obtained with our analytical and simulation model of a single IMS/NGN domain, where various queuing systems are used in the analytical model (M/G/1 and approximations...
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Wirtualne sieci 5G, NGN i następne. Radioinformatyczna metamorfoza sieci komórkowych
PublicationPrzedstawiono problematykę ewolucyjnej, a w zasadzie rewolucyjnej, metamorfozy komórkowych systemów radiokomunikacyjnych w kontekście architektury sieci 5G, zasad jej działania oraz nowych możliwości implementacyjnych usług sieci NGN. Artykuł dotyczy w szczególności istoty działania sieci 5G, łączącej w sobie cechy sieci radiokomunikacyjnych poprzednich generacji, zwłaszcza 4G, oraz nowe właściwości charakterystyczne dla 5G. Dotyczą...
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Credibility of Business Operations via Internet: Customer Perspective
PublicationTourism plays an important role in economy of Mediterranean countries. Year after year, more and more people spend or like to spend their vacations (and money) in the Mediterranean region. Hiring private apartments or houses by individual persons for themselves and their families becomes more and more popular way of vacation arrangement and, in the result, constitutes an important factor of the countries' incomes. Versatile and...
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Level of public finances decentralization in European Union countries
PublicationResearch background: Despite of the universality of the implementation in democratic countries the principle of decentralization resulting from the belief that it is an instrument to improve the efficiency of public funds management, both the scope of public services and the level of decentralization in individual countries are not identical. Purpose of the article: Comparison the scope of fiscal decentralization...
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COVID-19 and digital deprivation in Poland
PublicationResearch background: The problem of digital deprivation is already known, but the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted its negative consequences. A global change in the way of life, work and socialisation resulting from the epidemic has indicated that a basic level of digital integration is becoming necessary. During the lockdown, people were forced to use ICTs to adapt to a rapidly changing reality. Current experience with coronavirus...
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Global value chains and productivity gains: a cross-country analysis
PublicationThe main aim of this article is to assess the implications of involvement in global value chains (GVC) on sectoral productivity growth from the international perspective. Our panel data analysis covers 40 countries, 20 industries (13 manufacturing and 7 services sectors) in the period 1995–2011. Estimation results suggest that there is a positive link between TFP growth and the involvement of sectors in global value chains (measured...
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Gross Exports Versus Value-Added Exports: Determinants and Policy Implications for Manufacturing Sectors in Selected CEE Countries
PublicationThis article assesses the impact of selected determinants on both value-added exports and gross exports for seven CEE economies, based on thirteen manufacturing subsectors for the years 1995–2011. The results show a decrease in domestic value-added, especially in high-tech industries. The impact of the determinants, except for vertical specialization, is similar for exports in value-added and in gross terms. The results indicate...
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Massive surveillance data processing with supercomputing cluster
PublicationIn recent years, increasingly complex algorithms for automated analysis of surveillance data are being developed. The rapid growth in the number of monitoring installations and higher expectations of the quality parameters of the captured data result in an enormous computational cost of analyzing the massive volume of data. In this paper a new model of online processing of surveillance data streams is proposed, which assumes the...
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Augmenting digital documents with negotiation capability
PublicationActive digital documents are not only capable of performing various operations using their internal functionality and external services, accessible in the environment in which they operate, but can also migrate on their own over a network of mobile devices that provide dynamically changing execution contexts. They may imply conflicts between preferences of the active document and the device the former wishes to execute on. In the...
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LSTM-based method for LOS/NLOS identification in an indoor environment
PublicationDue to the multipath propagation, harsh indoor environment significantly impacts transmitted signals which may adversely affect the quality of the radiocommunication services, with focus on the real-time ones. This negative effect may be significantly reduced (e.g. resources management and allocation) or compensated (e.g. correction of position estimation in radiolocalisation) by the LOS/NLOS identification algorithm. This paper...
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Prioritising national healthcare service issues from free text feedback – A computational text analysis & predictive modelling approach
PublicationPatient experience surveys have become a key source of evidence for supporting decision-making and continuous quality improvement within healthcare services. To harness free-text feedback collected as part of these surveys for additional insights, text analytics methods are increasingly employed when the data collected is not amenable to traditional qualitative analysis due to volume. However, while text analytics techniques offer...
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Wybrane elementy projektowania budynków wielofunkcyjnych stanowiących miejskie centra logistyczne
PublicationCelem artykułu jest przedstawienie wybranych aspektów dotyczących projektowania budynków wielofunkcyjnych stanowiących miejskie centra logistyczne. Centrum logistyczne lokalizowane w obszarze zurbanizowanym jest formalnie obiektem, który ma na celu zaspokojenie wielu potrzeb funkcjonalnych względem potencjalnych użytkowników. Miejskie centrum logistyczne stanowi swego rodzaju system, którego podstawą jest sprawna obsługa procesów...
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Redefiniowanie przestrzeni medycznej = Redefining healthcare space
PublicationSzpital jest obiektem publicznym, budynkiem-miastem, jego architektura nakierowana jest na realizację procesu leczenia i zdrowienia, a jednocześnie formuje przestrzenne ramy mikrokosmosu interakcji społecznych rozgrywających się pomiędzy pacjentami i personelem, gośćmi i „mieszkańcami”. Współcześnie w podejściu do rozumienia czym jest szpital - a zatem również do kształtowania architektury obiektów medycznych - można zauważyć dwa...
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LLA : A New Anypath Routing Scheme Providing Long Path Lifetime in VANETs
PublicationVehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs) are a promising solution to improve the road traffic safety, reduce the environmental pollution, or simply provide the on-board infotainment services. However, these actions are often not possible due to high mobility of vehicles causing frequent failures of VANET links. In this paper, we focus on anypath routing to improve the reliability of multihop VANET communications. In particular, the paper...
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Multidimensional Scaling Analysis Applied to Music Mood Recognition
PublicationThe paper presents two experiments aimed at categorizing mood associated with music. Two parts of a listening test were designed and carried out with a group of students, most of whom where users of online social music services. The initial experiment was designed to evaluate the extent to which a given label describes the mood of the particular music excerpt. The second subjective test was conducted to collect the similarity data...
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A Novel Multicast Architecture of Programmable Networks
PublicationIn the paper a multicast architecture for programmable networks based on separation of group management and network control tasks is proposed. Thanks to this separation, services which want to make use of multicast communications no longer have to implement low-level network functionalities and their operation is greatly simplified. Abstracting service’s view of the network into a fully connected cloud enables us to transparently...
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Improvement of Fingerprinting Method based on Hill Cipher by using Frequency Domain
PublicationThe main goal of this paper is to present the advantages of a digital fingerprinting in a frequency domain over a pixel domain, in case of VoD services (Video on Demand). The paper presents basic issues of a multimedia data protection by digital fingerprinting. It also describes threats to embedded fingerprints from both collusion attacks and from a transmission itself. Possible solution was presented on the example of the DCT...
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Some Artificial Intelligence Driven Algorithms For Mobile Edge Computing in Smart City
PublicationSmart mobile devices can share computing workload with the computer cloud that is important when artificial intelligence tools support computer systems in a smart city. This concept brings computing on the edge of the cloud, closer to citizens and it can shorten latency. Edge computing removes a crucial drawback of the smart city computing because city services are usually far away from citizens, physically. Besides, we introduced...
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Inference Mechanisms for Knowledge Management System in E-health Environment
PublicationW artykule zaprezentowano badania i ich wyniki osiągnięte w trakcie prac na systemem zarządzania wiedzą dla systemu typu e-health PIPS (ang. Personalised Information Platform for Life and Health Services)Opisano warstwę semantyczną systemu zarządzania wiedzą, a w szczególności skoncentrowano się na silniku wnioskującym.Poddano dyskusji następujące zagadnienia: analizę dostępnych narzędzi wnioskujący i ich zgodności ze standardem...
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Wykorzystanie serwerów UDDI dla systemów zdalnej edukacji.
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono możliwości wykorzystania usług sieciowych opartych na serwerach UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration) do przechowywania obiektów edukacyjnych. Opisane rozwiązanie wykorzystujące język XML, protokół SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) i standard WSDL (Web Services Description Language) pozwala na tworzenie baz wiedzy przeznaczonych zarówno dla uczniów jak również dla nauczycieli....
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Recognition of hazardous acoustic events employing parallel processing on a supercomputing cluster . Rozpoznawanie niebezpiecznych zdarzeń dźwiękowych z wykorzystaniem równoległego przetwarzania na klastrze superkomputerowym
PublicationA method for automatic recognition of hazardous acoustic events operating on a super computing cluster is introduced. The methods employed for detecting and classifying the acoustic events are outlined. The evaluation of the recognition engine is provided: both on the training set and using real-life signals. The algorithms yield sufficient performance in practical conditions to be employed in security surveillance systems. The...
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The effect of interview location on the perception of Ecosystem Services provided by trees. A Polish case study.
Open Research DataSeveral survey research methods are available to study attitudes towards the environment, including: CAWI (computer-assisted Internet interview), CATI (computer-assisted telephone interview), CAPI (computer-assisted personal interview), and PAPI (paper-pencil interview). An increasingly popular CAWI approach is the geo-questionnaire – an internet survey...