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Session 4: Digital transformation in daily life
S4.1 A technique for extracting the intention of messengers in social media
Mohamed Fazil Mohamed Firdhous and Balakrishnan Nalin Prashanth, University of Moratuwa,
Sri Lanka

Today social media has become an integral part of human life. Though there are many advantages
social media has some shortcomings, especially when it comes to young users. Parents generally
do not want their young children to have social media accounts. Even if some parents allow their
young children to have their own accounts, they want them to use it under their active supervision.
This is mainly due to the reason that parents fear that children may be exposed to inappropriate
content, or may become victims of abuse by cyber-criminals. In this paper, the authors propose a
technique that can extract the intention of users of online chatting by converting the non-text
information along with misspelled and abbreviated text into meaningful text and analyzing it to
understand the true motive of the messenger. The tests conducted on the technique show that it
performs better than a cosine similarity test within the domain of online chatting. The other main
advantage of this technique is that it can be integrated with any social media platform with relative
ease making it secure even for young children.

S4.2 Towards a digital process platform for future construction sites
Hans Aoyang Zhou, Aymen Gannouni, Thomas Otte, Jonas Odenthal, Anas Abdelrazeq and Frank
Hees, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

When it comes to digitalization, construction sites are still at the beginning of an ongoing
transformation process. Two major causes are the complexity of construction site environments
and the lack of interoperability between the different actors, such as machines and site suppliers
that are involved in the construction project. This has direct implications on the efficiency, quality,
and production time of construction projects. Thus, there is a strong need to fill this digitalization
gap by considering the latest advancements in the Internet of Things (IoT), as well as edge and
cloud computing. In this paper, we suggest a data-driven approach for construction sites, in which
we extract data from machines, send it to a central data storage with scalable computational
resources and analyze it to improve the existing construction processes. For that, we studied
requirements of selected construction site processes and designed a communication architecture
that scales with the complex characteristics of real-world applications. Additionally, we propose
a digital process platform that supports a wide range of users with their different roles on
construction sites and builds the foundation for further research, implementation, and evaluation
of according construction site innovations. With the proposed platform framework, we extend the
construction site towards an integrated Cyber-Physical System (CPS) and contribute to the
standardization of communication infrastructures within the construction sector by merging
different solutions from the area of information and communication technologies.

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