Pub Date : 2011-11-30DOI: 10.1504/IJKL.2011.043897
D. Lukač
This paper presents a model in CAE/CAD quality standardisation and certification for the industrial and educational sector. The new model is founded on the example of the successful cooperation between industry and the university. It is a deductive realisation of the certification and assessment procedure, based on online testing of an open source learning management system (LMS). The success factors of the standardisation and certification model are examined further by investigating the conceptual development, the technical-didactical form of the concept and the interface management. It concludes that, on the whole, joint industry–university collaboration models have expedient side effects, such as mutual financial benefits or the development of high-quality training opportunities for both the students and the industrial customers.
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Pub Date : 2011-11-30DOI: 10.1504/IJKL.2011.043893
S. Mohorovicic, E. Tijan
The paper researches the use of ICT in programming courses in higher education (such as learning management systems, web conferencing systems, etc.). Teaching and learning programming has been elaborated and preliminary research has been conducted at the University of Rijeka in which 94 students who attended at least one programming course expressed their experience and opinions regarding e-learning and e-learning systems. A blended learning model is proposed with the aim of improving the quality of teaching and learning programming. Several tools have been researched, which could be useful in preparation and conducting the programming courses.
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Pub Date : 2011-11-30DOI: 10.1504/IJKL.2011.043888
H. Jaakkola, J. Henno, Petri Linna
One of the trends in software engineering is globalisation. Software development is expert work made in closely collaborating teams. The most natural way to do this kind of work is to implement it in local teams. Distribution of expert work increases the grade of difficulty; an additional grade of difficulty appears if the organisational parts represent different cultural backgrounds. The organisations that are distributed and multicultural must be adaptive. Adaptation can be done in two ways: either to adapt the people to the organisation or to adapt the processes of the organisation to take into account the differences. There is also a lot of knowledge available concerning the differences between cultures. The aim of this paper is to analyse multicultural information and communication technology (ICT) companies. The viewpoints discussed cover the global organisation as an adaptive and learning network and the maturity of the global organisation.
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Pub Date : 2011-11-29DOI: 10.1504/IJKL.2011.043891
M. Cupic, Tin Franovic
In this paper, we discuss the development and usage of various kinds of educational activity schedulers used at faculty level. Problems solved by such schedulers are of paramount importance for organisation of educational activities during the semester. Implementations of adequate evolutionary computation-based algorithms are being developed as part of the Ferko project. Various parts of the Ferko project have already been used for several years by thousands of students and faculty staff members at our institution.
{"title":"Scheduling problems at a university: a real-world example","authors":"M. Cupic, Tin Franovic","doi":"10.1504/IJKL.2011.043891","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJKL.2011.043891","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we discuss the development and usage of various kinds of educational activity schedulers used at faculty level. Problems solved by such schedulers are of paramount importance for organisation of educational activities during the semester. Implementations of adequate evolutionary computation-based algorithms are being developed as part of the Ferko project. Various parts of the Ferko project have already been used for several years by thousands of students and faculty staff members at our institution.","PeriodicalId":163161,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Knowl. Learn.","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116087996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2011-11-29DOI: 10.1504/IJKL.2011.043889
Ray Johnson, M. Butavicius, K. Parsons, Agata McCormac, J. Sunde, Benjamin Hall
A range of advanced screening technologies has been developed to detect substances or objects that can pose a threat if carried on commercial aircraft. However, outside of technical testing in a laboratory setting, very little testing has been conducted to estimate their performance in an airport setting. This paper presents protocols developed by DSTO to assess the performance of security devices to detect contraband concealed on a person. These protocols are classified as scenario evaluations because they test the devices in a controlled environment that mimics crucial aspects of the airport environment (e.g., baggage and mock passengers) using trained operators. Such evaluations provide a range of data including reliability rates and timing estimates as well as detection and error rates which are very difficult to determine in either technical or full operational evaluations. The ability to detect and recognise dangerous objects at a safe distance is a very important task in a number of other defence, police and security applications and these protocols may be useful in other environments.
{"title":"Scenario testing methodology for the assessment of screening technologies","authors":"Ray Johnson, M. Butavicius, K. Parsons, Agata McCormac, J. Sunde, Benjamin Hall","doi":"10.1504/IJKL.2011.043889","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJKL.2011.043889","url":null,"abstract":"A range of advanced screening technologies has been developed to detect substances or objects that can pose a threat if carried on commercial aircraft. However, outside of technical testing in a laboratory setting, very little testing has been conducted to estimate their performance in an airport setting. This paper presents protocols developed by DSTO to assess the performance of security devices to detect contraband concealed on a person. These protocols are classified as scenario evaluations because they test the devices in a controlled environment that mimics crucial aspects of the airport environment (e.g., baggage and mock passengers) using trained operators. Such evaluations provide a range of data including reliability rates and timing estimates as well as detection and error rates which are very difficult to determine in either technical or full operational evaluations. The ability to detect and recognise dangerous objects at a safe distance is a very important task in a number of other defence, police and security applications and these protocols may be useful in other environments.","PeriodicalId":163161,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Knowl. Learn.","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134421601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2011-11-29DOI: 10.1504/IJKL.2011.043890
Maja Lamza-Maronic, J. Glavaš, Anica Vukasinovic
In the process of EU accession the Republic of Croatia is endeavouring to meet the new requirements for improving the education system. This presents an opportunity for changes in the education system, by embracing and conducting a process of strategic thinking aimed at enhancing all of the segments in the Croatian education system. The ultimate goal is to help create a more efficient and more competitive economy. Usage of ICT in education is a major strategic feature of quality education, development, and employment possibilities in a competitive market economy. All education systems face the challenges and requirements of the information society, and use of ICT to make knowledge, information, and education more accessible, as well as to provide life-long learning and education. The paper aims to investigate the education system efficiency through the usage of ICT, and is based on empirical research.
{"title":"Primary school education system in Croatia - improvements through a strategic management model (case study)","authors":"Maja Lamza-Maronic, J. Glavaš, Anica Vukasinovic","doi":"10.1504/IJKL.2011.043890","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJKL.2011.043890","url":null,"abstract":"In the process of EU accession the Republic of Croatia is endeavouring to meet the new requirements for improving the education system. This presents an opportunity for changes in the education system, by embracing and conducting a process of strategic thinking aimed at enhancing all of the segments in the Croatian education system. The ultimate goal is to help create a more efficient and more competitive economy. Usage of ICT in education is a major strategic feature of quality education, development, and employment possibilities in a competitive market economy. All education systems face the challenges and requirements of the information society, and use of ICT to make knowledge, information, and education more accessible, as well as to provide life-long learning and education. The paper aims to investigate the education system efficiency through the usage of ICT, and is based on empirical research.","PeriodicalId":163161,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Knowl. Learn.","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126695773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2010-08-23DOI: 10.1504/IJKL.2010.034747
B. Czejdo
Knowledge modelling is a very important activity that still faces major challenges. In this paper, we address one of these challenges related to the modelling of dynamic situations. We provide a solution for such modelling based on sequences of ontologies and their transitions. An important part of our solution is a graphical representation that can help in human-computer interactions during initial knowledge capture, knowledge refinement and querying of the knowledge bases.
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Pub Date : 2010-08-23DOI: 10.1504/IJKL.2010.034754
Rasha G. Abou Hazima, N. Hindi
The importance of management accounting systems (MAS) in measuring the non-financial performance is increasing, especially in the service sector. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to investigate the nature of MAS in service sector, mainly in banks as this sector is critical for future economy of the State of Qatar. This study surveyed the top management team in finance and accounting departments in banks about their prospective of MAS usefulness, the critical driving or resisting factors, and the financial and non-financial indicators that are affecting the implementation of the MAS in their banks. Surveys were distributed to 16 banks operating in Qatar. In addition, interviews were conducted with individual senior management and executive managers. The results of this study demonstrate that the highest demographic factor affecting the critical driver factors in implementing MAS is the experience of the employee in the organisation, because each experience category had different view in the importance of these factors which would eventually affect the design and the implementation of MAS in their banks. In addition, interviews conducted found that most of the participating banks were paying more attention to improvement and measurement financial performance rather than non-financial performance.
{"title":"Management accounting system application in banks in the State of Qatar","authors":"Rasha G. Abou Hazima, N. Hindi","doi":"10.1504/IJKL.2010.034754","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJKL.2010.034754","url":null,"abstract":"The importance of management accounting systems (MAS) in measuring the non-financial performance is increasing, especially in the service sector. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to investigate the nature of MAS in service sector, mainly in banks as this sector is critical for future economy of the State of Qatar. This study surveyed the top management team in finance and accounting departments in banks about their prospective of MAS usefulness, the critical driving or resisting factors, and the financial and non-financial indicators that are affecting the implementation of the MAS in their banks. Surveys were distributed to 16 banks operating in Qatar. In addition, interviews were conducted with individual senior management and executive managers. The results of this study demonstrate that the highest demographic factor affecting the critical driver factors in implementing MAS is the experience of the employee in the organisation, because each experience category had different view in the importance of these factors which would eventually affect the design and the implementation of MAS in their banks. In addition, interviews conducted found that most of the participating banks were paying more attention to improvement and measurement financial performance rather than non-financial performance.","PeriodicalId":163161,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Knowl. Learn.","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127745462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2010-08-23DOI: 10.1504/IJKL.2010.034757
F. García-Peñalvo, Diego Alonso Gómez Aguilar, Antonio González Torres, Francisco J. García-Fernández, Roberto Therón
Visual analytics requires the use of large datasets and most of the times visualisations use their own data structures definition or make use of simple standards such as XML, CVS, or text files. Our proposal presents a middleware framework that focuses on providing a way to create those data structures, allowing to access heterogeneous data sources. The framework allows defining data structures for different visualisations using the same dataset as well as makes easier the process of getting the data from different sources. It dynamically creates the objects according to the defined structures and populates them with the values in the data sources. We have implemented a first prototype, which is discussed in the results presented on this paper.
{"title":"A middleware framework to create data structures for a visual analytics object oriented approach","authors":"F. García-Peñalvo, Diego Alonso Gómez Aguilar, Antonio González Torres, Francisco J. García-Fernández, Roberto Therón","doi":"10.1504/IJKL.2010.034757","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJKL.2010.034757","url":null,"abstract":"Visual analytics requires the use of large datasets and most of the times visualisations use their own data structures definition or make use of simple standards such as XML, CVS, or text files. Our proposal presents a middleware framework that focuses on providing a way to create those data structures, allowing to access heterogeneous data sources. The framework allows defining data structures for different visualisations using the same dataset as well as makes easier the process of getting the data from different sources. It dynamically creates the objects according to the defined structures and populates them with the values in the data sources. We have implemented a first prototype, which is discussed in the results presented on this paper.","PeriodicalId":163161,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Knowl. Learn.","volume":"414 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122461858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2010-08-23DOI: 10.1504/IJKL.2010.034748
V. Stantchev, M. Franke
Knowledge-based enterprises are typically conducting a large number of research and development projects simultaneously. This is a particularly challenging task in complex and diverse project landscapes. Project portfolio management (PPM) can be a viable framework for knowledge and innovation management in such landscapes. A standardised process with defined functions such as project data repository, project assessment, selection, reporting and portfolio re-evaluation can serve as a starting point. In this work, we discuss the benefits that a multidimensional evaluation framework can provide for knowledge-based enterprises. Furthermore, we describe knowledge and learning strategy and process in the context of PPM and evaluate their practical applicability at different stages of the PPM process.
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