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Even the most innovative healthcare technologies provide patient benefits only when adopted by clinicians and/or patients in actual practice. Yet realizing optimal positive impact from a new technology for the widest range of individuals who would benefit remains elusive. In software and new product development, iterative rapid-cycle “agile” methods more rapidly provide value, mitigate failure risks,...
Active learning has demonstrated value in STEM education and various meta analyses show improvements in student performance when making use of active learning pedagogy and active learning classrooms. One limiting factor to extending the reach of active learning is cost. Many models for state-of-the-art active learning environments make use of tools and infrastructure through which students can connect...
Future-generation SASs need to have the adaptive abilities to efficiently handle changes from different sources and to mitigate conflicts caused by multiple simultaneous changes. However, existing methods cannot simultaneously make Future-generation SASs have the above abilities. This paper proposes an adaptive system framework based on agent technology and search-based software engineering technology...
In self-managing software teams, developers with complementary skills collaborate with each other to improve productivity and increase innovation. Due to nature of innovation, managers in these teams will acquire only summarized information from developers to avoid micromanagement. They will not plan fine-grained activities but leave responsibility and autonomy to self-managing developers. Developers...
Almost two hundred sites located mostly at Universities were equipped in 2015 with latest videoconferencing devices and connected to one national network. This was covered by national project named National telepresence infrastructure to support research, development and technology transfer (NTI). This paper presents technological challenges behind, integration of hardware and software solutions in...
The ease of setting up collaboration infrastructures for software engineering projects creates a challenge for researchers that aim to analyze the resulting data. As teams can choose from various available software-as-a-service solutions and can configure them with a few clicks, researchers have to create and maintain multiple implementations for collecting and aggregating the collaboration data in...
This paper presents MONO, a tool to support interdisciplinary and geographically dispersed teams. MONO supports the definition, execution, and monitoring of collaborative processes to allow development engineers to interact with musicians, designers, and producers, to create digital contents such as video games or animated short films. MONO supports geographically distributed teams, involved in digital...
This paper proposes an approach for adopting alternative workforce in an organization. Alternative workforce refers to a pool of workers who work for the organization as contract workers or as crowd workers for a set of specific tasks or duration. Adoption of crowd workers as an alternative workforce is gaining a lot of attention these days. However, it is still not widely adopted by big organizations...
When supervising software engineering team projects, having all team members contribute actively to the project is often a challenge. Most often than not, there will be teams having some members with limited or no contribution. Thus one of the key roles of a team leader and academic supervisor are to monitor who is contributing and who is falling behind. Assessing the progress information of each...
Trust is quintessential to safety in a network and is the epitome of security. Trust management schemes have been researched and implemented in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) to provide an added advantage over and above the cryptographic security mechanisms. Each trust management scheme deals with the concept of trust and its evaluation in a unique manner. This uniqueness in approach is achieved...
Software Defined Networking (SDN) has the potential to enable novel security applications that support flexible, on-demand deployment of system elements. It can offer targeted forensic evidence collection and investigation of computer network attacks. Such unique capabilities are instrumental to network intrusion detection that is challenged by large volumes of data and complex network topologies...
The main activities of the Laboratory of Information Technologies (LIT) of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) are addressed with emphasis on the development of distributed computing. The contribution of the LIT staff to the development of computational models for experiments done at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is briefly described. A brief overview is given of projects devoted...
The aim of this study was to evaluate if variability in EF estimate from echocardiographic data acquired with two dimensional (2DE) and three-dimensional (3DE) systems and analyzed using different software packages could affect cardio-toxicity assessment. We analyzed 2DE and 3DE datasets in 94 patients treated for breast cancer with anthracycline and trastuzumab. EF was computed from 2DE and 3DE data...
The Run II of the Large Hadron Collider will confront us with new challenges, mainly due to the higher number of interactions per bunch crossing and the reduced time distance between bunches. In order to be ready for the beginning of the run, in view of an early discovery, the CMS collaboration is currently evolving the infrastructure established during Run I to monitor the data quality, to validate...
Telehealth systems represent an ICT solution for delivering health services to the patients from a distance (Patient to Doctor/Doctor to Patient systems, P2D and D2P) or facilitating the consultation between the health professionals (Doctor to Doctor systems, D2D). Whether P2D/D2P systems aim at defining an interaction between the two involved figures crossing the boundaries of the hospital, D2D systems...
The System development projects continue to fail at unacceptable rates. Including a wide array of users in the requirements development process for a wide-audience system can help to increase system success. Facilitated group workshops can effectively and efficiently gather requirements from several different users. To decrease cost and increase the number of potential workshop participants, we designed...
Application of Agent technology to software evolution is considered to be a possible approach to make software be adaptable to environment change. The dynamic characteristic of environment causes difficulty to predict and control the act of Agent in software. Well-defined evolution logic is helpful to describe and limit individual behavior of Agent and coordination among Agents. In this paper, in...
This paper describes the use of new generation of PLC's and WinCC software in creating collaborative systems for managing, controlling and supervising building electric equipment. These systems assure all the requirements of a building and offer to the operators and maintenance technicians a more user friendly interface, accessible from distance and from many places. The communication between PLC's...
This paper discusses the expansion and extension of Internet instant messaging technology. It expands communication among people to the communication and collaboration between persons and things, to the communication and collaboration among things in the Internet of things. Its purpose is to allow anyone, wherever he or she is, to be able to communicate with what he or she is interested in by mobile...
In this paper, we consider collective problem-solving challenges and a particular structuring objective: lead groups of learners to make their shared problem-solving organization explicit. Such an objective may be considered as a way to lead learners to consider building and maintaining a shared organization, and/or as a way to provide a basis for monitoring learners' organizational process. Work...
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