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Advanced statistics have proved to be a crucial tool for basketball coaches in order to improve training skills. Indeed, the performance of the team can be further optimized by studying the behaviour of players under certain conditions. In the United States of America, companies such as STATS or Second Spectrum use a complex multi-camera setup to deliver advanced statistics to all NBA teams, but the...
The worldwide market for luxury and fashion goods is dominated today by a handful of multinational corporations (MNCs). The way MNCs access foreign markets and organize distribution, however, remains unclear. In this paper, based on an analysis of foreign trade statistics, we take the example of watches and provide a model to highlight the most important flows as well as regional hubs in this global...
One of the most important components for proper functioning of cities is the mobility. As the paper focuses on transportation, the use of Intelligent Transportation Systems is crucial to enable modern smart cities solutions, both in cargo as well as passenger transport. This paper presents various problems of the typical city with regards to transport and mobility. Some problems are already partly...
The EU's GDPR is expected to come into force on May 25, 2018. By this regulation, it will be possible to enforce even stronger legislation than the existing Directive. In particular, GDPR is expected to have a major impact on IoT industry, which uses diverse and vast amounts of personal information. This paper first examines why the IoT industry is affected by GDPR. Then, the paper describes how the...
The paper considers modern trends in the development of smart education in Europe and Asia. Various approaches to the management of smart education in universities are discussed. The specifics of the competence approach's application and distance formation of the training policy at Universities are analyzed. The case of the use of the distance education program in smart education is given based on...
Gaming is an approach to increase the attractiveness of engineering education. However, it is emphasized that also the educational games have to be constantly upgraded. This paper focuses on demonstrating the evolution of the power exchange game in electrical engineering at Lappeenranta University of Technology. The approach is based on design science, the primary target being to reflect upon the...
The strength of the German economy is the backbone of the technology-driven small- and midsize enterprises (SMEs). SME focus on small but very advanced niches and can be world-market leaders in their domain. To provide solutions to customers, they form SME clusters. A very important driver for successful technology regions are industry-university-cooperations [1] with a focus on applied sciences [2]...
The current state of the development of education in Ukraine in the field of information technology is analyzed. The ways of improving the efficiency of the educational training in the field of information technology are suggested.
Digital Transformation has revolutionized the job market. New digital profiles emerge to exercise new professions. However, the gap between the Digital Competences required by companies and the skills developed by the young graduates is large. Current engineer curriculums for masters and bachelor degrees have recently been adapted to the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and it is early to proceed...
The standardization of services in the European electromobility network is becoming one of the main goal of researchers and practitioners. In this context, the objective of the paper is proposing a general view of the main needs and functions of the involved actors and stakeholders, and to state their interactions within the electromobility network. In particular, actors and stakeholders are grouped...
Achieving dependable software is a challenging problem, especially for industries beyond traditional safety-critical domains, such as telecommunications, consumer electronics, manufacturing, etc., where the cost of software failures is still quite high. Several factors contribute to exacerbate this problem: these industries are abruptly converting into software-driven ones; they must face time-to-market...
Smart Metering systems, in addition to the function of energy consumption metering, can support a wide variety of additional features using optional devices or programming. These functionalities foster the implementation of key elements of Smart Grids (SG) such as distributed generation, new market models, advanced tariff schemes, among others. The Colombian's Smart Grid Roadmap identifies the implementation...
The diversity of energy prosumer types makes it difficult to create appropriate incentive mechanisms that satisfy both prosumers and energy system operators alike. Meanwhile, European energy suppliers buy Guarantees of Origin (GoO) which allow them to sell green energy at premium prices while in reality delivering grey energy to their customers. Blockchain technology has proven itself to be a robust...
Social media introduces substantial and pervasive changes to communication between organizations and individuals. This can now significantly impact a company’s reputation, sales, and even survival. But social media and its chances and risks are discussed in most of the existing studies as pure 1:1 relationship. The behavioural recommendations given for companies are mostly stated as universally valid...
In the past twenty years the energy consumption of the world has grown significantly. There are many countries for which it is a huge challenge to ensure energy reliability and security. This situation is even getting more intense with the upcoming spread of renewable energy sources and the continuous need of lowering CO2 emission. Nuclear energy which is a possible solution for both difficulties...
This article presents an innovative experience in which a research group on Industrial Electronics of the Technical University of Cartagena promotes the creation of a startup accelerator (Cloud Incubator HUB) in topics related to the Internet of Things. During the first period (2012–2015), its scope was limited to the Region of Murcia, in the southeast of Spain. From the results obtained in this first...
In the view of the fact that the stock market in China continues to expand, the study on momentum effect requires the addition of volume to adjust the relevant indicators. This paper selects the weekly returns of all stocks in the Shanghai Stock Exchange and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange as the sample, and uses the overlapping sampling method to test the momentum effect of Chinese stock market from...
Ivory Coast's ports are ports that currently have a part landlord, part public service port management model. This combination of a landlord port management model and of a public service port management model faces many controversies. In this article, the port governance in Ivory Coast is analyzed since the foundation of its two ports until today and the development of its ports since their creation...
This paper reports on a summary overview of a study aimed at assessing the health of the Italian Local Public Transport system. In close cooperation with the Italian Ministry of Infrastructures and Transport, more than 500 Italian local public transport operator, covering most of Italian cities, were analyzed, to investigate their efficiency and effectiveness. All relevant economic and operational...
Constant changes in the economic environment, where globalization and the development of the knowledge economy act as drivers, are systematically pushing companies towards the challenge of accessing external markets. Web localization constitutes a new field of study and professional intervention. From the translation perspective, localization equates to the website being adjusted to the typological,...
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