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Drawing inspiration from the psychological literature on social change [e.g., 1, 2], we classify approaches to development engineering into three categories based on the depth, sustainability, and scalability of the resultant change within a community. In this context, we define “first-order change” as charity or direct service, in which a donor meets the immediate needs of a beneficiary; we define...
The article is devoted to the issues of improving the quality and competitiveness of products on the basis of information and analytical support of projects. The main characteristics of the internal and external contours, connected with the procedures for collecting, analyzing and interpreting information data concerning the innovative activity of enterprises are given. The main features of the use...
Maintaining reliability for electrical distribution systems that support processing facilities is a constant challenge due to aging equipment and other factors. Upgrades and replacements require significant engineering, extensive capital, scheduling, and shutdowns. Investment in electrical infrastructure is often marginalized and only addressed upon an unplanned failure or necessary expansion. Without...
In this paper, we outline the challenges we have encountered in mission critical system development projects based on public tendering processes and list reasons why the challenges we have faced are difficult to tackle. Furthermore, based on our experienc-es in the mission critical system provision domain, we see that the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model saves us from many of the shortcomings of...
DRAM cells in close proximity can fail depending on the data content in neighboring cells. These failures are called data-dependent failures. Detecting and mitigating these failures online while the system is running in the field enables optimizations that improve reliability, latency, and energy efficiency of the system. All these optimizations depend on accurately detecting every possible data-dependent...
The aim of this study is to evaluate Healthcare Enterprise Information Systems from both system and user perspectives. The study uses a structural equation modelling to analyse the impacts of healthcare information systems on employees performance and health care service provided by hospitals. This was measured using several dimensional factors including, system quality, service quality and information...
Based on the requirements for creation a clock network synchronization system, it has been shown necessary to organize a check (audit) of the synchronization network, for which there is currently no full regulatory base. Proposals were made to create an appropriate regulatory base, including at the ITU-T and ETSI level.
Complexity is a term that is currently used not only in research articles but also in the methodologies and standards used to manage information and projects. The complexity can represent the size of a system, process, program or project, the number of functions and the cost of their acquisition, operation and maintenance. Within the context of this work, the complexity is a variable that represents...
In public sectors, the trend of using electronic information sharing has transformed the traditional ways of information sharing either vertically or horizontally. The horizontal functioning of information sharing means sharing information within same level of organization such as sharing information between local governments. The vertical functioning of information sharing means sharing information...
This paper proposes a context-aware, graph-based approach for identifying anomalous user activities via user profile analysis, which obtains a group of users maximally similar among themselves as well as to the query during test time. The main challenges for the anomaly detection task are: (1) rare occurrences of anomalies making it difficult for exhaustive identification with reasonable false-alarm...
Knowledge sharing is a key process that influences individual and organizational performance. The significance of sharing knowledge is confirmed through enormous number of previous studies. However individuals are not always motivated to share their knowledge. There are different factors might encourage or hinder employees to engage in knowledge sharing. This study aims at investigating the impact...
The management of service quality is crucial for service providers to improve customers' satisfaction, loyalty and company's profit. But the measurement of service quality is much more complicated compare to the product quality measurement. Moreover, the study of B2B service quality is pretty rare. Therefore, this study is based on China certification & inspection industry (CI-sq) and explores...
This paper presents industry best practices to optimize lifecycle cost of electric transmission and distribution (T&D) assets whilst maintaining asset integrity, functionality and operability. This qualitative study encompasses high voltage plant and equipment in the electric power transmission and distribution sector, and focusses on asset strategy, equipment evaluation and specification. Asset...
We present in this paper a new approach of supervised self organizing map (SOM). We added a supervised perceptron layer to the classical SOM approach. This combination allows the classification of new patterns by taking into account all the map prototypes without changing the SOM organization. We also propose to associate two reject options to our supervised SOM. This allows to improve the results...
The main focus of this work is to investigate the predictors of knowledge management (KM) behavior among university academics within the prevailing organizational climate. The KM behavior has been operationalized using SECI process (components of knowledge creation theory). A hypothetical research framework has been developed based on TRA, TPB and some related previous works. Survey based quantitative...
Methods of expert assessment are considered. Key problems of expert evaluating are listed. Model of automatic expert system is introduced. Method of aggregation of heterogeneous expert assessment is proposed.
This study was conducted to identify the relationship among some intrapersonal factors such as professional competency, interdisplinary ability, social skills capability, and team cohesion. The validated questionnaire was delivered to 296 students in the design programs of universities as research samples. Consequently, the SPSS 18.0 and AMOS statistic software were used to analyze the collected data...
With the rapid development of social media, how to effectively motivate customers to meet and achieve the purpose of publicity has become an urgent problem to be solved at present. This paper aims at exploring the impact of social media information strategy in enterprise micro-blog on customer perceived support and customer recommendation. Through the empirical analysis of 388 valid random samples,...
With thousands of alerts identified by IDSs every day, the process of distinguishing which alerts are important (i.e., true positives) and which are is irrelevant (i.e., false positives) is become more complicated. The security administrator must analyze each single alert either a true of false alert. This paper proposes an alert prioritization model, which is based on risk assessment. The model uses...
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