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This paper discusses a number of key issues related to teaching Design for All to undergraduate students and presents an assessment report requested by the Initiative for Design for All in Spain, in collaboration with the Institute for the Elderly and Social Services (IMSERSO), and the ONCE Foundation for the Cooperation and Social Inclusion of People with Disabilities. The objective was to study,...
The paper describes the CEFME Portal (Central European Forum on Military Education) for military universities cooperation. The goal of the CEFME system is to support the cooperation among the community of ten universities in education, research, social area, and staff and students exchange. The system is derived from the MilUNI (Military Universities), a knowledge management system (KMS), based on...
This paper reports on the results of the survey regarding the Research and Education (R&E) clouds in a number of world regions covered by the CHAIN-REDS project, including the sub-Saharan Africa. The survey includes the technical aspects of R&E clouds, as well as issues related to interoperation, interoperability, compatibility, orchestration and federation. Results obtained show a high interest...
We herein model workshop layout problem as quadratic assignment problem (QAP), which is an important NP-hard problem in logistics system. Moreover, we proposed an effective algorithm hybridizing invasive weed optimization (IWO for short) with the simulated annealing (SA) for solving this problem. Our basic idea is to employ IWO for providing diversity to explore solution, and use metropolis criterion...
CHAIN-REDS, an EU co-funded project, focuses on promoting and supporting technological and scientific collaboration across different e-Infrastructures established and operated in various continents. The project implemented a Regional Operations Centre (ROC) model for enabling Grid computing interoperation across continents, and an operational ROC has been set up for Africa. Moreover, the project operates...
In 2007 the Italian Ministry of Education identified the need of raising a new Humanism: students must receive adequate tools for knowledge, but must also understand and be able to handle the increasingly frequent transitions and changes they have to face as citizens and individuals. Orientation during the developmental phase must, hence, allow students to acquire all those key and context-independent...
Palliative medicine (PM), still in the development phase, is a new, growing specialty aimed at caring for both oncology and non-oncology patients. There is still confusion about the training offered in the various European PM certification programs.To provide a detailed, comparative update and analysis of the PM certification process in Europe, including the different training approaches and their...
Illicit drug use is a perennial societal problem that has serious ramifications on the health and socioeconomic well-being of a society. Its identification and estimation in communities is difficult because of the privacy laws and doctor-patient confidentiality agreements, which may limit the availability of reports and data. Various analytical strategies and research methodologies rely on surveys...
The software technology provides a highly interactive and powerful learning environment for control engineering disciplines. This paper describes the development and implementation of Linear Systems Theory Education Tool, which contains lectures connected through graphical user interface with electronic manuscripts and examples Matlab and Simulink. Linear Systems Theory Education Tool is a graphical...
The flexible, multidisciplinary curricula of the Automation & Control program in electrical engineering at the University of Säo Paulo are described. The context of undergraduate engineering education at the university is emphasized, and student and faculty feedback, as well as the difficulties encountered, are reported.
This paper presents an experience of teaching automatic control for multidisciplinary audiences within the master course Real-time Control of Irrigation Canals. This course is a part of the specialty module Decision Support Systems, offered by the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) in the framework of the European Erasmus Mundus Master Program Hydro-Informatics and Water Management (EUROAQUAE)...
To operate process plants under restricted condition such as high-quality and reduced cost, Control Performance Assessment (CPA) that assesses performance of the control systems from the operation data has been actively studied in recent years. However, owing to the non-linearity included in the general system plants, it is difficult to tune the control parameters regularly. The scheme to tune PID...
This paper sheds light on the opportunities identified by the PALANTE consortium in its challenge and aim to design an impact assessment methodology able to generate sound evidence on the role that eHealth solutions might play in empowering patients by pooling data from 9 pilots heterogeneous in several aspects. These opportunities might be of significant value for other EC projects that aim at empowering...
The PALANTE project aims to empower patients so they are able to make informed decisions about their health, take an active role in their own care and collaborate effectively with their healthcare team by the use of a Personal Health System. This article describes the enabling factors and main challenges encountered during the involvement and continuous participation of patients in the Turkish pilot...
The PROMIS Project is an ongoing EU Tempus Project for setting up ISC (Informatics as a Second Competence) Master's degrees in Central Asia. We are more specifically concerned with ensuring the vocational aspect of studies and tightening the relationships between companies and universities in this project. To meet these goals we mainly propose to base the curricula organization on both reverse teaching...
Public protection and disaster relief (PPDR) operations are increasingly more dependent on networks and data processing infrastructure. Incidents such as natural hazards and organized crime do not respect national boundaries. As a consequence, there is an increased need for European collaboration and information sharing related to public safety communications (PSC) and information exchange technologies...
The paper presents results achieved through knowledge and experience exchange in the field of professionalization of computer science studies. The results were obtained during Leonardo da Vinci Mobility project titled “Professionalization of bachelor's degree studies in computer science in Lublin University of Technology (UIKI)”. The main aim of the project was to share ideas and to develop methods...
It is increasingly common practice to use remote laboratories as teaching/learning tools, opening a new pedagogical approach and changing the essence, in many cases, of the teaching process (the latest example is MOOC).
The indent of this study is in the Continuum-focused Methodology of Information Systems Research and utilization of outcomes of research and development as continuums of subjects: understanding; innovating; demonstrating; building; testing; improving; transforming; experiencing; evaluating; implementing; and disseminating. The main research finding of this study is that continuums and path dependency...
The Framework Programmes (FPs) for Research and Technological Development (R&TD) are funding programmes created by the European Union/European Commission to support and foster research in the European Research Area (ERA). International R&TD projects play an increasing part in many organizations' R&TD investments. Technology developers of all organizations (industrial companies, small and...
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