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Disaster can affects a nation from functioning normally, and it can impact human, material, economic or environment. Disaster management is the concept being applied during disaster in organizing and managing resources and responsibilities of all relevant agencies in the event of disaster. Today, disaster management critically relies on information to ensure all agencies responsible can disseminate...
Although working in teams is an effective method for students to learn skills necessary for information systems, the optimal combination of team members to maximize the learning effectiveness has yet to be clarified. This study investigates the relationship between the combination of students' personality characteristics and learning effectiveness in three information system lecture courses. Two Five...
Students working in teams to complete software tasks is an effective method to learn necessary skills. Previously we examined the educational effectiveness as a function of personal characteristics, but the findings were inconclusive. Because we hypothesize that team discussions impact learning and are related to educational effectiveness, this study investigates the influence of team discussions...
This manuscript reports on a work-in-progress project evolving aside from a main undertaking; that of making a commercial ‘Internet of Things’ style product called “The Virtual Dressing Room (VDR)”. The project targets the process chain from designer and clothing manufacturer to retailer and end-user customers. The VDR has been subject of other publications, thus is introduced only briefly in this...
This short paper looks at the current opportunity to integrate professionally mature health and safety into Building Information Management/Modelling (BIM) and Cloud technology. It argues that while the Cloud can be used to facilitate effective BIM, health and safety needs to be dealt with in a much more integrated fashion than is currently being considered by the building and construction sector...
Context: Most of the software organizations that use agile methods organize daily team meetings. Aim: Our aim was to understand how daily meetings are conducted and identify obstacles that reduce their efficiency. Method: We observed 56 daily meetings and conducted 21 interviews in three different teams in two countries. We used the repertory grid technique in the interviews and to analyze the results...
Global software development (GSD) carried out at various locations is impeded by global distance categorized as exterior and interior. To overcome this, specific communication strategies are required to coordinate a range of activities between client and vendor teams working on GSD projects. The literature on GSD recommends many coordination strategies, but tends to take the client viewpoint as vendor...
Global software engineering increases coordination, communication, and control challenges in software development. The testing phase in this context is not a widely researched subject. In this paper, we study the outsourcing of software testing in the Oulu area, research the ways in which it is used, and determine the observable benefits and obstacles. The companies that participated in this study...
In Ubiquitous Computing the systems must provide mechanisms to promote the cooperation among users through interoperability of their applications. With this motivation, this paper presents the EXEHDA-TS, which is a distributed mechanism for coordination of applications in Ubiquitous Computing. The proposed software architecture has proactive behavior and allows a dynamic control of communication costs,...
Today software's are developed globally due to reasons like costs, availability of expertise etc. Global software development (GSD) besides its advantages, involves many problems that development teams face, which affects software quality. The problems mainly come in coordination, communication, and project planning and project management for geographically dispersed teams. We surveyed the technological...
Many educators and educational institutions include an online discussion forum in the content management system supporting their courses, because they think such tool facilitates the instructional process. It could be true if we explicitly design the instructional process to take advantage of this tool, but to do so we have to better understand how users actually use online discussion boards. Trying...
Enterprise software developers must regularly communicate with one another to obtain information and coordinate changes to legacy code, but find it cumbersome and complicated to determine the most relevant and expedient person to contact. This becomes especially difficult when the relevant person has transferred teams or changed their personal contact information since contributing to the project...
An increasing amount of time is being spent at organizational meetings. One common type of meeting in software projects is the daily team meeting, which is the most important forum for coordinating and planning daily work. To better understand how software teams make decisions, communicate, and coordinate their work, we must uncover the micro-level interaction processes among the team members at these...
Software development activities face several challenges when they take place in geographically distributed settings. These challenges are often related to communication, collaboration and, especially, information diffusion among team members. This is especially important in impact analysis activities where all stakeholders need to align their work to understand the impact of a change. To properly...
Multi-agent System (MAS) formulations have been developed and explored in the past in a variety of domains, ranging from optimization problems to game theory. However, there are certain issues that are common across all the domains. Cooperation and coordination of agents in MAS is one such important area. In this paper, we have first presented a very brief survey characterizing the cooperation and...
Much work has been done in developing Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) for supporting software engineers in their isolated programming tasks. Software Engineering however, is primarily a collaborative activity in which communication, coordination and cooperation with colleagues is essential. Supporting this collaboration is often overlooked in support environments while it is in fact highly...
Firefighters are responsible for dealing with several types of urban emergencies, such as fires, car crashes and explosions. The participants in an emergency response process require shared information to make effective, on-time decisions, and to coordinate their activities. The information sharing process is currently performed using message exchange through a radio system. However, limitations in...
Social traps are examples of social dilemma situations, where an individual acts for personal advantage that is damaging the group as a whole. Traps can be avoided, nevertheless, by the proper cooperation between the group members. A laboratory analog of social traps was implemented by Brechner in the 1970's. We built a a Second Life analog for Brechner's experiment to explore social traps and how...
Whilst the lack of interoperability between companies has been a problem for sometime, today with the increasing pervasiveness of ICT applications in all companies' function the problem is becoming more acute. Organizations operating for the AEC sector are not an exception. This paper presents a model for value proposition suitable to measure the impact of interoperability at enterprise level. A specific...
The design and development of strategies to coordinate the actions of multiple agents is a central research issue in the field of multiagent systems. To address this issue, in our previously reported research we proposed a novel methodology based on genetic network programming (GNP) to allow agents in the pursuit domain to autonomously learn an effective coordination strategy in order to achieve group...
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