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Lack of a pan-European technical infrastructure that would enable EU citizens to easily use foreign services with their national electronic identities is one of the main obstacles of wider use of secure cross-border electronic transactions in EU. A promising approach in creating such an infrastructure is being provided by the EU STORK 2.0 project that brings together EU identity and service providers,...
Today IT is faced with the challenge of trying to respond to rapidly changing business environments on limited budgets, needing to support legacy applications as well as new modern software applications. Cloud computing offers substantial benefits in terms of agility and cost-effectiveness but cloud platforms are not commodities, with one easily substituted for another. Today, most companies want...
The changing environment of the information society requires new abilities and competences of the young people. The present paper introduces the course, named "Strategic Business Decisions in a Risky and Rapidly Changing Environment", which was conducted in Burgas Free University and attended by students from 6 countries in Europe. The major issues and results of the conducted course are...
User reported experiences and opinions are used by peers to make decisions about where to go and what to buy. Unfortunately, not all users or opinions are honest. Many opinions are fabricated and may be submitted by automated systems or by people who are recruited by businesses and search engine optimizers to write good reviews. Such reviews and ratings are called spam reviews. These are misleading...
Using page-level metrics of a randomly selected group of 15,625 among the top 100,000 Face book check-in locations which rank high in terms of customer engagement, we explore if the short-term dynamical information on these metrics could deliver, via a clustering approach, some new insights for marketing decision making. Using a highly-scalable clustering algorithm, statistical methods, and combinatorial...
The paper begins with discussion on Aspect-Oriented programming (AOP), including its concept, thought, development, and advantage in handling crosscutting concerns, followed by description of the theory of constraints. Furthermore, combined AOP with first-order logic language, a schema on detection of the business constraints in requirement analysis is presented, which is simple and practicable, thus...
With the pervasion of cloud computing, enterprises increasingly rely on ecosystems of distributed, task-oriented, modular, and collaborative cloud services. In order to effectively manage the complexity inherent in such ecosystems, enterprises are anticipated to depend upon brokerage mechanisms for performing policy-based governance and for recommending optimal services to consumers. Such mechanisms...
The business process model and notation BPMN standard is becoming increasingly popular for process descriptions and reasoning with processes. Several formal techniques have been proposed addressing its semantics, temporal aspects, and process constraints. In this paper, we present a characterization of the BPMN process execution using user intentions. User intentions refer to the user's mental dispositions...
Motivating students has always been the main concern of seasoned and new teachers. This is evident as they plan their lessons meticulously to ensure that their students are actively engaged in some form of activity or preparing for a task. The purpose of the paper is to examine the advantages, obstacles, and impact of using games on student engagement and involvement throughout the learning process...
In this paper, we applied two methods of process mining techniques (from Discovery class/approach) in order to extract knowledge from event logs recorded by an online information system. The event log was created via information received from an online proceedings review system in Thailand. Accordingly, Alpha and Heuristic algorithms were used with the objective of automatically visualizing the models...
In the world of increasing international competition, firms must improve their export efficiency if they are to survive as exporters. One way of increasing export performance is to use more effective export marketing strategies. Therefore the study attempts to provide more insight into export performance and marketing strategies. This study identifies the significant predictors of export performance...
Web services are forms of Internet software that can be integrated into a composite service using standard protocols regardless of their locations, platforms, and execution speeds to implement complex business. However, a large number of web services with similar function attributes but different QoS attributes are available, and selecting optimal component services from candidate services has become...
Artifact consists of information model and lifecycle. Artifact lifecycle defined by the business departments according to business rules and other relative constraints are used for business's compliance checks and process's real-time monitoring, so the correct artifact lifecycle model is the basic guarantee of correct business process running. When we design the business process, we often predefine...
Cloud computing can provide remote access to computing resources via the internet. It has the potential to transform economic activities considering its inherent pay-per usage model, flexibility and scalability features. This paper uses a socio-technical framework that maximizes selected development impact factors to analyze the use of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) cloud applications in sub-Saharan...
With the ubiquity and rapidly expanding functionality of mobile technologies, educational institutions have the potential to improve and facilitate learning. More and more educators are employing communication, collaboration and sharing tools and resources to make learning more accessible, equitable, personalized and flexible for students everywhere.
Gamification is defined as the use of game elements in a non-gaming context. It is been getting a lot of attention in recent years. However, the number of research done on gamification is limited. One of the problems it faces is sustainability. Designers might overlook the elements that increase sustainability due to lack of a standard framework that contains the essential components to achieve that...
The global marketplace is increasingly characterised as being both turbulent and extremely competitive in nature. It is within this context that the servitization strategy assumes relevance in positioning traditional manufacturing institutions to gain a strategic advantage and enhance their revenue streams. Based on a multi-disciplinary literature review a strategic and operational systems framework...
To reflect the growing importance of networking beyond disciplinary and organizational boundaries toward an open R&D system with the commercialization aim, in Taiwan Engineering Section of the National Science Council in October 2009, began to support the "Promoting Program for Cross-Field Creative Scenario Value-adding". This promoting program aims to facilitate the formation and cooperation...
In Brazil, CAPES (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior) regulates graduate programs at universities. This agency belongs to the Ministry of Education (MEC) and it is empowered to recommend or discredit graduate courses. Graduate programs are required to coordinate their strategies and actions to comply with the requisites of the evaluation system. This study investigated the...
With the beginning of industrial engineering (IE), roles of the industrial engineers have been continuously expanding depending upon the requirements of the modern world. Up till now, many different fields have been the major studying areas of IE discipline, such as production planning, quality control, optimization and etc. Obviously, it has been impossible to manage and monitor these fields without...
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