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These acts of jotting down the key points from a lecture or adding notation to handouts distributed for the lecture are what we mean by notetaking. The primary purposes of notetaking are two fold: it helps one understand the content of the lecture and also helps the student review and prepare for tests sometime after the lecture. With the rapid penetration of networks and proliferation of powerful...
In resent years, with the rapid development of Internet, the effective utilizing of Internet resources are becoming a problem. In order to utilize resources in the Internet effectively, cloud computing architecture is proposed. Cloud computing conception, related technology and key characteristics are introduced. The basic principle and reality mechanism of Cloud computing are summarized, Further...
The rapid growth in revenue-generating capabilities of mobile social games has caught the attention of both researchers and industry. The author analyzes the key factors of revenue-generating engines in mobile social games in Japan, and presents the four key factors involved in revenue-generation mechanisms of those games. The author discusses the four golden rules of mobile social games and presents...
The paper describes our web publication of visual teaching materials for business mathematics. The objective of the web site is to familiarize students with our visual approach for business mathematics at early stage. The significant advantage of visualization is that seeing the materials leads to better understanding of the mathematical process. Even if the students cannot understand the algebraic...
Although enterprises perceive the importance of change, practitioners often report that dealing with changes is still a challenge. One way of addressing change is to guide the decision making of architects using a viewpoint. This paper presents a change viewpoint that frames the concerns of architects related to change. In an attempt to better understand what the architects' concerns are and the kind...
A new variable separation in the (G′/G)-expansion algorithm is introduced to obtain the solutions for a nonlinear Broer-Kaup system with variable coefficient. Control based on the variable coefficient is studied for the system. Different variable coefficient functions greatly influence the traveling way, velocity and amplitude of the solutions. Visualized effects are plotted.
This paper describes an industrial experience on code clone visualization. Cloning source code fragments is a common practice in software development process. However, uncontrolled proliferation of code clones causes a serious problem in terms of software maintenance. In this paper, we briefly share our experience on code clone visualization especially for stakeholders who are not software experts...
Based on general researches regarding visualization theory and application practices, this paper concentrates on the visualization techniques in business process simulation (BPS) and presents a review of visualization in BPS. It gives the procedures of BPS, summarizes the three kinds of typical visualization techniques. According to the BPS steps, different visualization usage in different BPS phase...
The profession as an electrical engineer has undergone many changes in the last 20 years. Many of the design jobs have been outsourced, downsized or eliminated. While there is an oversupply of one type of engineer, there is a significant shortage of another type of engineer. Jobs in New York area represent the pulses of the engineering profession. Defense contractors have moved out of the area but...
Agile software development methodologies, such as Scrum, have gained tremendous popularity and proven successful in quickly delivering quality Functional Requirements (FRs). However, agile methodologies have not adequately modeled Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) and their potential solutions (operationalizations) with FRs in early development phases. This research proposes three fundamental agile...
Creativity is one of the major education reforms in the world nowadays. All advanced countries pay more attention on the inspiration of students¡¦ creative thinking ability. With the creative thinking ability, it is important to university students before entering the workplace. Thus, the study mainly proposed a learning model with mind mapping strategy embedded in mobile device for a business planning...
Legal regulations play an important role in the design of information systems and their related organizational systems. A legal assessment subsequent to the system's development can demand expensive modifications or even the need for replacing existing systems. Legal infringements and resulting disputes can permanently damage an organizations image. To avoid these problems, we argue for the consideration...
Healthcare consumers are increasingly turning to the Internet for health information. Health website sponsors and developers are challenged to ensure high quality to satisfy the spectrum of site visitors. Yet, research does not seem to provide needed guidance from the perspective of the healthcare consumer. In response, this study provides a taxonomy of website quality attributes and explores differences...
This paper offers a new role engineering approach to Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), referred to as visual role mining. The key idea is to graphically represent user-permission assignments to enable quick analysis and elicitation of meaningful roles. First, we formally define the problem by introducing a metric for the quality of the visualization. Then, we prove that finding the best representation...
With the increasing complexity and scale of business processes, and the underlying information systems, there is a demand for monitoring the complicated business processes spanning multiple enterprise information systems distributed in a heterogeneous IT environment. This paper presents a unified monitoring framework for such distributed information system management. This framework utilizes Web service...
Upon entering in a new institution, an employee has a learning curve to absorb new tools, this learning curve brings extra costs to the employing institution. Besides this, in 2008, a study from the National Institute of Statistics concluded that various Portuguese institutions have a low index of productivity. These two facts may make institutions feel more discouraged to make new hires. In this...
This paper overviews private pediatric practice clinical data management needs and discusses the basic visit types. It then models the patients' trajectory in the course of a visit as he or she sees the nurse for routine measurements then the doctor for age-based well visit interviews or ad-hoc sick visit consultations. For both the nurse and the doctor, we consider conventional text-based electronic...
Service-oriented business process construction is a technology that Web service components are directly mapped to the visualization graphical components. Business people are allowed to construct main logic structure of the business process through dragging and dropping the graphical components, then platform automatically generates BPEL elements and attributes by parsing WSDL. The BPEL elements and...
This paper studies the problem of retrieving images by color, texture and shape in the context of visual assisted product recommendation in E-commerce sites. Different from general CBIR applications, commerce image retrieval puts more emphasis on outlier-free ranking (top N) to gain perfect user experience. We suggest to extend the bag-of-words (BoW) model to global feature characterization rather...
High level requirements that describe the various objectives to be met by a system may not always be fully comprehensible, especially when expressed in textual form. The possibilities of misinterpreting requirements, and missing out on grasping the contextual information associated with requirements increase with several factors. Some of these causes include the volume of interaction between related...
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