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This paper grafts rough set theory, logical computing with granular computing, and retrieving rough set model under logical computing of granular. This paper formally defines logical computer of granular and also presents its properties. In addition, this paper discusses the relationship between the values of granular with logical computing of granular. All of these will lay a foundation for knowledge...
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have recently received a great deal of attention from educational organizations. The benefit of MOOCs is that they provide free access to education that could lower down the cost of education. A MOOC have potential to provide much more advantage to the students than a traditional online course. Every student has diverse learning needs and it would be beneficial...
The increasing demand for secure interactions between network domains brings in new challenges to access control technologies. In this paper we design an access control framework which provides a multilevel mapping method between hierarchical access control structures for achieving multilevel security protection in cross-domain networks. Hierarchical access control structures ensure rigorous multilevel...
How do firms leverage existing innovation for the next round of innovation? We develop a novel concept of generative capability in product innovation to address this question. As a high-level organizational routine, generative capability applies the mechanisms of iteration and rapid knowledge integration to guide ordinary innovation activities. Based on panel data from 2001 to 2009 of 56,333 firm-year...
We study knowledge sharing among engineers to develop a nuanced understanding of the role of meaningful work and organizational identification by integrating the knowledge management framework, the job characteristics model and organizational identity theory. Using a cross-sectional survey of 168 engineers with managerial responsibilities from several industries in Colombia, we tested a structural...
We formulate a mathematical programming problem for allocating capital budget between the organizational and physical capitals of the firm and solve it to obtain an analytically tractable and easy to implement decision rule for the optimal allocation of the capital budget. The model we develop depicts interconnections of these capitals and their constituent variables in the context of the firm's valuation...
The importance of foresight at the organizational level, as well as the ways to measure it have begun to be studied in the recent literature on strategic management. One overarching conclusion that stems from these studies is that organizational foresight is not developed in isolation, but evolves as an aggregation of capabilities (in the sense of the microfoundational literature) throughout the organization...
Product Development value stream includes all the activities (value added and non-value added) for designing and developing a product. It is characterized by flow of knowledge that drives the decisions, and deals with how the product is conceptualized, architected and designed by the design teams. The intangible flow of knowledge is determined by knowledge value stream - which shapes how the raw concepts/...
This paper describes the underlying theory and ongoing development of a general-purpose collaborative system. Rooted in the critical literary theories of Barthes and Bakhtin, the dialogic web provides a potential solution to problems of collaboration in knowledge-intensive environments.
Organizations ranging from the Internet, to economies, to large global corporations, to rapidly changing technological ecosystems can be thought of as Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS). When viewed from the bottom-up CAS is often characterized by distributed control, connectivity, co-evolution, emergence, and unpredictability. When viewed from the top-down characteristics such as an implicit order, qualified...
Delivery complexity is recognized universally as continually increasing; suggesting that Complexity or Difficulty Assessment Tools (CATs/DATs) are even more critical for ensuring that the right delivery approaches are selected. However, these tools appear immature, with significant diversity between the tools. Consequently, which tool to use, or type of tool to develop, becomes a critical decision...
In the context of classifying the graph structures from the viewpoint of their self-similarity, this paper introduces the original concepts of the fractal and multifractal hypergraphs. The key idea underlying their definitions consists in the iterative procedure of generating the hyperedges applied to the specified initiator structure. The paper discusses the main properties of such hypergraphs and...
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...
Printing good-sized complicated practical report forms is one puzzle in application system with B/S architecture. In order to solve this problem, performing data exchange using XML to come true printing is explored. Windows Form in the framework of .NET is embedded in FrontPage. By self-programming, XML document is analyzed and client-side printing is controlled. Fundamental technique on implementing...
With the advance of information technology, video on the web (such as, Youtube) had been a common and convenient channel for learning by students. But the characteristics of transient information in videos are easy to impose a high cognitive load to students, especially for elementary school students. Because video is not a single text or a single image, which has rich colors and complex scenarios...
We would like to welcome you to Valencia, to attend The 2nd International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2017) in Valencia, Spain from May 8 to May 11, 2017. FMEC 2017 is becoming one of the most well-known international technical conferences in the areas of Fog and Mobile Edge Computing. We are much honored to serve this year as general chairs for this conference. We are also very...
Millennials are arriving to university sometimes uncomfortable with the methods of some courses. Ideas that worked with previous generations of students begin to fail when digital natives receive paper and pencil as tools. Courses must update from old paper-based methods to hands-on and computerized versions. The present work discusses about this update and comments on one implementation in the course...
We would like to welcome you to Valencia, to attend The 4th International Conference on Software Defined Systems (SDS 2017) in Valencia, Spain from May 8 to May 11, 2017. SDS 2017 is becoming one of most well-known international technical conferences in the area of Software Defined Systems. We are much honored to serve this year as the general chairs of this conference. We are also very proud of this...
This paper reviews the historic of ChaLearn Looking at People (LAP) events. We started in 2011 (with the release of the first Kinect device) to run challenges related to human action/activity and gesture recognition. Since then we have regularly organized events in a series of competitions covering all aspects of visual analysis of humans. So far we have organized more than 10 international challenges...
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