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Engineering Education has undergone a profound transformation with a focus on reforming conventional educational practices to meet the developmental requirements across the globe. It is the utmost need today to develop a rigorous performance management system (PMS). This paper intends, firstly to categorize performance indicators into broad areas secondly to identify key performance indicators (KPIs)...
The purpose of this paper is to present a framework of practical steps for an organization in implementing knowledge continuity management (KCM). This KCM is used to manage the transfer of knowledge from the former staff to successor staff so as to prevent the loss of knowledge when staff left the organization. Methods or steps of this implementation were written based on a case study of KCM implementation...
According to the study research, carried out by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in 2011, every year over the globe, there are over one-third of eatable fruits and vegetables been wasted or damaged. With the additional loss from the supply and marketing process and the waste caused by the consumer side, the total squandering every year can be accumulated up to 1.3 billion...
This paper presents a methodology combining Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and Value Engineering (VE), assisted by a set of hierarchical Functional Analysis Diagram (FAD) models, and its pilot introduction in a UK-based manufacturing Small Medium Enterprise (SME). The proposed methodology suggests the parallel execution of both processes, using a combination of FAD models and the FMEA tabular...
English has undoubtedly become the science and research lingua franca in the world in both oral and written communication. The capacity of English of scientists significantly affects the quality of research papers and presentations much more seriously than before. The global advancement of scientific research demands scientists to conduct oral presentations and write presentation slides by themselves...
Engineers and information technology professionals often work in international settings or teams, as well as across diverse cultures in today's global economy. Ever expanding globalized society has required updates in organizational procedures and practices, especially for engineering and information technology organizations, to keep up with increasingly competitive and technology-oriented markets...
In 2004, the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Council on Women in Computing (ACM-W) launched a series of regional conferences for women in computing, called Celebrations. Celebrations adopted several components of the well-known international conference, the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC). This paper will describe the Celebrations' components and rationale for these...
Instructors often cite student motivation as a critical component of successful learning experiences, or a key barrier to student engagement in the classroom. Given motivation's influence on identity and well-being, and the important relationships between motivation and learning outcomes such as creativity, critical thinking, self-regulation, and performance, it is reasonable to assign student motivation...
Much research has gone into developing different strategies for teaching writing and speaking to engineering and science students. However, many of these strategies are designed for semester-long courses, in which a communication expert teaches fewer than 30 students. This extended abstract describes a study in which we test a different strategy for effectively teaching presentations to large numbers...
Stacking occurs in the composite creation of documents (e.g., such as academic papers, presentation slides, and notes) and when they are refined in research activities. It is important but actually difficult for researchers to satisfactorily accumulate the deliverables for each work and their circumstances so that they can skillfully conduct later work. This problem becomes particularly serious for...
Being aware of the rapidly changing environment in the information technologies (IT) era, many B&M organizations aware, envisage, and transform by themselves to develop creative IT-generated contents and/or innovative IT-enabled services. However, there is an unanswered theoretical and practical question regarding the awareness-vision-transformation process of a B&M organization in the rapidly...
Presents the introductory welcome message from the conference proceedings. May include the conference officers' congratulations to all involved with the conference event and publication of the proceedings record.
The communication of collections information in digital form, whether it is an online catalogue, mobile application, or social media exchange, increasingly affects our cultural encounters and shapes our perception of cultural organizations. Cultural and higher education institutions in Scotland, in common with those in the rest of the world, are investing vast resources on digitization and making...
A major challenge in the area of multiagent reinforcement learning has been addressing the problem of scale, more specifically the fact that increasing the number of agents in a system dramatically increases both the cost of representing the problem and the cost of calculating a solution. In single agent systems, temporal abstractions in the form of options have been used to address part of the scaling...
Recommender systems help users to find interesting items when there are many possibilities. They have been used in many domains such as movies, music, news articles, books etc. Recently there has been an increasing interest in using recommender systems in educational systems where the goal of the recommender system is to help users to find the most relevant and interesting learning resources based...
Recently, "Agent-Oriented Computing" has been attracting attention as an approach to designing a system with high response capabilities. To develop and operate an agent system effectively, an agent framework is used. An agent system developed on DASH[1], a kind of agent framework, requires us to install the agent framework as an operating infrastructure and to operate DASH to benefit from...
This paper gives a brief overview of the 11th Workshop on Trends in Enterprise Architecture Research (TEAR) held at EDOC 2016. The paper introduces the Workshop research topics and presents the accepted papers.
This preface provides a brief overview of the Fifth International Workshop on Adaptive Case Management and other Non-workflow Approaches to BPM (AdaptiveCM) held in conjunction with EDOC 2016. The preface introduces the workshop goals, lists the accepted papers and acknowledges the great efforts of PC and other individuals who worked for this event to happen.
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