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It is mandatory for organizations to keep up with rapid and continuous changes to their business processes to be competitive. Business process simulation is a preferred way to improve these changes. Many business processes can start with partially filled data and run for a few days or even longer. Such business processes are defined as long running business processes. However, business process simulation...
CLIL entails a new educational approach based on the integrated learning of foreign language and content. The foreign language is acquired through subject-related contents provided in such a way to encourage learning. Special attention is paid to the learning skills, as they are pivotal for an efficient linguistic and communicative learning. For this reason, as Mehisto et al. (2008) [1] stated the...
This paper present a review of the school organizational culture. The research was carried out on a group of 30 teachers and the research methodology lay in applying a questionnaire regarding behavioral assessment within the organization.
A Maturity Model is a widely used technique that is proved to be valuable to assess business processes or certain aspects of organizations, as it represents a path towards an increasingly organized and systematic way of doing business. A maturity assessment can be used to measure the current maturity level of a certain aspect of an organization in a meaningful way, enabling stakeholders to clearly...
Although non-functional requirements (NFR) are the basis for the definition of a appropriate architecture to the software context and have influence on the time and cost of development, elicitation of the requirements still seems to be a problem for many organizations. The objective of this study is to identify the current situation of the organizations as the NFR elicitation. We conducted a survey...
Cloud Computing did come up with so many attractive advantages such as scalability, flexibility, accessibility, rapid application deployment, and user self service. However in hindsight, Cloud Computing makes ensuring security within these environments so much challenging. Therefore traditional security mechanisms such as firewalls and antivirus softwares have proven insufficient and incapable of...
Context: Organizations act in highly competitive markets, which forces them to be flexible. Constantly changing business requirements require flexible business processes. Case Management Model and Notation (CMMN) supports modeling run-time flexibility of partially structured business process models, but does not fully specify the control flow. Objective: The goal is to develop a planning algorithm...
In this paper, we use model checking to perform the analysis and the assessment of the Purchasing Process performance in the field of Action Controls. The aim of these controls, in a Management Control Systems, is to ensure that the employee behaviours are consistent with the objectives and strategies of the organization. However, model checking suffers from the so-called state explosion problem,...
Management of Engineering objects in the Product model is a complex task. Engineers always faces problem to organize Engineering Objects defined by them as well as track relationship of their Engineering objects with other objects. For existing product, Engineer wastes a lot of time calculating parameter and structure of modeled Engineering Object defined by another Engineer and understanding complex...
In many countries, higher education is financed mainly through state grants. Traditionally, universities have autonomous status and the right to carry out their self-chosen policy. The autonomy and independence of universities have formed the cornerstone of their existence. In recent years there is a rising interest in monitoring the effectiveness of academic institutions. On the one hand, this interest...
eGovernment in the new context of smart cities aims at improving the participation model of citizens that are no longer mere consumers of services designed and offered by public bodies. The availability of (open) data from the PA and third party organizations, which can be made public and widely accessible, introduces a significant paradigm shift from citizen-centric to citizen-driven eGovernment...
Domain ontologies facilitate the organization, sharing, and reuse of domain knowledge. The construction of ontologies from text deals with the extraction of concepts and relations from text collection. A huge challenge is the learning of more expressive ontologies which includes relations such as disjointness or equivalence between classes. In our work, we exploit a text collection written in English...
Large-scale multi-agent systems (LSMAS) development methods are becoming a necessity in a world of ever growing numbers of computer agents incorporated in various devices and services used by people in all areas of life. Organization in such large-scale systems, becomes therefore a very relevant concept in research on LSMAS, as the mentioned agents are expected to cooperate, compete, and share information,...
The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of how a digital health innovation ecosystem was conceptualised and validated for South Africa. Largely, we focus on defining strategies to build Digital Health Innovation Ecosystems in the context of developing countries, and pay particular attention to the challenges and potentials. Over a period of two years the conceptualisation was done by applying...
Ports can be considered as a mixed network composed of different stakeholders such as private service provider companies, public organizations, professional and social associations. Each of them has its own aims and the port community exercises the role of coordinator, taking on responsibility for governance. In general, the interaction among the different actors generates strategic synergy, contributing...
Integrating data from very large, dynamic, heterogeneous and autonomous data sources is a key requirement to satisfy growing information needs. In order to allow for ad-hoc answering of analytical questions, necessary up-front integration effort must be minimized and data integration systems must be adapted to the expectations and requirements of their users. While existing approaches offer support...
The amount of music in digital form increases due to the improvement of internet and recording technologies. With this increase, the automatic organization of musics has emerged as a problem needs to be solved. For this reason, Music Information Retrieval (MIR) is commonly studied research area in recent years. In this context, with the developed Music Information Systems solution is sought for some...
Building on the theory of Social Capital the present theoretical study aims to introduce a framework to analyze the extent to which the innovation capability of Chinese firms is affected by Guanxi as a moderator between the former and the knowledge sharing behaviors among individuals and teams. The three dimensions of knowledge sharing considered here are: Type of knowledge, quantity and quality of...
Digitalization is spreading across our current society and is a major source of the changes — incremental and also radical — encountered in daily life. It changes the content of jobs: some jobs are no longer needed, and new jobs are also needed. Digitalization in universities has several implications — in teaching, research, and in administration. The opportunities provided by digitalization are manifold...
Named-Entity-Recognition (NER) is one of the major tasks under Natural Language Processing, which is widely used in the fields of Computer Science and Computational Linguistics. However, the amount of prior research done on NER for Sinhala is very minimal. In this paper, we present data-driven techniques to detect Named Entities in Sinhala text, with the use of Conditional Random Fields (CRF) and...
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