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DevOps is a predominant phenomenon in the web domain. Its two core principles emphasize collaboration between software development and operations, and the use of agile principles to manage deployment environments and their configurations. DevOps techniques, such as collaboration and behaviour-driven monitoring, have been used by web companies to facilitate continuous deployment of new functionality...
Agile development for big data analytics has become the new normal. However, research questions remain: 1) how should a big data system be designed and developed to effectively support advanced analytics? and 2) how should the agile process be adapted for big data analytics development? This article contributes an Architecture-centric Agile Big data Analytics (AABA) development methodology evolved...
Increasing social and economic imbalances as well as restricted access to production means and participation in value creation processes ask for new approaches to overcome the asymmetric distribution of knowledge and information between producers and consumers as well as between industrialized and developing countries. Technical progress in production technology, the advancement and spread of information...
The increasing use of Enterprise Social Networks (ESN) has been resulting in important changes in individual work practices, and is subject of numerous studies. From both a theoretical and a practical perspective, there is a lack of well-founded knowledge on how the implementation of ESN can be supported best to trigger both learning and change processes in the enterprise. For such processes, managers...
In this study we conceptualize a gamified system for companies to be used in IT-backed ideation processes. We conducted two rounds of expert interviews in German and Austrian companies focusing on the challenges and obstacles of gamification systems within an enterprise setting. We then drew from the gamification literature and established eight stimuli, for a conjoint analysis. The survey among 75...
Growth in the interconnectivity of the internet and mobile technology has paved the way for augmented reality (AR) to be used in apparel, engaging consumers through extended garment features, such as promotion, entertainment and information delivery. However, for this to achieve social acceptance, consumers have to be informed of the emerging technology and persuaded of its benefits. Using a qualitative...
Theoretical, methodological and systemic resources were developed on the way towards product system model centered and intellectual property driven engineering during the past decade. These developments enhanced communications between humans as well as between humans and physical objects. Leading industries utilized new generation of product lifecycle management (PLM) systems in connection with smart...
Despite of the promising benefits of cloud computing in enabling efficient, sustainable and agile Supply Chain Collaborations (SCCs), this service does not eliminate governance challenges in SCCs. Cloud based SCCs may flounder without a proper understanding of how to govern inter-organizational relations and insight into how the cloud service will affect it. Using a case study method, this study aims...
Traditional training offered by universities in the area of logistics usually involves a set of techniques that are applied specifically within the different topics that make up this science, which has resulted in a set of decisions and activities that optimize results in different areas, but they ignore the operation of the system as a whole. The use of simulators games and other fun tools that emphasize...
Based on a sample of 1,684 manufacturing companies from the Taiwanese Technological Innovation Survey for the period from 2004-2006, the paper examines the relationship between different types of domestic and foreign based collaborative partners and different levels of product innovation radicalness. A complex network of relationships emerges where the level of innovation radicalness is associated...
The article proposes a distributed reinforcement learning collaborative consensus algorithm for dynamic generation command dispatch of AGC in interconnected power grids under the framework of the virtual power generation tribes, in order to in response to the development of the EMS system in the Smart Grid from centralization to decentralized form. The simulation results of the Guangdong Grid show...
This paper presents GitBull tool as a source code hosting web application tailored for the university ecosystem. GitBull introduces the ideology of open source software development. The main aim of GitBull is to fill the gap between how students work on software development projects in university and how software is being developed in the work environment. GitBull helps students use source code versioning...
With a considerable amount of support in literature, there is no doubt that the human factor is a major weakness in preventing Information Security (IS) breaches. The retail industry is vulnerable to human inflicted breaches due to the fact that hackers rely on their victims' lack of security awareness, knowledge and understanding, security behavior and the organization's inadequate security measures...
Nowadays companies are rapidly moving towards transforming their business into digital businesses. Being digital often means exploiting emerging technologies to enable new ways of serving customers. This paper presents two digital tools that have been designed to drive innovation in maintenance operations. A remote assistance collaboration tool combining wearable technologies and augmented reality...
Collaborative research projects dedicated to information and communication technology and supported by the Framework Programs of the European Commission result often in both partnerships among involved companies and prototypes of common, composite software products. One problem of commercializing these common products is the transition from a project to a commercial setting and the development of...
Color plays a fundamental role in sporting activities, not only as an esthetic element but also for the physiological and psychological effects that it produces on our five senses. Wearing noticeable and identifiable colors when performing sports is important. The visibility of color provides a sense of identity for both the players and their audience, and it may also become a form of security.
This paper presents a framework and empirical analyses for the survey data from 1,678 managers and professionals working in a collaborative environment for Japanese software houses to understand relationships among factors of factor groups; the project manager, project team members, and the organization, which may lead to project success/failures. The results of the research model using SEM show that...
In e-marketplace, semantic document exchange is a methodology of providing exchangeable semantic documents, which ensures document writer, writer's computer, reader's computer and document reader to share a same understanding in meaning on any exchanged document, that is, a semantic document is exchangeable across any heterogeneous contexts. Existing methodologies for semantic document exchange, in...
The main work in the context of this paper is to propose a (semi) automatic Dynamic Virtual Organizations (DVO) framework for the healthcare domain. The foundation of this framework depends on utilizing several methodologies, and approaches. The process of DVO creation includes three main activities mapped to the Common KADS levels. Each one of these models plays its role towards the main objective...
Developing a professional identity, as an engineer, has been the focus of engineering educators. However, previous research illustrates a lack of an integrated framework that conceptualizes the process to explain how individuals practice professional identities and what are the relations between educational design and such practices. We respond to this by proposing a conceptual framework that applies...
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