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In the changing development industry, training for the project team members is necessary to maintain with the most up-to-date tools and techniques. The software development organizations that provide appropriate training to their employees can expect e a higher quality from their development. In global software development as project members are scattered geographically, the training for the employees...
PLACIS (Collaborative Platform for Systems Engineering) is a project funded by the French National Agency for Research under the “Investments for the future” program. PLACIS started in September 2012 and is run by Institut Polytechnique Grand Paris (IPGP, gathering ISMEP - Supméca, ENSEA and EISTI). In the framework of both a rapid change in engineering education and a need of young engineers able...
As novel forms of crowdsourcing emerge on the market, we emphasize that the important aspect of location-dependency is more complex than assumed and, thus, suggest a typology along two dimensions of locality: the first dimension refers to whether or not the crowdsourcees interact while being collocated or dispersed, the second dimension refers to the locality of the crowdsourcees in relation to the...
Socio-technical systems are systems where autonomous humans and computational entities collectively collaborate with each other to satisfy their goals in a dynamic environment. To be resilient, such systems need to adapt to unexpected human behaviours and exogenous changes in the environment. In this paper, we describe a framework for the development of social-technical systems where adaptation is...
User experience (UX) has become an increasingly important factor in the success or failure of software systems. However, established agile practices for ensuring desired UX of the software under development are largely missing. Consequently, companies are facing problems in conducting UX work in agile development. This paper contributes towards understanding those problems and developing means to...
Development and improvement of intercloud environments is still in an early stage, correspondingly, analyzing adequate realization of many types of applications is essential. In the presented contribution we have chosen an application with a high potential for value generation through cloud and cloud of clouds, i.e. The real estate business. The reason for this accumulated benefit that clouds may...
In rural areas, people have lots of problems caused by the shortage of young people and increase of elderly. Various kind of trials were achieved to cope with this problems Government prepared some amount of budget to deal with this elderly problems. However, financial solution was becoming more difficult and another effective solution was required. Utilization of human resources typically elderly...
The mechatronics approach has been around for decades, but many companies still struggle realising the business potential inherent in successful combination, or even integration of enabling technologies in systems for mechanical, computing, metrology, and control topics. And the challenges are not only linked to combining systems, but also to realise them as products and create business value doing...
This paper proposes the key challenges that can be used to improve a partner collaboration between R&D institution and industrial alliances. The focus group and in-dept interviews were adopted as exploratory means to extract insights and perspective of technology collaboration with alliances in the Light Emitting Diode industry in Thailand, an emerging economy context. The findings show that catching...
In order to develop and market powerful stationary energy storage systems, competences of different industries like the battery, chemical, energy, and electronics sector are necessary, which may lead to a convergence of these formerly distinct industries. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to anticipate industry convergence in the area of stationary energy storage by analyzing market convergence...
To increase the effectiveness of national innovation system, the linkage between university and industry, as the two important stakeholders, should be enhanced to motivate national level innovation. The objective of this study is to exam the linkage between university and industry by the use of patent citation. The dynamics of influences from university to industry or from industry to university are...
How to build an initial portfolio of R&D projects to start industry-university cooperation? This paper reports an attempt to answer this question. Particularly, it presents a methodology devised from a 18-month action-research program held between a large multinational automotive manufacturer and the engineering school of a top-ranked Brazilian university. The paper proposes a 3-stage process...
Based on the context about the industry-university collaboration practice, this paper analyzed a mass of literatures and proposed a theoretical concept of industry-university (IU) collaborative relationship from the perspective of inter-organization relationship management. Through the statistical analysis on the 177 samples of target firms, the paper did an empirical research on how to manage the...
The purpose of this study is to investigate the relations among internal innovation orientation, external co-production, business relation and service innovation performance. Using Structure Equation Model and Amos 20.0 to test the direct effect of constructs and using SPSS liner regression to test the moderating effect of business relations. Through an empirical survey of 161 samples in South China,...
Living in the knowledge age, we acknowledge that new ideas and innovative products are the new sources of economic growth. Technologies play a critical role in knowledge-based economy in several ways For example, internet is one of the main conduits for learning new skills and information that are necessary in a knowledge-based economy. Technologies, at the same time, also drive changes in education...
In order to solve the science and technology co-innovation problem of the management mode in organization coordination network of major scientific and technological project (MSTP) based on contract links, we use game theory integrated and establish some model. Then we analyze the product market competition of a given scientific and technological innovation cost and determine the level of scientific...
Under Chinese business transformation and logistics outsourcing context, the importance of market orientation and synergistic collaboration are highlighted. Market orientation facilitates firm performance, but how to achieve it becomes a dilemma for firms and research scholars. Particularly with the increasing market competition, business transformation pressure and development of logistics outsourcing,...
Currently there are several questions about the pair programming adopt. Is the pair programming more productive when compared to individual programming? When a company must adopt pair programming? To answer these questions the authors of this paper developed 7 controlled experiments, 4 of them in the academic environment and 3 in a software company. The experiments show that the pair programming should...
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an architectural paradigm that has emerged to help facing new challenges in software development and integration. SOA projects use to be complex and costly. ICT companies are by far composed of SMEs (Small & Medium sized Enterprises), having many levels of limitations, hazarding their innovation capabilities and hence their long-term sustainability. This...
India's power sector is still highly dependent on fossil fuels. As the energy demand in India is steadily increasing, the government is supporting new and innovative methods in renewable energy to tackle the growing energy deficit and to reduce the dependence on fossil fuels. Decentralized renewable energy systems are particularly important in India because of the distribution, logistics and grid...
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