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This paper presents both a methodology and a startup ecosystem platform for development of new business models centered on the concept of PSS (Product-Service System). The platform model is set to address specific community challenges and features at its core the concepts of emergent behavior and self-organization. While in a traditional approach the emphasis is put almost exclusively on financial...
One of the main aims of Higher Education institutions in the present socio-economic landscape is to train in a efficient way future workers. In order to do so these institutions invest lot of money and resources although this does not guarantee the improvement of students' employability. The problems they have to find a proper work is many times related to the fact that what is taught in educational...
In the last few years, sustainability has become one of the priority lines for many companies and organizations, especially public administrations. This trend has been even more evident in some regions where the preservation of natural resources is of utmost importance, not only from an environmental perspective, but also from an economic one. In this context, technology has become one of the key...
Changes to the EU-US agreements on transatlantic data transmission are accepted. With the updates leading to an adequacy decision for the Privacy Shield, the European Commission further advances US adherence to the General Data Protection Regulation. The regulation comes with increasing territorial scope for the processing of personal data of persons in the EU, and includes the risk of substantial...
The approach for adaptive learning of software agents for web navigation is described for the purpose of selective extraction of specific segments of the entire Internet and particular sites for the purpose of business intelligence automation.
Information technology has advanced during the last five decades to the stage where its impact is being felt by the society in every service that it gets from media, business, health care, consumer electronics, energy and power, and transportation domains. During this course of human-technology interaction enormous amount of data and knowledge transfer takes place directly between service providers...
Software developers and testers have to work together to achieve the goals of software development projects. In globally distributed software projects the development and testing are often scattered across multiple locations forming virtual teams. Further, the distributed projects are so complex that none of team members can possibly possess all the knowledge about the project individually. During...
We had started our journey as an Offshore Supplier with a clear goal to become the "Software Engineering Partner of choice" for the Siemens R&D organization. Now, while we work as a partner of choice, our sustainability in this role, has largely depended on our ability to demonstrate the right set of behaviors as a partner organization, retain our key people and enable them to grow...
For decades, Software Process Improvement (SPI) programs have been implemented, inter alia, to improve quality and speed of software development. To set up, guide, and carry out SPI projects, and to measure SPI state, impact, and success, a multitude of different SPI approaches and considerable experience are available. SPI addresses many aspects ranging from individual developer skills to entire...
With the rapid development of regional economy in Shandong Province, the demand of electric power increases rapidly. So, the development of the substation construction and its status information detection system has led to the massive power equipment status information data, which needs to be sorted out and standardized work. In this paper, the MapReduce technology is used for the degradation processing...
The increasing complexity of software-intensive systems (SIS) has led to a completely new concept: Very Large-Scale Requirements Engineering (VLSRE), where the sheer number of requirements typically exceeds 10,000. Design for eXcellence (DfX) principles and their execution have been studied in different contexts for decades. However, DfX has not been in the focus of the Requirements Engineering (RE)...
Events that deal with Group Decision Making are continuously studied in order to provide a suitable representation of different opinions, with the aim of reaching the consensus of all experts involved in decision processes. In this paper, the authors, focusing on employees' evaluations inside Italian companies, propose an extension of a fuzzy consensus model dealing with a feedback process to guide...
In search engine advertising, the right selection of keywords is one of the most important step to maximize the advertisers' profitability. Keyword suggestion methodologies are used to map the advertisers selection of keywords and the recent popular queries using statistical data. In this project we are trying to classify the search queries into relevant and non-relevant. In other words, we are trying...
This paper tries to do the research of analyzing the relation of the customer trust, the customer satisfaction and purchase intention under the electronic commerce shopping environment. Drawing on the theory of customer trust, customer satisfaction and purchase intention, based on a survey of 102 respondents from the University in China, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the results showed...
It is possible to streamline corporate Environment, Health, and Safety (EH&S) duties through the use of workflow management technology. This approach requires a specification of workflow models that among others are composed of activities. A domain-specific workflow meta data model is proposed. The model consists of modelling concepts for the detection of failures of EH&S activities that already...
Data is the most valuable asset companies are proud of. When its quality degrades, the consequences are unpredictable, can lead to complete wrong insights. In Big Data context, evaluating the data quality is challenging, must be done prior to any Big data analytics by providing some data quality confidence. Given the huge data size, its fast generation, it requires mechanisms, strategies to evaluate,...
Faced with the typical problems arising in the procession, in which online to offline model was adopted by small and medium-sized enterprises, this paper presented some solutions from the aspect of enterprise and government policy. On the one hand, the government need regulate macroscopically, create better infrastructure construction of network, set up the flexible finance and taxation policy, build...
Mobile devices are increasingly becoming a melting pot of different types of data ranging from sensitive corporate documents to commercial media to personal content produced and shared via online social networks. While it is desirable for such diverse content to be accessible from the same device via a unified user experience and through a rich plethora of mobile apps, ensuring that this data remains...
In our paper we overview methods and tools within traditional, semi-automatic, and automatic approaches towards evaluation of website usability, which continues to gain in importance since the major search engines intensify its consideration it their results rankings. We note certain persisting ambiguities in usability conceptualization for quantitative measurement and a certain gap between its more...
Collaboration among SMEs is playing an increasingly important role in modern business and industry, in order to gather complementary resources and make alliance. According to agglomeration economy theory, several features play crucial rules in matching collaboration among SMEs. In this paper, an effective method of identifying and recommending potential partner relationship is proposed. In the proposed...
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