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There are several professional, academic and business channels catering to the information needs of professionals. In this paper we have presented a contextual recommendation system that gathers documents from these channels on behalf of a user and recommends the most relevant documents from the collection based on the current work-context of the user. Starting with an initial context, the system...
The importance of a service innovation as a result of increasing competition and customer demands in manufacturing firms has been widely recognized. Especially, a service innovation can be incorporated internally to sustain a firm' competitive advantage. In the context of manufacturing firms, this study investigates the triggering factors of an internal service innovation and its corresponding implementation...
This paper presents a concept to anticipate deviations from the target process and thus inefficiencies within development projects by aid of predictive analytics. It is stated that predictive analytics approaches can be adapted to predict deviations in development projects, comparable to the anticipation of crimes. Deviations in terms of time, costs and quality are seen as a result of waste and therefore...
This paper builds upon the BWEC1 (Business for Women in Women of Emerging Country) research project to improve the socio-economic situation of handicraft women. In this project our principal task is to build data warehouse schema from handicraft women social network. For that, we follow a semi-supervised clustering-based methodology. In this paper, we propose the adaptation of a semi-supervised hierarchical...
The purpose of this article is to clarify and present all the rules that we have elaborated in our base of rules for phoneme-allophone conversion for the Arabic language. The generation of the different acoustic realizations (allophones) is particularly important to improve the quality of the speech synthesizers dedicated to the Arabic language. This improvement is achieved by integrating the allophone...
Our work aims at designing a dialogue manager dedicated to agents that interact with humans. In this article, we show how empirically specified dialogue games can be employed on both interpretative and generative levels of dialogue management. We present DOGMA, an open-source module that can be used by an agent to manage its conventional communicative behaviour. We show that our library of dialogue...
This paper is focused on the teaching of engineering ethics (EE). Through a focus on safety and the lens of what sociologists call the agency/ structure relationship it examimes various approaches to this teaching. Drawing on Critical Realism it argues there are deficiencies in both the dominant approach and a number of proposed alternatives as they suffer from various forms of conflationism. By drawing...
In acoustic study of English diphthongs, one feature governs the diphthong formant movement is the diphthongization feature—formant rate of change. Acoustic analysis indicates that there are substantial differences on first and second formant rate of change between college EFL learners and RP speakers. Generally speaking, for fronting and backing diphthongs, change of vowel location in the production...
To share information more effectively in a laboratory, this study develops a method to collect and visualize research documents as well as research activities efficiently without exception. First, this paper introduces a research information relation graph that reflects research activities that obtain information. Furthermore, this paper makes research activities modeled as productions that help to...
This Plenary presents automatic speech recognition (ASR) as a task of artificial intelligence. The basis, the methodology, spectral processing, distance measures for speech, segmentation speech, spectral and temporal variability, application of Markov Models, noise robustness, Language Models for ASR, are presented.
Nowadays, the control of Quality Management System (QMS) has become a major consideration in the businesses. Indeed, it has a large number of imprecise information and performance indicators inputs that must be managed. In this context, this paper proposes two approaches: Hierarchical Fuzzy Signature and Neuro-Fuzzy Hierarchical Hybrid able to control of QMS problem. These approaches has been validated...
Composing business process model variants is an activity to form a new variety of business process models in order to fulfill user needs. Nowadays business process model design has been done in various ways. Many well-known approaches tried to specify variants by different process models or expressed them in terms of conditional branches within the same process model. Those two approaches might lead...
In everyday life as well as in the asymmetric warfare domain, to achieve the intended goals, agents often don't exploit the designed and purpose-built tools but some other tools whose features simply fit for the purpose. Starting from the well established ideas carried out to build ontologies of functional concepts of artifacts, we propose to extend such ontologies with explicit recordings of physical...
Nowadays, energy production/distribution moves from the conventional, centralised operational framework towards more distributed/decentralised models. Such a distributed/decentralised framework for future smart energy networks based on the optimal formation of virtual micro-grids (VMGs) has been developed in the context of the VIMSEN (Virtual Microgrids for Smart Energy Networks) research project...
While knowledge has been recognized as a major source of competitive advantage long ago, this paper contends that knowledge should be treated and managed as an economic factor of production on par with land, labor, and capital. Previous knowledge typologies have indeed shed light on the many characteristics and context of knowledge, but they remain difficult to apply for practitioners. This paper...
It has been argued that the value of communities is that they can solve certain types of collective action problems which are resistant to purely market-based or policy-based solutions. Such problems increasingly arise in a data-driven information economy, the (so-called) sharing economy, and in economies of scarcity, where the added-value of information, reciprocity or other pro-social behaviour...
The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of using a smartphone application in a Communicative Language Teaching context. Specifically, a web-based application called Let's Talk was designed to facilitate an Information Gap activity in an English language class. Participants were assigned to an experiment group using Let's Talk or a control group using textbooks to practice English conversation...
Our previous work has introduced the "Tsaap-Notes" platform to increase the motivation and engagement of students in the process of collaborative note taking during lectures. In this paper, we introduce the approach "Notes as Feedback" which consists of recycling interactive questions asked during a lecture in order to semi-automatically build computer based self-assessment tests...
During their lifecycle, business processes are keen to change. Changes either concern the process model structure or the accompanying rules, e.g. Compliance rules (laws and regulations). In the context of business process collaborations, several process partners collaborate together, and changing one process might result in knock-on effects on the other processes, i.e., Change propagation. Since business...
This paper describes two experiments conducted to investigate the role of sonically simulated ground materials in modulating both production and recognition of walks performed with emotional intentions. The results of the first experiment showed that the involved auditory feedbacks affected the pattern of emotional walking in different ways, although such an influence manifested itself in more than...
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