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Visualization of management tools has become a must in the past decade. Its importance cannot be neglected; visual signs define the direction our brain pays attention to, and therefore affect deeply what and how human beings contemplate their environment. Recent tools in business management such as business models include visual elements to support the attracting of attention. A vast amount of literature...
To investigate the new requirements and challenges of architecting often safety critical software in the automotive domain, we have performed two case studies on Volvo Car Group and Volvo Group Truck Technology. Our findings suggest that automotive software architects produce two different architectures (or views) of the same system. The first one is a high-level descriptive architecture, mainly documenting...
In previous work we showed in a systematic mapping study that there is no method to enhance user-developer communication (UDC) in the design and implementation phase of large-scale IT projects (LSI). We then defined the UDC-LSI method. It is substantial especially for newly designed methods to evaluate them within a real-world context. As it is difficult to find a company willing to apply an untested...
Information technology (IT) services have become more complex and diversified. The service desk establishes a single channel of communication between the internal IT provider and its users, through which incidents and problems are analyzed, escalated and resolved. Managers need to analyze different operating scenarios regarding service desk capacity to make effective decisions about what should be...
A known problem in large software companies is to balance the prioritization of short-term with long-term viability. Specifically, architecture violations (Architecture Technical Debt) taken to deliver fast might hinder future feature development. However, some technical debt requires more interest to be paid than other. We have investigated which Technical Debt items generate more effort and how...
Large enterprises are confronted with an increased need to fully understand the IT systems that support their business applications. Unfortunately, conventional communication trace-based approaches to discovering IT infrastructure dependencies are insufficient to gain a comprehensive mapping of business applications to IT infrastructure. This paper describes BizMap, a novel, information-discovery-based...
We have been implementing continuous delivery in Paddy Power, a large organization in the bookmaking industry, for more than two years. In this talk, I will reflect on our journey to continuous delivery and discuss the research opportunities I see.
When done well, Release Engineering can be a force multiplier that enables software companies to ship software efficiently and reliably, to grow internally by hiring more engineers, to grow in the marketplace, and allow the company to compete against other above-their-weight companies. This can also make the organization a more humane place to work! Part of this is technical engineering, and part...
Usability is an important factor for product quality. For German small and medium enterprises (SME) in the software branch, cheaper producing vendors from foreign countries can be considered as serious competition. Improving the usability of software products is a good way to secure competitiveness. However, integrating usability-engineering into development is a challenge for SME. In this note, we...
Information technology is growing very rapidly, in particular for data handling. Data is a valuable asset for everyone, especially for larger companies with branches in several places. Data transmission from headquarters to branch offices make the company must provide good tools to do it. These companies also need tools that can be used to compress data to reduce their size. The main idea of the word-based...
The international interdisciplinary field training of marine robotics and applications 'Breaking the Surface BtS started in 2009 as one of the two flagship dissemination activities of the EU-funded FP7 Capacities REGPOT-2008-1 project ‘De-veloping the Croatian Underwater Robotics Research Potential — CURE’. Three BtS field-trainings were organized as CURE activities (BtS2009, BtS2010 and BtS2011)...
At with the rapid development of web 2.0, large volume of freely opinion available on the different website, micro blogs, forum, newspaper, article, blogs etc. These opinions are very useful for individual, companies, product vendors and organization to making a crucial decision before buying any product or making the decision before manufacturing of any product and domain. However the individual,...
Contemporary business market environment has got dynamic character and it's typical by high level of competitiveness. Business markets are strongly globalized; material flows of supply chains are bulky and mutually integrated. In such business environment the companies of particular industries are facing heavy claims on entire enterprise management. As the result of current globalization trend is...
In this paper, we investigate optimal management of local energy trading in future smart micro-grid (SMG) via pricing. In SMG, energy consumers and providers, in addition to trading with utility company, can also perform local energy trading controlled by a local trading manager (LTM) for reaping benefits. We first quantify the benefits achieved by the consumers and providers from local trading and...
The PROMIS Project is an ongoing EU Tempus Project for setting up ISC (Informatics as a Second Competence) Master's degrees in Central Asia. We are more specifically concerned with ensuring the vocational aspect of studies and tightening the relationships between companies and universities in this project. To meet these goals we mainly propose to base the curricula organization on both reverse teaching...
The senior project course for engineering students has a vital role in enhancing the “learn by practice” education engineering students in any university. The senior project course is, usually, a two semester course. This short time frame, poses challenges for both students and faculty. Students have to achieve the outcomes of the project to a certain extent and the faculty has to manage, follow up...
Internships have become an important system to bring students, companies and universities closer. It has also become one of the first preferences of students when it comes to complementing their education. However, in a globally connected world, mobility is a great value, being required by most of the professionals. In this way, the concept of virtual internships is being developed as an innovative...
For five years now we have been inviting highly talented students from the upper vocational schools of Bavaria to the ‘Technische Universität München’ TUM to participate in the Pupils' Academy of Serious Gaming. The pedagogical approach of upper vocational schools is the practical application of sciences. Based on this approach we enable the participants to change their learning perspective from ‘school...
The paper presents results achieved through knowledge and experience exchange in the field of professionalization of computer science studies. The results were obtained during Leonardo da Vinci Mobility project titled “Professionalization of bachelor's degree studies in computer science in Lublin University of Technology (UIKI)”. The main aim of the project was to share ideas and to develop methods...
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