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The government sector relies on continual employee reskilling. This paper outlines research to facilitate cost effective eLearning using advanced information communications technology (ICT) tools to enhance work-place training with assured predictable outcomes. The most desirable approach is to personalize an employees knowledge development through flexible online learning. Improved information technology...
With the rapid growth of the number of papers, the traditional methods of searching papers by scholar search engine are becoming unacceptable. These methods can't meet the needs of users and users still need to take a lot of time to filter the search results. To solve the problem, this paper uses the concepts and methods of community partition and introduces a model to recommend authoritative papers...
The rise of social networks for software development has attached a notion of popularity to open source projects. This work attempts to extract knowledge from the differences between popular and unpopular Python projects on GitHub. A large set of projects was mined for a rich variety of features that measure language utilization, documentation, and code volume. These features were used to train a...
User feedback is crucial to improve software quality. For example, it can be used to identify missing features and clarify user trends and preferences for future improvement. However, obtaining user feedback is not a 'one-off' process which requires that developers need to gather user feedback in an on-going approach. The problem lies here: the majority of users are generally lack motivation and interest...
The coordination and control of the agents in electrical networks is expected to have an important positive impact in future smart-grids. In the present paper we propose a distributed hierarchical coordination framework for power balancing, and the algorithms required to build such coordination architecture. This architecture is built such that a group of agents (a subtree of the hierarchy) can respond...
The identification of influential nodes in complex network can be very challenging. If the network has a community structure, centrality measures may fail to identify the complete set of influential nodes, as the hubs and other central nodes of the network may lie inside only one community. Here we define a bipartite clustering coefficient that, by taking differently structured clusters into account,...
Twitter user profile information is very useful for various fields such as marketing, HRD, advertising, and personalization. Since user profile provided by Twitter is very limited, some latent attributes such as gender, age, work, or interest should be predicted. In this paper, we aim to predict those four latent attributes using her/his tweet and bio data by employing machine learning techniques...
With human civilization moving to cities and cities having housing societies with hundreds of residents, a common problem arises and that is to distribute the shared amenities and resource's usage bill among the residents of a housing society. Since the usage pattern of each residents is different (due to lifestyles and needs), so charging an average amount is not justified. In case where the usage...
The Blue Waters Student Internship Program (BWSIP), a year-long program funded for three years by the National Science Foundation, motivates and trains the next generation of supercomputing researchers. A community engagement partnership of the Blue Waters Petascale Computing Facility at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and Shodor, the BWSIP has developed, demonstrated, and...
Nowadays, when more than half of the world's population lives in urban areas, when information and (mobile) communication technologies are real catalysts for innovations in all domains, there are a lot of studies and debates related to how our cities should become “Smart Cities”, “Smarter Cities” or “Future Cities”, in order to improve life quality and to reduce costs, to become a “Smart Learning...
The primary purpose of this paper is to summarize the history and status of China mobile science and technology museums, as well as the trend being predicted. The method used in this paper is documentation, theoretical analysis, investigation research and case study. It is analyzed that the mobile science and technology museums are characterized in social fund using and target audience service, and...
Experimentation using testbeds has become increasingly important in the area of Community Networking research. An example is Community-Lab, a distributed testbed to support experimentally-driven research deployed in multiple real Community Networks across Europe. Diversity in the characteristics of Community Networks and the need to use multiple or distributed testbeds, also including laboratory or...
This conceptual paper is a preliminary part of an ongoing study into take-up of electronic personal health records (ePHRs). The purpose of this work is to contextually ‘operationalise’ Grönroos' (2012) model of value co-creation in service for ePHRs. Using findings in the extant literature we enhance theoretical and practical understanding of the potential for co-creation of value with ePHRs for relevant...
Community engagement is a pedagogy that integrates engagement with a community, local or global, with academic content. In engineering and computer science the engagement is often the design, delivery and support of projects for NGO's, human service agencies, educational institutions and governmental agencies. Community engagement has been supported in the literature for enhancing learning and motivation...
When new faculty arrive for a new position at a college or university, they are typically flooded with information on all the "things to know and do" before the start of their first semester. They often participate in orientation sessions that give them snapshots on human resources, research protocol, departmental requirements, getting a computer account, using the library, using the course...
Mission trips from Ohio Northern University to the Dominican Republic during the past three years have involved running engineering workshops for teachers in secondary-level schools. These workshops included design challenges often found in a first year engineering course, discussions on learning styles, and methods of integrating an engineering mindset into the Dominican curriculum. Given the great...
Community Engagement or Service-learning is a rapidly growing pedagogy in higher education and has come under increased visibility within engineering and computing education. It has been cited as a potential tool for increasing student engagement as well as diversity among our engineering, technology and computing student bodies. It also has opportunities to prepare the next generation of professionals,...
Science, technology and engineering are constantly changing in profound ways, so STEM teachers have to keep up with providing not only the textbook basics, but also updated examples from current technologies, while using novel teaching techniques based on scientific inquiry. Professional development activities are powerful tools to increase teacher learning, and indirectly drive improved classroom...
Open educational resources are a key instrument in the promotion of learning and social appropriation of knowledge in the digital world. Providing access to existing learning resources in a way that teachers, students and parents are able to discover, acquire, discuss and adapt them to their own learning scenarios will also promote the development of values and attitudes that play a fundamental role...
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