"ETHICS BY MOVIE". AN ALTERNATIVE ETHICS TRAINING METHOD FOR FUTURE PROFESSIONALS. A PILOT STUDY AMONG ROMANIAN STUDENTS

Author(s): Daniela Tatiana AGHEORGHIESEI (CORODEANU),Vladimir POROCH / Language(s): English / Issue: 53/2016

The paper presents the results of an empirical research that explored the opinion of Romanian students from four different professional Master’s Degree programs, on the impact of applying the method that we have called “Ethics by Movie” (creating the students’ own video scenarios on an ethical topic in teams) on substantiating ethical knowledge, ethical attitude and ethical behavior. The final sample consisted of 395 respondents. The students appreciate several advantages of the above mentioned teaching and learning method (”an ideal practice for understanding a theoretical concept”, ”an interactive method of learning” that helped them ”to acquire ethical concepts more easily or to reflect more deeply on the importance which must be given to ethical behavior, on the consequences of unethical behavior”, etc). Our study might prove to be useful due to the fact that it revives attention to a complementary teaching method that can contribute to increasing awareness of the ethical issues around us, to learning ethical concepts in a more substantiated manner, to the need to solve the ethical dilemmas related to the fact that we must be solidarity in the fight against unethical actions and that, through everything we do, we can send out own ethical message.

#domovina, czyli hashtagowanie ojczyzny

Author(s): Ewa Wróblewska-Trochimiuk / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2017

Hashtags, originally introduced in Internet Relay Chat, then popularized in Twitter, have become the most used way to tag short messages in social networks. They are also used on Instagram since this facilitates searching, classification and clustering over visual materials. The text focuses on the hashtag domovina (homeland) and shows how Croatian users of Instagram understand and visualize the idea of homeland. I distinguished main strategies of understanding of homeland: by connecting it with national symbols, confession, landscape, cuisine and – unexpectedly – selfie. I find that Instagram group using the hashtag domovina is a new type of political community. In the last part of the text I state that images containing tag domovina create the thematic collection and that they form a new type of image that I called modern polyptych.

(In)Communication chronophage : esquisse d’une microdystopie de l'accélération en réseaux

Author(s): Antonio Fernández Vicente / Language(s): French / Issue: 02/2016

This paper studies the techno culture of acceleration from a sociological and genealogical perspective. It is a question of micro-power that transforms the social network Utopia into an autorestrainted Dystopia. The synchronisation with the others leads us to a communication flux 24/7. Therefore, the right to communicate throughout the social network becomes a horizontal implied must in order to join in the multiples conversations in real time. The permanent actualisation becomes a necessity and the user a time consumer. In a society where time is accelerated, communication turns structurally into incommunication.

(MULTI)MEDIA LITERACY – PERSPECTIVES IN SERBIA

Author(s): Dejan Pralica / Language(s): English / Issue: 02/2016

The aim of this paper is to analyze the effects of media literacy in Serbia five years after "The Strategy for the Development of the Public Information System in the Republic of Serbia" came into force. Among other things, the "Strategy" proclaimed the introduction of new ICTs in order to contribute to better informing and education for children and youth. "Medijska koalicija" ("Media coalition") and US Agency for International Development (USAID), with the help of Serbian Ministry of Education and Science, started the project in order to encourage and support the democratization of the society via promotion of media literacy and responsible journalism in the Republic of Serbia. The target groups of the project were both teachers and secondary school students, as well as journalists. The project resulted in many seminars as well as a web-site which provide permanent support for the establishment of critical understanding of media messages using the most up-to-date learning models such as webinars and other multimedia tools.

? Sayisinin rasgeleliğinin sinanmasi

Author(s): Sahin Inanç,H. Kemal Sezen / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 13/2017

As a part of their simulation work, random numbers are usually generated by computers. The purpose of this work is to test and verify the randomness of the so-called random generator so that it can be used in simulation runs. Additionally, in this study, the acquisition of the number of ? before the randomness tests were mentioned. In this study it is performed that how this calculation method is used, how to divide the calculation into mathematically simpler components, how to program it with the computer program, and how to calculate it as simple as the desired step. In this study, the first 10000 steps of the ? number were obtained and the randomness test was performed with five different randomness tests. The series is made up after the comma next steps of the number of ?. A program in the C # programming language was developed to investigate the randomness of this sequence. The chi-square test, the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, the poker test, the gap test and the run test were applied to test the randomness.

14th International Scientific Conference Business Logistics in Modern Management

Author(s): Jelena Franjkovic / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2014

1957-2007: 50 Years of Higher Order Programming Languages

Author(s): Alen Lovrencic,Mario Konecki,Tihomir Orehovacki / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2009

Fifty years ago one of the greatest breakthroughs in computer programming and in the history of computers happened – the appearance of FORTRAN, the first higher-order programming language. From that time until now hundreds of programming languages were invented, different programming paradigms were defined, all with the main goal to make computer programming easier and closer to as many people as possible. Many battles were fought among scientists as well as among developers around concepts of programming, programming languages and paradigms. It can be said that programming paradigms and programming languages were very often a trigger for many changes and improvements in computer science as well as in computer industry. Definitely, computer programming is one of the cornerstones of computer science. Today there are many tools that give a help in the process of programming, but there is still a programming tasks that can be solved only manually. Therefore, programming is still one of the most creative parts of interaction with computers. Programmers should chose programming language in accordance to task they have to solve, but very often, they chose it in accordance to their personal preferences, their beliefs and many other subjective reasons. Nevertheless, the market of programming languages can be merciless to languages as history was merciless to some people, even whole nations. Programming languages and developers get born, live and die leaving more or less tracks and successors, and not always the best survives. The history of programming languages is closely connected to the history of computers and computer science itself. Every single thing from one of them has its reflexions onto the other. This paper gives a short overview of last fifty years of computer programming and computer programming languages, but also gives many ideas that influenced other aspects of computer science. Particularly, programming paradigms are described, their intentions and goals, as well as the most of the significant languages of all paradigms.

2017 European Security Conference

Author(s): Ioan-Cosmin Mihai / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2017

ISEG, University of Lisbon organized the conference 2017 European Security Conference at 05-06 June, 2017, in Lisbon, Portugal. The conference theme for 2017 was Cybersecurity Analytics.

3 D принтиране - фактор или пречка за развитието на експресните превози и доставки в бъдеще

Author(s): Kristian Krastev / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1 BG/2018

Maintaining high market share in the logistic business of express delivery servicess re quires continuous monitoring of technologies and innovation' implementation in business sector where the main contracting entities operate.

A 3-FACTOR MODEL RELATING COMMUNICATION TO RISK MITIGATION OF EXTENDED INFORMATION SYSTEM FAILOVER

Author(s): Athanasios Podaras / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2015

This paper aims to analyse the relation between timely and effective communication and risk mitigation of late recovery after an unexpected information system outage in enterprises. An unforeseen information system failure in modern enterprise units, may result to significant operational and financial damage. In such a critical incident, effective communication between the team leaders and the recovery team involved, can minimize or even eliminate this negative impact. An extended information system outage can be perceived as a time deviation from the Maximum Accepted Outage (ΜΑΟ) timeframe, proposed by the business continuity management, according to the value of which dependent business functions may be interrupted without any serious effects to the company. The paper examines the relation between 3 basic factors and the efficient communication between team members. The factors are: timely information distribution, staff availability and network availability. Through the current paper, the author proposes a risk analysis model, based on the Composite Risk Index theory of Risk Management, which can significantly diminish the possibility of an extended information system outage, as well as calculate the extended time required to recover a system when the aforementioned factors emerge in their worst form. The precise calculation of recovery time can be achieved via the execution of business continuity tests which include scenarios, according to which an unexpected system outage coexists with delayed information distribution as well as low staff and network availability.

A BLENDED-LEARNING APPROACH TO ESP TEACHING: DESIGNING A VIRTUAL PLATFORM

Author(s): Lorena Mihaes,Anda Dimitriu,Irina BOCIANU / Language(s): English / Issue: 03/2016

The demand for English courses particularly tailored to specific needs is ever growing in today’s higher education system. We teach a generation of undergraduate students who will most likely use English as a medium of instruction for their master’s degree, whether they decide to apply for one in Romania (the University of Bucharest offers 20 such programmes) or abroad. A greater emphasis, therefore, should be laid on meeting the competence standards required by the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, so that, upon graduation, the student will be an independent user of general English and have a good mastery of the terminology of his field of study. Since the undergraduate English course spans anywhere from two to five or six semesters, during which time the instructors have the task of bringing students with various language levels up to the same proficiency par - when they would ideally be able to apply for the abovementioned postgraduate programmes, a solution to the problem is offered by digital technologies, which can complement the traditional teaching methods already in use. Based on students’ answers to a questionnaire which led us to conclude that not only are they conversant with the new technologies, but they also consider that their language skills would improve, should the virtual medium be used during the in-class activities, we have devised a rough draft of an online platform specifically designed to facilitate the students’ access to and assimilation of information through online applications.

A brief report on the relationship between self-control, video game addiction and academic achievement in normal and ADHD students

Author(s): Maryam Haghbin,Fatemeh Shaterian,Davood Hosseinzadeh,Mark D. Griffiths / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2013

Over the last two decades, research into video game addiction has grown increasingly. The present research aimed to examine the relationship between video game addiction, self-control, and academic achievement of normal and ADHD high school students. Based on previous research it was hypothesized that (i) there would be a relationship between video game addiction, self-control and academic achievement (ii) video game addiction, self-control and academic achievement would differ between male and female students, and (iii) the relationship between video game addiction, self-control and academic achievement would differ between normal students and ADHD students. Methods: The research population comprised first grade high school students of Khomeini-Shahr (a city in the central part of Iran). From this population, a sample group of 339 students participated in the study. The survey included the Game Addiction Scale (Lemmens, Valkenburg & Peter, 2009), the Self-Control Scale (Tangney, Baumeister & Boone, 2004) and the ADHD Diagnostic checklist (Kessler et al., 2007). In addition to questions relating to basic demographic information, students’ Grade Point Average (GPA) for two terms was used for measuring their academic achievement. These hypotheses were examined using a regression analysis. Results: Among Iranian students, the relationship between video game addiction, self-control, and academic achievement differed between male and female students. However, the relationship between video game addiction, self-control, academic achievement, and type of student was not statistically significant. Conclusions: Although the results cannot demonstrate a causal relationship between video game use, video game addiction, and academic achievement, they suggest that high involvement in playing video games leaves less time for engaging in academic work.

A Business Analytics Shell for Teaching Corporate Decision Making

Author(s): Vladimir Zlatev / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2014

This paper presents a new approach to the emerging educational curricula of big data business analytics and the needs to teach students how to use data effectively to drive rapid, precise, and profitable analytics-based decisions. The framework consists of interlinked data-inputs, analytics models, and decision-support tools integrated within a proprietary business analytics shell. We demonstrate the capabilities of the system on examples from different functional areas of the enterprise. The objective is to teach students how decision making is enhanced through analytic methods that integrate the volume, velocity, variety, and veracity of the internal and external information into analytics-based decisions. The business analytics shell uses Power BI, a cloud based Add-Ins, that works with Microsoft Excel 2013 and allows users to share, collaborate, and contribute to complex projects and business reports from anywhere on any devices. All analytics models are fully integrated within the business analytics shell. The decision-support tool is presented as a dynamic business simulation called ’Strategies and Decision Support in Organizations’, designed to illustrate the decision- making process on business and functional levels. The results from this approach allow participants in graduate management courses to better understand how managers measure and evaluate critical functions of their business and prepare them to participate and contribute in a more efficient way to the new challenges and opportunities facing the modern enterprise.

A Case Study of Software Product Line for Business Applications Changeability Prediction

Author(s): Zdravko Roško,Vjeran Strahonja / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2014

The changeability, a sub-characteristic of maintainability, refers to the level of effort which is required to do modifications to a software product line (SPL) application component. Assuming dependencies between SPL application components and reference architecture implementation (a platform), this paper empirically investigates the relationship between 7 design metrics and changeability of 46 server components of a product line for business applications. In addition, we investigated the usefulness of Platform Responsibility (PR) metric as an indicator of product line component changeability. The results show that most of the design metrics are strongly related to the changeability of server component and also indicate statistically significant correlation between Maintainability Index (MI) and PR metric. The assessment is based on a case study of the implementation of the product line for business applications in a financial institution. The results show that PR metric can be used as good predictor of changeability in the software product line environment.

A Case-Driven Approach to Business Rules Extraction

Author(s): Neli Maneva,Krassimir Manev / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2012

The paper describes an attempt to propose a feasible solution of a hard problem - business rules extraction from source code. The main challenges of the problem from a conceptual and managerial point of view have been analyzed. The essence of the comparative analysis method is presented to explain why it can be used as a decision support method through the whole process of business rules mining. A case study illustrates the situations in which the method can be successfully applied. Finally, the results obtained till now are summarized and some directions for future research and experimental work are shared.

A Cognitive System to Teach Software Maintenance Project Staffing

Author(s): Zohair Chentouf / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2017

This paper describes a cognitive tool for teaching maintenance software project staffing decision making, which is based on a computational model of the human staffing decision process. The learning activity requires students to solve the given maintenance staffing problem before running the tool and comparing their decision with the tool’s one.

A Comparative Analysis of University Information Systems within the Scope of the Information Security Risks

Author(s): Rustu Yilmaz,Yildiray Yalman / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2016

Universities are the leading institutions that are the sources of educated human population who both produce information and ensure to develop new products and new services by using information effectively, and who are needed in every area. Therefore, universities are expected to be institutions where information and information management are used efficiently. In the present study, the topics such as infrastructure, operation, application, information, policy and human-based information security at universities were examined within the scope of the information security standards which are highly required and intended to be available at each university today, and then a comparative analysis was conducted specific to Turkey. Within the present study, the Microsoft Security Assessment Tool developed by Microsoft was used as the risk analysis tool. The analyses aim to enable the universities to compare their information systems with the information systems of other universities within the scope of the information security awareness, and to make suggestions in this regard.

A Comparative Study of Block Matching Optical Flow Algorithms

Author(s): Ramona Maris,Raluca Brad,Remus BRAD / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2017

The paper presents a study of existing Block Matching Optical Flow algorithms, which estimate the motion from an image sequence. The seven algorithms selected for our performance and comparative study (ES, TSS, SETSS, NTSS, FSS, DS and ARPS) are finding a minimum cost match between the current image reference block and one of the considered blocks in the next image. The benchmark used for the performance testing was the Middlebury Dataset, with the conclusions leading to a parameters and algorithm selection criteria.

A Conceptual Framework to Represent the Theoretical Domain of “Innovation Capability” in Organizations

Author(s): RamonB. Narcizo,Alberto G. Canen,Iara Tammela / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2017

The term ‘innovation capability’ has been used recurrently in the innovation literature, but there is still considerable divergence about its meaning and implication to organizations. A consensus exists that, to innovate, organizations must possess innovation capability, and that the ownership of this feature is not a binary process, but rather an evolutionary level process. This evolutionary logic is analogous to the basic structure of organizational maturity models. However, the literature integrating innovation capability into a maturity perspective is still limited. Considering these premises, from a broad bibliographical research, this article presents a framework of reference to represent the entire theoretical domain of innovation capability. Its purpose is to classify the main types of models about this construct available in the reference literature. It is organized at increasing levels of complexity, so that each level creates the conceptual conditions for the construction of more comprehensive models. Similar to the main use cases for maturity models, there are three basic levels for the framework: descriptive; comparative; and, finally, prescriptive models of innovation capability. Considering this cumulative framework, the authors argue that, to be fully understood, innovation capability should be studied using the perspective of maturity models.