Nowadays, Offshore Information Systems (IS) Outsourcing is developing tremendously, despite glutting with unsuccessful and disappointing projects. In order to implement offshore IS outsourcing projects successfully, it requires all the parties involved to not only attempt to cross the boundaries of different countries or organizations, but also confront the consequent challenges brought by inte...

introduction: emotion is fundamental to nursing practice and emotional intelligence is considered as an important characteristic of nurses that can affect the quality of their work including clinical decision-making, critical thinking, evidence and knowledge use in practice, etc. the aim of this research was to assess and compare emotional intelligence between freshman and senior baccalaureate ...

This paper shows how technologies for Web data extraction, syndication and integration allow for new applications and services in the Business Intelligence and the Semantic Web domain. First, we demonstrate how knowledge about market developments and competitor activities on the market can be extracted dynamically and automatically from semi-structured information sources on the Web. Then, we s...

Globalization spurred the rise of virtual software development teams. The complexity of managing a virtual team is rooted in the diverse cultural makeup of the team. Research increasingly recognizes that culture has significant implications for information systems. We propose in this study that the success of virtual software development team is influenced by cultural intelligence, a recent con...

this study proposes a modified version of cultural algorithms (cas) which benefits from rule-based system for influence function. this rule-based system selects and applies the suitable knowledge source according to the distribution of the solutions. this is important to use appropriate influence function to apply to a specific individual, regarding to its role in the search process. this rule ...

Computational model can be designed with soft computing technologies which are capable of reasoning and learning in an uncertain and imprecise environment. However, in a real practical project, there are many difficult computational bottlenecks in need to break through when using these technologies. This research aims to invent a cultural intelligence computational model, which can process cult...

Emotional intelligence (EI) is being recognised to be a vital element in many educational institutions today. Tuning into one's feelings and understanding others help to build and strengthen relationships in classrooms. There are some Emotional Intelligence skills most often related to academic success such as assertion, drive, strength, commitment ethic, time management, and stress management....

Defining intelligence as processing allows one to predict intelligence from infancy, discover causes of mental retardation, test the intelligence of people with disabilities, develop culture-fair tests of intelligence, and demonstrate that groups that differ in IQ do not necessarily differ in intelligence. An early estimate of intellectual disability allows a child to qualify quickly for remedi...