Model-driven architecture (MDA) is a relatively new software development paradigm that advocates the use of modeling throughout the software development lifecycle. This paradigm appears to be gaining validity in the industry as several large companies are investing resources to develop tools that support MDA. However, little is known about the diffusion of MDA in an academic setting. A survey o...

Academia has a long tradition of structuring itself around academic subjects, often epitomized through architectural manifestations such as individual buildings and whole campi. These materializations serve as sites of research and education, but also serve to describe the university as whole as well as its institutional parts, their definitions and their interrelations. This description goes d...

While the concepts of organizational learning and knowledge management are essential in industry, relatively little attention has been devoted to how these same concepts can be applied to higher education. Despite the ready availability of the Internet and the World Wide Web, and the increasing familiarity of faculty and students with these tools, many universities seem reluctant to release the...

Much of the discussion on the relevance of IS academic research to industry tends to take sides. I propose that it would be more constructive if the interaction with industry is recognized and nurtured. I suggest that to stay up to date, IS professors and doctoral students should actively interact with the industry and also encourage industry professionals to collaborate with IS academic programs.

The information sharing is one of the vital activities played by academia. Typically, academia shares their knowledge through articles which was distributed by the publisher of the article. The scope of the reader my limited to the reader subscribed to the publication. Thus, the existence of the articles may not widely known to the public. Website is one of the popular medium for academic infor...

The aim of this chapter is to provide a view on how researchers present themselves in a social network specifically developed for supporting academic practices, how they share information and engage in dialogues with colleagues worldwide. We analysed data from 30,428 who have registered on a publicly available website to study the effect of academic position, university ranking and country on p...

social interaction in academic society is a process in which faculty members transfer what they have in mind to each other. this can lead to the production of quality ideas. therefore, the basic purpose of this article is show that a high level of social interaction between professors has a positive effect on the quality of the ideas produced in academia. the method of research in this study wa...

The topic of plagiarism in academia is as old as academia itself. It has, however, received renewed interest as a result of the recent technological advances that make it easier to cheat. This situation has also sparked the development of sophisticated tools that can be applied to detect cheating. Much has been written to clarify what constitutes plagiarism in academia and what should be done t...

10.4172/Neuropsychiatry.1000243 © 2017 pISSN 1758-2008 eISSN 1758-2016 Neuropsychiatry (London) (2017) 7(5), 509–521 509 1Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 115, Taiwan 2Department of Life Sciences and Institute of Genome Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, 112, Taiwan H.-Y.L. and Y.-F.H contributed equally to the work. †Author for correspondence: Dr. Yi-Ping ...