Moving away from decades of machine-centric computing and making pervasive human-centric computing, the new wave of computing, a reality revolutionises the relationship between humans and computing systems. In order to implement the vision of pervasive human-centric computing, it is necessary to reform software engineering education to well prepare graduates of software engineering programmes f...

There are several practical problems of knowledge representation where it is more natural to talk in terms of the set of sentences related to a given topic than to make explicit all the sentences in this set. A problematic feature of classical logic is that if we want to represent this set by a small set which is closed under logical consequence, we can generate sentences related to new topics....

As we move from the industrial age to the information age, organisational effectiveness will require the development of different capabilities. Information age technologies may allow us to develop new methods of working together that will enable agile groups to respond rapidly to changing circumstances. By examining the experiences of commercial organisations’ transformation to network centric ...

Information warfare has surfaced as an emerging concept that affects not only military institutions but ordinary organisations as well. Information warfare in itself consists of various components ranging from its electronic and psychological aspects to its network enabled capabilities and functionality (network warfare). Various computer and information security practices form part of network ...

Generation of social networks using Preferential Attachment (PA) mechanism is proposed in the Barabasi-Albert model. In this mechanism, new nodes are introduced to the network sequentially and they attach to the existing nodes preferentially where the preference can be based on the degree of the existing nodes. PA is a classical model with a natural intuition, great explanatory power and intere...

Image segmentation is critical for many computer vision and information retrieval systems. Although lot of advancements has been made in this area, but there is no standard technique for selecting a segmentation algorithm to use in a particular application. Two different segmentation algorithms will produce completely different segmentation results when applied to same image, which in turn affe...

Process discovery is a technique that allows for automatically discovering a process model from recorded executions of a process as it happens in reality. This technique has successfully been applied for classical processes where one process execution is constituted by a single case with a unique case identifier. Data-centric and artifact-centric systems such as ERP systems violate this assumpt...

Currently, two major process modeling paradigms exist: activitycentric and artifact-centric. They focus on different first class modeling constructs and therefore, they are eligible for different scenarios. Nevertheless, both paradigms compete for users raising the own capabilities over the other’s ones neglecting that both paradigms are compatible to each other such that one can transform one ...

In spite of the application of high-tech approaches, tools, and methodologies, there is a common point in all of the organizations: human beings make most of the important decisions, and they operate and use systems. Experience shows that improper application of this human factor can cally most advanced systems. The lowest level of connection among systems is made through protocols; the highest...

There were once again high expectations that a major global health event - the Ebola virus outbreak of 2014-2015 - would trigger meaningfully World Health Organization (WHO) reform and strengthen global health governance (GHG). Rather than a “turning point,” however, the global community has gone back to business as usual. This has occurred against a backdrop of worldwide political turmoil, cha...