Due to the importance of technology entrepreneurs’ competencies in the creation and development of technological businesses, a distinct stream of research has been dedicated to this subject. However, given the nature of suchlike studies, it is difficult to reach a common understanding of the competencies. In fact, there is a need to provide some systematization to achieve advancements in the fi...

In this work two indexing approaches are presented for case-based reasoning. The first is a hybrid technique which uses a combination of a matrix structure and a tree structure to solve problems. The matrix and tree structures index cases by their discre-tised feature values. The second approach is based solely on the tree structure and never uses the matrix. The two techniques are evaluated in...

OBJECTIVE The authors developed and evaluated a tool for assessing competency in violence risk assessment and management. METHODS The Competency Assessment Instrument for Violence Risk (CAI-V) was based on the literature on violence risk assessment, which was complemented by feedback from faculty focus groups. In an objective structured clinical examination, 31 faculty observers used the CAI-...

Artificial Intelligence aims to provide computer programs with commonsense knowledge to reason about our world. This paper offers a new practical approach towards automated commonsense reasoning with first-order logic (FOL) ontologies. We propose a new black-box testing methodology of FOL SUMO-based ontologies by exploiting WordNet and its mapping into SUMO. Our proposal includes a method for t...

In competency-based education, it is important to frequently evaluate the degree of competency achieved by establishing and specifying competency levels. To self-appraise one's own competency level, one needs a simple, clear, and accurate description for each competency level. This study aimed at developing competency stages that can be used in surveys and conceptualizing clear and precise comp...

In this paper we introduce how competences can be modelled in a learning environment and the first steps to apply them in dotLRN. Therefore, a general description of the two approaches created for modelling competencies on a learning environment context is presented, i.e. the IMS Reusable Definition of Competency or Educational Objectives (IMS-RDCEO) [7] approach generated by the IMS Global Lea...

This paper offers and tests an approach to conceptualizing the global competency of engineers. It begins by showing that the often-stated goal of working effectively with different cultures is fundamentally about learning to work effectively with people who define problems differently. The paper offers a minimum learning criterion for global competency and three learning outcomes whose achievem...

background and purpose: consideringbackground and purpose: considering the importance and necessity of competency-based education at a global level and with respect to globalization and the requirement of minimum competencies in medical fields, medical education communities and organizations worldwide have tried to determine the competencies, present frameworks and education models to respond t...