This chapter identifies the issues that might create orthogonal complexities for process dynamism, and decouples the components implementing them in a “domain specific” way. Authors believe that traditional process management techniques for modeling and executing the processes still fall short to improve the dynamism of an enterprise. Some of the reasons are: using too “generic” techniques and ...

We report in this paper the design, fabrication and experimental characterization of a piezoelectric MEMS microgenerator. This device scavenges the energy of ambient mechanical vibrations characterized by frequencies in the range of 1 kHz. This component is made with Aluminum Nitride thin film deposited with a CMOS compatible process. Moreover we analyze two possible solutions for the signal re...

This paper presents a meta-model for provision of dynamic personalization to knowledge-based systems. Such a meta-model provides design reuse for complex, knowledge-based systems providing dynamic personalization in various domains like hypermedia, eLearning, and knowledge management. The meta-model provides basic dynamic personalization features in an abstract, domain-independent manner. This ...

Business information received from advanced data analysis and data mining is a critical success factor for companies wishing to maximize competitive advantage. The use of traditional tools and techniques to discover knowledge is ruthless and does not give the right information at the right time. Knowledge discovery is defined as ``the non-trivial extraction of implicit, unknown, and potentially...

Ultrasonography represents the method of choice in the investigation of the female pelvis. An accurate interpretation of the images must take into consideration the specific features of the uterus, ovaries and fallopian tubes. The present case review aims to demonstrate important points in interpretation and management of the female pelvis images.

generally. management is one of man's most difficult and most delicate affairs it has its specific characteristics. it happens that the lack of one of these characteristics leads to the stagnation of affairs or to chaos in the management territory. the laymen consider management an easy task, and erroneously assume that it is enough to have a degree in management to be able to be assigned ...

We tackle the prediction of instructor intervention in student posts from discussion forums in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Our key finding is that using automatically obtained discourse relations improves the prediction of when instructors intervene in student discussions, when compared with a state-of-the-art, feature-rich baseline. Our supervised classifier makes use of an automatic ...

Appropriately applied, usability testing is a worthy tool. However, it imperfectly informs Web site design. This article will briefly describe usability testing, review literature that considers (or fails to consider) its limitations, and propose that content and rhetorical analyses can compensate for usability testing's limitations. Finally, the article argues that a broader analytical approac...