The New York Times declared 2012 as the year of the Massive Online Open Courses (MOOC). This also proves that MOOC is the latest and the most successful development in online education. These online courses are designed for large-scale participation, freely available with free access to all course materials, available through any web browser on any mobile device or computer The talk summarizes ...

Outsourcing initiatives are key to firm efforts to focus on core competencies, alter engrained practices and attain significant cost reductions in non-core processes. Extensive thought goes into the selection of outsourcing service providers, with the aim of enlisting vendors that have the competence and reputation to lower cost and enhance service levels. However, in addition to traditional fe...

We’ve become so accustomed to the cycle of hype that we apply it to every new innovation without thinking. We expect all new technologies to be swept upward on a wave of emotion, only to fall to earth when the hype wears o . By reducing innovation to a stereotype, we overlook the new ideas that each innovation can bring. A recent swing in the cycle of hype began in 2011, when massive open onlin...

We developed a time-oriented, skeletal plan-representation language called Asbru [1] used to represent clinical protocols. It is a modeling language which supports both the design and the execution of skeletal plans by a human executing agent other than the original plan designer. During the design phase, Asbru allows to express durative actions and plans caused by durative states of an observe...

Airlines are increasingly using regional jets to better match aircraft size to high value demand markets, and reduce labor costs. This has been especially important due to the increased pressure on the industry following September 11 2001, because airlines see regional jets as a major part of their financial recovery plan. The increase in regional jets represents a significant change from tradi...

The effective implementation of Massively Open Online Courses poses fascinating challenges. We address two such challenges using an agent based approach, employing formal specifications to articulate an agent design which can later be used for software development. The challenges addressed are: 1) How can a learner be provided with a personalised learning experience? 2) How can a learner make b...