Typically a user prefers an item (e.g., a movie) because she likes certain features of the item (e.g., director, genre, producer). This observation motivates us to consider a featurecentric recommendation approach to item recommendation: instead of directly predicting the rating on items, we predict the rating on the features of items, and use such ratings to derive the rating on an item. This ...

Objective: In today’s information society, science and technology are defined as the most important pillars of development progress societies that changing rapidly. Thus, governments try actively to enter category in their upstream policies documents make order a discourse at level society. The two basic concepts our which require attention programs, ‘scientific authority’ ‘eco-centric values’,...

Much of the prior work in business process modeling is activity-centric. Recently, an information-centric approach has emerged, where a business process is modeled as the interacting lifecycles of business entities. The benefits of this approach are documented in a number of case studies. In this paper, the authors formalize the information-centric approach and derive the relationships between ...

For the rest of the semester, we will take a closer look at each of the components of the passive SONAR equation. The goal is for each of you to enhance your understanding about each of the components and understand what actions can minimize or maximize the factors as appropriate to your tactical undersea warfare situation. Undersea warfare is a complex process where those with the best underst...

A variety of new organizational forms have emerged both presaging and in response to the netcentric economy. Common themes across these emerging organizational forms are identified in proposing an overarching characterization – the Designing Organization. Then, the constituent elements of the designing organization are characterized as well as its strategic logic. Next, the roles served by info...

The article considered modern construction principles of systems for warfighter physiological status monitoring, being developed currently by the advanced countries of the West. Analysis of the technologies in questions has been based on the theory of net centric warfare and concerns of development of modern means of protection. The article presented the feasibility and the key concepts of war ...

A cluster of research has been conducted in higher education to investigate the affordances (action possibilities) and the influence information and communication technologies (ICT) may have on students’ learning experiences and outcomes. Such studies have given rise to the implementation of a wide range of educational frameworks with a great deal of empirical evidence on the benefits of using ...