Fuzzy Logic is one of the concepts that has created different scientific attitudes by entering into various professional fields nowadays and in some cases has made remarkable effects on the results of the practical researches. However, the existence of stochastic and uncertain situations in risk and accident field, affects the possibility of the forecasting and preventing the occurrence of the ...

this study aimed to identify the portions of teaching materials for english classes in iran’s high schools. the efficiency of these materials was evaluated by (a) eliciting the teachers’ perception of the materials to identify their distribution portions and (b) studying the teachers’ satisfaction to identify whether the materials were successful to develop the efl teachers’ knowledge and skill...

Support for human-to-human interactions over a network is still insufficient, particularly for Professional Virtual Communities (PVCs). Among other limitations, adaptation and the learning-by-experience capability of humans are not taken into account in the existing models for collaboration processes in PVCs. This paper presents a model for adaptive human collaboration. A key element of this mo...

The capability of the average person to generate digital music content has rapidly expanded over the past several decades. While the mechanics of creating a multi-track recording are relatively straightforward, using the available tools to create professional quality work requires substantial training and experience. We address one of the most fundamental processes to creating a finished produc...

The paper addresses the topic of third-part certification of ICT skills, with particular attention to three projects carried on in the Italian Universities to “bridge” University teaching with Industry needs. The first project concerns the adoption of ECDL as the way of assessing basic ICT skills owned by students entering the University. The second project proposes a new certification scheme, ...

This study focuses on the Internet-based telemedicine with the goal of understanding the relationship between objective and subjective video qualitymeasures and the decisionmaking capability ofmedical professional using an ophthalmology video.Objective and subjective measures are calculated using PSNR and the perception of human viewers respectively. An emulated Internet testbed was created for...

We surveyed 736 IS professionals in organizations at varying levels of the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) to investigate job attitudes and perceptions. Although anecdotal reports and the scant preliminary empirical studies to-date suggest job attitudes and perceptions improve for employees as organizations climb the CMM ladder, we found evidence of a more complex picture. IS workers reported s...