Enterprises are confronted with frequent changes in their business environment which require quick responses. Thereby, highly skilled and flexible employees play a major role since they are able to respond promptly. To enhance competencies and flexibility, the concept of employee empowerment has been proposed. In this respect, the workforce is given an increased level of autonomy and offered su...

Information Technology is emerging to be the technology of the 21 century. The paradigm shift from industrial society to information society had already become a reality! It is indeed a high time to think about integrating IT in all facets of education – may it be in secondary or higher education level, or be it in reskilling the employed ones. Reskilling is now a days seriously considered by m...

Contents Introduction Lies Sercu and Manuel Jimenez Raya 7 Learner autonomy and intercultural competence Adri Elsen and Oliver St.-John 15

2 Individual Pronunciation Coaching The difficulties experienced while learning the pronunciation of a second language do not only depend on the mother tongue of the learners but also on individual differences between learners. Even students of the same mother tongue and with a very similar learning background show huge differences in their individual pronunciation. Learners also differ in term...

Autonomy is a crucial and powerful feature of agents and it is the subject of much research in the agent field. Controlling the autonomy of agents is a way to coordinate the behavior of groups of agents. Our approach is to look at it as a design problem for agents. We analyze the autonomy of an agent as a gradual property that is related to the degree of intervention of other agents in the deci...

This article presents a novel human autonomy assessment system for generating context and discovering the behaviors of older people who use ambulant services. Our goal is to assist caregivers in assessing possibly abnormal health conditions in their clients concerning their level of autonomy, thus enabling caregivers to take countermeasures as soon as possible.