This study provides a systematic review of mobile assisted language (MALL) research within the specific area of second language acquisition (SLA) during the period of 2005-2012 in terms of research approaches, theories and methods, technology, and the linguistic knowledge and skills’ results. The findings show a shift from the prevailing SMS-based language learning in 2005-2008 towards the use ...

One of the major goals of capacity planning is to ensure that the business service level objectives are met. Identifying the relationship between Business Metrics of Interest (BMIs) and available system performance metrics is critical to accurate models and forecasts. BMIs represent the real world transactions that drive our business workload’s resource consumption. This paper will define the c...

In this paper, we propose a general architecture blueprint for long-living BIS helping to avoid the legacy problem and to protect the huge investments made in BIS. One central feature of this architecture is that the integration of innovative third-party is particularly well supported. The second part of this paper therefore addresses the problem of managing external third-party services based ...

Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 1 Overview of Available Technologies ............................................................................................................. 2 Evaluating IV Workflow Systems and IV Robotics ............................................

Shortening lead times in a business process is important for meetings service level agreements, decreasing inventories and working capital, keeping customers satisfied and in short: staying in business. Process mining methods make it possible to generate a large amount of transaction event data and case attributes that are useful for analysing lead times. However, finding root causes for long l...

We describe a number of strategies for a future service oriented market place. We describe the SLA’s role within the service framework, and how it enables customers to make value judgements regarding the quality of a service. We also discuss the complexity of too much choice from both the customer and provider points of view, and advocate a “discrete offer” approach. We discuss the “cost of neg...

In an effort to investigate developmental episodes in additional language learning using both cognitive and social frameworks, this working paper presents results of a pilot study based on a task-based language learning session. A total of forty participants at a Japanese university carried out a pedagogical task in five steps, including both interactive and independent steps. No instruction wa...

This paper aims at addressing the issues that emerge when attempting to analyse the acquisition of L2 vowels: studies usually embed vowels in the same /hVd/ template (e.g. Hillenbrand [14], Ferragne [10], Clopper [9]) in order to reduce coarticulatory effects, and the number of occurrences of each vowel is carefully controlled in order to comply with normalization constraints (e.g. Lobanov [17]...

Knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) is experiencing rapid industry growth and is projected to be the next significant wave of outsourcing. The emergence of this new wave in outsourcing poses considerable administrative and governance related challenges. In this research, we identify and discuss the difficulties associated with KPOs and compare these difficulties to the previous models of outsou...

Assuming that CFD solutions will be more and more used to characterize losses in terms of drag for external flows and head loss for internal flows, we suggest to replace single-valued data, like the drag force or a pressure drop, by field information about the losses. These information are gained when the entropy generation in the flow field is analyzed, an approach that often is called second ...