Submitted: Apr 27, 2013; Accepted: Jun 3, 2013; Published: Jun 30, 2013 Abstract: Quality culture conditions are strongly linked with project outcomes and hence, initiatives undertaken should be incorporated to the organizational cultural changes. Total quality management practices in construction industries can be described as the processes or that aligns the business performance strategy to t...

This paper outlines the findings of a survey on trust, captured through attitude, experience, behaviour and expectation, of members in a Government run online support network. Overall, the results show that participants have high expectations for the behaviour of others in the community, expecting them to be trustworthy, helpful and supportive. There is a gap, however, between the respondents‟ ...

Successful IT executives know that delivering cost-effective, high quality and reliable IT capabilities requires close collaboration with business partners. Creating and sustaining the trusting and strong relationships with colleagues that enable such close collaboration and influence are critical to success. Pat Coffey, Vice President at Allstate Insurance and a long-standing Advanced Practice...

Digital Rights Management frameworks (DRM) aim at protecting and controlling information contents widely distributed on client devices. Using a license, the content provider can decide which rights can be rendered and who are the authorized end-users (as identity holders) allowed to exercise those rights. Most of the time, it is hard to add new feature to the client application, it is even impo...

Driven by the trend of global economic integration, informationlization and networking, the era of open innovation has arrived. Relationship network has become a new research approach of probing into the enterprises’ innovation, but the results are various. This research draws 114 samples from high-tech enterprises, utilizing structural equation modeling, aiming to explore the relationship amon...

This paper studies the properties of a helpful and trustworthy explanation in a movie recommender system. It discuss the results of an experiment based on a natural language explanation prototype. The explanations were varied according to three factors: degree of personalization, polarity and expression of unknown movie features. Personalized explanations were not found to be significantly more...

This paper describes our participation in the INTERSPEECH 2009 Emotion Challenge [1]. Starting from our previous experience in the use of automatic classification for the validation of an expressive corpus, we have tackled the difficult task of emotion recognition from speech with real-life data. Our main contribution to this work is related to the classifier sub-challenge, for which we tested ...

We present a weakly supervised approach for learning hashtags, hashtag patterns, and phrases associated with five emotions: AFFECTION, ANGER/RAGE, FEAR/ANXIETY, JOY, and SADNESS/DISAPPOINTMENT. Starting with seed hashtags to label an initial set of tweets, we train emotion classifiers and use them to learn new emotion hashtags and hashtag patterns. This process then repeats in a bootstrapping f...

This paper reports on the impact of the implementation of active and collaborative practices in ICT (information and communication technologies) classrooms. Both of these approaches convey a lot of responsibility from the teacher to the students and the hoping, as backed up by the literature, is to promote deeper learning and reasoning skills at a higher level. The question is: how do you do al...