Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) has become an important standard of courseware format and platform development in distance learning. We follow the metadata definition of SCORM 1.3 draft, and developed a system which supports collaborative courseware authoring. The system is able to suggest an optimal sequence, with a set of automatically generated lecture components. A CSCW-like...

Collaborative Networked Organisations (CNOs) are conceptually well understood, and their potential benefits are commonly accepted. However, there is still a critical need for methodologies and reference models to assist and guide the organizational design of CNOs. The efforts to provide a specific CNO implementation and operation methodology can be greatly assisted by defining a meta-methodolog...

The cost for house production is rising in Sweden. Compared with other consumer goods, the cost for houses have had a steeper increase over the last decades. Initiatives such as Lean Construction and Prefabrication have emerged in the construction industry to reduce the cost of house production and thereby the cost of the house itself. These initiatives have collected a lot of ideas and tools f...

Managing energy consumption of devices is different from several well understood network management functions because of the special nature of energy supply and use. This document explains issues of energy management arising from its special nature and proposes a layered reference model for energy management addressing these issues.

Telecooperation means to fulfill different tasks within distributed (study-) groups with the help of multimedia communication services and systems, so-called Telecooperation Systems (Tcoop system) The immense progress in the underlying information and telecommunication technology increases the functionality, variability, and complexity of such Tcoop systems. In addition there is a great demand ...

In the past few years, the community that develops i* has become aware of the problem of having so many variants, since it makes it difficult for newcomers to learn how to use the language and even to experts to efficiently exchange knowledge and disseminate their proposals. Moreover, this problem also delays the transfer of the i* framework to industrial settings. Our work is one of the curren...

The aim of the authors of this paper was to identify areas that would aid in developing a better understanding of the dynamics of a customer’s decision to shop online. To accomplish this, a review of the empirical studies on the antecedents of online shopping was performed. From an extensive literature search, a total of 45 relevant articles were identified. The factors that have been investiga...

ion a process that transforms information into information whose semantic content and scope are richer/higher than the content and scope of the initial information.

We present in this work a novel algorithm for fast speaker adaptation using only small amounts of adaptation data. It is motivated by the fact that a set of representative speakers can provide a priori knowledge to guide the estimation of a new speaker in the speaker-space. The proposed algorithm enables an a posteriori selection of reference models in the speakerspace as opposed to the a prior...