Electronic Knowledge Repository (EKR) is one of the most commonly deployed knowledge management technologies, yet its success is hindered by employees’ underutilization and further complicated when implemented in the multinational context. To address these challenges, we propose a research model by conceptualizing employees’ knowledge seeking via EKR as a survival-centric behavior, identifying ...

Electricity spot prices are highly volatile under optimal generation capacity scenarios due to factors such as nonstorability of electricity, peak demand at certain periods, generator outages, fuel uncertainty for renewable energy generators, huge investments and time needed for generation capacity expansion etc. As a result market participants are exposed to price and volume risk, which has le...

We introduce a novel merger of direct sequence code division multiple access (DS-CDMA) and smart antenna arrays. With regard to the DS-CDMA scheme, we employ carrier interferometry DS-CDMA (CI/DS-CDMA), a novel implementation of DSCDMA where chips are decomposable into N narrowband frequency components. With regard to the antenna array, we deploy the oscillating-beam smart array. Here, applying...

The education project presented in this paper endeavors to study the feasibility of incorporating adaptive systems into LMS systems, by using them both in training & learning process and at work. This case study is aimed at employability and job post improvement. For this purpose, we have created a process that is flexible both to the student pattern (and to the job pattern. The developed proce...

The aims of this paper are to use a birandom variable to denote the stock return selected by some recurring technical patterns and to study the effect of exit strategy on optimal portfolio selection with birandom returns. Firstly, we propose a newmethod to estimate the stock return and use birandom distribution to denote the final stock return which can reflect the features of technical pattern...

This paper presents several design patterns for the hypermedia domain: Navigational Context, Active Reference, Landmark, News and Shopping Basket. They are part of a pattern language for hypermedia applications and address the design of healthy navigational structures. They can be applied in stand-alone applications or in dynamic Web sites or Information Systems.

increasing competitiveness between software companies , that stems from customer needs and new information technologies, obliges the companies to improve their products’ quality according to high speed and low cost. this research seeks to introduce and determine the software production assembly line, one of the software development approaches. a three stage questionnaire was used to collect inf...

This research aims to gain a detailed understanding of data producers, data consumers and format/flow of the data within automotive industry for defining and using Bill of Process (BoP) for engine assembly lines. The focus remained on the real industrial challenge of rapid constraint evaluation for designing and/or reconfiguration of Powertrain assembly lines to cater for a new/changed product....

Starink, J.P.P. and I.T. Young, Localization of circular objects, Pattern Recognition Letters 14 ( 1993 ) 895-905. Localization of circular objects is easy when all objects are isolated, but becomes more complicated when two or more objects are touching or overlapping. In this paper we discuss a method to accurately localize the centroids and obtain estimates on the sizes. The method consists o...

This paper presents results on using rhythm for automatic language identification (LID). The idea is to explore the duration of pseudo-syllables as language discriminative feature. The resulting Rhythm system is based on Bigram duration models of neighbouring pseudo-syllables. The Rhythm system is fused with a Spectral system realized by parallel Phoneme Recognition (PPR) approach using MFCC’s....