Digital storytelling represents a challenging way of creating a bridge between traditional oral storytelling and the form of communication adopted by modern media and information technology. In this paper I introduce a method for categorization of applications and outline a reference model in digital storytelling. The model will be useful for the analysis of existing, and the development of fut...

Current e-learning standards have been designed to provide reusability of educational contents and interoperability between systems. Besides these features, content personalization is also necessary, although current standards do not fully support it. In this paper, the ADL SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model) adaptation possibilities are studied and an extension to this standard is ...

Design science research, at its current stage, does not offer consistent and detailed phases to guide researchers to manage information systems projects. In this paper we introduce a reference model that covers its phase of creating artefacts. This model serves as a base to gather relevant information in producing solutions to business’ problems in design science context. One aspect of the mode...

Because of the growing complexity of manufacturing systems, the design of a suitable control and production management is a diicult task. To lend the designers a helping hand, various reference models have been developed. They usually are described in an informal way. This paper presents a formal speciication of a control architecture for job-shops based on their parallel character .

Distance learning has taken root, but it will take a big push to get to the next level. A key is to make courseware reusable in creating other courseware and interoperable across a wide variety of platforms on which the courseware is to be presented. In fact, reusability and interoperability are the cornerstones of the emerging distance learning standard called the Sharable Content Object Refer...

The objective of this paper is to propose a reference model for global software development, based on the results found in a case study conducted in two software development units from multinational organizations located in Brazil. Since the number of organizations distributing their software development processes worldwide keeps increasing, this change is having a profound impact on the way pr...

E-learning systems are changing education and organizational training considerably. With the advancement of online-based learning systems, learner control of the instructional process has emerged as a decisive factor inherent to technology-based learning. However, the conceptual work on the role of learner control in e-learning has not advanced sufficiently to predict how learner control impact...

Many enterprises need to handle programs that impose fundamental changes to the organization as well as the supporting IT systems. While general guidance for such transformations in form of methods, reference models, principles, etc. is available, the specific context of the insurance sector is often not considered. We conducted an interview series with informants from major European insurance ...

We consider a new approach to improve the performance of reference tracking problems for closed loop stabilized continuous linear systems through manipulation of the reference signals initiated by the occurrence of a discrete event. By means of the internal model principle, we show that a change in the reference signal is equivalent to implementing an instantaneous change via the choice of a de...