The automotive standard AUTOSAR provides a broad standardized basis for ECU software development consisting of over 80 software modules and libraries accompanied by an associated development methodology. The potential benefits of (re-)using these standardized software modules are undisputed and make the use of AUTOSAR very attractive. When deploying AUTOSAR, however, both the OEMs and the Tier1...

This research identifies returns to scale (RTS) of efficient decision making units (DMUs) with desirable (good) and undesirable (bad) inputs and outputs by presenting a new DEA (data envelopment analysis) approach. In this study, we first introduce a new input-output oriented model to determine efficient DMUs in the presence of undesirable factors and then, returns to scale of these DMUs are es...

most developed countries have already accepted ‘competency’ as the major factor in making management more competitive, therefore they have discovered the importance of qualification models and their application to cause human resources growth. consequently, their aim is to improve the qualification of their human resources, and to reach this end, considering different ways of assessing competen...

Personal learning environment (PLE) solutions aim at empowering learners to design (ICT and web-based) environments for their activities in different learning contexts and even for transitions between these contexts. Hereby, recommender systems which are highly successful in other application areas comprise one relevant technology for supporting learners in PLE-based activities. In this paper w...