In an increasingly competitive and global environment, it is not uncommon for corporations to pursue joint partnerships, and strategic alliances in order to rapidly introduce products and services into the marketplace. These partnerships can and do occur between corporations that are located in countries with significant cultural and societal differences. Inherent in these partnerships is the c...

In this paper a culture-centered multilevel software process cycle model (MPCM) is presented. This model interrelates the socio-cultural, scientific/technological and paradigmatological environments. The proposed model is composed of three environments made up of the ecological universe, engineering, management, development and evaluation levels which represent the process cycle, and the lines ...

Engineering enterprises utilize a variety of technologies to manage the lifecycle of their critical assets. These technologies consist of operational as well as information technologies that aim to provide control of individual asset management processes as well as to create overall information enabled integrated view of the asset lifecycle management regime. However, implementation and adoptio...

An extensive amount of time and money is spent on developing methodologies and tools to improve the systems engineering process but much less is spent on addressing the organizational factors that can facilitate or hinder their adoption. This is partially due to engineering approach to problem solving which is technology centric. What is needed is an organization centric approach that complemen...

The IIT Mumbai recently held a tech fest. It was an extraordinary opportunity for engineering students from around the country to participate in diverse competitions like making robots, harnessing renewable sources of energy, designing ecofriendly houses, building boats that run on solar power and making machines out of junkyard scrap. Most good engineering institutes have this kind of technica...

Shanping Qiao*, Baoqiang Yan School of Management Science and Engineering, Shandong Normal University Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Network Based Intelligent Computing, School of Information Science and Engineering, University of Jinan, No. 336, West Road of Nan Xinzhuang, Jinan 250022, China, Ph.: +86-53189736503 School of Mathematical Science, Shandong Normal University No. 88, Cultur...

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Multiuser museum interactives are computer systems installed in museums or galleries which allow several visitors to interact together with digital representations of artefacts and information from the museum?s collection. In this paper, we describe We-Curate, a socio-technical system that supports co-browsing across multiple devices and enables groups of users to collaboratively curate a colle...

Education and learning take place in a situation that is heavily influenced by the culture of the learners’ context because this context affects a learner’s cognitive processes in learning. Hence, to improve the conditions for learning, e-learning environments and their contents have to be presented and interact with the learner in a culturally appropriate way. Therefore, an e-learning system f...

Language engineering encompassing natural language processing and speech processing became very important for a development of every nation in multilingual Europe. After the Council of European Union approved conclucions on linguistic and cultural diversity, tools and systems created for every European language are necessary to overcome language barriers and to use all languages in various sphe...