ADVISOR is an automated visual surveillance system for metro stations which was developed as part of the project ADVISOR, involving 3 academic and 3 industrial project partners. The ADVISOR system aims at making public transport safer by automatically detecting at an early stage dangerous situations which may lead to accidents, violence or vandalism. In order to achieve this people are tracked ...

The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand how international doctoral students matched with their faculty advisors, what types advising experiences they had, and these interactions influenced first-year success in programs. We applied the lens developmental situate our sample due framework’s emphasis on holistic student support. conducted individual semi-structured interviews 21 at...

abstract. academic spin-offs are recognized as the main means of technology transfer, contribute to the commercialization of the results of academic research, leading to society wealth creation. academic spin-offs start with some major disadvantages related to their liability of newness, smallness and their university origination. it is been argued that academic spin-off need to strengthen thei...

Academic advising plays a vital role in achieving higher educational institution’s purposes. is process where an academic advisor decides to select certain number of courses for student register each semester fulfil the graduation requirements. This paper presents Advising Decision Support System (AADSS) enhance advisors make better decisions regarding their students’ cases. AADSS framework div...

Process of finding the right expert for a given problem in an organization is becoming feasible. Using web surfing data it is feasible to find advisor who is most likely possessing the desired piece of fine grained knowledge related with given query. Web surfing data is clustered into tasks by using Gaussian Dirichlet process mixture model. In order to mine micro aspects in each task a novel di...

It is common that in all academic systems the students must make decisions about the future by choosing among different alternatives that include professional profiles or modalities, elective subjects or optional, etc. These decisions can have a very important influence in the academic journey of the students because sometimes a wrong decision can lead to academic failure or its correction impl...