DEVELOPING STEP BY STEP AN ONTOLOGY TO SUPPORT HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Human Resources Management is aimed at ensuring all activities, development, motivation and retention of human resources within the organization to achieve its objectives with maximum efficiency and meet the needs of employees. Because the current economy is dominating by information and technology, the managers of an organization need concise and structured information to cope with problems arising in the activity they lead. The same is happening in the department of human resources, management requires structured and concise information about the employees, activities, processes, tasks, etc. in order to properly manage the entire human resources management. This paper argues for the development of an effective ontology to manage the human resources existing in an IT company.human resource management, ontology, ontology web language

Penalization Framework For Autonomous Agents Using Answer Set Programming

This paper presents a framework for enforcing penalties on intelligent agents that do not comply with authorization or obligation policies in a changing environment. A framework is proposed to represent and reason about penalties in plans, and an algorithm is proposed to penalize an agent's actions based on their level of compliance with respect to authorization and obligation policies. Being aware of penalties an agent can choose a plan with a minimal total penalty, unless there is an emergency goal like saving a human's life. The paper concludes that this framework can reprimand insubordinate agents.Comment: In Proceedings ICLP 2023, arXiv:2308.1489

Multi-Attribute Decision Making using Weighted Description Logics

We introduce a framework based on Description Logics, which can be used to encode and solve decision problems in terms of combining inference services in DL and utility theory to represent preferences of the agent. The novelty of the approach is that we consider ABoxes as alternatives and weighted concept and role assertions as preferences in terms of possible outcomes. We discuss a relevant use case to show the benefits of the approach from the decision theory point of view

Usability evaluation of the international FitBack web portal for monitoring youth fitness

Open access funding provided by Libera Università di Bolzano within the CRUI-CARE Agreement. This research was co-funded by the Erasmus + Sport Programme of the European Union within the project FitBack No. 613010-EPP-1-2019-1-SI-SPO-SCP and the Slovenian Research Agency within the Research programme Bio-psycho-social context of kinesiology No. P5-0142.Background FitBack is an international network established to support the creation of physical fitness monitoring and surveillance systems for children and adolescents across Europe. Aims As a part of the greater scope of the FitBack European project, the FitBack web portal was designed and tailored for various target groups, such as teachers, health professionals, policy makers, parents, and youths, with the aim to promote their physical and health literacy. Methods The FitBack web portal is a free and multilingual online resource, and two of its webpages were evaluated: “Make interactive report” was evaluated by 78 secondary school students and 27 physical education teachers, and “10 steps to design a physical fitness monitoring system” by 14 physical activity promotion policy makers. Validated scales and open-ended questions were used to collect both quantitative and qualitative responses. Results ‘Good’-to-‘excellent’ scores emerged for user experience (5.43–6.36 out of 7) and webpage usability (3.70–4.27 out of 5). Qualitative feedback highlighted positive comments and cues on how to improve website features. Conclusions Results indicate that the current FitBack web portal is a clear and user-friendly mobile health tool, which includes relevant information on how to use and implement youth physical fitness monitoring and surveillance systems.Libera Università di Bolzano CRUI-CARE AgreementErasmus + Sport Programme of the European Union FitBack 613010-EPP-1-2019-1-SI-SPO-SCPSlovenian Research Agency Research programme Bio-psycho-social context of kinesiology P5-014

The AXML Artifact Model

International audienceTowards a data-centric workflow approach, we introduce an artifact model to capture data and workflow management activities in distributed settings. The model is built on Active XML, i.e., XML trees including Web service calls. We argue that the model captures the essential features of business artifacts as described informally in [1] or discussed in [2]. To illustrate, we briefly consider the monitoring of distributed systems and the verification of temporal properties for them