Designing a novel virtual collaborative environment to support collaboration in design review meetings

Project review meetings are part of the project management process and are organised to assess progress and resolve any design conflicts to avoid delays in construction. One of the key challenges during a project review meeting is to bring the stakeholders together and use this time effectively to address design issues as quickly as possible. At present, current technology solutions based on BIM or CAD are information-centric and do not allow project teams to collectively explore the design from a range of perspectives and brainstorm ideas when design conflicts are encountered. This paper presents a system architecture that can be used to support multi-functional team collaboration more effectively during such design review meetings. The proposed architecture illustrates how information-centric BIM or CAD systems can be made human- and team-centric to enhance team communication and problem solving. An implementation of the proposed system architecture has been tested for its utility, likability and usefulness during design review meetings. The evaluation results suggest that the collaboration platform has the potential to enhance collaboration among multi-functional teams

Online Learning Video Recommendation System Based on Course and Sylabus Using Content-Based Filtering

Learning using video media such as watching videos on YouTube is an alternative method of learning that is often used. However, there are so many learning videos available that finding videos with the right content is difficult and time-consuming. Therefore, this study builds a recommendation system that can recommend videos based on courses and syllabus. The recommendation system works by looking for similarity between courses and syllabus with video annotations using the cosine similarity method. The video annotation is the title and description of the video captured in real-time from YouTube using the YouTube API. This recommendation system will produce recommendations in the form of five videos based on the selected courses and syllabus. The test results show that the average performance percentage is 81.13% in achieving the recommendation system goals, namely relevance, novelty, serendipity and increasing recommendation diversity

Chemigation and Fertigation Basics for California

Chemigation is the application of any chemical through an irrigation system. Examples of chemicals include insecticides, fungicides, fertilizers, water amendments, soil amendments, and compounds used to reduce plugging of drip emitters. Proper chemigation reduces energy consumption (less fertilizer, chemicals, and tractor travel) and improves crop quality and yields. Fertigation accounts for the majority of chemigation. The sophistication of fertigation knowledge and practices is at about the same level as drip/microirrigation was in the mid-1970s. A lot of equipment and chemicals exist, and many farmers use fertigation, but only a relatively small percentage of those farmers are sophisticated users

Employee Self Service (ESS) Information System at PT. Pilar Timur Teknologi

A company that is reliable in providing its products or services never escapes the good quality of human resources. These qualities can generally be viewed from the development and maintenance of human resources within the company. In the research conducted at PT.  The Eastern Pillar of Technology, the company hopes to maximize service to its employees so that they can focus on working and the level of employee satisfaction can increase. The service in question is oriented towards Human Resource Management, where so far, every bureaucratic, administrative, and recapitulation process related to human resources has not been fully recorded and optimally documented. For example, on its implementation, employees who want to apply for leave or permission will be faced with a long bureaucratic process.  On the other hand, employees must also confirm to the Human Resource Management party whether they still have leave and permit allotments or not. This causes problems in some conditions, where the occurrence of employee indiscipline in applying for leave or permits. In addition to the application and attendance process that is still done manually, it causes inconsistencies or errors in the recap of employee data.  That have a bad impact on the calculation of the payroll that will be carried out. Mobile-based Employee Self Service plays an important role in solving these problems because it can display accurate data and reports for each employee, both in terms of permits, leave, overtime, attendance or even payroll calculations. This research was conducted using a descriptive research method with a data collection method through interviews and observations on the object of study. For the system development method used, the author used the prototype development method with Unified Modelling Language modelling. While in prototype development, the author uses kotlin and MySQL programming languages for his database.  The result is the construction of Employee Self Service with the aim of providing easier access for employees in utilizing the facilities provided by the company, as well as minimizing errors and omissions that may occur in the employee service process

Adoption of CRM technology in multichannel environment : a review (2000-2013)

Despite the relevance of customer relationship management (CRM), there is a lack of a comprehensive literature review and a classification scheme for it in the last five years. This work provides an academic database of literature between the periods of 2000–2013, covering 28 journals and proposes a classification scheme to classify the articles in accordance to CRM main paths. Around fifty five hundred articles were identified and reviewed for their direct relevance to CRM in a multichannel environment. Eighty-seven articles were subsequently selected, reviewed and classified. Each of the selected papers was categorized on four CRM dimensions (Identification, Attraction, Retention and Development) and in the different channels involved (personnel sales, call center, email, web, and mobile). The review process was independently verified and promote interesting findings: Findings of this paper indicate that the research area of customer retention received most research attention during the first half of the years studied. On the other half, besides retention, development stage was truly relevant. Our analysis provides a roadmap to guide future research, as well as facilitate knowledge accumulation concerning the CRM in multichannel.N/

تعیین شاخص‌های ارزیابی سیستم‌های اطلاعات بهداشتی و ارائه الگو

مقدمه: سیستم‌های اطلاعات بهداشتی، سیستم‌های کامپیوتری‌اند که برای سهولت مدیریت اطلاعات بهداشتی به منظور بهبود کیفیت مراقبت طراحی شده‌اند. باید ارزیابی‌های مداوم برای انجام تحقیقات اپیدمیولوژیکی و مدیریت سیستم‌های اطلاعات بهداشتی، پرهیز از دوباره‌کاری و ارتقاء کیفیت مراقبت‌ها و کاهش هزینه، انجام شود. متاسفانه چارچوبی برای ارزیابی سیستم‌های اطلاعات بهداشتی که بر روش‌های اندازه‌گیری و شاخص‌های ارزیابی تاکید داشته باشد، در کشورمان وجود ندارد. هدف از این مطالعه مشخص کردن مراحل، روش‌های مطالعه، منبع داده‌ها و شاخص‌های ارزیابی سیستم‌های اطلاعات بهداشتی است. روش بررسی: روش این پژوهش توصیفی ـ مقطعی است که در سال 1383 انجام شده است. ابتدا مطالعات کتابخانه ای، جستجوی اینترنتی و پست الکترونیکی جهت گردآوری اطلاعات صورت گرفت. سپس شاخص‌های ارائه شده توسط انگلستان و کانادا بر طبق اهمیت آنها طبقه‌بندی شد، و بر اساس آن پرسشنامه‌ای حاوی 20 سوال اصلی که برای هر کدام چندین شاخص ارائه شده بود، به نظرسنجی صاحبنظران گذاشته شد. پرسشنامه به 35 نفر داده شد، که از میان آنان 28 نفر آن را تکمیل نمودند. این افراد اعضاء علمی دانشگاه و متخصصین در زمینه سیستم‌های اطلاعات بهداشتی بودند. شاخص‌هایی که بیش از 21 نفر (بیش از 75 درصد) افراد اهمیت آنها را زیاد و بسیار زیاد انتخاب کرده بودند، به عنوان مهمترین شاخص‌ها در نظر گرفته شدند. از جمله این شاخص‌ها می‌توان به اجتناب از حوادث، دسترسی به داده‌ها، کامل بودن داده‌ها و دقت داده‌ها اشاره نمود. پس از جمع‌آوری پرسشنامهها، نتایج با استفاده از نرم افزار SPSS تحلیل شدند. یافته‌ها: در تعیین مراحل ارزیابی سیستم‌های اطلاعات بهداشتی شش مرحله‌ی تعیین ضرورت، زمان، موضوعات، چگونگی، تحلیل نتایج و گزارش، ارزشیابی پیشنهادات و تصمیم‌گیری بر اساس آن مشخص گردید. یافته‌های این پژوهش نشان داد که 13 نوع مطالعه جهت ارزیابی سیستم‌های اطلاعات بهداشتی وجود دارد. برای تعیین منبع داده‌های ارزیابی 26 منبع داده مشخص شد. در نهایت شاخص‌های ارزیابی سیستم‌های اطلاعات بهداشتی در سه زمینه ارزیابی پاسخگویی، ارزیابی ارتقاء عملکرد و ارزیابی توسعه دانش ارائه شده‌اند. نتیجه گیری: به همان اندازه که در ارزیابی از سیستم‌های اطلاعات بهداشتی به جنبه‌های مالی و اقتصادی توجه می‌شود، بایستی به جنبه‌های نیروی انسانی و ارزیابی توسعه دانش نیز توجه شود. بیشتر ارزیابی‌های انجام شده از سیستم‌های اطلاعات بهداشتی در زمینه ارزیابی پاسخگویی بوده که به صورت کمی و با آزمایشات کنترل شده تصادفی انجام می‌شوند. در صورتیکه بهترین ارزیابی در صورت استفاده هم زمان از چندین روش ارزیابی با شاخص‌های مطرح شده می‌باشد

Comparing and Contrasting a Program versus System Approach to Evaluation: The Example of a Cardiac Care System

This paper focuses on the application of systems thinking concepts to evaluate systems.  The terms systems and systems thinking concepts are first defined.  The use of systems thinking concepts in program and system evaluation are then highlighted.  It is noted that while there are methods available to assist evaluation practitioners in applying systems thinking concepts to program evaluation, there is a need for similar guidance in applying systems thinking concepts to evaluating systems.  System Evaluation Theory (SET) is then reviewed as one evaluation theory designed to apply systems thinking concepts to evaluating systems. A case illustration is presented to help teach practitioners how to apply SET’s three steps.  The discussion focuses on comparing the differences between evaluation questions answered by applying systems thinking concepts versus those using program logic models