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Exploratory study to explore the role of ICT in the process of knowledge management in an Indian business environment
In the 21st century and the emergence of a digital economy, knowledge and the knowledge base economy are rapidly growing. To effectively be able to understand the processes involved in the creating, managing and sharing of knowledge management in the business environment is critical to the success of an organization. This study builds on the previous research of the authors on the enablers of knowledge management by identifying the relationship between the enablers of knowledge management and the role played by information communication technologies (ICT) and ICT infrastructure in a business setting. This paper provides the findings of a survey collected from the four major Indian cities (Chennai, Coimbatore, Madurai and Villupuram) regarding their views and opinions about the enablers of knowledge management in business setting. A total of 80 organizations participated in the study with 100 participants in each city. The results show that ICT and ICT infrastructure can play a critical role in the creating, managing and sharing of knowledge in an Indian business environment
Toward guiding simulation experiments
To face the variety of simulation experiment methods, tools are needed that allow their seamless integration, guide the user through the steps of an experiment, and support him in selecting the most suitable method for the task at hand.
This work presents techniques for facing such challenges. To guide users through the experiment process, six typical tasks have been identified for structuring the experiment workflow. The M&S framework JAMES II and its plug-in system is exploited to integrate various methods. Finally, an approach for automatic selection and use of such methods is realized
Reusability Challenges of Scientific Workflows: A Case Study for Galaxy
Scientific workflow has become essential in software engineering because it
provides a structured approach to designing, executing, and analyzing
scientific experiments. Software developers and researchers have developed
hundreds of scientific workflow management systems so scientists in various
domains can benefit from them by automating repetitive tasks, enhancing
collaboration, and ensuring the reproducibility of their results. However, even
for expert users, workflow creation is a complex task due to the dramatic
growth of tools and data heterogeneity. Thus, scientists attempt to reuse
existing workflows shared in workflow repositories. Unfortunately, several
challenges prevent scientists from reusing those workflows. In this study, we
thus first attempted to identify those reusability challenges. We also offered
an action list and evidence-based guidelines to promote the reusability of
scientific workflows. Our intensive manual investigation examined the
reusability of existing workflows and exposed several challenges. The
challenges preventing reusability include tool upgrading, tool support
unavailability, design flaws, incomplete workflows, failure to load a workflow,
etc. Such challenges and our action list offered guidelines to future workflow
composers to create better workflows with enhanced reusability. In the future,
we plan to develop a recommender system using reusable workflows that can
assist scientists in creating effective and error-free workflows.Comment: Accepted in APSEC 202
SANA - Network Protection through artificial Immunity
Current network protection systems use a collection of intelligent components
- e.g. classifiers or rule-based firewall systems to detect intrusions and
anomalies and to secure a network against viruses, worms, or trojans. However,
these network systems rely on individuality and support an architecture with
less collaborative work of the protection components. They give less
administration support for maintenance, but offer a large number of individual
single points of failures - an ideal situation for network attacks to succeed.
In this work, we discuss the required features, the performance, and the
problems of a distributed protection system called SANA. It consists of a
cooperative architecture, it is motivated by the human immune system, where the
components correspond to artificial immune cells that are connected for their
collaborative work. SANA promises a better protection against intruders than
common known protection systems through an adaptive self-management while
keeping the resources efficiently by an intelligent reduction of redundant
tasks. We introduce a library of several novel and common used protection
components and evaluate the performance of SANA by a proof-of-concept
implementation.Comment: 5 page
Access to Marine Genetic Resources (MGR): Raising Awareness of Best-Practice Through a New Agreement for Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ)
Better scientific knowledge of the poorly-known deep sea and areas beyond national
jurisdiction (ABNJ) is key to its conservation, an urgent need in light of increasing
environmental pressures. Access to marine genetic resources (MGR) for the biodiversity
research community is essential to allow these environments to be better characterised.
Negotiations have commenced under the auspices of the United Nations Convention
on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) to develop a new treaty to further the conservation
and sustainable use of marine biological diversity in ABNJ. It is timely to consider the
relevant issues with the development of the treaty underway. Currently uncertainties
surround the legal definition of MGR and scope of related benefit-sharing, against a
background of regional and global governance gaps in ABNJ. These complications are
mirrored in science, with recent major advances in the field of genomics, but variability
in handling of the resulting increasing volumes of data. Here, we attempt to define
the concept of MGR from a scientific perspective, review current practices for the
generation of and access to MGR from ABNJ in the context of relevant regulations, and
illustrate the utility of best-practice with a case study. We contribute recommendations
with a view to strengthen best-practice in accessibility of MGR, including: funder
recognition of the central importance of taxonomy/biodiversity research; support of
museums/collections for long-term sample curation; open access to data; usage and
further development of globally recognised data standards and platforms; publishing
of datasets via open-access, quality controlled and standardised data systems and
open access journals; commitment to best-practice workflows; a global registry of cruises; and lastly development of a clearing house to further centralised access to the
above. We argue that commitment to best-practice would allow greater sharing of MGR
for research and extensive secondary use including conservation and environmental
monitoring, and provide an exemplar for access and benefit-sharing (ABS) to inform the
biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ) process.Copyright © 2019 Rabone, Harden-Davies, Collins, Zajderman, Appeltans, Droege,
Brandt, Pardo-Lopez, Dahlgren, Glover and Horton. This is an open-access article
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