Open PhD Workshop on Technology-Enhanced Learning and Semantics, Software and Services

The 7FP project SISTER focuses, especially, on strengthening the PhD and PostDoc level of education and training of researchers, and thus attracting more young scientists to the research profession and retaining them. The project SISTER is structured around two ICT strategic research areas - Software and services, and Intelligent Content and Semantics. The research workshops and seminars will support the research in the particular area through brainstorming sessions, discussions and strategic planning. Some of them will be of benefit to the PhD students and Post Docs and the advancement in their careers, while others will be devoted to further research collaboration in selected EU research programmes. The main research areas addressed are: Creation of digital libraries with intelligent content. Semantic annotation of digital content - Creation of ontologies for the digital content in the libraries. Semantic annotation of the learning materials in the repositories. The created ontologies and their semantic annotation will allow searching materials using semantic web techniques. Development of adaptive intelligent learning systems based on intelligent ontologies and digital learning materials. New innovative pedagogical approaches, assessment models and organisational models for lifelong competence development. Software for the effective support of users who create, store, use and exchange knowledge resources, learning activities, units of learning and competence development programmes within a learning network. Models and tools for competence development into a common, easy to use infrastructure. Training programs to learn users how to work with the infrastructure, and to train instructors and companies (specifically SMEs) to deliver services using the infrastructure. Responsive environments for technology-enhanced learning higher education and business organisations "that motivate, engage and inspire learners, and which can be embedded in the business processes and human resources management systems of organisations". Special attention will be given to using the research outcomes related to Intelligent Content and Semantics and Digital Libraries for building intelligent Adaptive and intuitive learning systems and Web 2.0 oriented applications. Development of a semantics-based reference frameworks for the conceptualisation of learning content, learning objectives, and teaching strategies, and the implementation of pedagogically-driven and semantically-enhanced adaptive learning systems. This will lead to consolidating existing theoretical and technological frameworks for explicitly modelling educational content, teaching strategies, and learner characteristics, and integrating them under a common semantic model.Open PhD Workshop on Technology-Enhanced Learning and Semantics, Software and Services in conjunction with the 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications - AI@Work (AIMSA 2008) 04-06 September, Varna, Bulgari

Stimulating Personal Development and Knowledge Sharing

This workshop is organized by the EU 6th Framework Integrated Project TENCompetence (www.tencompetence.org). The goal of the workshop is to identify and analyse state-of-the-art research and technologies in the fields that provide the building blocks for the development of an open source infrastructure containing all services needed to support individuals, teams and organisations to (further) develop their competences, by using distributed knowledge resources and learning units, routes/programmes, and activities, that are available online. This includes open, usable and accessible services for: creation, sharing, discovery and use of knowledge resources, learning activities and learning paths by individuals, teams or organisations development, use, monitoring and maintenance of competence frameworks for different professions or domains of knowledge assessment of competences registration, use and sharing of personal data (profiles, portfolios, etc.) discovery of suitable learning resources that are adapted to the users needs and profile support of users to navigate through all available learning resources to build specific competences support for users to learn in new fields and for the people who provide the support (e.g. by providing monitoring services, help by email handling, etc.).Stimulating Personal Development and Knowledge Sharing October, 30-31, 2008, Sofia, Bulgari

MAJOR TECHNOLOGIES AND PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF THE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF BUSINESS IN A BIG DATA ENVIRONMENT

In contemporary business development, digital transformation has become a major challenge to big data management. In an environment of increasing volumes of data, the major factors that are crucial to business development relate to big data processing and analysis. Open-source data processing technologies employ an innovative approach to the design of data processing and data analytics tools in cooperation among developers, which ensures the transparency, accessibility and continuous improvement of those tools. The main objective of this article is to review popular open-source technologies for big data processing and identify trends in employing big data in business applications

AN AGILE METHODOLOGY FOR MANAGING BUSINESS PROCESSES IN AN IT COMPANY

Agile methodologies embrace project management methods, techniques and tools that seek to continuously improve products; ensure the agility of project scope, performance of self-organizing teams and the release of quality products. Scrum and Kanban are two of the most popular agile methodologies which IT companies use to develop software products and improve the management of their business processes. The aim of this paper is to suggest an agile methodology that combines Scrum and Kanban elements and techniques. The methodology has been deployed in the Customer Service Department of an IT company in order to improve team management and optimize the performance of the department. In result of employing the suggested agile methodology to the management of business processes in the department, a high degree of awareness about the progress of ongoing tasks has been achieved

Юбилейна научна конференция 50 години катедра по педиатрия и медицинска генетика

Варненски медицински форум (Varna Medical Forum) V. 2, Suppl 5(2013