SYSTEM DYNAMICS USE IN BLOGOSPHERE DEVELOPMENT SIMULATION

Today the Latvian blogosphere is a community of almost 200 000 blogs. Blogs have become an important part of news agencies and web portals because they deliver information to the reader faster than traditional media. To forecast the computational resources and necessary funding for community development, it is necessary to design an evolutional model based on the data collected and give an insight into its evolution ways

Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) for Market Analysis of FP7 CHOReOS Products

AbstractThe European 7th Framework FP7-ICT-2009-5 project CHOReOS No. 257178 (2010-2013) “Large Scale Choreographies for the Future Internet (IP)” is aimed to elaborate on new methods and tools related to Future Internet ultra-large-scale (ULS) solution development based on the use of choreographies. The purpose of this research is to identify exploitable CHOReOS products and approaches and business market trends that may exploit them. The aim is to collect and assess early market inputs, thereby ensuring that market needs are addressed properly by the CHOReOS project. The market acceptance assessment is done using the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT), but the credibility of results is assessed using Cronbach's Alpha, Split-Half Reliability and Spearman–Brown testing methods

Annual Report on CHOReOS Dissemination - 1st year (D9.3.1)

This report summarizes achievement of the CHOReOS project in terms of disseminating project's goals and results during the first year. It further provides links to the concrete material that has been disseminated so far, hence enabling the interested reader to get access to the published material to know more about CHOReOS

Validation of STS Conceptual Model Designing Approach. DMI374 and DMI747 Data Sets.

Surveys of DMI374 and DMI747 student groups were conducted for the purpose of validating the STS conceptual model designing method. A 5-point and dichotomous Likert questionnaire was used for the survey. The files contain response datasets used in statistical processing

Low Cost Augmented Reality and RFID Application for Logistics Items Visualization

AbstractOne important component of the gross domestic product (GDP) is logistics services the quality and added value of which is growing due to the application of modern information and communication technologies and electronics. RFID use increases the performance of logistics items identification, however some errors, which could cause substantial damage and losses, remain. The amount of potential errors could be diminished by the additional checking of items using 3D visualisation. The authors researched the use of augmented reality for item visualisation in a warehouse combining AR and RFID solutions

Best-Practice Piloting Based on an Integrated Social Media Analysis and Visualization for E-Participation Simulation in Cities

E-Participation and the engagement of citizens in politics are on the agenda in many countries. Therefore, a number of project and programs were initiated that aim at finding creative and effective solutions for involving citizens. One intended aspect is the provision of transparency that enables citizens to analyze socio-economical indicators and serves as basement for initial data storing for e-participation scenarios simulation. A beyond going step is to consider citizens' opinions in the policy making process. Unfortunately this will only be possible; if a significant number of citizens know what concrete aspect should be realized. The growth and establishment of social media nowadays allow most people to discuss political ideas and critics virtually and anonymously achieving higher credibility of the data usable for policy making. However, the major barrier is the different topical languages, the representatives' role and weak visualization of the results. This article dealt with a best-practice piloting approach for discussing and realizing innovative solutions with a variety of stakeholders from different domains. The core of this paper is how to deal and manage the different perspective on development process, to aim on designing a common set of requirements and development procedure. The methodology is practically and beneficial applied as social media integration solution in the EC FP7 FUPOL research project

A Mobile Visual Analytics Approach for Instant Trend Analysis in Mobile Contexts

The awareness of market trends becomes relevant for a broad number of market branches, in particular the more they are challenged by the digitalization. Trend analysis solutions help business executives identifying upcoming trends early. But solid market analysis takes their time and are often not available on consulting or strategy discussions. This circumstance often leads to unproductive debates where no clear strategy, technology etc. could be identified. Therefore, we propose a mobile visual trend analysis approach that enables a quick trend analysis to identify at least the most relevant and irrelevant aspects to focus debates on the relevant options. To enable an analysis like this, the exhausting analysis on powerful workstations with large screens has to adopted to mobile devices within a mobile behavior. Our main contribution is the therefore a new approach of a mobile knowledge cockpit, which provides different analytical visualizations within and intuitive interaction design