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KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN IRISH CONSTRUCTION: THE ROLE OF CPD ACCREDITATION
Get PDFResearch into knowledge management (KM) in the global construction sector has proliferated in recent years. The need for individuals to develop and learn within this
paradigm indicates that continuing professional development (CPD) has a part to play. There is however a distinct lack of empirical evidence on this topic in the context of the Irish construction industry. This paper investigates current approaches to both KM and CPD within the Irish construction sector and the influence exerted by
Engineers Ireland, the leading professional engineering body in the country. Based on the findings of a study into KM in the leading twenty Irish construction companies, the paper presents the results of research conducted with the Managing Directors and Senior Managers from these organisations. The research has found that almost half of the leading construction companies are now considering adopting a formal approach to KM, the level of CPD within these companies being relatively high. Engineers Ireland CPD accreditation programme appears to be influencing
these companies in both their KM and CPD endeavours
Personalised resource discovery searching over multiple repository types, using user and information provider profiling
No full textThe success of the Information Society, with the overabundance of online multimedia information, has become an obstacle for users to discover pertinent resources. For those users, the key is the refinement of resource discovery as the choice and complexity of available online content continues to grow. The work resented in this paper will address this issue by representing complex extensible user and information provider profiles and content metadata using XML and the provision of a middle canonical language to aid in learner-to-content matching, independent of the underlying metadata format. This approach can provide a federated search solution leading to personalise resource discovery based on user requirements and preferences, seamlessly searching over multiple repository types. The novelty of the work includes the complex extensible user profiles, information provider profiles, the canonical language and the federated search strategy. Although, the work presented is focused on E-Learning, the general ideas could be applied to any resource discovery or information retrieva
Personalized dynamic composition of services and resources in a wireless pervasive computing environment
No full textA wireless pervasive computing environment needs to dynamically adapt its functionality and behaviour to changes in the resources and services available to a user at any point in time. For a mobile user this means that as the user changes location, the pervasive environment should take account of any changes to the services that are available. Thus initially when the user requests a service the most appropriate service must be provided, but as the user moves around, the service provided could change. To handle this, a wireless pervasive system needs to provide dynamic service composition (and re-composition) based on the user's personal preferences and current context. The Daidalos project is developing a platform to support pervasive services, which provides dynamic personalized service composition. This paper describes the problems and the role of personalization in the approaches adopted in Daidalos to deal with dynamic service composition and re-composition. The basic ideas have been prototyped and demonstrated, and are currently being integrated and extended
Modes of Reasoning in theories of the Social Impact of Advanced Technologies: A Critique of ERP Systems in healthcare
Get PDFHuman-centred systems has a long theoretical tradition within the automation and control community stretching back at least into the 1970s and particularly in manufacturing systems. As automation and control systems are increasingly important outside the factory many researchers are revisiting core concepts within this tradition in order to address concerns in these other contexts. One particularly important sector is health care which, in recent years, has implemented a range of AMAT-type solutions not least of which are enterprise systems. This paper reviews the application of enterprise integration systems to health-care and, in doing so, unpacks several theoretical tensions. The paper proposes a reassessment of human-centred systems (HCS) thinking as a way to address these tensions in automatic healthcare systems
SecurIST: Ensuring Secure, Dependable & Resiliant ICT Technologies to Empower the European Citizen of the Future
Get PDFIndustry and companies are benefiting significantly from the increased productiv-ity, competitiveness and customer satisfac-tion provided by mobility. However, to be viable in the future, mobility must address the foremost challenge confronting it today ensuring a high level of security to protect the enterprise network and the valuable in-formation it carries, dependability along with subscriber privacy issues. With the advent of mobility, security is even more important than before. Any existing vul-nerabilities of the wired network can be opened to attack if wireless access is not secure.
The SecurIST initiative is a European consortium whose goal is to coordinate and consolidate the open challenges in Security and Dependability. The main objective of the SecurIST project is to deliver a Strate-gic Research Agenda for ICT Security and Dependability R&D for Europe
Pervasive Service Platform(PSP): Facilitating Pervasive Services
Get PDFPervasive computing is a new and emerging technology. The concept of pervasiveness and its deployment into reality are still not well aligned. This is because the vision of pervasiveness is a highly complex area that encompasses a large number of issues. The real vision of pervasiveness will never become a reality if everyone involved needs to repeatedly address all the issues involved in the concept. This paper focuses on the DAIDALOS Pervasive Service Platform (PSP) as an enabler of pervasive services. DAIDALOS is an EU Framework Programme 6 Integrated Project with 46 multinational partners from both the industry and academia. The paper details the strategy employed in DAIDALOS to facilitate Service Providers to offer pervasive services on top of the PSP. It argues that pervasiveness should be provided to Service Providers as part of the platform, instead of requiring pervasiveness to be totally embedded in the services themselves. This approach consequently opens up the service provision market to more players, driving the idea of a truly pervasive world. The paper gives an overview of the DAIDALOS platform as a pervasive service enabler, detailing how it facilitates pervasiveness by removing most of the work from the Service Providers themselves
Do we deal in knowledge in Science lessons?
Get PDFIf we accept the standard definition of knowledge as ‘true, justified belief’, then much of the subject matter of science lessons is not knowledge. Our typical classroom treatment of
the visible spectrum is shown to fail on all three of these criteria for knowledge. An alternative view is presented in which pupils learn narratives from the scientific canon, just as they once used to learn stories from ancient Greek mythology. In both cases, the myths are useful schemata with which to analyse the world
Synchronization and Clustering in a Multimode Quantum Dot Laser
Get PDFWe analyze experimentally the intensity oscillations of the longitudinal modes of quantum dot
semiconductor lasers. We show that the modal intensities can oscillate chaotically with different average
frequencies, but obey a highly organized antiphase dynamics leading to a constant total output power. The
fluctuations are in the MHz range. We report the first experimental observation of frequency clustering
associated with synchronization. We also observe the propagation of perturbations across the optical
spectrum from blue to red
