180 research outputs found
Generating Knowledge by combining prediction models with information technology
No full textThe process of planning is largely based on the way the information technology support decision makers to formulate the future objectives from the past results, and, at the same time, managing knowledge development. In this perspective the past business dynamics are very important in order to estimate the future one; this way, taking some aspect arising from the variance analysis can improve the understanding of past data and, consequently, improve the reliability of estimation. The aim of the paper is to discuss how different modelling approaches allow the process to evolve from supporting decision to generating knowledge
The Non-adoption of Digital Technologies in the Agricultural Industries: A Systematic Literature Review
No full textL’isola di Crono e l’isola di Cthulhu: un capitolo poco noto della fortuna di Plutarco
No full textThe evocative myth of Kronos’ sleep on an island off the coast of Britain, recalled by Plutarch in De defectu oraculorum (18.420A) and De facie in orbe lunae (940F-942C), enjoyed particular fortune especially among the Anglo-Saxon public. References in poets (such as Drayton and Milton), historians, essayists, popularisers, and even a theosophical over-interpretation linking the passage to the myth of Atlantis helped to make the story very popular, particularly between the 19th and 20th centuries. Through these multiple channels, the Plutarchean myth even reached the well-known horror writer H.P. Lovecraft. As hitherto neglected references in his epistolary and a number of precise points of contact show, the core of his most influential tale, The Call of Cthulhu (1926), is indebted to the story of Kronos: in both cases, an ancient, deposed deity sleeps on a remote island in the Western ocean, communicates through dreams, and awaits the arrival of his followers when a certain astronomical cycle is fulfilled. The suggestive power of the Plutarchean myth is also demonstrated by its reception by another author of weird tales (as well as Lovecraft’s friend), the Californian Clark Ashton Smith, who dedicated his poem, The isle of Saturn (1950) to it
Apuleio, il folklore e l’Africa: in margine a un libro recente
No full textQuest’articolo, dopo aver tracciato l’evoluzione della comparazione folklorica applicata alla storia di Amore e Psiche nelle Metamorfosi di Apuleio, si concentra sul recente volume Le conte de Psyché et Cupidon, témoin du folklore d’Afrique du nord di Emmanuel Plantade, evidenziandone i principali apporti al dibattito in materia. Particolarmente rilevante si rivela la dimostrazione della diπusione tradizionale, in ambito nordafricano, di racconti ascrivibili al tipo ATU 425B, Son of the witch, e della presenza in Apuleio di cenni a usanze e gestualità attestate ancor oggi nella Cabilia. Questa familiarità con il folklore “libico” che funge da sostrato a quello berbero attuale, e la volontà di veicolarlo ai suoi lettori, rendono plausibile che l’autore latino abbia attinto anche a precoci versioni dell’ecotipo di ATU 425B oggi attestato in Cabilia. Si conclude rilevando come la riscoperta dell’“africanità” di Apuleio possa avere ricadute positive anche sul dibattito attuale relativo alla decolonizzazione dei classici."Apuleius, folklore and Africa: in the margin of a recent book" · After tracing the evolution of folkloric comparisons applied to the story of Cupid and Psyche in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses, this article focuses on the recent volume Le conte de Psyché et Cupidon, témoin du folklore d’Afrique du nord by Emmanuel Plantade, highlighting its main contributions to the debate on the subject. Particularly noteworthy is the demonstration of the traditional circulation in the North African sphere of the stories attributed to the ATU 425B, Son of the Witch, type, and the presence in Apuleius of references to customs still attested in Kabylia. This familiarity with “Libyan” folklore, and the desire to convey it to his readers, make it plausible that the Latin author also drew on early versions of the ecotype of ATU 425B still attested in Kabylia. Finally, it is pointed out that the rediscovery of Apuleius’ “African-ness” may also have a positive impact on the current debate on decolonizing classics
IS, Organization and Strategy: Convergence or Divergence? A Meta-analysis .
No full textIS Performance Management Systems seem to be the right solution for the CIO and IS department’s problems, but they are not so widespread in companies due to the difficulties that companies have in the design and implementation process. This paper attempts to address this issue by investigating what factors affect the design and implementation of IS Performance Management Systems and how these factors influence their shape in terms of IS performance dimensions and measures. The majority of previous studies dealing with this issue sought to develop an algorithm for selecting the appropriate dimensions and measures. This scope implied clarity and a willingness to pursue organizational goals and that only one appropriate set of dimensions and measures exists for a company. This paper points out how it is arduous to define such an algorithm because several “soft” factors, e.g. climate and private goals, affect the final shape of IS Performance System
Sotto il segno di Mercurio: Autolico, Euripide, Tzetze e la circolazione delle histoires de truands antiche e contemporanee a Bisanzio
No full textThe well-known passage from John Tzetzes’ Chiliads in which unique details are provided about
Euripides’ Autolycus (8.202, l. 435-453) is examined in depth, with a particular focus on the figures
of thieves to whom Autolycus is compared. For the first time, the mysterious Hydrargyros, to whom
Tzetzes also alludes at other times in his writings, is identified. He is the famous villain Ali az-
Zaibaq (“Mercury Ali”), mentioned in Seljuk chronicles, in the Thousand and One Nights and in a
very successful Arab novel of the Mamluk era. Tzetzes is evidently referring to an undergrowth of
“submerged” entertainment stories that circulated in the East, between Byzantium and the Arab
world, and which generally tended to be ignored by literati in both of these cultural areas. Other
references to these “tales of rascals”, widely circulated but ignored by literati, can be identified in
Eustathius of Thessalonica and above all in the enigmatic Idyll by Maximus Planudes. The latter is
framed in the light of similar stories of fraudsters in circulation, more or less at the same time, in the
Western and Arab worlds. The fact that Tzetzes is the only Byzantine author to quote the story of
Ali az-Zaibaq and, at the same time, to provide thorough details on the Euripidean treatment of
Autolycus’ misdeeds may lead to think that even the latter, despite its antiquity, could constitute an
unwelcome material for scholars and grammarians, who tended to prefer gnomic and sententious
contents in classical works. Rather than by a fortunate discovery of material otherwise inaccessible
to all the others, this isolated mention by Tzetzes could perhaps be explained by his ostentatiously
provocative and irreverent authorial persona, which often leads him to lash out at his colleagues and
at the “sacred monsters” of antiquity, drawing also on levels usually ostentatiously ignored by
scholars, such as that of the “tales of rascals” and of the not-quite-edifying Euripidean plots. As for
the latter, he may have known them through lexicographic and erudite works no longer (or no
longer fully) available to us, such as Suetonius’s Peri blasphemion which had a special section on
thieves and rascals. Finally, the comparison with the stories of thieves attested in the Islamic world
allows us to advance a series of typological considerations on the possible developments of the plot
of the Euripidean Autolycus alluded to by Tzetzes
The icoord knowledge model for P2P semantic coordination
No full textIn this paper, we present iKM, the three-layer peer knowledge model developed in the framework of the iCoord system for P2P semantic coordination. iKM grounds on the notion of knowledge chunk embedding the information about concepts to be shared/exchanged across peers for coordination. The main functionalities of iCoord for exploiting an iKM knowledge repository, namely knowledge browsing and data search, will be also presented
Shaping the Future of Work
No full textThe fast pace of the technological evolution forces workers to update their competencies in order to remain attractive in the labor market. Those changes suggest that in order to remain employable, workers need to add new skills (either soft or digital) to their “traditional” competencies, demonstrating the ability to work in an interdisciplinary agile fashion. We argue that this professional evolution resembles the characteristics of the T-shaped professionals, and that it is possible to interpret the changes of jobs that are caused by the technological revolution drawing on job design literature. Hence, analyzing the data of a survey administered to a sample of 238 workers employed in Veneto Region, we explore the skill shapes of jobs that are present in the labor market and we assess their relationship with the workers’ and organizational characteristics
The simulation by Second Life of SMEs start up: The case of New Fashion Perspectives
No full textThe aim of the paper is to analyze and discuss the organizational implications of the Virtual Reality (VR) in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) start up. To this purpose the case of the simulated enterprise in the fashion sector New Fashion Perspectives (NFP) will be examined, with its establishment from 2008 in Second Life (SL), one of the most diffused 3D world in last years.
In particular the analysis wants to underline the impact of ICT implications on organizational processes and structures according to the networking approach based on the net of relationships that an organization can establish during its cycle of life and mainly in the start up phase
Reducing Cognitive Biases Through Digitally Enabled Training. A Conceptual Framework
No full textSince cognitive biases impair decision-making processes, organizations strive to reduce their effect. Training sustains such effort, especially when innovative learning approaches are adopted. The introduction of digital technologies, such as those related to Industry 4.0, challenges firms to upskill and reskill their employees. At the same time, these technologies offer a new set of tools for training. This paper proposes a conceptual model that disentangles the effect of the form of training and its reliance on digital technological tools, on the reduction of cognitive biases and performance in tasks related to digital transformations
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