Intelligent tools for analyzing NON-factors of the project environment

This paper investigates the current challenges faced by the project managers in creating realistic expectations of customers in dynamic changing project environment which are created by rapid introduction of new unknowns, as they progress. One might say they are more akin to packing boxes of frogs without a cover, setting each thing right before a new challenge is faced. The difficulties posed by these projects are identified and the literature is reviewed for suitable approaches. Why do projects fail and what more is critical to the success of project? All projects are conceived with a vision to satisfy certain needs of the business. Hence, the beneficiary of these needs become key stakeholder. Appropriate participation of this key stakeholder in steering the project ensures the success of the project. Also businesses are impacted by competition and changing market place resulting in skewed expectation management. Managing expectations enhances the success of the project immensely. Now, goal of the project plays a pivotal role and hence respecting it, is an important task, in project management. Project governance is an important aspect which needs to change according to the requirements and requires a dynamic approach rather than a ‘rule book approach’.

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Supply Chain Integration: Establish the Appropriate Challenges in Improving Integrated SC in an Innovative Approach of IBS

Environment-Behaviour Proceedings Journal ◽

10.21834/e-bpj.v1i3.294 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 1 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Ani Saifuza Abd Shukor ◽

Muhammad Fadhil Muhammad ◽

Shamsida Saidan Khaderi ◽

Faridah Muhammad Halil

Keyword(s):

Supply Chain ◽

System Integration ◽

Publishing House ◽

Structured Interview ◽

Poor Quality ◽

Supply Chain Integration ◽

Project Environment ◽

The Poor ◽

International Publishing

The shift to an integrated IBS construction approach requires enhanced supply chain integration to improve the productivity as well as the poor quality of human behavioual aspect in IBS project. This paper is to identify the challenges at each tier between players to facilitate supply chain integration among the IBS players. Findings adopted from semi-structured interview revealed the critical attitude issues of human factors, lack of interaction and sharing knowledge between interdisciplinary people. The findings of this study is useful to improve integration of supply chain and enhance innovation and sharing interaction between players in the IBS Malaysian construction project environment.© 2016. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.Keywords: Construction Environment; Industrialised Building System; Integration and Supply Chain

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P3352Telemedicine transcends national boundaries in quest of creating a behemoth ami program

European Heart Journal ◽

10.1093/eurheartj/ehz745.0228 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 40 (Supplement_1) ◽

Author(s):

S Mehta ◽

R Botelho ◽

F Fernandez ◽

F Feres ◽

A Abizaid ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Community Health Centers ◽

Developed Countries ◽

Population Based ◽

Primary Pci ◽

Small Community ◽

Hub And Spoke ◽

Web Based ◽

National Boundaries ◽

Intelligent Tools ◽

Time Of Presentation

Abstract Background The Latin America Telemedicine Infarct Network (LATIN) has exploited the remarkable competence of telemedicine for remote guidance. In doing so, LATIN created a mammoth population-based AMI network that employed experts located several hundred miles away to guide the reperfusion strategies for almost 800,000 screened patients. In this pioneering project, telemedicine was initially utilized to guide AMI management within national confines. We speculated whether LATIN telemedicine navigation could outstrip countrywide borders. Purpose To maximally harness the vast possibilities of telemedicine for improving AMI care. Methods During its pilot phase, LATIN began as a hub and spoke, AMI system in Colombia where 20 spokes (small community health centers and rural clinics) were configured with 3 hubs that could perform Primary PCI. These sites were linked through web-based connectivity. Expert cardiologists, located 50–250 miles away in Bogota, Colombia, used sophisticated telemedicine platforms for urgent EKG diagnosis and teleconsultation of the entire AMI process. Based upon the duration of chest pain and travel time to the hub, these experts guided patients through guideline-based strategies of thrombolysis, pharmaco invasive management or primary PCI. Efficiency of the telemedicine process was measured with the new metric of time to telemedicine diagnosis (TTD). Cloud computing, GPS navigation, and numerous business intelligent tools were gradually incorporated into LATIN telemedicine. As systems became more scalable, the program was expanded to Brazil, where LATIN flourished. Over the last 18 months, LATIN telemedicine capabilities have been pressed across national boundaries. Presently, all 82 LATIN centers in Mexico are guided by experts located in Bogota, Colombia and the 7 Argentina centers channeled through Santiago, Chile. Results 784,947 patients were screened for AMI at 350 LATIN centers (Brazil 143, Colombia 118, Mexico 82, Argentina 7). Navigation pathways are depicted in the attached figure. TTD remains extremely low in all four countries, and comparable efficiency and tele-accuracy have been achieved. With expanded geographic reach, 8,448 (1.08%) patients were diagnosed with STEMI and 3,911 (46.3%) urgently reperfused, including 3,049 (78%) with Primary PCI. Time to TTD ranged between 2.8 to 5.8 minutes, with a mean of 3.5 min. Tele-accuracy was 98.5%, D2B 51 min, and in-hospital mortality 5.2%. Various other comparative metrics for the 4 countries are being gathered and will be available at the time of presentation. Conclusions LATIN demonstrates the robust ability of telemedicine to transcend national boundaries to guide AMI management. This strategy can be adopted in under-developed countries in Asia and Africa to provide an umbrella of AMI care for the millions of disadvantaged patients.

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Intelligent tools for creative graphics

ACM SIGGRAPH 2020 Courses ◽

10.1145/3388769.3407498 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Ariel Shamir ◽

Niloy J. Mitra ◽

Nobuyuki Umetani ◽

Yuki Koyama

Keyword(s):

Intelligent Tools

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A Personalized Machine-Learning-Enabled Method for Efficient Research in Ethnopharmacology. The Case of the Southern Balkans and the Coastal Zone of Asia Minor

Applied Sciences ◽

10.3390/app11135826 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (13) ◽

pp. 5826

Author(s):

Evangelos Axiotis ◽

Andreas Kontogiannis ◽

Eleftherios Kalpoutzakis ◽

George Giannakopoulos

Keyword(s):

Machine Learning ◽

Coastal Zone ◽

Extraction Process ◽

Asia Minor ◽

Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽

Effectiveness And Efficiency ◽

Intelligent Tools ◽

Southern Balkans

Ethnopharmacology experts face several challenges when identifying and retrieving documents and resources related to their scientific focus. The volume of sources that need to be monitored, the variety of formats utilized, and the different quality of language use across sources present some of what we call “big data” challenges in the analysis of this data. This study aims to understand if and how experts can be supported effectively through intelligent tools in the task of ethnopharmacological literature research. To this end, we utilize a real case study of ethnopharmacology research aimed at the southern Balkans and the coastal zone of Asia Minor. Thus, we propose a methodology for more efficient research in ethnopharmacology. Our work follows an “expert–apprentice” paradigm in an automatic URL extraction process, through crawling, where the apprentice is a machine learning (ML) algorithm, utilizing a combination of active learning (AL) and reinforcement learning (RL), and the expert is the human researcher. ML-powered research improved the effectiveness and efficiency of the domain expert by 3.1 and 5.14 times, respectively, fetching a total number of 420 relevant ethnopharmacological documents in only 7 h versus an estimated 36 h of human-expert effort. Therefore, utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support the researcher can boost the efficiency and effectiveness of the identification and retrieval of appropriate documents.

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Improving Learner-Computer Interaction through Intelligent Learning Material Delivery Using Instructional Design Modeling

Entropy ◽

10.3390/e23060668 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 23 (6) ◽

pp. 668

Author(s):

Christos Troussas ◽

Akrivi Krouska ◽

Cleo Sgouropoulou

Keyword(s):

Instructional Design ◽

Adaptive Learning ◽

Educational Software ◽

Learning Experience ◽

Learning Material ◽

Java Programming ◽

Undergraduate University Students ◽

Intelligent Tools ◽

Content Based Filtering ◽

Computer Interaction

This paper describes an innovative and sophisticated approach for improving learner-computer interaction in the tutoring of Java programming through the delivery of adequate learning material to learners. To achieve this, an instructional theory and intelligent techniques are combined, namely the Component Display Theory along with content-based filtering and multiple-criteria decision analysis, with the intention of providing personalized learning material and thus, improving student interaction. Until now, the majority of the research efforts mainly focus on adapting the presentation of learning material based on students’ characteristics. As such, there is free space for researching issues like delivering the appropriate type of learning material, in order to maintain the pedagogical affordance of the educational software. The blending of instructional design theories and sophisticated techniques can offer a more personalized and adaptive learning experience to learners of computer programming. The paper presents a fully operating intelligent educational software. It merges pedagogical and technological approaches for sophisticated learning material delivery to students. Moreover, it was used by undergraduate university students to learn Java programming for a semester during the COVID-19 lockdown. The findings of the evaluation showed that the presented way for delivering the Java learning material surpassed other approaches incorporating merely instructional models or intelligent tools, in terms of satisfaction and knowledge acquisition.

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The E=MC2 project: Environment=maintaining cleanliness, a multidisciplinary approach to establish a routine cleaning schedule for medical equipment

American Journal of Infection Control ◽

10.1016/j.ajic.2005.04.175 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 33 (5) ◽

pp. e139

Author(s):

M. Spencer ◽

P. Anderson ◽

A. Creamer

Keyword(s):

Medical Equipment ◽

Multidisciplinary Approach ◽

Project Environment ◽

Routine Cleaning

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Problem solving in a project environment: A consulting process

Evaluation and Program Planning ◽

10.1016/0149-7189(81)90041-0 ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 4 (3-4) ◽

pp. 404

Author(s):

E.W.F.

Keyword(s):

Problem Solving ◽

Project Environment

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The impact of project methodologies on project success in different project environments

International Journal of Managing Projects in Business ◽

10.1108/ijmpb-03-2015-0025 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 364-388 ◽

Cited By ~ 24

Author(s):

Robert Joslin ◽

Ralf Müller

Keyword(s):

Project Success ◽

Research Model ◽

Content Type ◽

Industrial Sectors ◽

Project Environment ◽

Project Governance ◽

The Impact ◽

Matching Techniques ◽

The Relationship ◽

Practical Implications

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to qualitatively validate the constructs of a theoretically derived research model while gaining insights to steer the direction of a greater study on methodologies, their elements, and their impact on project success. In doing so, to investigate whether different project environments, notably project governance, impacts the relationship between methodologies and project success. Design/methodology/approach – A deductive approach was applied to validate a theoretically derived research model. In total, 19 interviews across 11 industrial sectors and four countries were used to collect data. Pattern-matching techniques were utilized in the analysis to deductively validate the research model. Findings – There is a positive relationship between project methodology elements and the characteristics of project success; however, environmental factors, notably project governance, influence the use and effectiveness of a project methodology and its elements with a resulting impact on the characteristics of project success. Research limitations/implications – Project governance plays a major role in the moderating effect of a project methodology’s effectiveness. Contingency theory is applicable to a project’s methodology’s selection and its customization according to the project environment. Practical implications – Understand the impact of project methodologies and their elements on the characteristics of project success while being moderated by the project environment, for example, the risk of suboptimal project performance due to the effectiveness of methodology elements being negatively impacted by the project environment. Originality/value – The impact of a project methodology (collection of heterogeneous-related elements) on the characteristics of project success is identified while being moderated by the project environment, notably project governance.

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