The impact of information technology on the audit process: an assessment of the state of the art and implications for the future

Abstract This paper presents historical analysis of the development of science education in Singapore from 1997 to 2011 with the aim of understanding the impact of education initiatives introduced during this period known as the ability-driven phase in Singapore. To provide context for the research, the author first describes the state of governance and education in Singapore during this period and then provides an introduction to the Thinking Schools, Learning Nation vision, and two main educational initiatives: the Teach Less, Learn More initiative and the Information Technology Masterplan. Next the impact of these initiatives on science education is explored and the impact on science culture and science education in Singapore is discussed. The author concludes with a discussion about value of historical analysis examining the impact of policy on educational practice and a discussion about the implications of this research for science and science education in Singapore in the future.

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A PROPOSED EVALUATION PLAN TO ASSESS THE IMPACT OF A YOUTH DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME FACILITATED BY THE STATE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AGENCY (SITA) IN RURAL SOUTH AFRICA

Commonwealth Youth and Development ◽

10.25159/1727-7140/1923 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 174-181

Author(s):

Maura Mbunyuza-deHeer Menlah

Keyword(s):

Information Technology ◽

Youth Development ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Secondary Data ◽

The State ◽

State Information ◽

Evaluation Plan ◽

Lessons Learnt ◽

Slow Development ◽

The Impact

This article reports on a proposed evaluation plan that has been developed to assess the work done by the State Information Technology Agency (SITA). The SITA programme was implemented in response to the South African governmentâ€™s call to improve the lives of the populations in some rural areas through technology. The programme was meant to address slow development in Â rural Â areas Â thatÂ lack Â technological Â innovations Â and Â advances. Â In Â the proposed evaluation plan a review is made of secondary data, deciding how strategic priorities are to be determined, as well as analysis of the rural context environment. The researcher gives an account of how the evaluation strategies are to be piloted and rolled out thereafter. Lessons learnt are recorded and reported upon. A proposed evaluation plan will be developed, based on the lessons learnt in line with the objectives of the project.

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What you always wanted to know about the deterministic part of the International Planning Competition (IPC) 2014 (but were too afraid to ask)

The Knowledge Engineering Review ◽

10.1017/s0269888918000012 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 33 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Mauro Vallati ◽

Lukáš Chrpa ◽

Thomas L. Mccluskey

Keyword(s):

Artificial Intelligence ◽

State Of The Art ◽

The State ◽

Strong Impact ◽

Significant Progress ◽

Planning Techniques ◽

Artificial Intelligence Planning ◽

The Future ◽

International Planning ◽

Planning Approaches

AbstractThe International Planning Competition (IPC) is a prominent event of the artificial intelligence planning community that has been organized since 1998; it aims at fostering the development and comparison of planning approaches, assessing the state-of-the-art in planning and identifying new challenging benchmarks. IPC has a strong impact also outside the planning community, by providing a large number of ready-to-use planning engines and testing pioneering applications of planning techniques.This paper focusses on the deterministic part of IPC 2014, and describes format, participants, benchmarks as well as a thorough analysis of the results. Generally, results of the competition indicates some significant progress, but they also highlight issues and challenges that the planning community will have to face in the future.

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Computer-assisted database indexing: the state-of-the-art

The Indexer The International Journal of Indexing ◽

10.3828/indexer.1994.19.1.6 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 19 (1) ◽

pp. 23-27

Author(s):

Gail M. Hodge

Keyword(s):

Data Base ◽

Production System ◽

State Of The Art ◽

The State ◽

Computer Support ◽

Computer Assisted ◽

Computer Assistance ◽

The Future ◽

Database Indexing ◽

Operational Systems

Discusses the state-of-the-art in computer indexing, defines indexing and computer assistance, describes the reasons for renewed interest, identifies the types of computer support in use using selected operational systems, describes the integration of various computer supports in one data base production system, and speculates on the future.

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Lexicography

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198736745.013.11 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Seyed Mostafa Assi

Keyword(s):

Information Technology ◽

State Of The Art ◽

Applied Linguistics ◽

The State ◽

Western Countries ◽

Persian Language ◽

Recent Advances ◽

History Of ◽

Middle Persian ◽

Modern Era

The history of lexicography in Iran dates back to more than 2,000 years ago, to the time of the compilation of bilingual and monolingual lexicons for the Middle Persian language. After a review of the long and rich tradition of Persian lexicography, the chapter gives an account of the state of the art in the modern era by describing recent advances and developments in this field. During the last three or four decades, in line with the advancements in western countries, Iranian lexicography evolved from its traditional state into a modern professional and academic activity trying to improve the form and content of dictionaries by implementing the following factors: the latest achievements in theoretical and applied linguistics related to lexicography; and the computer techniques and information technology and corpus-based approach to lexicography.

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ARCH-COMP 2019 Category Report: Falsification

10.29007/68dk ◽

2019 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Gidon Ernst ◽

Paolo Arcaini ◽

Alexandre Donzé ◽

Georgios Fainekos ◽

Logan Mathesen ◽

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Keyword(s):

Temporal Logic ◽

State Of The Art ◽

Cyber Physical Systems ◽

The State ◽

Base Line ◽

Physical Systems ◽

The Future ◽

Friendly Competition ◽

Initial Base

This report presents the results from the 2019 friendly competition in the ARCH workshop for the falsification of temporal logic specifications over Cyber-Physical Systems. We describe the organization of the competition and how it differs from previous years. We give background on the participating teams and tools and discuss the selected benchmarks and results. The benchmarks are available on the ARCH website1, as well as in the competition’s gitlab repository2. The main outcome of the 2019 competition is a common benchmark repository, and an initial base-line for falsification, with results from multiple tools, which will facilitate comparisons and tracking of the state-of-the-art in falsification in the future.

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