A Study of the Changing Process of the Conflict on a Large-Scale Regional Development Project

On 23 July 2018, when the villagers gathered around the porch to wrap up the day with a good chat, one of the five auxiliary dams of the Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy hydropower dam in Attapeu province, the southeastern state of Laos, collapsed. Four days before the collapse, reports of cracks and subsidence started to come through. It should have been enough to prompt evacuation warning issuance by the Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy Power Co. Ltd (PNPC), a consortium of South Korean companies SK Engineering and Construction (SK E&C) and Korea Western Power Company (KOWEPO), Thailand-based RATCH Group, and Lao Holding State Enterprise (LHSE). PNPC has a Concession Agreement with the Laos government ‘to plan, design, finance, construct, own, operate and maintain’ the Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy hydropower dam. The warning was issued, but it came too late.

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Flexible model specification and application for service-oriented software

SIMULATION ◽

10.1177/0037549718779442 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 95 (4) ◽

pp. 363-381

Author(s):

Fuyu Sun ◽

Jianping Zhou ◽

Shuai Guo ◽

Yi Li

Keyword(s):

Large Scale ◽

Service Oriented Architecture ◽

Development Project ◽

Model Specification ◽

Software Systems ◽

Practical Implementation ◽

Prototype System ◽

Heterogeneous Environments ◽

Service Oriented ◽

Flexible Model

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has gained considerable popularity for the development of large-scale distributed software systems. The SOA paradigm promotes the reusability and integrability of software in heterogeneous environments by means of open standards. The existing problem is that every service-oriented software development project often requires a customized development process that provides specific service-oriented software in support of requirements unique to that project. To resolve this problem, this study proposes universal service-oriented software (USOS). USOS focuses on the general simulation technology and integrates many features, which are necessary to build a correct and efficient simulation system. It is aimed at providing a professional environment to reduce the cost of modeling as well as the execution time of the simulation for multi-type models. USOS supports many advanced features such as dynamic model template generation, multi-formalism model debugging, flexible model-driven application, etc. Developers may use USOS as an open framework to build, store, and verify models very efficiently. Based on USOS, we have developed a large-scale parallel simulation platform called SIM, which is oriented to test parallel and distributed architectures, and applications in the aerospace domain. This study introduces the distinctive features of USOS for practical implementation of SIM and validates the performance by a prototype system simulation.

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Teacher Professional Development Using Mobile Technologies in a Large-Scale Project

International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching ◽

10.4018/ijcallt.2012100103 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 2 (4) ◽

pp. 34-49 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Prithvi Shrestha

Keyword(s):

Professional Development ◽

Language Learning ◽

Teacher Professional Development ◽

Large Scale ◽

English Language ◽

Developing Economies ◽

Development Project ◽

Mobile Technologies ◽

Mp3 Players ◽

Teacher Professional

Mobile technologies have been influencing the field of education including language learning for almost a decade. The literature on mobile technologies for education reports a number of case studies that examine various aspects of mobile learning. However, the use of mobile technologies for teacher professional development, particularly in developing economies, is rarely reported. This paper presents a case study of the English in Action (EIA) project, a UK government funded English language development project in Bangladesh, and its use of mobile technologies which not only provides teachers with the ‘trainer in the pocket’ that helps them achieve pedagogical changes in the classroom but also serves as a tool for improving their own English language competence. The paper, in particular, reports on the design and implementation of audio and video teacher professional development materials for MP3 players and mobile phones. It also highlights implications for similar projects intending to deploy mobile technologies.

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Who Will Use This and Why? User Stories and Use Cases

Information Technology and Libraries ◽

10.6017/ital.v38i1.10979 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 38 (1) ◽

pp. 5-7

Author(s):

Kevin M Ford

Keyword(s):

Complex System ◽

Large Scale ◽

Development Project ◽

Use Cases ◽

User Stories ◽

Feature Request

User stories and use cases help focus any development project on those who stand to benefit, i.e. the project’s stakeholders, and can guard simultaneously against insufficient planning and software bloat. And the concepts, though most often thought of with respect to large-scale projects, apply in all circumstances, from the smallest feature request to an existing system to the redesign of a complex system.

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