Software Protection of Smart Household Appliances Against Over-Exploitation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arkadiusz Liber
Keyword(s):  
Business Processes ◽  
End Users ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Software Protection ◽  
Household Appliances ◽  
Household Appliance ◽  
Over Exploitation ◽  
Device Interaction

This work presents the author’s original research on engineering of algorithms to modify smart household appliance operation with a particular emphasis on ensuring the achievement of a controlled lifetime. The presented solutions are based on the programmable process of device interaction with the user, simulated damage, and simulated wear of the device. These solutions are particularly important in business processes aimed at increasing profit as a result of the quiet pressure for end users to replace household appliances more frequently.

The Environmental Performance of the E-Waste Trade-in Program in Nanjing, China

2012 ◽  
Vol 518-523 ◽  
pp. 3531-3534
Author(s):  
Zhi Yuan Li ◽  
Yang Fan Li ◽  
Feng Wang
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Stakeholder Analysis ◽  
Household Appliances ◽  
Recycling System ◽  
Household Appliance ◽  
Waste Trade ◽  
The City

In this study, we use questionnaires, interviews and some other research methods to investigate the implementation outcome of the household appliance ‘Old for New’ trade-in program (hereafter the trade-in program), and apply the methods of comparative analysis and stakeholder analysis to evaluate the program. This paper, taking the city of Nanjing as an example, aims to provide insights to these questions, and more significantly, to advance some practical and efficient suggestions as how to formulate a reasonable, efficient waste household appliances (hereafter WHA) recycling system in Nanjing.

A Scalable Multi-Tenant Architecture for Business Process Executions

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milinda Pathirage ◽  
Srinath Perera ◽  
Indika Kumara ◽  
Denis Weerasiri ◽  
Sanjiva Weerawarana
Keyword(s):  
Business Processes ◽  
Cost Savings ◽  
End Users ◽  
Workflow Engine ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Business Logic ◽  
Single Application ◽  
Process Variability ◽  
Business Functions ◽  
Potential Use

Cloud computing, as a concept, promises cost savings to end-users by letting them outsource their non-critical business functions to a third-party in pay-as-you-go style. However, to enable economic pay-as-you-go services, the end-users need Cloud middleware that maximizes sharing and support near-zero cost for unused applications. Multi-tenancy, which let multiple tenants to share a single application instance securely, is a key enabler for building such a middleware. On the other hand, Business processes capture Business logic of organizations in an abstract and reusable manner, and hence play a key role in most organizations. This paper presents the design and architecture of a scalable Multi-tenant Workflow engine while discussing in detail the potential use cases of such architecture. Primary contributions of this paper are motivating workflow multi-tenancy, and the design and implementation of a scalable multi-tenant workflow engine that enables multiple tenants to run their workflows securely within the same workflow engine instance without modifications to the workflows. Furthermore, the workflow engine supports process sharing and process variability across the tenants and discusses its ramifications.

MEDAN MAKNA PERALATAN RUMAH TANGGA DALAM BAHASA TALANG MAMAK DIALEK LANGKAH LAMA DI RIAU

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 205
Author(s):  
Elvina Syahrir
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Semantic Field ◽  
Household Appliances ◽  
Semantic Function ◽  
Household Appliance ◽  
Descriptive Method ◽  
Special Meaning

This research discusses about the meaning components of household appliances in bahasa Talang Mamak Dialek Langkah Lama (BTMDLL), based on semantic field theory. The aim of  this  study  is  to  describe  about  the  meaning  components  of  the  household  appliance lexemes in BTMDLL and its semantic functions. A descriptive method was used in order to get the data from the field research by recording, interview and writing. The results show that the meaning components of the BTMDLL household appliance lexemes can be known from  the  special meaning  of  each  lexeme.  The meaning  components  of  each  household appliance lexeme of BTMDLL has its own semantic function. Abstrak  Penelitian  ini  membahas  makna  peralatan  rumah  tangga  dalam bahasa  Talang Mamak Dialek Langkah Lama (BTMDLL) berdasarkan teori medan makna. Tujuan penelitian ini ialah mendeskripsikan komponen makna leksem-leksem peralatan rumah tangga BTMDLL dan  fungsi  semantisnya.  Penelitian  dilakukan  dengan  menggunakan  metode  deskriptif berdasar  data  hasil  penelitian  lapangan  melalui  teknik  rekam,  wawancara  dan  catat. Hasilnya menunjukkan bahwa komponen makna leksem peralatan rumah tangga BTMDLL dapat  diketahui  dari makna  khusus  yang  dimiliki  oleh  setiap  leksem. Komponen makna dari setiap leksem alat rumah tangga BTMDLL itu memiliki fungsi semantisnya sendiri.

Collaborative Virtual Business Events- Opportunities and Challenges

2011 ◽  
pp. 245-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roma Chauhan ◽  
Ritu Chauhan
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
End Users ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Collaborative Environment ◽  
Online Business ◽  
Business Events ◽  
Virtual Conference ◽  
Immense Potential ◽  
Virtual Business

Virtual world’s immersive collaborative environment has brought immense potential for innovation and transformation within business processes. While online business transactions have been well in place and largely stabilized now, collaborative business events using the virtual world are an emerging and less explored area. This chapter delves into the offerings of rich interactive virtual exhibition and conference space to enable business events. In addition to saving time and cost, such offerings also enable knowledge on demand, so crucial for the end users. While virtual conference technologies can be carried out using audio or video and have been relatively high on usage, virtual exhibitions exercise the use of 3-D virtual worlds. Ideally, any effective business event needs to have an integration of virtual conferences and virtual exhibitions. The chapter brings out the services and usage trends available in this virtual space. Related challenges for the end users, organizers, and developers are discussed.

Tending and Trekking towards Composite Oriented Architecture (COA)

2010 ◽  
pp. 386-414
Author(s):  
Pethuru Raj Chelliah
Keyword(s):  
Business Processes ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
End Users ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Service Orientation ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
On Demand ◽  
The Future

With the noteworthy spurt of service orientation (SO) principles, the spur and surge for composition paradigm have taken a fabulous and fruitful dimension and perspective. Composites are emerging and establishing as the promising, proven and potential building-blocks in the pulsating ICT space. Enterprises are very optimistic and sensitive about the shining days of composites in their day-to-day dealings and obligations to their restive partners, government agencies, venerable customers, demanding end-users, and loyal employees. In short, composites are bound to increasingly and illuminatingly participate and contribute towards fulfilling the goals of realizing integrated, optimized, smart and lean business processes that in turn can lead to extended, connected, adaptive, and on-demand businesses. As next-generation ICT is presumed to thrive on spontaneous and seamless collaboration among systems, services, servers, sensors, etc. by sending messages as well as smartly sharing a wider variety of connected and empowered resources, there arises a distinct identity and value for progressive, penetrative and pervasive composites. Already we started to read, hear and experience composite applications, services, and views. As composition is to flower and flourish in a positive fashion, the future IT is definitely on right track. In this chapter, you can find discussions about how rapidly and smoothly services enable business-aligned composites realization. There are sections dealing with prominent composition paradigms, patterns, platforms, processes, practices, products, perspectives, problems and potentials.

scholarly journals Shifting Paradigm of Education Landscape in Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Revealing of a Digital Education Management Information System

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Fahmi Ibrahim ◽  
Heru Susanto ◽  
Parastou Khodaparast Haghi ◽  
Desi Setiana
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Education System ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
End Users ◽  
Educational Management ◽  
Education Management ◽  
National Education ◽  
National Education System

The COVID-19 pandemic has indirectly changed the landscape of the country’s education system. Through information-based decision-making, the management of the education system seeks to increase the access to and efficiency, effectiveness, equity and quality of education through effective systems of monitoring, evaluation, budgeting and planning. From this perspective, an Integrated National Education Information System (iNEISTM) was developed to streamline and transform business processes and to provide an application and technology platform to comply with the National Education System that may be suitable for the COVID-19 pandemic environment. The implementation of iNEIS™ aimed to significantly improve operational efficiency and productivity and provide better services, value and “holistic education” to students. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of the newly implemented, integrated iNEISTM and its implications for educational management systems that were implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic. It specifically examines the benefits and obstacles that hinder the efficiency and effectiveness of the system. The result is very interesting. These findings demonstrate that there was a lack of positive impact on end-users, such as lacking readiness to accept organizational change and uncoordinated communication and information exchange between stakeholders and end-users. This research implies that when both the stakeholder-provider and end-user understand the significance of iNEISTM, there is a great possibility that the implementation will succeed in harvesting the full value of the system. This paper provides the stakeholder-provider with useful guidelines, in the form of recommendations, that need to be implemented to ensure improvement in the effectiveness of iNEISTM.

scholarly journals SUPPORTING END-USER ARTICULATIONS IN EVOLVING BUSINESS PROCESSES: A CASE STUDY TO EXPLORE INTUITIVE NOTATIONS AND INTERACTION DESIGNS

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (04) ◽  
pp. 263-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAN HESS ◽  
CHRISTIAN REUTER ◽  
VOLKMAR PIPEK ◽  
VOLKER WULF
Keyword(s):  
Business Processes ◽  
End Users ◽  
Work Environments ◽  
Process Models ◽  
End User ◽  
Interaction Technique ◽  
Process Support ◽  
Local Practices ◽  
Modeling Systems

Adaptations of business processes are important in work environments, specifically when process-support needs to be tailored according to changing needs. The creation, management, and adaptation of the process models require typically modeling-experts. While these actors are knowledgeable in formalizing and operationalizing processes end-users who do not necessarily possess sophisticated modeling skills know typically local practices and framing conditions best. In this paper, we present an approach to support users in articulating their needs and to involve them into the (re-)design of process specifications. We explore how end-users reflect upon and articulate about business processes. Based on results of a qualitative study, we present a new, paper-based interaction technique, which enables users with little skills to model processes. The resulting process specifications can be transferred either in paper or in digital form into traditional modeling systems for further elaboration.

User Facing Web Services in Portals

2011 ◽  
pp. 2015-2033
Author(s):  
Jana Polgar
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Web Service ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
End Users ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Communication Interface ◽  
Business Partners ◽  
Local User ◽  
The Web

In SOA framework, Portal applications aggregate and render information from multiple sources in easily consumable format to the end users. Web services seem to dominate the integration efforts in SOA. Traditional data-oriented web services require portlet applications to provide specific presentation logic and the communication interface for each web service. This approach is not well suited to dynamic SOA based integration of business processes and content. WSRP 2.0 aim at solving the problem and providing the framework for easy aggregation of presentation services. Is not practical to publish portlets locally if the organisation wishes to publish their portlets as web services to allow their business partners using these services in their portals. UDDI extension for WSRP enables the discovery and access to user facing web services while eliminating the need to design local user facing portlets. Most importantly, the remote portlets can be updated by the web service providers from their own servers.

A Presentation-Preserved Compositional Approach for Integrating Heterogeneous Systems

2012 ◽  
pp. 210-229
Author(s):  
Fang-Chuan Ou Yang
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Web Service ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Service Oriented Architecture ◽  
Heterogeneous Systems ◽  
End Users ◽  
Compositional Approach ◽  
Workflow Integration ◽  
Expected Benefits ◽  
Data Level

In traditional SCW environments, related web services are integrated into business processes. Web service still brings less than expected benefits to small corporations and end-users for two reasons: 1) the web service only focuses on data level and is difficult to implement the presentation-centric business contexts. 2) The small corporations and end-users usually do not have enough IT competences to write a client or user interface to interact with web service(s). In order to solve these problems, the author proposes a presentation-preserved compositional approach for service-oriented architecture (PCSOA), which extends the existing data-oriented compositional approaches for web services to provide a more flexible methodology to orchestrate both data level and presentation level services during the workflow integration. A prototype is also built to validate the feasibility of the approach.

scholarly journals Perception and Information Behaviour of Institutional Repository End-Users Provides Valuable Insight for Future Development

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Lisa Shen
Keyword(s):  
Information Source ◽  
Research Process ◽  
End Users ◽  
The Other ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
Host Institution ◽  
Institutional Repository ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Google Search

Objective – To determine the perceptions and information behavior of institutional repository (IR) end-users. Design – Semi-structured interviews. Setting – The interviews were conducted over the telephone. Subjects – Twenty end-users of five different IRs were interviewed for the study. Seventeen of the interviewees were recruited via recruitment forms the researchers placed on IR homepages and the other three interviewees were referred to researchers by IR managers. The interviewees’ academic backgrounds varied, including six undergraduates, four masters’ students, three doctorial students, five faculty, and two library or museum staff members. They represented disciplines in Arts and Humanities (5), Science and Health Sciences (10), and Social Sciences (5). Fifteen of the 20 interviewees were recruited through their own institution’s IR. All except two of the interviewees had used the IR for which they were recruited less than six times. Methods – Forty-three potential interviewees were recruited using web recruitment forms and IR manager recommendations. Researchers subsequently excluded 23 (53.5%) of the interviewees because they were primarily IR contributors rather than end-users, or could not be reached by phone. Twenty interviews ranging from 17 to 60 minutes were conducted between January and June 2008. The average interview time was 34 minutes. The recordings were transcribed then analyzed using qualitative data analysis software NVivo7. Coding categories were developed using both the original research questions and emerging themes from the actual transcripts. The final coding scheme had a Holsi Coefficient of Reliability of 0.732 for inter-coder reliability. Main Results – Researchers identified six common themes from the results: How do end-users characterize IRs? While most interviewees recognized that there is a relationship between the IR and its host institution, their understandings of the function and content of IRs varied widely. Interviewees likened the IRs they used to a varying array of information resources and tools, including databases, interface, server, online forums, and “static Wikipedia” (p. 27). Furthermore, six of the interviewees had never heard of the actual term “Institutional Repository” (p. 27). How do end-users access and use IRs? The most common methods of accessing IRs included selecting the link on their institution library’s website and Google searches. Many interviewees found out about the IRs they are using through recommendations from professors, peers, or library workshops. Other interviewees found out about particular IRs “simply because a Google search had landed them there” (p. 29). Interviewees’ preferred method of interacting with an IR were divided between browsing and keyword searching. However, these preferences may have been the result of an IR’s content or interface limitations. For instance, some interviewees expressed difficulties with browsing a particular IR, while another interviewee preferred browsing because “there wasn’t much going on” when searching for a specific topic of interest (p. 30). For what purposes do end-users use IRs? Interviewees commonly cited keeping abreast with research projects from their own university as a reason to access their institutions’ IRs. Student interviewees also used IRs to find examples of theses and dissertations they would be expected to complete. Identifying people doing similar work across different departments in the same institution for collaboration and networking opportunities was another unique purpose for using IRs. How do end-users perceive the credibility of information from IRs? Many interviewees perceived IRs to be more “trustworthy” than Google Scholar (p. 33). In their view, an IR’s credibility was assured by the reputation of its affiliated institution. On the other hand, many interviewees viewed a lack of comprehensiveness in content negatively when judging the credibility of an information source, which placed most IRs in a less favorable light. Additionally, researchers noted conflicting assumptions made by interviewees about IRs in the evaluation process for their content. Some interviewees believed all the content of an IR has been vetted through an approval process, while others distrusted all IR content that was not peer-reviewed. To what extent are end-users willing to return to an IR or recommend it to their peers? The great majority of interviews indicated they were likely to use IRs again in the future, and nearly all indicated they would recommend IRs to their peers. However, most interviewees did not know of any people using IRs. The few interviewees who did often knew of IR contributors rather than end-users. How do IRs fit into end-users’ information seeking behavior? Many interviewees noted that IRs provided them with content that was not commonly available through traditional publishing channels, including conference papers and dissertations. Others felt IRs made content available more quickly than other information sources. However, the results also suggested that most interviewees did not include IRs in their routine research process. Conclusion – This study identified current end-users’ perceptions of IRs and highlighted several areas for future IR development. Areas of improvement for IRs included intensifying publicity efforts; increasing content recruitment; making content recruitment policies more transparent; and improving appearance and navigation functionalities. The findings also suggested new directions for IR marketing, such as emphasizing on the networking and collaborating benefits of using IR.

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