Using drone technology for preserving the economic sustainability of the agricultural holdings

In the present era, precision agriculture, through the set of innovative technologies that it uses, allows to effectively manage the terrain, machinery, and input acquisition, considering the specific natural variation of the environmental conditions. One of such innovations is the unmanned aerial vehicle (drone) technology which has gained popularity and has been widely used in adopting efficient strategies for preserving the economic sustainability of the agricultural holdings. The need for an efficient management, the complex climatic, technological, economic, and biological changes that have recently occurred at the level of agro-systems impose a continuous and accurate knowledge of the growing production resources and the vegetation state in cultures. In this context, the article investigates a series of particularities regarding the use of geospatial and informational technology in the process of taking, storing, analysing, and interpreting them to optimize inputs, considering the state of the crops and the degree of soil supply in each relatively homogeneous area of the terrain..

A Survey on Vulnerabilities and Countermeasures in the Communications of the Smart Grid

Since the 1990s, the digitalization process has transformed the communication infrastructure within the electrical grid: proprietary infrastructures and protocols have been replaced by the IEC 61850 approach, which realizes interoperability among vendors. Furthermore, the latest networking solutions merge operational technologies (OTs) and informational technology (IT) traffics in the same media, such as time-sensitive networking (TSN)—standard, interoperable, deterministic, and Ethernet-based. It merges OT and IT worlds by defining three basic traffic types: scheduled, best-effort, and reserved traffic. However, TSN demands security against potential new cyberattacks, primarily, to protect real-time critical messages. Consequently, security in the smart grid has turned into a hot topic under regulation, standardization, and business. This survey collects vulnerabilities of the communication in the smart grid and reveals security mechanisms introduced by international electrotechnical commission (IEC) 62351-6 and how to apply them to time-sensitive networking.

FROM DISRUPTION TO MOBILIZATION: IRE TEACHERS’ PERSPECTIVES ON INDEPENDENT LEARNING POLICY

The policy on Independent Learning was established by the Indonesian government to promote teacher performance in midst of disruption in the educational aspect during this COVID-19 pandemic. However, teachers may not share the same perspective related to the policy. This study aims to examine Islamic Religious Education (IRE) teachers’ perspectives on Independent Learning policy. The research participants were IRE teachers who passed the 2019 In-service Teacher Profession Training Program at a State Islamic University in East Java, Indonesia. The mix-method research design with a qualitative-quantitative sequential exploratory analysis was used in this study. Qualitative data were obtained through telephone interviews, non-participant observations, and investigative documentary tracing, while quantitative data were obtained through a survey using online questionnaires. The collected data were analyzed using the descriptive qualitative phenomenological technique and descriptive statistics. The findings show that the increase in the use of mobile learning by IRE teachers is an implication of the disruption leading to the mobilization of the educational sector to approach the Independent Learning policy based on performances in three perspectives. First, the policy is considered a critique of traditional educational practices. Second, the policy serves as a space for independence with rules and regulations that are more open for students and schools. Third, the policy is an effort to free education from social and political pressures and restraints. This study provides a new understanding of the philosophical inter-connection in teachers’ perceptions to the practice of distant learning implementation based on informational technology.

PENGARUH EFEKTIVITAS PROSES BISNIS DAN KOMITMEN ORGANISASI TERHADAP KUALITAS SISTEM INFORMASI AKUNTANSI (SURVEI PADA PERUSAHAAN ASURANSI UMUM DI KOTA BANDUNG)

In a few decades, there is a lot of changes in many field that happened because of technological development, one of them is a changes in the working system by Informational Technology (IT). A spesific form of working system is Accounting Information System (AIS) that can be distribute financial information to all of stakeholders. Recently, a companies in the midst of an increasingly widespread global competition are required to respond any changes and continue to improve their competitive advantage with their technologies, in specific case the insurance companies (both life insurance and general insurance) are challenged to implement the information technology and information systems (included AIS) to be able to compete in the global economical market. This competitive advantage can be reached by the existence of an corporate AIS quality. AIS can be influenced by various factors, included the business process effectiveness that implemented by the firm and the organizational commitment that attached to firm’s employees. This research aims to measure business process effectiveness and organizational commitment influence to AIS quality partially and simultaneusly. This research use sample data that collected by convenience sampling method with questionnaires that contain assessment statements with differential scales. The sample of this research was 78 employees who worked for eight general insurance firm in Bandung, West Java. Several conclusions were obtained from the four hypotheses. First, there is a different between average value of business process effectiveness and the average value of organizational commitment. Second, the business process effectiveness is proven to affect the AIS quality partially by 62,25%. Third, the organizational commitment is proven to affect the AIS quality partially by 64,48%. Fourth, the business process effectiveness and organizational commitment are proven to affect the AIS quality simultaneously by 70,90%.

Using cognitive maps to study issues concerning the improvement of the quality of life of population in the frame of interregional disparities

This paper studies issues of the rise in the standards of living and improvement of the quality of life of the population in the frame of intermunicipal disparities. Simulation and modelling are examined in relation to research of standards of living and quality of life. Tools of cognitive modelling and simulation are used to acquire new knowledge on the regional social and economic, ecological, and political system which determines the standards of living and quality of life. A cognitive model studying the quality of life was designed and its structural properties were analyzed. Scenarios were created to model possible developments of the situation under the influence of various factors. The novelty of the work is in applying a new informational technology of cognitive modelling to studying the improvement of the quality of life in the frame of intermunicipal disparities.

A Realist Model of Communication Applications for Informational Technology and Artificial Cognitive Systems

The structure of the Shannon-Weaver model of communication (1948) has been the point of departure for the coming communication models that ever since have functioned as a base for developing systems and strategies within all the fields that depend on informational transfer. Attempts to develop the model have not affected its basic structure, or the use of the central concept of information. As it will be argued in this paper, this presents a number of limitations to the development of informational technology and more functional artificial cognitive systems. After contextualizing and adapting a number of central concepts for any theory of communication, the author presents a model of communication that is viable as a foundation for the development of artificial cognitive systems used for functions like natural language-processing, object-recognition and machine-learning.

The Reality of Technologies for Cyber Security Challenges

In the field of informational technology, cyber securit y plays an important role in ensuring that information has becom e one of today's major challenges. The first thing that comes to our mind when we ever talk about cyber security is ' cyber crimes, ' which are rising exponentially every day. Different governments and companies take numerous measures to prevent such cyber crimes. In addition to various cyber security measures, many still have a major concern. It also reports on the innovations in cyber security strategies, practices and developments that change the face of online health. This paper focuses mainly on cyber security challenges facing the latest technologies.

Investment potential forecast and strategies for its expansion: case of Ukraine

In the current conditions of capital market liberalization, developing countries achieve a faster economic growth rate by actively attracting various types of foreign investment. The steady rise in the volume of foreign investment into the country could be achieved only due to its high investment potential.Therefore, this study aims to develop the methodology for determining the dynamic changes in the country’s investment potential, and its relevant medium-term indicators identify the degree of informational technology influence on Ukraine’s investment potential. It is essential to define the position of Ukraine in the global context in terms of the level of information technologies as the catalyst for investment attractiveness.The relevant indicators defining Ukraine’s investment potential were forecasted using the Brown-Meyer exponential smoothing model. To calculate the integral indicator of the investment potential, the Hurst exponent was applied. Kohonen self-organizing maps were used to group the countries according to their informational technology parameters.Ukraine’s investment potential was found to decrease since 2019 and is equal to 0.6493 units in 2020 and 0.6407 units in 2021 due to the decline of the indicators describing the human capital, infrastructure, technological development, and socio-economic conditions. Technology has a significant influence on Ukraine’s investment potential. Its impact is rising each year from 1.70% to 5.17% and 13.04% between 2019 and 2021, respectively. According to the level of technology, Ukraine is in the group with Spain, Romania, and Poland since 2017.The decreasing investment potential forecast and the positive influence of technology level on it bring the opportunity to form the priority areas for expansion of investment potential based on the adaptation of world instruments to implement the investment policy within national economic conditions.