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New Framework and Mechanisms of Context-Aware Service Composition in the Future Internet

  • Gonzalez, Alberto J.;De Pozuelo, Ramon Martin;German, Martin;Alcober, Jesus;Pinyol, Francesc
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.35 no.1
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    • pp.7-17
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    • 2013
  • The ongoing proliferation of new services, applications, and contents is leading the Internet to an architectural crisis owing to its inability to provide efficient solutions to new requirements. Clean-slate architectures for the future Internet offer a new approach to tackle current and future challenges. This proposal introduces a novel clean-slate architecture in which the TCP/IP protocol stack is decoupled in basic functionalities, that is, atomic services (ASs). A negotiation protocol, which enables context-aware service discovery for providing adapted communications, is also specified. Then, we present how ASs can be discovered and composed according to requesters' requirements. In addition, a media service provisioning use case shows the benefits of our framework. Finally, a proof-of-concept implementation of the framework is described and analyzed. This paper describes the first clean-slate architecture aligned with the work done within the ISO/IEC Future Network working group.

Cognitive and Affective Trust in IT Consulting Service (IT컨설팅에서 인지적 신뢰와 정서적 신뢰에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Jungi;Cho, Cheulhyun;Kim, Hanbyeol;Lee, Jungwoo
    • Journal of Information Technology Services
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.39-54
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    • 2013
  • IT consulting is becoming a norm rather than exception in this age of smart work and information revolution. As IT consulting is one of the knowledge intensive services requiring high credence on both sides, maintaining a good trustful relationship is critical in sustenance of strategic partnership between business firms and IT service firms. Trust is known to be one of the salient constructs in service relationships. In this study, building from the social psychology literature, trust is conceptualized as two dimensions : cognitive and affective trust. Using two dimensions of trust as mediators, a research model is constructed for IT consulting specific context : relationship continuance intention as the dependent construct while expertise, service performance, reputation, relationship satisfaction and value similarity as antecedents of cognitive and affective trust. 145 data points were collected through a survey of IT service client project managers retrospectively asking their experience with IT consultants. Findings suggest that cognitive trust is associated with perceived level of expertise and service performance while affective trust with relationship satisfaction and value similarity, respectively. Interestingly, the paths from reputation are found to be statistically insignificant towards both dimensions of trust, indicating IT service context would be more practically outcome oriented than any other professional service context. Also, cognitive trust seems to maintain stronger influence on relationship continuance intention as anticipated. Implications and limitations are discussed at the end.

The Effects of Gestalt Principles on the Perceived Usability of User Interface in a Web Context (게쉬탈트 원리가 사용자 인터페이스의 지각된 사용가능성에 미치는 영향에 대한 탐색적 연구)

  • Jung, Won-Jin;Yim, Hyung-Rok
    • The Journal of Information Systems
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.117-148
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    • 2010
  • The user interface (UI) is the part of the systems that users can see, hear and feel. That means, a user can interact with the systems through the user interface. Effective user interfaces create positive feelings of success and competence. In addition, they enable users to concentrate on their work, exploration, or pleasure. The German word "Gestalt" means "whole" as well as a figure or a shape. A comprehensive information systems (IS) literature review found that there has been little empirical evidence on the Gestalt principles in UIs that affect online users' perceived usability in a Web context. Therefore, the goals of this study are to 1) examine the relationships between Gestalt principles in UIs and online users' perceived usability in a Web context and 2) come up with design guidelines to enhance user success. Using a survey, this study explored the relationships between Gestalt principles used in six Web sites and 17 aspects of usability. The results showed that in terms of 16 aspects of usability, there are significant differences among the UIs that have different levels of Gestalt principles. In practice, online stores may use these findings to improve their Web pages. Specifically, the sixteen usability attributes can be used to check whether online stores' Web pages meet customers' user interface quality expectations.

A DEA-based Benchmarking Framework in terms of Organizational Context (조직 상황을 고려한 DEA 기반의 벤치마킹 프레임워크)

  • Seol, Hyeong-Ju;Lim, Sung-Mook;Park, Gwang-Man
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.37 no.1
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    • pp.1-9
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    • 2009
  • Data envelopment analysis(DEA) has proved to be powerful for benchmarking and has been widely used in a variety of settings since the advent of it. DEA can be used in identifying the best performing units to be benchmarked against as well as in providing actionable measure for improvement of a organization's performance. However, the selection of performance benchmarks is a matter of both technical production possibilities and organizational policy considerations, managerial preferences and external restrictions. In that regards, DEA has a limited value in benchmarking because it focuses on only technical production Possibilities. This research proposes a new perspective in using DEA and a frame-work for benchmarking to select benchmarks that are both feasible and desirable in terms of organizational context. To do this, the concept of local and global efficiency is newly proposed. To show how useful the suggested concept and framework are, a case study is addressed.

Insights into the Usage of Nucleobase Triplets and Codon Context Pattern in Five Influenza A Virus Subtypes

  • Deka, Himangshu;Chakraborty, Supriyo
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.26 no.11
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    • pp.1972-1982
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    • 2016
  • Influenza A virus is a single-stranded RNA virus with a genome of negative polarity. Owing to the antigenic diversity and cross concrete shift, an immense number of novel strains have developed astronomically over the years. The present work deals with the codon utilization partialness among five different influenza A viruses isolated from human hosts. All the subtypes showed the homogeneous pattern of nucleotide utilization with a little variation in their utilization frequencies. A lower bias in codon utilization was observed in all the subtypes as reflected by higher magnitudes of an efficacious number of codons. Dinucleotide analysis showed very low CpG utilization and a high predilection of A/T-ending codons. The H5N1 subtype showed noticeable deviation from the rest. Codon pair context analysis showed remarkable depletion of NNC-GNN and NNT-ANN contexts. The findings alluded towards GC-compositional partialness playing a vital role, which is reflected in the consequential positive correlation between the GC contents at different codon positions. Untangling the codon utilization profile would significantly contribute to identifying novel drug targets that will pacify the search for antivirals against this virus.

Understanding "Authenticity" in Records Management: A Survey of Practitioners and Users

  • Park, Eun-Gyung
    • Journal of Korean Society of Archives and Records Management
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.43-68
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    • 2003
  • This paper examines the concepts and language that practitioners actually use when talking about authenticity, which is one of the most significant concepts in archives, and explores how they in records and information management currently understand the construct of authenticity in their professional activities. This paper provides brief descriptive statistics drawn from a survey and then analysis related to providing authenticity; the difficulties of judging something authentic; and definitions of authenticity as used and understood in the context of respondents' professional activity. The analysis provides indications of how professionals actually understand and use the concept of authenticity in their professional work depending on the context; and how these professionals react differently to paper records and electronic records. The paper concludes with a discussion of how this preliminary analysis fits within the context of the outcomes of prior electronic records research.

A Discourse on the Arrangement and Description of Performing Arts Records: Focusing on the Principle of Respect for Provenance and Retention of the Original Order (공연예술기록의 정리와 기술에 관한 담론 - 출처중심주의와 원질서 유지의 원칙을 중심으로 -)

  • Lee, Hosin
    • Journal of Korean Society of Archives and Records Management
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.151-174
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    • 2016
  • Performing arts are composite art forms made through the collective participation of people who are responsible for a variety of roles with a multidimensional context. This study presents an analysis of the context to be expressed in the process of the arrangement and description of records of performing arts, with a focus on the relationship between performance work and performance planning, the relationship between performance planning and individual performance, the relationship between performance and people who participated in the performance, relationship between records and records, and the relationship between performance and records. With this, this study proposes a logical hierarchical structure that is required to express the context of the inner relationship of performing arts archives. It also suggests a model of sequential organization to describe the inner logic of the relationship between records and records.

The Introduction of Modern Technologies in Public Administration in the Context of Globalization

  • Dragomyretska, Natalia;Palagnyuk, Yuliana;Andriyash, Viktoria;Matvieienko, Iryna;Samofalov, Dmytro
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.334-340
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    • 2022
  • The main purpose of the study is to determine the main aspects of the introduction of modern technologies in the public administration system in the context of globalization. Public administration is inherent in all known models of representation of social systems, characteristic management and other sciences of social management. This allows using the methods and technologies of management, marketing, social partnership and others in public administration and administration at a modern level. One of the main directions of public management and administration is social engineering, aimed at the development and development of the country's social system, and the tool is appropriate technologies. Based on the results of the analysis, the key modern technologies of the public administration system were identified in the context of the impact of globalization.

The Short-Hours Part-Time Jobs in Korea (한국의 초단시간 노동시장 분석)

  • Moon, Ji-Sun;Kim, Young-Mi
    • Korean Journal of Labor Studies
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.129-164
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    • 2017
  • This article is an exploratory study on the recent growth of short-hours part-time work in Korea. The short-hours part-time work has been rapidly growing among low-educated women over sixty, particularly among bereaved or divorced women, contrary to the expectation of the government that encouraged the part-time work by means of work-family balance for working mothers or middle-aged women who experienced career interruption. The short-hours part-time jobs are concentrated in social service industry, mostly elderly care service jobs, and their working conditions are extremely poor, mostly low-wage jobs with no social insurances except for health insurance. In this study, we discuss why the short-hours part-time work has grown so fast in Korea since the mid 2000s. Using various governmental statistics, we examine the effects of the labor demand and supply situations during the time period, the legal context that is related with the exempt clause of the labor law, and the institutional context related with the government's public job creation projects for the elderly. We suggest some public policies needed to slow down the growth of the short-hours part-time jobs and to elevate their working conditions.

Role of AL on Employees' Organizational Citizenship Behavior : The Mediating Role of Work-life Balance and the Moderating Effect of Adversity Quotient and Positive Psychological Capital (진성리더십이 직원의 조직시민행동에 미치는 영향 : 일과 삶의 균형의 매개역할과 역경지수와 긍정심리자본의 조절효과)

  • Zhang, Wanying;Hahn, Ju-hee
    • Journal of Venture Innovation
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.153-173
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    • 2024
  • In organizational behavior, the impact of leadership in organizations and employees' organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) have been two hot topics studied by scholars. However, previous studies have predominantly examined the organizational citizenship behavior of various generational groups. In the context of China's socialist market economy, it is necessary to study the OCB of state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Furthermore, employees' work-life balance in the context of SOEs' unique organizational cultures has also attracted much attention. Scholars have discovered that employees respond well to authentic leadership (AL). Although this observation has a theoretical basis, empirical research remains insufficient. Therefore, this study examined whether AL effectively promotes OCB among employees in SOEs. Additionally, we examined the mediating role of work-life balance and the moderating role of the adversity authentic and positive psychological capital. The research hypotheses were tested using 390 valid questionnaires from 60 teams using MPLUS 8.0. The results of the MPLUS study confirmed that AL promotes OCB. Work-life balance positively mediated between AL and OCB, adversity quotient positively moderated AL and work-life balance, while positive psychological capital positively mediated the impact of work-life balance on OCB. These findings provide empirical support for applying social exchange, adversity quotient, and resource conservation theories. Moreover, this study provides certain managerial insights through which managers can more effectively improve employees' professional behavior in SOEs.