bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Context of Social Entrepreneurship and Background
Authors: İyigün N. Öykü
Published: June 2018

Social entrepreneurship has been the subject of considerable interest in the literature. It has become a global phenomenon by addressing the basic needs of humans, which are neglected, and enriching communities and societies. This chapter introduces the context of social entrepreneurship and its background; it continues by exploring the related terms and characteristics of social entrepreneurship. Over the years, social entrepreneurship has emerged as a distinctive context by integrating the resourcefulness of traditional entrepreneurship with the compelling drive to address social problems. Social entrepreneurship needs to be properly defined and it requires a theoretical framework that links it to the theory of entrepreneurship. The purpose of this chapter is to review and extend the current literature by providing insight about social entrepreneurship in the spectrum of entrepreneurship through value creation. As a result, this chapter suggests implications for social entrepreneurs and boundaries for social entrepreneurship.
Lean Approach to Social Entrepreneurship
Authors: Ertemel Adnan Veysel
Published: June 2018

This chapter proposes an alternate view to social entrepreneurship emphasizing that for-profit and non-profit entrepreneurship are in essence indifferent. It then discusses the latest trends in commercial entrepreneurship world together with implications on social entrepreneurship. In doing so, the lean startup phenomenon and closely related concepts, namely customer development philosophy, business model innovation, value proposition design, and jobs-to-be-done theory are explored with implications on social entrepreneurship.
Performance Measurement in Social Enterprises
Authors: Öncer Ayla Zehra
Published: June 2018

This chapter begins with the notion of performance management and then focuses on the concept of social impact in order to deeply examine the measurement of performance in social enterprises. The chapter argues the importance of measuring social impact which is the crucial process in social investment and discusses which measurement method to choose. It then introduces the classification of methods in various forms based on the related literature. The chapter continues by explaining the most frequently used social impact measurement methods including cost effectiveness and cost benefit analyses, social accounting and auditing, SROI, balanced scorecard, SIMPLE, benefit-cost ratio, BACO ratio, expected return metric, cost per impact, and blended value. Finally, the conclusion focuses on the overall perspective of the subject, critical areas to pay attention to, and limitations.
Social Entrepreneurship
Authors: Karaca Mustafa , Biçkes Durdu Mehmet
Published: June 2018

Social entrepreneurship attracts attention to the science world as a conceptual field of social benefit based on business activities. Social entrepreneurs are the actors who drive innovation with commercial tolerance and uncertainty tolerance in order to raise social welfare and find solutions to social problems. Especially the injustices and inadequacies in transferring public support to social problems have increased the importance of social entrepreneurship. In addition to the conceptual projection of social entrepreneurship, this research has raised fundamental problems that have hampered social entrepreneurship and prevented further development, and a number of solution proposals have been developed in order to get rid of these problems. This concept, which has been separated from traditional entrepreneurship and is in the process of building its own literature, has many parts to inspire next research. It is hoped that this study, which includes proposals for next research, will contribute to the scientific world. It is thought that this study created by the method of literature review will have more specific conceptual contribution to the investigation of various researches from different disciplines and their unique character in terms of their synthesis.
Understanding the Mood of International Millennials Towards India
Authors: Parida Soumik
Published: June 2018

This chapter explores what triggers international millennials moods in relation to India and its cultural attributes. The theoretical undertaking related to nation branding and soft power study was used as a basis for this research. In the light of the discussion carried out in the chapter, key Indian cultural attributes were briefly discussed. The major cultural attributes extensively discussed during this research were related to Indian cinema, Indian cuisine, religion, spirituality, and yoga. Twenty-two international millennials belonging to four different cultural groups were selected for the focus group research. Their perceptions about India brought out interesting insights in understanding how to promote India among different cultures.
Role of Consumer Mood Analysis in Buying Guitars
Authors: Chakraverty Aishwarrya , Mandal Deepesh
Published: June 2018

This chapter explores consumer engagement, brand/category recall of the target audience by utilizing the mind and mood analysis method. What really goes into the decision-making process by the consumers before making a choice in the market which is full of clutter in its space has been the sole purpose of this research paper. The arduous work involved processes to find out the consumer buying behavior of guitars by semi-professionals and professionals at Indian semi-metro cities. With the growing numbers of offline and online stores, consumers are spoilt for choices when it comes to purchasing the desired products. The innovative world and various brands of products make it difficult for a consumer to make a buying decision. The authors aimed to throw some light into how such decisions are made by choosing a target audience and one of the most popular musical instruments, guitars, by using some invigorating techniques which have been discussed in this research paper.
Understanding How Behavior Plays a Role in Purchasing Dog Food in Bombay
Authors: Rajesh Niaga , Varma Paavni
Published: June 2018

It has been noticed that there has been an increase in the number of families adopting dogs as pets in the urban areas on India. Dogs among all other pets are considered the most loyal and unconditionally loving animals. However, maintaining a dog is not as simple as it may seem. One of the most important factors that contribute to the wellbeing of a dog is the nutritious food consumed by the dog. This research paper aims to understand the behavior that influences the purchase of dog food in Mumbai city. The goal is to comprehend the preferences and the buying pattern of dog food consumed in Mumbai. To undertake this research, 15 in-depth interviews were conducted, of people who own dogs; belong to the middle and upper-class families in the city of Mumbai. Dog owners indulge in a lot of reading and research to make sure that they give the right form of nutrition to their dogs. This research threw light on the purchase behavior of dog food consumed in Mumbai.
Does Social Media Enhance Brand Fandom?
Authors: Das Payel
Published: June 2018

In the present day, social media has highly affected the fan culture and fandom for brands. Brands have their fandom, especially luxury brands. The current study aims to explore the influence of social media in enhancing brand fandom through two factors under social media: interaction and usage. Further, the study also seeks to explore the influences of brand fandom on brand loyalty and online purchase intention. The study will undersign the importance of interactions on social media sites to understand the influence of social media on in shaping and reshaping the perception of brands in their mindsets and developing a love for them. Perceptual responses will be gathered from 232 undergraduate and postgraduate students (aged 17-27 years) studying in an Indian private university and subsequently analyze using partial least square. The study seeks to find a relationship between the influence of social media interaction and social media usability on brand fandom. The proposed relationships have been tested using SPSS 17 for Windows.
Understanding the Effect of Features on the Buying Mood of Consumers in the Passenger Vehicle Segment
Authors: Batra Yagesh , Na Surprise
Published: June 2018

Indian automobile industry has always been perceived with the notion of mileage sells and nothing else. There has been a lot of study and research on the Indian automobile market, wherein the researchers have worked on the buying behavior in various sectors and segments of the Indian automobile market. These researches include buying and sales trends as per models, fuel efficiency, and moreover, lately these researchers are based on driving forces and key factors affecting the sales of passenger cars in India. For the mix of consumers, the authors targeted a bunch of automobile enthusiasts, some of “status”-based buyers and totally convenience and need-based buyers. Leximancer was used to analyze the result of these interviews, leading to conclusions on the topic. Features being the base of the argument here, the authors looked ahead to find the key factors that change the mind of a buyer and found that even among influencers and purchasing decision, these are features and unique feel of the car.
Impact of Mood of the Millennial Customers on Purchase of Apparels Online
Authors: Thakur Anusha
Published: June 2018

In today's scenario, the millennials are keen towards the mobile technology wherein they expect to use the best of it in all aspects of their lives. Online channels help the millennials to enhance their shopping experiences by taking a glance at the reviews, ratings, value, and pricing of the products. This can be attributed to the streamlined services coupled with the free trials and delivery, and additional discounts offered by the apps. But, at the same time, how their mood affects their decision is still a question. For instance, if the consumers are in a good mood, they are likely to shop more. However, if they are in a low mood, they might not shop for anything. This study includes the mind and mood analysis of the young millennial consumers while shopping for apparels online. The study will involve in-depth interviews of 21 customers. The analysis will be done through the Leximancer tool. Additionally, this chapter would help the retailers understand the range of mood, which the customers display while purchasing apparels online and accordingly devise their strategies.
Understanding the Effect of Cultural Factors on Consumers Moods While Purchasing Gold Jewelry
Authors: Nair Shruti Santosh , Gulati Mallika Gautam
Published: June 2018

The researchers believe that the category of gold jewelry is evolving rapidly and has a lot of potential. Delving deeper into the topic will give a more holistic understanding of how marketers can target the Indian jewelry segment better. Understanding the patterns of buying behavior of gold jewelry consumers will help the researchers derive insight on how to market gold better. The way things currently pan out show the great role of promotional activities in the business of marketing gold jewelry. Through various sources and various ways big business establishments in gold jewelry are creating awareness on their brand. There are various promotional activities followed by jewelry shops for attracting new consumers and also for satisfying their existing consumers. Advertisements are of various types and still play a significant role as a promotional strategy especially in the gold jewelry market. The regional factors greatly influence it.
Moving From Topology-Dependent to Opportunistic Routing Protocols in Dynamic Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Authors: Menon Varun G. , Prathap P. M. Joe
Published: June 2018

Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are a collection of wireless devices like mobile phones and laptops that can spontaneously form self-sustained temporary networks without the assistance of any pre-existing infrastructure or centralized control. These unique features have enabled MANETs to be used for communication in challenging environments like earthquake-affected areas, underground mines, etc. Mobility and speed of devices in MANETs have become highly unpredictable and is increasing day by day. Major challenge in these highly dynamic networks is to efficiently deliver data packets from source to destination. Over these years a number of protocols have been proposed for this purpose. This chapter examines the working of popular protocols proposed for efficient data delivery in MANETs: starting from the traditional topology-based protocols to the latest opportunistic protocols. The performances of these protocols are analyzed using simulations in ns-2. Finally, challenges and future research directions in this area are presented.
Dynamic Fog Computing
Authors: SOO SANDER , Chang Chii , Loke Seng W. , Srirama Satish Narayana
Published: June 2018

The emerging Internet of Things (IoT) systems enhance various mobile ubiquitous applications such as augmented reality, environmental analytics, etc. However, the common cloud-centric IoT systems face limitations on the agility needed for real-time applications. This motivates the Fog computing architecture, where IoT systems distribute their processes to the computational resources at the edge networks near data sources and end-users. Although fog computing is a promising solution, it also raises a challenge in mobility support for mobile ubiquitous applications. Lack of proper mobility support will increase the latency due to various factors such as package drop, re-assigning tasks to fog servers, etc. To address the challenge, this chapter proposes a dynamic and proactive fog computing approach, which improves the task distribution process in fog-assisted mobile ubiquitous applications and optimizes the task allocation based on runtime context information. The authors have implemented and validated a proof-of-concept prototype and the chapter discusses the findings.
Visualizing Pathway on 3D Maps for an Interactive User Navigation in Mobile Devices
Authors: Mantoro Teddy , Ayu Media Anugerah , Ibrahim Adamu
Published: June 2018

3D maps have become an essential tool for navigation aid. The aim of a navigation aid is to provide an optimal route from the current position to the destination. Unfortunately, most mobile devices' GPS signal accuracy and the display of pathways on 3D maps in the small screen of mobile devices affects the pathway architectural from generating accurate initial positions to destinations. This chapter proposed a technique for visualizing pathway on 3D maps for an interactive user navigation aid in mobile devices. This technique provides visualization of 3D maps in virtual 3D workspace environments which assists a user to navigate to a target location. The Bi-A* path-finding algorithm was used for establishing dynamic target location in Voronoi diagram/Delaunay triangulation. This approach could navigate more than two users in a 3D walk-space and at the same time showing their whereabouts on 3D projections mapped. The map shows the users' location in the scene to navigate from source to the target and the target also moves to the source to meet on the same physical location and image plane.
Soil Bioremediation Techniques
Authors: Kumar P. Senthil , C. Femina Carolin
Published: June 2018

Soil pollution is rising rapidly due to the existence of pollutants or natural alterations in the soil. It makes the drinking water ineffective and unusable by the human beings. The major cause of the soil contamination is agricultural activities, industrial activities, and inadmissible disposal of waste in the soil. The most common pollutants to accumulate in the soil are petroleum hydrocarbons, solvents, pesticides, lead, and other heavy metals. The important technology to remediate the pollutants or contaminants in the soil is bioremediation. The utilization of bioremediation in the contaminated soil is increasing rapidly due to the presence of toxic pollutants. It is the most advanced technologies which make use of organisms to deteriorate the harmful compounds in order to prevent the soil pollution. The aim of the chapter is to describe the available bioremediation technologies and their application in removing the pollutants exist in the soil.
Water Pollutants and Their Removal Techniques
Authors: Kumar P. Senthil , Saravanan A.
Published: June 2018

A developing number of contaminants are entering into water supplies from industrialization and human actions. On account of pharmaceuticals, individual care items, hormones, pesticides, and other substance intensifies that are discharged into the water supply, rising contaminations distinguished in water may have contrary effects to human wellbeing and aquatic environments. In perspective of the previously mentioned issues, late consideration has been centered on the improvement of more effective, low cost, vigorous strategies for wastewater treatment, without additionally focusing on nature or endangering human wellbeing by the treatment itself. The treatment methodologies include primary, secondary, and tertiary treatment using chemical and biological processes. Various strategies, for example, electrochemical, ion exchange, chemical precipitation, coagulation, membrane separation, adsorption, dialysis, flotation, and biological methods have been utilized for the expulsion of harmful contaminations from water and wastewater.
Pesticidal Pollution
Authors: Mobin Rizwana , Chisti Hamida-Tun-Nisa , Rangreez Tauseef Ahmad , Bashir Rafia , Najar Altaf Ahmad
Published: June 2018

The development and application of pesticides has contributed in a long way in making the “Green Revolution” possible. These newer pesticides have synergetic effect over the control of pests that otherwise have negative impact on the quality and quantity of food. The toxicity, persistence, and environmental pathway are some important criteria that determine the impacts on ecology and environment. The generalization of the impact of pesticides on different organisms is difficult as these are of broad spectrum chemical nature. However, the major problem that arises due to widespread use of pesticides is the contamination of water by pesticide runoff. The chemically contaminated water in turn leads to the much aggravated problems of bio-concentration and bio-magnification of these chemicals. While the bio-concentration describes the transfer of a chemical from surrounding into the tissue/body of organism, the bio-magnification is related to the increased concentration of such a chemical along a food chain.
Occurrence and Fate of Selected Heavy Metals in a Conventional Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant in Kisumu City, Kenya
Authors: Shikuku Victor Odhiambo , Achieng' George O.
Published: June 2018

The objective of this work was to investigate the occurrence and fate of five heavy metals in water, sludge, and sediments from a conventional municipal wastewater treatment facility in Kisumu City, Kenya. The effluent quality was compared with the effluent quality parameters stipulated by the National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA) to assess the efficiency of the plant and potential effect of the discharged effluent on the recipient river. The levels of the heavy metals recorded in the sludge samples were significantly higher than those in the corresponding water samples. The order of the metal percentage removal efficiency (%R) from the treatment plant was Mg>Cu>Mn>Fe>Zn. It is concluded that the plant is a point source for Zn loading into the recipient waters which poses potential risk to end users downstream. The heavy metal-laden sludge was within permissible limits for utilization in agricultural lands.
Environmental Recycling System (ERS)
Authors: Dubey Shashi Kant , Hussain Athar , Ajnavi Somesh
Published: June 2018

A lot of solid waste is generated in every country of the world. Among various disposal methods used for management of solid waste, open dumping is mostly used in many countries, especially developing countries. Due to open dumping, the environment becomes polluted. It also creates aesthetic problems at the site. Industrial and agricultural wastes are simple to handle being of specific characteristics. This chapter describes in detail the composition of municipal solid waste, various problems arising due to solid waste, approaches used for solid waste management, and environmental recycling system (ERS). ERS, its components, and methods for segregation of waste have also been discussed in detail in this chapter.
Big Data and Digital Analytics
Authors: Doraikannan Sumathi , Selvaraj Prabha
Published: June 2018

Data becomes big data when then the size of data exceeds the ability of our IT systems in terms of 3Vs (volume, velocity, and variety). When the data sets are large and complex, it becomes a great difficult task for handling such voluminous data. This chapter will provide a detailed knowledge of the major concepts and components of big data and also the transformation of big data in to business operations. Collection and storage of big data will not help out in creation of business values. Values and importance are created once when the action starts on data by performing an analysis. Hence, this chapter provides a view on various kinds of analysis that can be done with big data and also the differences between traditional analytics and big data analytics. The transformation of digital data into business values could be in terms of reports, research analyses, recommendations, predictions, and optimizations. In addition to the concept of big data, this chapter discuss about the basic concepts of digital analytics, methods, and techniques for digital analysis.
Digital Category Management
Authors: Chkoniya Valentina , Mateus Armando
Published: June 2018

The internet of things (IoT) is transforming the way consumers shop at stores, how shoppers collect information, and how they take purchasing decisions. The way manufacturers and retailers respond to the digital enabled shopper is key to ensure positive implications for revenues and profits, ensuring that the collaborative relationship focus on providing shoppers with a better customer experience. Category management is at the center of the manufacturer-retailer relationship, urging for a transformational turmoil that enables a prompt response to the digital enabled shopper. This chapter discusses the implications of the new digital empowered shopper for the traditional category management demand-side aspects underlying the need to enhance business results by focusing on higher collaboration and automation.
Gratitude and Prosocial Behaviour Among Preservice Preschool Teachers
Authors: Vorkapić Sanja Tatalović , Lacmanović Sara , Katić Vesna
Published: June 2018

Considering the significance of a preschool teacher's influence on children's overall behavior, this research focuses on the characteristics and positive emotions, like gratitude which are associated with good wishes and the tendency to do something positive (i.e. prosocial behavior). Therefore, the main question of this study was to explore gratitude and prosocial behavior among preservice preschool tachers, and to analyze the relationship between their gratitude, prosocial behavior and academic year and age. Results of a sample of 96 Early and Preschool Education students have shown higher levels of gratitude and prosocial behavior among students who participated in this study. In addition, the significant positive correlation between gratitude, prosocial behaviour and the students' age was determined. These findings have been discussed within the framework of preschool education students' future roles as preschool teachers who would be significant in the lives of preschool children.
The Power and Compassion of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)
Authors: Ellis Debbie Joffe
Published: June 2018

This chapter demonstrates the effectiveness of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) for enabling people to enhance their lives and create greater happiness. It is the pioneering approach developed by Albert Ellis PhD, the late husband of the author, that heralded in the cognitive revolution in psychotherapy, and which influenced approaches that followed it such as Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Positive Psychology and more. It is a holistic approach that reminds us of the inseparable interplay of thoughts, emotions and behaviors, and in addition to being an evidence based therapy, it can also be a way of life for those who choose to apply it as such. By practicing its principles which encourage us to create healthy emotions in response to adverse situations, we are also guided to experience and express unconditional acceptance of ourselves, others, and life, and to practice daily gratitude. In so doing we can feel compassion and empathy for those who suffer, including ourselves, experience greater joy and minimize emotional suffering in our lives.
Social Stories for Targeting Behaviors and Developing Empathy in Adolescents With Autism Spectrum Disorder
Authors: Kennedy Carol Kahan , Bhagavatula Lakshmi , Bedford Sean , Bennett Jr. Reginald , Dorleans Sabine , Halden Judith , Hoffmann Philippe , Morris Janelle , Perez Marylin , Porcelli Clementina
Published: June 2018

This chapter contends that working with clinicians who use media technology, adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder can develop social skills that they need to transition to adulthood and gain employment. Developing empathy is a core challenge for these young people because often they have not learned how to understand others' feelings and motives. Technology can provide a faster learning modality, even for developing empathy. For those adolescents showing a natural affinity for technology and media, the clinician engages them in scripting, directing, and starring in their own instructional video that tells them the steps to learning empathy and other social skills the clinician and adolescent have chosen to address in their individual treatment program. For the successful outcome of treatment, the young person learns not only empathy, but also improves other targeted behaviors such as making appropriate conversation. The mixed-method study presented here follows the progress of 16 ASD clients toward self-sufficiency. The clinicians involved present a training model for clinicians in future practice.
Market Intelligence as an Information System Element
Authors: Jamil George Leal , Rocha dos Santos Leandro Henrique , Jamil Cecília Carvalho
Published: June 2018

The market intelligence process has been studied from several points of view and different approaches. In this chapter, the authors discuss the perspective of market intelligence as a component of information system projects and specifications. As the results show, both from theoretical perspectives and studies, and from successful practical applications, this better comprehension results in a possibility of higher levels of knowledge production, allowing the integration of marketing strategic, tactical, and operational perspectives with also a collateral benefit to integrate other organizational processes, such as competitive intelligence. The chapter text approaches conceptual development and relationship and practical cases observation, which will compose the final scenario where market intelligence, treated as an information system active component, is a vital and strategic tool to implement competitive advantage alternatives.
Patent Information Quality to Stimulate Innovations
Authors: Maravilhas Sérgio , Oliveira Sérgio Goes , Melo Paulo
Published: June 2018

Information, a tool to reduce uncertainty and develop knowledge in organizations, is an important aid in the decision-making process. There are several characteristics that describe the quality of information that will allow the analysis of its value. Quality information warrants us best results when competing with other organizations. Its value is related to the results that it will allow us to obtain, and it depends on the context. Patent information must be of high quality to permit the search and retrieval of the documents needed to solve a problem or stimulate new ideas and solutions. Old inventions can generate new ideas; technologies for one application can be introduced for a new domain and can be applied in ecologically sustainable solutions. The current high number of patent applications reduces the quality of patent information due to the time needed to filter and search for all the prior art available. Some standards, together with machine translation, have been set up to avoid this situation and improve the quality of the patent information retrieved by the interested public. A comprehensive survey of the relevant literature available made us aware that commercial databases supply some value-added information to help the researchers and improve the efficiency of the search queries. Some of these features could be applied by the national and international intellectual property offices.
Internet of Things and Internet of All Things
Authors: Pessoa Cláudio Roberto Malhães , Batista Cássio Luis , Marques Marco Elisio
Published: June 2018

Interaction between devices, systems, and services is provided in internet through a new concept: internet of everything (IoE). This new concept should present numerous opportunities for the creation of new devices and applications in the years that follow and can dramatically affect the day-to-day life of all of us. New possibilities of information access, transmission, analysis, and interaction are practically infinity. With so many benefits, it is expected to come with several challenges. System structure and architecture and information confidentiality, integrity, and availability are aspects that someone should keep in mind to design an IoE application. This chapter offers to the reader an overview of the evolution of devices connectivity until it reaches the IoE. Some IoE concepts and applications, together with some challenges, are presented.
The Contribution of Information Science Through Scientific and Technological Knowledge in Intellectual Property
Authors: Lima de Magalhães Jorge , Mendes Flavia Maria Lins , Antunes Adelaide Maria de Souza , Hartz Zulmira
Published: June 2018

The more than 100 million patents registered in the European Patent Office provide an unprecedented source of scientific and technological information in the history of mankind. The technological management of this information is exploited to develop technological advances in scientific, technological, and educational organizations and companies. New standards of product and process safety and effectiveness have been introduced across the world, and public and private business strategies are under constant review to comply with the prevailing paradigm. The health sector releases more than 1 million papers a year on scientific progress, while technological (patents) advance 10% per year. Therefore, updating the contribution of the information science through scientific and technological knowledge in intellectual property, a case study, will provide a contribution to reflection for the business in research, development, and innovation in health. These facts lead to constant adjustments of business in companies, universities, and government actions. In 2017, three lists of strategic products for the Brazilian Health System were changed. Using new intelligence systems, the government has adopted new strategic partnerships with the private sector, and were conceived in 2017 (others replaced) with budgets of more than US$ 2 billion. This chapter explores the contribution of information science through scientific and technological knowledge in intellectual property.
Organizational Urbanism
Authors: Fernandes da Anunciação Pedro , Esteves Francisco Madeira , Gonçalves Fernando Miguel
Published: June 2018

The challenges of the information society require frequent strategic reorientations that, in the context of the relational economy, emphasize the importance of IS/ICT in adapting to change, competitiveness, and economic sustainability. The easy adoption of the new technologies by the people, the paradigm of the availability of the new distribution channels, the reduction of the time-to-market, among other examples, have demanded to the responsible ones of the organizations and the SI dynamic of management, and adequate framework of the stated challenges. The preparation and management of the associated changes presuppose a coordinated and coherent combination of four vital axes for organizational success: business performance, information management, systems architecture and information technologies, and relational positioning. In this area, the development of an urban view of the value chain and its participants and the adoption of a logistics perspective on the momentum appear to be the primary adjustment in the support of organizational models to business.
Indian Telecom Industry
Authors: Mahajan Vishal , Mahajan Renuka , Misra Richa
Published: June 2018

This chapter begins with an introduction to the telecom sector, communication using mobile phones, and evolution of wireless communication. It presents the current scenario in this sector, the challenges faced by the telecom industry, especially with ever increasing data network traffic. Finally, the possibilities of harnessing the power of big data analytics, new techniques, and technologies that drive innovation in telecom are presented to help service providers make better decisions and react quickly to threats on the competitive horizon.
Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in Higher Education
Authors: Ujeyo Margaret Stella Suubi
Published: June 2018

Criticisms abound regarding the quality and relevance of higher education. Addressing these criticisms requires innovative approaches including Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). This chapter examines the contribution of ESD to the quality and relevance of higher education. The chapter explains the concepts of quality, relevance, sustainable development, and education for sustainable development in higher education. Applying the concepts of systems theory and transformative learning, the chapter explores the contribution of ESD to improvement of higher education through strategies that empower learners with higher order skills. Many of the ESD learning outcomes and competences could translate into success in the lives of graduates in the workplace. The challenges to the adoption of ESD in higher education are also discussed.
Cultivating Critical Thinking Amongst University Graduate Students
Authors: Onen David
Published: June 2018

The importance of critical thinking in 21st century knowledge economy is no longer disputable. Yet, its cultivation amongst learners remains a challenge - even to the most accomplished teachers. This chapter examines the perceptions of critical thinking held by faculty members of a university's college of education in Uganda. The study findings reveal that faculty members have different perceptions of what critical thinking is, its importance, and how it is cultivated amongst graduate students. Additionally, the faculty reported several challenges while cultivating critical thinking among students. It was thus concluded that the differences in faculty members' perceptions of critical thinking were responsible for its inadequate cultivation amongst students, other factors notwithstanding. Therefore, the study recommends for the formal inclusion of critical thinking in the curricula of graduate programs in order to strengthen its cultivation among students.
Strengthening Internationalisation of the Curriculum in Higher Education
Authors: Meda Lawrence
Published: June 2018

Internationalisation has become a buzzword in institutions of higher learning today. Universities are challenged to find ways of making their curriculum have international dimensions. This chapter presents a case study on how to enhance internationalisation in an engineering programme piloted at a university of technology in South Africa. Daniel Stufflebeam's Context, Input, Process and Product evaluations model was used as a theoretical framework. Data was collected using semi-structured interviews with the Dean of the faculty, Head of department and a programme coordinator. The findings suggest that a mobile profession like engineering requires purposeful integration of internationalisation in order to increase graduates' chances of being active participants in a global economy.
Improving the Use of BIM Using System Engineering for Infrastructure Projects
Authors: Tolmer Charles-Edouard
Published: June 2018

BIM is defined and used in several ways. As standardisation is now increasing on BIM, it is time to optimise the use of BIM, especially for civil infrastructure projects. The level of detail of the information produced and exchanged is not defined enough to allow production optimisation. It concerns a lot of processes and documents in the project, not only the BIM Execution Plan. It is proposed here to use system engineering principles to complete the BIM principle, helping to optimise the use of BIM. Some of these principles are similar but they have to be merged, regarding both System Engineering and BIM paradigms. Finally, integration of systems composing the civil infrastructure is the final aim. Using BIM and System Engineering principles in an efficient way is crucial to make BIM not a constraint but a need for the project.
Improved State Space Model Using Iterative PSO for Unsteady Aerodynamic System at High AOA
Authors: Luo Guiming , Zhao Boxu , Jiang Mengqi
Published: June 2018

Due to the complex hysteresis phenomenon at a high angle of attack (AOA), modeling of unsteady aerodynamic coefficients usually encounters the problem that the parameter vector is too long and the simulation accuracy is not high. The article proposes an improved state-space model based on aerodynamics, applying Fourier analysis and the principal component analysis for model optimization. The likelihood criterion and GOIPSO (Iterative Particle Swarm Optimization Based on Genetic Operator) algorithm are established under the Gaussian assumption. The iterative PSO, into which the genetic algorithm's operators are integrated to calculate the optimization of the likelihood function, greatly reduced the probability of local optimization. Experiments show that the algorithm and model proposed in this paper greatly improves the model-fitting accuracy.
Materialized View Selection Using Set Based Particle Swarm Optimization
Authors: Kumar Amit , Kumar T.V. Vijay
Published: June 2018

A data warehouse is a central repository of historical data designed primarily to support analytical processing. These analytical queries are exploratory, long and complex in nature. Further, the rapid and continuous growth in the size of data warehouse increases the response times of such queries. Query response times need to be reduced in order to speedup decision making. This problem, being an NP-Complete problem, can be appropriately dealt with by using swarm intelligence techniques. One such technique, i.e. the set-based particle swarm optimization (SPSO), has been proposed to address this problem. Accordingly, a SPSO based view selection algorithm (SPSOVSA), which selects the Top-K views from a multidimensional lattice, is proposed. Experimental based comparison of SPSOVSA with the most fundamental view selection algorithm shows that SPSOVSA is able to select comparatively better quality Top-K views for materialization. The materialization of these selected views would improve the performance of analytical queries and lead to efficient decision making.
Effective Video Shot Boundary Detection and Keyframe Selection using Soft Computing Techniques
Authors: Rashmi B S  , Nagendraswamy H S
Published: June 2018

The amount of video data generated and made publicly available has been tremendously increased in today's digital era. Analyzing these huge video repositories require effective and efficient content-based video analysis systems. Shot boundary detection and Keyframe extraction are the two major tasks in video analysis. In this direction, a method for detecting abrupt shot boundaries and extracting representative keyframe from each video shot is proposed. These objectives are achieved by incorporating the concepts of fuzzy sets and intuitionistic fuzzy sets. Shot boundaries are detected using coefficient of correlation on fuzzified frames. Further, probabilistic entropy measures are computed to extract the keyframe within fuzzified frames of a shot. The keyframe representative of a shot is the frame with highest entropy value. To show the efficacy of the proposed methods two benchmark datasets are used (TRECVID and Open Video Project). The proposed methods outperform when compared with some of state-of-the-art shot boundary detection and keyframe extraction methods.
Evaluation of an Academic and Student Administration System in its Post-Implementation Phase
Authors: Thomas Pelleth Y. , Mmereki Rebana N. , Boy Rudolph L.
Published: June 2018

The article seeks to evaluate the Academic and Student Administration System (ASAS) at the University of Botswana (UB) in order to determine whether the system was performing successfully in its post-implementation phase. It was guided by the Delone and Mclean IS success evaluation model. Three independent ASAS quality variables and one dependent variable (user satisfaction) were included in the study Model. The study also examined if the Model was appropriate for evaluating ASAS in the UB context. The study used quantitative approaches that included a questionnaire, and statistical tools such as reliability test, descriptive statistics, and paired samples t-test. The study found that: (1) users were satisfied with the ASAS performance; however, they felt that there was still room for improvement; (2) the Model was found to be credible for evaluating ASAS in the UB context. Areas that needed improvement were identified and recommendations were made on how to address them.
Relations and Functions on Union-Soft Sets
Authors: Gangadharan Sai Sundara Krishnan , Muthukumar Pachaiyappan
Published: June 2018

In this article, the theoretical aspects of union-soft sets by extending the notions of equivalence relations, partition, composition of relations, and function to the framework of union-soft sets are introduced. Further the Cartesian product, the relation between union-soft sets, induced relations from the universal set and the attribute set with examples are discussed. Moreover, the composition of union-soft set relationships with examples and some related theorems are demonstrated. Finally, the concepts of a union-soft set function and their respective composition function are examined.
Ordered Intuitionistic Fuzzy Soft Sets and Its Application in Decision Making Problem
Authors: Muthukumar Pachaiyappan , Gangadharan Sai Sundara Krishnan
Published: June 2018

In this article, some new basic operations and results of Ordered Intuitionistic Fuzzy Soft (OIFS) sets, such as equality, complement, subset, union, intersection, OR, and AND operators along with several examples are investigated. Further, based on the analysis of several operations on OIFS sets, numerous algebraic properties and famous De Morgans inclusions and De Morgans laws are established. Finally, using the notions of OIFS sets, an algorithm is developed and implemented in a numerical example.
Model Driven Approach to Secure Optimized Test Paths for Smart Samsung Pay using Hybrid Genetic Tabu Search Algorithm
Authors: Rathee Nisha , Chhillar Rajender Singh
Published: June 2018

Smart mobile pay applications on smart devices have been considered as the most efficient and secure mode of contactless payment. To safeguard customer credit/ debit card details, testing of mobile pay solutions like Samsung Pay is most important and critical task for testers. Testing of all the test cases is very tedious and a time-consuming task, therefore optimization techniques have been used to identify most optimized test paths. In this article, a hybrid genetic and tabu search optimization (HGTO) algorithm is proposed to secure optimized test paths using activity diagram of the smart Samsung Pay application. The proposed approach has been implemented using C++ language on the case study of the Smart Samsung Pay and an online airline reservation system. The experimental results show that the proposed technique is more effective in automatic generation and optimization of test paths, as compared to a simple genetic algorithm.
A Novel Key Management Scheme for Next Generation Internet: An Attack Resistant and Scalable Approach
Authors: Kimbahune Vinod Vijaykumar , Deshpande Arvind V. , Mahalle Parikshit N.
Published: June 2018

The computational complexity of the next generation internet (NGI) is increasing at a faster rate. Due to the large scale of ubiquitous devices, effective and secure communication and addressing mechanism is vulnerable to several threats. Apart from resource constraints of the devices, the unknown topology of the network and the higher risk of device capture make the key management a more challenging task in NGI. In this context, a novel attack resistant and salable key management scheme must be in place to enable end-to-end secure communication. In the first part of the article, is a detailed analysis of various threats along with behavioral modeling of attack. Further, this article presents comprehensive literature survey and the gap analysis. The proposed key management scheme has been evaluated in two scenarios viz. centralized and decentralized and its formal security analysis also proves that it is safe from replay attack. The proposed key management scheme has been evaluated with a performance metric like delay and the results shows that it is salable in nature.
Ontology Based Expert System for Pests and Disease Management of Cotton Crop in India
Authors: Titiya Mahesh D. , Shah Vipul A.
Published: June 2018

In the agricultural domain, the main challenge is to present the new information and research to the farmers so that they can leverage the power of technologies to improve their agricultural practices and thereby the production. Huge amounts of agriculture-related data like weather data, soil health records, disease and pest are collected from different sources like web services, remote satellites, and a network of sensors. The authors' ontology-based agro advisory system will help to bridge the gap between farmers and the agriculture domain experts. It has three main components: Cotton Ontology, Web services and Mobile Application Development. Protégé tool is used to develop ontology. The RESTful web services are programmed in Java using the JAX-RS/Jersey API and Eclipse IDE. RESTful web services are all developed and deployed on a cloud-based application server provided by Heroku. The farmers can access an application by android mobile. The Android user interface is created using Java, Android SDK-v1.4 and Eclipse IDE.
Evaluating Prediction Accuracy, Developmental Challenges, and Issues of Recommender Systems
Authors: Moses J. Sharon , Babu L.D. Dhinesh
Published: June 2018

Modern ways of living have made the people to depend on internet services for everything. The mounting information from various sources like social media, implicit and explicit information, user's geographical location, and the internet of things had increased the need of a recommender system. From e-governance to e-shopping, a recommender system helps people in finding the needed item or information and also boosts sales in the market of those items. Though many studies elaborate about recommendation systems, challenges in developing the recommendation systems, prevailing issues of recommendation systems and discussions on prediction accuracy are not detailed in any of the earlier works. Therefore, in this article, in order to increase the accuracy of the recommender system, the developmental challenges and issues in constructing recommender systems and for evaluation metrics in prediction accuracy are identified and detailed.