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Mobile Journalism, Cellphilms, and the Use of the StoryMaker Multimedia Software at a Zimbabwean Media Training University
Authors: Mhiripiri Nhamo Anthony , Ureke Oswelled
Published: April 2019

This chapter deals with the teaching of students in the use of a smartphone application for cellphone filming and mobile journalism at the Media and Society Studies Department Midlands State University (MSU) in Zimbabwe. The smartphone and Storymaker multimedia software application used for training was provided by a Zimbabwean non-governmental organisation – Her Zimbabwe – which is affiliated to the Netherlands-based media civil society group Free Press Unlimited. MSU is a state university. Its administrative culture is intricately linked to the ZANU PF led government of President Robert Mugabe. The training offered to media students is conducted with caution. Students make cellphone films (cellphilms) and practice mobile journalism (mojo) to produce media content. The chapter critiques students' media content, especially why it appears apolitical. Self-censorship arising from socialization and interpellation is implicated in the restrained nature of students' productions, and lecturers and the civil society organisation involved are also cited as oblique gatekeepers in the production chain.
Games and Quizzes in Online Journalism
Authors: Wojdynski Bartosz W.
Published: April 2019

The competition for online news page views increasingly involves strategies designed to promote the “viral” nature of content, and to capitalize on the content's spread by ensuring that the content does not quickly lose timeliness or relevance. As a result of the pressure for these stories, news experiences which can be revisited by consumers are at a premium. In this ecosystem, interactive games and quizzes which can be played to receive different feedback or reach a different ending offer promise for news organizations to receive ongoing and widespread reward for their efforts. This chapter provides an overview of the state of gamification in journalism, challenges and opportunities for the growth of games in online news, and discusses evidence for the impact of increasingly gamified news content on how users process and perceive news information.
Pedagogical Guidelines to Introduce Transmedia Learning Into the Classroom
Authors: Gallo Patricia , Coelho Maria das Graças Pinto
Published: April 2019

Transmedia learning has been adopted as a theoretical and practical approach aimed at young students learning with technologies. It allows for open, dynamic, and engaging teaching and learning, integrating the school curriculum with life and sociocultural demands in a continuous information flow. This paper presents some pedagogical guidelines for introducing transmedia learning into the classrooms. For this, we will take into account the Brazilian context regarding the technologies and media available in Brazilian public schools, the media literacy of students and teachers, and the rules derived from the management team.
The Transformation of Collective Intelligence
Authors: Farmer Lesley S. J.
Published: April 2019

Today's knowledge society depends on intellectual capital, that is, collective knowledge and informational assets. Increasingly, the global scene reflects a more interactive mode relative to information, particularly because of social media. As heterogeneous groups bring different expertise and perspectives, their gathered and organized knowledge can lead to more informed decisions and resultant actions. This collective intelligence has been transformed with the advent of easily accessible interactive technologies. This chapter explains collective intelligence and its elements, theories that relate to collective intelligence, conditions for its optimum collective intelligence, and its transformation through digital technology, particularly social media. The chapter also explains human interaction for collective intelligence, and how it can be enhanced through technology, citing several studies.
Principles in Crowdfunding Benefits and Validation Tools
Authors: Niederer Paul Morrell
Published: April 2019

This chapter provides the key benefits of a crowdfunding campaign together with a rich variety of validation tools provided to enhance the chance of a crowdfunding campaigns success. Benefits cannot be achieved in a crowdfunding campaign if it is not successful. Thorough validation of the campaign upfront can heighten success. The author in an internationally respected crowdfunding authority who has managed over 300 crowdfunding campaigns through the platforms he has been involved with. The author lists 11 benefits and 11 validation tools together with his own road tested processes plus a plethora of links to tools to assist both the novice and experienced crowdfunder.
The Influence of Crowdsourcing Business Model into Artificial Intelligence
Authors: Szopa Anna
Published: April 2019

We observe situation in which human computation processes leverage the abilities of people via the Web to perform complex computation. In this context human intelligence is harnessed to solve computational problems that are beyond the scope of existing Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms. The aim of this paper is to achieve an in-depth understanding of the influence of crowdfunding business process into Artificial Intelligence and what kind of computational problems can be efficiently answered using human computation. Wisdom of crowd has been applied successfully to a range of tasks, from translating text and marking images, collecting information to building large databases and to solve problems that are difficult for machines to solve. Presented hybrid solutions will be considered as optimization- leveraging machine intelligence to help improve the accuracy and efficiency of algorithms.
Designing Effective Crowdsourcing Systems for the Healthcare Industry
Authors: Sen Kabir C. , Ghosh Kaushik
Published: April 2019

This article describes how healthcare faces many challenges. Among them is the inability of patients to seek and receive treatment based on their preferences. Patients characteristically pursue solutions to their medical problems that suit their individual needs. However, care providers and other stakeholders including healthcare insurance providers seem to ‘limit' patients' ability to access affordable and quality healthcare. Discourse in prior research has indicated that the use of crowdsourcing may provide patients access to treatments that can solve their medical problems. This article is an extension of extant research that describes the main challenges facing healthcare. It advances current research by presenting ideas through which these challenges can be mitigated. The core ideas proposed encompass the elements of crowdsourcing systems that will include participation of individuals in the crowd without any bias, enable knowledge sharing among all members of the crowd, and provide opportunities for testing the solutions proposed by the crowd.
Crowdfunding as an Open Innovation for Co-Creation
Authors: Guirado Carmen Escudero , Castro Carmen Goytre
Published: April 2019

Crowdfunding is connected to innovation in many ways that go beyond being a new phenomenon in itself. This novel model for financing projects leverages the latest technologies provided by the Internet for purposes such as the creation of online communities and electronic payments. Additionally, the existence of crowdfunding platform helps creators bring their innovative products to the market in an unprecedented manner. Crowdfunding operates as an open innovation model where the middle part of the innovation funnel is open to providers of funds or funders that are involved in all stages of the new product. The purpose of this chapter is to identify and rate the contribution of crowdfunding to date in open innovation processes and, more specifically, its value in co-creation. Some examples of Spanish crowdfunding platforms and innovators are analyzed to illustrate these contributions.
Crowdsourcing New Tools to Start Lean and Succeed in Entrepreneurship
Authors: Ambani Priti
Published: April 2019

The very essence of the new entrepreneur is shattering tradition. On the heels of the new social internet, we are seeing the rise of the solo-entrepreneur or intrapreneur who embraces globalisation, failure and successes and collaboration. Powerful networks brought together by crowdsourcing are supplying the tools to start lean, innovate and solve complex problems. This chapter by Priti Ambani explores the changing ecosystem and the effect of networked crowds on starting lean and succeeding with entrepreneurship.
The Lux Made in Case Study
Authors: Padua Donatella
Published: April 2019

The LMI Made-in-Italy (MiI) Jewelry business model which brings together the innovative concept of luxury Digital District (DD) and an e-commerce innovative platform is presented. The DD represents the shift from a traditional jewelry Industrial District of networked Micro-Enterprises (MEs), namely artisans, tied to the physical dimension of a territory to a social and intangible digital environment in the virtual space which leverages a co-petitive crowdsourcing e-commerce platform. The innovative LMI platform enables young Italian artisans throughout Italy to feature an end-to-end global export business without intermediaries. Export wouldn't be viable to MEs by means of their small organizational structure, lack of digital culture and technologies. LMI copes with this issue, taking over MEs marketing, sales and logistics processes by earning a percentage on sales. An original complex approach to the analysis of the LMI value proposition issues is performed via methodologies integrating traditional methods with participated Design Thinking techniques.
Crowdsourcing Social Innovation
Authors: Musa Emanuele
Published: April 2019

The growing awareness of humanity's finite resources and recognition of the limitations of one-off projects are prompting step changes in development planning. Sustainable development addresses the limitations of current practices; its aim is to achieve the triple bottom line of economic prosperity, environmental quality and social equity, meeting the needs of present society without compromising resources for future generations. Collective intelligence is considered by both Charles Leadbeater (former advisor to Tony Blair) and MIT as one of the most powerful ways to tackle complex problems, like climate change. This chapter explores the principles of crowdsourcing, its applications and the main trends. It presents theories, practices and examples of the use of crowdsourcing to innovate in the area of sustainable development for the common good. It announces the rise of collective brain-power to the challenge of creating better and more effective forms of civic and social engagement to solve problems on a world scale.
Engaging With the Participatory Geoweb
Authors: Corbett Jon M. , Cochrane Logan
Published: April 2019

Maps were historically used as tools of the elite to maintain and expand power and control. The development of participatory mapmaking and the geoweb have opened new avenues for broader citizen engagement and therefore challenge traditional power dynamics. This chapter analyzes three examples and presents experiential learning around participatory processes and VGI contributions. Specifically we explore who is contributing their information, what are their motivations and incentives, in what ways do users interact with available technologies, and how is this contributing to change? We conclude by discussing the roles of motivations, the type of contribution, organizational capacity and leadership, and objectives. In comparing and contrasting these case studies we examine the individual and organizational dynamics of engagement, and how this can better inform the discourse about VGI.
Citizen-to-Citizen Resource Sharing in Emergency Response
Authors: Chun Soon Ae , Vaidya Jaideep S. , Atluri Vijayalakshmi , Shafiq Basit , Adam Nabil R.
Published: April 2019

During large-scale manmade or natural disasters, such as Superstorm Sandy and Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, collaborations among government agencies, NGOs, and businesses need to be coordinated to provide necessary resources to respond to emergency events. However, resources from citizens themselves are underutilized, such as their equipment or expertise. The citizen participation via social media enhanced the situational awareness, but the response management is still mainly handled by the government or government-sanctioned partners. By harnessing the power of citizen crowdsourcing, government agencies can create enhanced disaster situation awareness and facilitate effective utilization of resources provided by citizen volunteers, resulting in more effective disaster responses. This chapter presents a public engagement in emergency response (PEER) framework that provides an online and mobile crowdsourcing platform for incident reporting and citizens' resource volunteering as well as an intelligent recommender system to match-make citizen resources with emergency tasks.
Exploring the Role of Open Innovation Intermediaries
Authors: Barlatier Pierre-Jean , Giannopoulou Eleni , Pénin Julien
Published: April 2019

In the era of open innovation, companies that want to innovate can no more remain isolated, they have to interact and collaborate with diverse actors of the innovation process. The rise of open innovation practices resulted in an increase of intermediaries for innovation. This chapter aims to better understand why innovative companies use the services of such intermediaries. Two distinct types of open innovation intermediaries have been identified, whose roles are significantly different; while the first type help companies to reduce transaction costs related to open innovation, the second type may be implicated directly in the creation, transfer and diffusion of knowledge. This chapter illustrates both roles in the case of public research valorization and distinguish clearly “Technology Transfer Organizations” (TTOs), whose role is to reduce transaction costs related to technology transfer from “Research and Technology Organizations” (RTOs) that are actively involved in knowledge creation and transfer processes.
Traffic Analysis Based on Short Texts From Social Media
Authors: Saldana-Perez Ana Maria Magdalena , Moreno-Ibarra Marco
Published: April 2019

Social networks provide information about activities of humans and social events. Thus, with the help of social networks, we can extract the traffic events that occur in a city. In the context of an urban area, this kind of data allows to obtaining contextual real-time information shared among citizens that will be useful to address social, environmental and economic issues. In this paper, the authors describe a methodology to obtain information related to traffic events such as accidents or congestion, from Twitter messages and RSS services. A text mining process is applied on the messages to acquire the relevant data, then data are classified by using a machine learning algorithm. The events are geocoded and transformed into geometric points to be represented on a map. The final repository lets data to be available for further works related to the traffic events on the study area. As a case of study we consider Mexico City.
Free and Open Source Tools for Volunteer Geographic Information and Geo-Crowdsourcing
Authors: Brovelli Maria Antonia , Delipetrev Blagoj , Zamboni Giorgio
Published: April 2019

The availability of new mobile devices (tablets and smartphones) equipped with many sensors is changing or, better, enriching the way we monitor and sense the world that surrounds us. The internet has permeated completely not only our scientific and technological development, but also our life. Only some years ago, we used geospatial data and GIS software installed within our computers. Nowadays, data and operators are provided via the net by means of distributed and shared geo-services and a simple and powerless mobile device is enough to connect them. The possibility of interaction has become not only faster and more user friendly but also active, being individuals and communities free of adding, deleting, and changing contents in real time in the new GeoWeb2.0. This chapter explores GeoWeb2.0.
Open Source, Crowdsourcing, and Public Engagement
Authors: Liu Helen K.
Published: April 2019

This chapter is an investigation of open source, crowdsourcing, and public engagement in the public and nonprofit sectors through four cases: (1) Changemakers competitions, (2) Peer to Patent in the U.S., (3) Future Melbourne 2020 in Australia, and (4) Idea Box in Japan. Macintosh's (2004) case analytical framework is adopted to systematically document the four cases for comparisons. From the literature three components are identified to understand the open source and crowdsourcing models: initiator, mechanism for information selection, and beneficiary. Three components are used to examine how governments or nonprofits adopt the open source model or crowdsourcing model to facilitate public engagement. The conclusion is that different designs of the projects might lead to different scales of public engagement, defined by Savar & Denhardt (2010). Finally, some potential issues and challenges of implementing the open source and crowdsourcing models to facilitate engagement in public affairs are discussed.
Value Creation in Business-to-Business Crowd Sourcing
Authors: Helander Nina , Kärkkäinen Hannu , Jussila Jari
Published: April 2019

In knowledge society the utilization of social media as a communication channel between people, groups and even companies is increasing. Current innovation and social media research has already shown the potential of crowdsourcing in the business-to-consumer (B2C) markets. The authors argue in this paper, however, that crowdsourcing has a great and yet partly undiscovered potential also in the context of business-to-business (B2B) markets. In order to get the full potential, a more detailed understanding of the logic of value creation in crowdsourcing activities between multiple stakeholders in B2B context is needed. This paper presents an exploratory study that is carried out as an empirical netnography-based multiple case study. The study opens up potential future research avenues by starting the discussion of value creation logic in B2B crowdsourcing. Practical implications are created through cases revealing what kind of value companies have already been able to gain from crowdsourcing in B2B context.
Beyond Micro-Tasks
Authors: Lukyanenko Roman , Parsons Jeffrey
Published: April 2019

The emergence of crowdsourcing as an important mode of information production has attracted increasing research attention. In this article, the authors review crowdsourcing research in the data management field. Most research in this domain can be termed tasked-based, focusing on micro-tasks that exploit scale and redundancy in crowds. The authors' review points to another important type of crowdsourcing – which they term observational – that can expand the scope of extant crowdsourcing data management research. Observational crowdsourcing consists of projects that harness human sensory ability to support long-term data acquisition. The authors consider the challenges in this domain, review approaches to data management for crowdsourcing, and suggest directions for future research that bridges the gaps between the two research streams.
Can Crowdfunding Provide a Solution for the Financial Problems of SMEs in Turkey?
Authors: Oba Beyza
Published: April 2019

This chapter aims to study crowdfunding in an emerging economy, Turkey. Crowdfunding is a comparatively new funding practice in Turkey and platforms involved in crowdfunding are very few. In an economic system where entrepreneurs of small sized companies have limited possibilities for securing financial resources crowdfunding could have been a viable tool for the provision of financial resources. However, due to legal constraints, limited usage of social media, lack of computer literacy and lack of knowledge about the issue, crowdfunding in Turkey is a novice micro-funding mechanism where people with similar concerns, lifestyles and values give support. The chapter is based on an analysis of primary (semi-structured interviews) and secondary data about the Turkish crowdfunding arena and discusses the business models, governance mechanisms utilized by crowdfunding platforms.
Software Process Paradigms and Crowdsourced Software Development
Authors: Hasteer Nitasha , Bansal Abhay , Murthy B. K.
Published: April 2019

Production of quality software requires selecting the right development strategy. The process and development strategies for creating software have evolved over the years to cope with the changing paradigms. Cloud computing models have made provisioning of the computing capabilities and access to configurable pooled resources as convenient as having access to the common utilities. With the recent advancements in the use of social media and advent of software development through crowdsourcing, the need to comprehend and analyze the traditional process models of software development, with regard to the changed paradigm have become ever more necessary. The changes in the way software are being created and the continuous evolution in the processes of development and deployment has created a need to understand the development process models. This chapter provides an insight on the transition from the conventional process models of software development to the software development methodology being used to develop software through crowdsourcing.
Crowd Learning
Authors: Kalisz David Elijah
Published: April 2019

Understanding sources of learning has become a major area of research in Education Management. Building on the assumptions that crowd learning is distributed across societies and education institutions and that it creates an innovative perspective for education for next-generation over the time, this article examines the link between formal education and innovative crowd-created knowledge. The article concludes by examining implications of crowd learning concept for actual and future education management systems. This paper explores how the crowd learns and remembers over time in the context, and how more realistic assumptions of student experience may be used in building crowd knowledge processes. The aim of the paper is to determine the assessment of crowd learning, its history, concepts and its influence on future learning process, including the changing instructor's role.
Cockroach Inspired Shelter Seeking for Holonomic Swarms of Flying Robots
Authors: Shahbazi Hamoon , Barca Jan Carlo
Published: April 2019

In computer science, the study of mimicking nature has given rise to Swarm Intelligence, a distributed system of autonomous agents interacting with each other to collectively perform intelligent tasks. This chapter investigates how groups of holonomic flying robots such as quad copters can seek shelter autonomously when encountering bad weather. In this context three alternative autonomous shelter seeking techniques that address the unsolved plateau-problem had to be implemented. The methods were inspired by cockroaches and hunting strategies observed in apex predators. Previous studies on cockroaches have provided facts about their behaviour and resulted in algorithms that can be used for robotic systems. This research builds on these previous studies by formulating three alternative techniques and carrying out a comprehensive analysis of their performance. Simulation results confirm a scalable system where swarms of flying robots successfully find shelters in 3-D environments.
A Perceptual Computing Based Gesture Controlled Quadcopter for Visual Tracking and Transportation
Authors: Yelamarthi Kumar , Kannavara Raghudeep , Boddhu Sanjay
Published: April 2019

One of the fundamental challenges faced by an inexperienced user in portable unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) such as quadcopters is flight control, often leading to crashes. Addressing this challenge, and leveraging upon the technological advancement in perceptual computing and computer vision, this research presents a modular system that allows for hand gesture based flight control of UAV, alongside a transport mechanism for portable objects. In addition to ascertain smooth flight control by avoiding obstacles in navigation path, real-time video feedback is relayed from the UAV to user, thus allowing him/her to take appropriate actions. This paper presents the design implementation by discussing the various sub-systems involved, inter system communication, and field tests to ascertain operation. As presented from testing results, the proposed system provides efficient communication between the subsystems for smooth flight control, while allowing for safe transport of portable objects.
Intelligent Fighter Pilot Support for Distributed Unmanned and Manned Decision Making
Authors: Alfredson Jens , Ohlander Ulrika
Published: April 2019

This chapter highlights important aspects of an intelligent fighter pilot support for distributed unmanned and manned decision making. First the background is described including current trends within the domain, and characteristics of a decision support system are discussed. After that a scenario and example situations are presented. The chapter also includes reflections of an intelligent fighter pilot support for distributed unmanned and manned decision making from the joint cognitive systems view, regarding human interoperability, and function allocation.
Compute-Efficient Geo-Localization of Targets From UAV Videos
Authors: Kushwaha Deendayal , Janagam Sridhar , Trivedi Neeta
Published: April 2019

Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs) have crucial roles to play in traditional warfare, asymmetric conflicts, and also civilian applications such as search and rescue operations. Though satellites provide extensive coverage and capabilities crucial to many remote sensing tasks, UAVs have distinct edge over satellites in dynamic situations due to shorter revisit times and desired area/time coverage. The course, speed and altitude of a UAV can be dynamically altered, details of an activity of interest monitored by loitering over the area as desired. A fundamental requirement in most UAV operations is to find geo-coordinates of an object in the captured image. Most small, low-cost UAVs use low-cost, less accurate sensors. Matching with pre-registered images may not be possible in areas with low details or in emergency situations where terrain may have undergone severe sudden changes. In these situations that demand near real-time results and wider coverage, it is often enough to provide approximate results as long as bounds on accuracies can be established. Even when image registration is possible, it can benefit from these bounds to reduce search space thereby saving execution time. The prime contributions of this paper are computation of location of target anywhere in the image even at larger slant ranges, optimized algorithm to compute terrain elevation at target point, and use of visual simulation tool to validate the model. Analysis from simulation and results from real UAV flights are presented.
Chemical Plume Tracing and Mapping via Swarm Robots
Authors: Li Wei , Tian Yu
Published: April 2019

This chapter addresses the key issues of chemical plume mapping and tracing via swarm robots. First, the authors present the models of turbulent odor plumes with both non-buoyant and buoyant features, which can efficiently evaluate strategies for tracing plumes, identifying their sources in two or three-dimensions. Second, the authors use the Monte Carlo technique to optimize moth-inspired plume tracing via swarm robots under formation control, which includes a leader to perform plume tracing maneuvers and non-leaders to follow the leader during plume tracing missions. Third, the authors introduce a variety of robot-based plume tracers, including ground-based robots, autonomous underwater vehicles, or unmanned aerial vehicles. Finally, the authors prospect the further research in this area, e.g., applying swarm robots to detect oil or gas leak, or to investigate subsea chemical pollution and greenhouse gases.
Autonomous Systems in a Military Context (Part 2)
Authors: Galliott Jai , McFarland Tim
Published: April 2019

This is the second paper of two on the role of autonomy in the unmanned systems revolution currently underway and affecting military forces around the globe. In the last paper, the authors considered the implications of autonomy on the legal obligations of military forces and their ability to meet these obligations, primarily through a survey of the domestic law of a number of drone wielding nations and relevant international legal regimes, including the law of armed conflict, arms control law, international human rights law, and others. However, the impact of autonomy in the military context extends well beyond the law and also encompasses philosophy and morality. Therefore, this paper addresses perennial problems concerning autonomous systems and their impact on what justifies the initial resort to war, who may be legitimately targeted in warfare, the collateral effects of military weaponry and the methods of determining and dealing with violations of the laws of just war theory.
The Study of Intellectual Property Protection System
Authors: Zhou Ping , Lv Dongjuan , Chen Ying
Published: April 2019

The “One Belt One Road” strategy is the abbreviation of “Silk Road Economic Belt” and “21st Century Maritime Silk Road.” In September and October of 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed to build the cooperation initiative of “New Silk Road Economic Belt” and “The 21st Century Maritime Silk Road.” President Xi Jinping projected to establish the “21st Century Maritime Silk Road” during his visit in Indonesia in October 2013. Finally, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Ministry of Commerce cooperatively issued the “Vision and Action for Promoting the Construction of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road” on March 28, 2015. The “One Belt One Road” countries were key areas of cooperation in the context of China's policy in communication, road connectivity, smooth trade, currency circulation, people's mutual understanding, strategic coordination to strengthen bilateral and multilateral teamwork, and corresponding development.
An Assessment of the Belt and Road Performance
Authors: Baştuğ Sedat , Battal Turgay
Published: April 2019

The aim of the chapter is to propose a methodology to illustrate the cost and time components of door-to-door movement by One Belt and One Road (OBOR) and traditional routes alongside with modes. The study is concentrated on a case study and uses established multimodal transport cost model as a research framework. Interviews with industry practitioners and observation from primary methods of data collection. The use of multimodal transport cost model is common in the containerized cargoes. Hence, this study provides an original analysis for OBOR initiative. The volumes of OBOR shipments are large, with a high value-to-volume ratio. The research initially confirms that multimodal transport alternatives and modal combinations may successfully be applied and assess the performance of OBOR initiative.
The Analysis on Railway Transportation Competitiveness and Influencing Factors of Typical Goods in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region
Authors: Li Shiqi , Lang Maoxiang , Yu Xueqiao , Wang Yanling , Yu Xiao
Published: April 2019

This chapter takes the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region as the research scope, selects coal transportation as the research object, and finds out the current situation and supply capacity of railway transportation in the context of the transportation industry's active promotion of transportation structure adjustment. The chapter chooses coal as an example, bases on the different influencing factors such as transportation distance and freight rate, combines with the current situation of railway transportation, quantitatively analyzes the superior distance and competitiveness of typical cargo railway transportation, and obtains the superior distance between railway transportation and road transportation the influence degree of various influencing factors on the sharing rate of railway transportation market. Finally, the chapter puts forward corresponding measures to improve the competitiveness of railway transportation market.
The Development of Electrolytic Aluminum Industry and the Belt and Road Strategy
Authors: Zhou Ping , Han Gexin , Li Xinyao
Published: April 2019

Innovation ability is the key to enterprise development. China's electrolytic aluminum enterprises have maintained a high growth rate for many years and have become one of the industries with the highest social contribution rate in the non-ferrous metal industry. However, a prominent problem in the development process of the industry is to put less emphasis on innovation and investment. Excessive production capacity due to blind investment has become a common disease of enterprises, which has seriously affected their performance. This chapter tries to explore cooperative motivation, innovation, and development of the electrolytic aluminum enterprise. The aim is for the enterprise to find source sex power basis, combined with the strategy of “area,” all the way to the electrolytic aluminum enterprise value influence, understand all kinds of system to the importance of the synergy of electrolytic aluminum enterprises, in order to further promote collaborative innovation measures to provide adequate basis.
Opportunities of Tourism Development of Mongolia Under the Belt and Road Initiative
Authors: Han Huilian , Li Hui
Published: April 2019

The Belt and Road Initiative has had great impact on the countries on the road. The China-Mongolia-Russia corridor, as one of the six economic corridors, has seen rapid progress. In the progress, Mongolia not only plays important role as a bridge, but it actively participates in the initiative. As a leading industry, tourism has played an active role in Sino-Mongolian cultural exchanges and trade cooperation and has become a pillar industry in Mongolia. This chapter analyzes the limiting factors of Mongolian tourism and points out the new opportunities for tourism brought by the Belt and Road strategy. Though the analysis of the tourism industry in Mongolia and of the opportunities brought by the Belt and Road Initiative, the chapter has important practical significance for the investors of China and Mongolia to correctly understand the Mongolian tourism industry's development status and prospects. Thus, they will strengthen the tourism industry cooperation in the future.
Assessing the Value of Executive Leadership Coaches for Cybersecurity Project Managers
Authors: Burrell Darrell Norman
Published: April 2019

With the complex nature of impacts of cybersecurity breaches, it is critical that organizational have cybersecurity project managers that can make sound managerial and leadership decisions. Often cybersecurity project managers act quickly with managerial decisions at work. When time is of the essence, strategic thinking, strategic communication, and strategic decision making are critical to organizational effectiveness and productivity. Decision making and strategic communications are just a few skills that executive leadership coaches can teach. This article explores the values and potential benefits of executive coaching as a leadership development tool for information technology and cybersecurity project managers.
Towards a Reference Framework for Generational Analyses on Information Technology Professionals
Authors: Jácome de Moura Jr. Pedro , Helal Diogo Henrique
Published: April 2019

In light of the sociology of generations, this theoretical trial relates literature on information technology (IT) professionals, IT professional management, IT project teams, and generational studies to elaborate a reference framework that supports the research on the intergenerational dynamics of the field. The proposed framework offers a definition and structure for the concept of IT generation and contemplates the dimensions related to (1) technological contemporary changes, (2) culture bearers, (3) continuous nature of generational change, (4) generational succession, (5) knowledge transmission and sharing, and (6) intergenerational conflict, allowing future empirical research on the IT generational phenomena.
An E-negotiation Agent for an E-tourism Platform
Authors: M'hamed Bouyakoub Fayçal , Belkhir Abdelkader , Belkacemnacer Amina , Harfouche Sara
Published: April 2019

The article presents an electronic negotiation agent, integrated within a multiagent system for an electronic tourism platform. The e-negotiation process is based on a winner-winner approach, using a bargaining protocol. However, with the proliferation of services, the task of searching for relevant services becomes more and more difficult. Thus, the authors also propose a search agent to find tourism services corresponding to the client request and profile. The discovery process uses a quantitative similarity measure.
Dynamic Behavior of FGM Doubly Curved Panel due to Mechanical Loading
Authors: Zou Guang Ping , Dergachova Nadiia
Published: April 2019

This study presents the dynamic response analyze of a simply supported and isotropic functionally graded (FG) double curved panel under mechanical loading. The aim of the research was to investigate mechanical behavior in a FGM curved panel due to different excitation mode of dynamic loading. The novelty of this research is an investigation of von Mises equivalent stress distribution in double curved panel due to different excitation mode. Computed results are found to agree well with the results reported in the literature. Moreover, influence of volume fraction of the material is studied.
Interpass Temperature Affecting Abrasive Wear Resistance of SMAW Hard-Faced Weld Metal on JIS-S50C Carbon Steel
Authors: Triwanapong Surat , Angthong Sivakorn , Kimapong Kittipong
Published: April 2019

This research work aimed to study an effect of interpass temperature on a wear resistance of a hard-faced weld metal on JIS-S50C carbon steel surface. The experimental results were found that the increase of the interpass temperature resulted in the increase of the grain size, the decrease of the hardness, and the decrease of wear resistance of the hard-face weld metal. Low interpass temperature affected to increase the residual stress inducing the cracking on the interface between the first weld metal layer and the base metal. Wear surface composed the crater and the groove wear traces that showed the different evidence of the failed off metal particles. The lower wear rate was found at the location where contained high amount of the reinforced elements such as chromium, silicon and manganese. The lowest weight loss of 0.89% could be obtained with an application of the optimum interpass temperature of 150 °C.
Experimental Study of Cold-Formed Steel Moment Connections with Screw Fasteners
Authors: Ng Adeline Ling Ying , Law Zhi Yong
Published: April 2019

A series of connection with screw fasteners were tested to study the behavior of cold-formed steel moment connection. The test specimens included hot-rolled parallel flange channels, cold-formed lipped C-Channels, and self-drilling self-fastening screws. Two different lipped C-Channels and a various number of screws per connection were used in this study. The moment-rotation behavior, rotational rigidity, and the connection capacity differed with the number of screws. The connection behaved as a pinned connection when 4 screws were used. However, local buckling was observed in the cold-formed steel sections near the connection when 8, 10 and 14 screws were used. The connection test results were compared with theoretical results calculated in accordance to the Australian Standards. None of the connection tested could achieve the moment capacity of the section connected.
Fasciathérapies, que faut-il entendre par là ? Le point de vue d’Experts du monde
Authors: Payrau Bernard
Published: April 2019

Les fasciathérapies, comme toutes les interventions médicamenteuses, doivent répondre à un certain nombre d’exigences pour gagner leur place dans l’ensemble des actions de santé et de soins déjà existants. Fonder les offres sur des preuves d’efficacité, d’innocuité et d’efficience est un point. Le second est de les définir sans ambiguïté. Et cette tâche qui participe au « faire connaître les bonnes pratiques » ne s’avère pas moins difficile. Trois experts des fascias et des thérapies manuelles qui exercent aux USA, en Grande Bretagne et en Allemagne ont été interviewés et donnent leur opinion sur ce que sont les fascias et ce qu’ils entendent par fasciathérapie. Dans l’attente de celle de trois experts français qui seront publiées dans un numéro à venir.
When is the super socle of C(X) prime?
Authors: Ghasemzadeh S. , Namdari M.
Published: April 2019

Let SCF(X) denote the ideal of C(X) consisting of functions which are zero everywhere except on a countable number of points of X. It is generalization of the socle of C(X) denoted by CF(X).  Using this concept we extend some of the basic results concerning CF(X) to SCF(X).  In particular, we characterize the spaces X such that SCF(X) is a prime ideal in C(X) (note, CF(X) is never a prime ideal in C(X)). This may be considered as an advantage of SCF(X) over C(X). We are also interested in characterizing topological spaces X such that Cc(X) =R+SCF(X), where Cc(X) denotes the subring of C(X) consisting of functions with countable image.
Common ﬁxed points for generalized ψ-contractions in weak non-Archimedean fuzzy metric spaces
Authors: Suantai Suthep , Cho Yeol Je , Tiammee Jukrapong
Published: April 2019

Fixed point theory in fuzzy metric spaces plays very important role in theory of nonlinear problems in applied science. In this paper, we prove an existence result of common fixed point of four nonlinear mappings satisfying a new type of contractive condition in a generalized fuzzy metric space, called weak non-Archimedean fuzzy metric space. Our main results can be applied to solve the existence of solutions of non-linear equations in fuzzy metric spaces. Some examples supporting our main theorem are also given. Our results improve and generalize some recent results contained in Vetro (2011)[16]to generalized contractive conditions under some suitable conditions and many known results in the literature.
On monotonous separately continuous functions
Authors: Grushka Yaroslav I.
Published: April 2019

Let T = (T, ≤) and T1= (T1 , ≤1) be linearly ordered sets and X be a topological space.  The main result of the paper is the following: If function ƒ(t,x) : T × X → T1 is continuous in each  variable (“t” and  “x”)  separately  and  function ƒx(t)  = ƒ(t,x) is  monotonous  on T for  every x ∈ X,  then ƒ is  continuous  mapping  from T × X to T1,  where T and T1 are  considered  as  topological  spaces  under  the order topology and T × X is considered as topological space under the Tychonoff topology on the Cartesian  product of topological spaces T and X.
$L_r$-biharmonic hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{E}^4$
Authors: Mohammadpouri Akram , Pashaei Firooz
Published: April 2019

A hypersurface $x : M^n\rightarrow\mathbb{E}^{n+1}$ is said to be biharmonic if $\Delta^2x=0$, where $\Delta$ is the Laplace operator of $M^n$. Based on a well-known conjecture of Bang-Yen Chen, the only biharmonic hypersurfaces in $E^{n+1}$ are the minimal ones. In this paper, we study an extension of biharmonic hypersurfaces in 4-dimentional Euclidean space $\mathbb{E}^4$. A hypersurface $x : M^n\rightarrow\mathbb{E}^{n+1}$ is called $L_r$-biharmonic if $L_r^2x=0$, where $L_r$ is the linearized opereator of $(r + 1)$th mean curvature of $M^n$. Since $L_0=\Delta$, the subject of $L_r$-biharmonic hypersurface is an extension of biharmonic ones. We prove that any $L_2$-biharmonic hypersurface in $\mathbb{E}^4$ with constant $2$-th mean curvature is $2$-minimal. We also prove that any $L_1$-biharmonic hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{E}^4$ with constant mean curvature is $1$-minimal.
Common fixed point results for various mappings in fuzzy metric spaces with application
Authors: Jain Manish , Gupta Neetu , Kumar Sanjay
Published: April 2019

In this paper, first we discuss the variants of the weakly commuting and compatible mappings in the context of coupled fixed point theory of fuzzy metric spaces. Secondly, we investigate the existence and uniqueness of the common fixed point for pairs of weakly compatible mappings satisfying a new contraction condition in the setup of fuzzy metric spaces with Had i  type t-norm . Further, we talk about some results for the variants of weakly commuting and compatible mappings. At the end, as an application, we obtain metrical version of the discussed results.
A variation on absolute weighted mean summability factors of Fourier Series and its conjugate series
Authors: Yildiz Sebnem
Published: April 2019

In this paper, theorems concerning  $\left|\bar{N},p_{n},\theta_{n}\right|_{k}$ factors of Fourier series and its conjugate series are studied. The presented results provide with improvements as well as generalizations of some known results.
Practical Measurement of Absolute Velocity of Earth
Authors: Sandhu Gurcharn S.
Published: April 2019

In 1880, Albert Michelson conceived the idea of optically measuring the speed of earth through the solar system. However, the Michelson-Morley experiment conducted for detecting the expected motion of earth, gave null result. Einstein propounded his theory of Relativity on the assumption that speed of light is isotropic in ECI reference frame. The Relativity model can be invalidated through an unambiguous physical experiment that confirms anisotropy of light speed in ECI reference frame. Let us consider a 3 km long line segment AB, fixed on surface of earth. The proposed experiment for measuring absolute velocity of earth involves sending a picoseconds Laser pulse from location A at time T0 and detecting it at location B at time T1 to measure the time of flight Tab of the laser pulse from A to B. On the other hand, by sending a picoseconds Laser pulse from location B at time T0 and detecting it at location A at time T2 we can measure the time of flight Tba from B to A. For accurate measurement of times of flight Tab and Tba the precision atomic clocks located at A and B must be in absolute synchronization. The absolute velocity Uab will be given by Uab/c = (Tab - Tba)/(Tab + Tba). Final absolute velocity U of earth can be computed from pulse flight timing record of 24 hours. For this we need to use the latest cutting-edge technology in Atomic Clocks, Pulsed Lasers, Ultrafast Detectors and Picosecond Time Interval Counters.