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Pôles de développement et nouveau district industriel dans la région de Tarente et Matera (Italie du Sud)
Authors: Bergeron Robert 
Published: May 2011

En Italie, dans les deux dernières décennies, l 'emploi industriel a fortement diminué dans les grandes usines alors qu 'il a fortement progressé dans les PMI. Cette évolution a été très pénalisante pour les zones du Mezzogiorno où avaient été installées, grâce à la politique de la Cassa per il Mezzogiorno, de grandes industries de base, comme à Tarente, le plus important complexe sidérurgique européen, ou en Val Basento, un pôle chimique et de production défibres de synthèse.
A quelques dizaines de km, depuis le milieu des années 1980, mais particulièrement dans l'actuelle décennie, s'affirme la nouvelle industrie des salons. De «spontané» au départ, ce développement devient plus «organisé», avec l'appui grandissant de l 'État, de l'UE et de divers organismes. Il a été engendré par des entreprises locales aujourd'hui leaders à l'échelle mondiale (notamment Natuzzi). Cela fait désormais de l'aire de la Murgia apulo-lucanienne, même si c'est avec une certaine originalité, un de ces districts industriels, nombreux surtout dans le Centre-Nord, qui sont pour beaucoup dans la bonne tenue de l'économie italienne actuelle.
Inexperienced Software Team and Global Software Team
Authors: Lui Kim Man , Chan Keith C.C. 
Published: May 2011

Software project management in the 21st century requires that a manager deal either with Inexperienced Software Team or Global Software Team or both. This is because well-developed and less well-developed countries have exploited information technology to various extents. The former requires managing a software team consisting of talents remotely located whereas the latter a team of local inexperienced developers. This chapter assimilates the management challenges involved and explicates how these two types of supposedly different software development are managed by one framework: Plagiarism-based Programming.
Inventory Productivity Impacts of IT-Enabled Supply Chain Coordination in Manufacturing Environments
Authors: Setzekorn Kristina , Rai Arun , Melcher Arlyn J. 
Published: May 2011

This chapter describes an empirical analysis of the mediating effects of supply chain coordination strategy and manufacturing IT infrastructure on the relationship between business complexity and inventory turnover. Business complexity describes the diversity and volatility associated with a firm’s product markets. To cope with this complexity, firms deploy inventory buffers. This deployment should decrease inventory turnover. An extensive manufacturing IT infrastructure can increase a firm’s “sense and respond” capability, reducing the need for buffers, and can thereby improve inventory turnover. As this technology enables enhanced coordination, and as firms’ efforts to reduce buffers within their own organizational boundaries earn diminishing marginal returns, firms attempt to optimize performance across organizational boundaries within the supply chain, i.e., adopt a cooperative supply chain coordination strategy. This supply chain coordination should improve inventory turnover.
Load Balancing Distributing File System Servers
Authors: Glagoleva Alexandra , Sathaye Archana 
Published: May 2011

In this paper, we present a new methodology for managing read-write filesets across multiple file servers of a Distributed File System, thus balancing the load of file access requests across servers. The proposed methodology is based on a rule-based data mining technique and graph theory algorithms. The rule-based technique generates rules from access request data to identify present file access patterns in the system. We then use the rules, graph analysis and statistical information (usage and size of the filesets) to relocate the filesets between different file servers. The algorithm for fileset relocation is based on the graph coloring problem. We tested our algorithms on data collected for five months on DFS file servers in a production environment. Experiments with the data show that our methodology can make intelligent decisions about file system transfers in order to balance the access request load across DFS servers.
Cataloging and Metadata Issues for Electronic Resources
Authors: Heron Susan Jane , Gordon Charles L. 
Published: May 2011

The environment in which cataloging principles and standards operate has changed dramatically. The development of automated systems for the creation and processing of bibliographic data, the growth of large-scale shared cataloging programs, and emerging technologies have created new opportunities to provide access to national and international academic library collections. However, economic pressures have also prompted libraries to try to simplify the cataloging process, using “minimal level” cataloging records in order to keep pace with the continued growth of publishing. Cataloging librarians have identified two significant needs: 1) to adapt existing [cataloging] codes and practices to accommodate change resulting from new forms of electronic publishing and the advent of networked access to information resources, and 2) to respond more effectively to an increasingly broad range of user expectations and needs. München (1998) wonders how catalogers will guarantee the quality and relevance of bibliographic access within the exploding world of online materials. If so, what kind of bibliographic records will be required to meet the different uses and user needs? Finally, how should these bibliographic data be organized and structured for intellectual and physical access to the documents? This chapter will provide an overview of current cataloging principles, issues in handling evolving formats, and challenges for academic catalogs. It will include a brief examination of a model created by a large multi-campus urban university in determining best practice in the creation of records for shared, online academic environments. Finally, the chapter will look at the development of alternative frameworks for describing online resources.
Hervey Bay in Transition
Authors: Pease Wayne , Wright Lauretta , Cooper Malcolm 
Published: May 2011

In regional Australia there is a growing interest and investment in community capacity building and this is beginning to be formalised in a desire to integrate information communications technology opportunities with other forms of community development. This paper explores the opportunity for greater social integration based on the formation of community-based information communication technology (ICT) driven organizations, using a case study approach. It is suggested that whether disseminating information, collaborating with other communities, assisting the development of new industries, or simply by sharing the lessons learned along the way, community-based IT can assist and support a community’s economic and social development. Further, the paper supports the view that, where understanding and developing new forms of information technology through community informatics is accepted as an integral part of such development, communities will not just ‘improve the old’ but will more radically restructure themselves towards a knowledge-based future. The case study that underpins these observations is that of the development of Bay Connect, a community-based Internet development and training project, begun in Hervey Bay with Networking the Nation support, and which is now expanding into the adjacent Maryborough and surrounding Shires. It is also supported by the University of Southern Queensland’s Wide Bay and has an emergent role in supporting new and existing IT businesses, Bay Connect and the Hervey Bay City Council, in the creation and nurturing of an IT skills base within the region.
Learner Engagement and Success in CMS Environments
Authors: Bender Bob 
Published: May 2011

This chapter is a case study in the use of course management systems (CMS) in teaching and learning. A narrative from a faculty perspective, this study discusses how technology can be used effectively to shift the burden from teaching to student learning by paying attention to pedagogy rather than to the use of technology itself. “Shakespeare and the New Movies,” a course designed to stimulate student writing about Shakespeare and films based on his plays, is used to illustrate this process.
Functionalities and Position of Manufacturing Execution Systems
Authors: Modrák Vladimír 
Published: May 2011

Efforts to separate unequivocally substantial signs of versatile tools of manufacturing management are usually marked by a narrowed view of the field of their use. Similarly, it is so also in the case of specifying the functionality and position of MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems) in the hierarchy of information systems. Presentations generalising MES in this field do not always correspond with models that have a generic character. For that reason it appears useful to investigate the mentioned MES characteristics from a number of angles, and particularly in relation with the basic types of manufacturing systems.
Optimization of Continual Queries
Authors: Khan Sharifullah 
Published: May 2011

Recent advances in the technologies have made it possible to access information from Internet-scale distributed data sources (Florescu, Levy & Mendelzon, 1998). However, finding the right information at the right time is difficult. Update monitoring (Seligman et al., 2000) is a technology that gathers relevant information and forwards it to users in a timely way. Continual queries (CQs) (Chen et al., 2000; Khan & Mott, 2002a; Liu, Pu & Tang, 1999, 2000) provide a significant toolkit for update monitoring. They are persistent queries that are issued once and then are run at regular intervals or when data change until a termination condition is satisfied. They are then removed from the system. They relieve users from having to revisit Web sites or other data sources and reissue their queries frequently to obtain new information that match their queries. A CQ is a typical SQL query having additional triggering and termination conditions. CQs are of two types: change-based and time-based. An example of a CQ is “notify me in the next six months whenever the Microsoft stock price drops by more than 5% from today level.”
Technical Research for Improving Web-Based Instructional Artifacts
Authors: Brown Edward 
Published: May 2011

Teachers integrate Web-based materials into instruction in a variety of ways. They can promote specific learning strategies, organizational skills, curricular content, and many other dimensions of the instructor’s pedagogical beliefs and practice. Where a classical experimental research paradigm can help isolate and predict the effect of such factors, it is less useful for fine-tuning the use of Web-based materials to an individual instructor’s needs. This chapter advocates the methodology of technical action research to examine the pedagogy reflected in the Web-based constructs, or “artifacts,” in use in the instructional setting. Guided by the instructor’s espoused beliefs, incremental improvements can be made to the design and use of these Web-based artifacts.
Computer Security in E-Learning
Authors: Weippl Edgar R. 
Published: May 2011

Although the roots of e-learning date back to 19th century’s correspondence-based learning, e-learning currently receives an unprecedented impetus by the fact that industry and universities alike strive to streamline the teaching process. Just-in-time (JIT) principles have already been adopted by many corporate training programs; some even advocate the term “just-enough” to consider the specific needs of individual learners in a corporate setting. Considering the enormous costs involved in creating and maintaining courses, it is surprising that security and dependability are not yet considered an important issue by most people involved including teachers and students. Unlike traditional security research, which has largely been driven by military requirements to enforce secrecy, in e-learning it is not the information itself that has to be protected but the way it is presented. Moreover, the privacy of communication between teachers and students. For a long time students and faculty had few concerns about security, mainly because users in academic areas tended not to be malicious. Today, however, campus IT-security is vital. Nearly all institutions install firewalls and anti-virus software to protect campus resources. Even the most common security safeguards have drawbacks that people often fail to see. In Stanford the residential computing office selected an anti-virus program. However, the program can be set to collect data that possibly violates students’ privacy expectations; therefore many students declined using it (Herbert, 2004). Whenever servers that store personal data are not well protected, they are a tempting target for hackers. Social security numbers and credit card information are valuable assets used in identity theft. Such attacks were successful, for instance, at the University of Colorado (Crecente, 2004). A similar incident happened at the University of Texas; the student who committed the crime was later indicted in hacking (Associated Press, 2004). The etymological roots of secure can be found in se which means “without”, or “apart from”, and cura, that is, “to care for”, or “to be concerned about” (Landwehr, 2001). Consequently, secure in our context means that in a secure teaching environment users need not be concerned about threats specific to e-learning platforms and to electronic communication in general. A secure learning platform should incorporate all aspects of security and dependability and make most technical details transparent to the teacher and student. However, rendering a system “totally secure” is too ambitious a goal since no system can ever be totally secure and still remain usable at the same time. The contribution of this chapter is to • Define and identify relevant security and dependability issues. • Provide an overview of assets, threats, risks, and counter measures that are relevant to e-learning. • Point to publications that address the issues in greater detail.
Consumer Trust in E-Commerce
Authors: Jeanson Benoit , Ingham John 
Published: May 2011

The lack of trust toward different elements of e-commerce has been recognized as one of the main causes of the collapse of a large number of dot-com companies. The concept of consumer trust has since been the object of many studies in the field of e-commerce. These studies permitted a better understanding of the role of trust in e-commerce, but an examination of the literature reveals that our understanding is limited due to important gaps in the ontological aspects of the trust concept, among which are (a) a lack of consensus concerning its definition, (b) a unidimensional as opposed to a multidimensional conceptualization of the construct, and (c) a confusion between trustworthiness and trust. The goal of this article is to identify these gaps and present ways of reducing their size and impacts.
Female Pupils' Perception of Electrical Engineering
Authors: Hazzan Orit , Tal Ayellet , Deidar Idit 
Published: May 2011

Recent studies have focused on gender issues and women’s underrepresentation in fields such as computer science, software engineering (Camp, 1997, 2002), and information technology (Varma, 2003). This article broadens the discussion to include the field of electrical engineering (EE), in which the underrepresentation of women is even more salient than in the aforementioned fields. For example, the percentage of female undergraduate students in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (IIT), Israel’s leading school of engineering, is less than 15%. Although there are no easy solutions to the complex problem of attracting women to the field of EE, we argue that certain measures can nevertheless have an impact. Specifically, a partial solution might be to increase the awareness of female high-school pupils, first, to the very existence of the field of EE, and second, to its diverse nature. This article reports on an annual exposure day that aims to do just that. This event, entitled “Electricity in the Palms of Her Hands,” specifically targets female high-school pupils who excel in mathematics. This exposure day, the title of which follows the words of a popular Hebrew song, gives the pupils a glimpse of the variety of subfields EE encompasses, and thus gives them a very different perspective on EE as well as a different image of the professionals working in the field. Specifically, the article examines the perception of EE as expressed by high-school female pupils on two such exposure days. We focus on one main observation: the change the exposure day induces on the pupils’ perception of the profession of EE. Our study shows that, whereas in the morning of the exposure days, the pupils perceived EE to be a technical field and did not consider it as a major field of study, by the end of the days, the pupils were describing its multifaceted nature, and many of them perceived EE to be a profession that they might consider studying.
Reunification of the Wendat/Wyandotte Nation at a Time of Globalization
Authors: Sioui Linda 
Published: May 2011

In the 17th century, an important period of contact with Europeans, the Wendat nation (Iroquoian linguistic family) lived in the Georgian Bay area, close to Lake Simcoe, in Ontario, Canada. Its territory is located at the northern limit of southern Ontario’s agricultural lands. Data vary regarding the total population at the beginning of the seventeenth century (the contact period), but it may be assessed to have been 29,000 souls on average (Trigger, 1976, p. 30). To start with, the Wendat nation comprised four nations distributed among several villages. A fifth nation joined later. The French called this semi-sedentary people “Hurons,” thus referring to the tuft of hair on a wild boar’s head the nation’s warriors’ hairstyle reminded them of.
Comparative Genome Annotation Systems
Authors: Choi Kwangmin , Kim Sun 
Published: May 2011

Understanding the genetic content of a genome is a very important but challenging task. One of the most effective methods to annotate a genome is to compare it to the genomes that are already sequenced and annotated. This chapter is to survey systems that can be used for annotating genomes by comparing multiple genomes and discusses important issues in designing genome comparison systems such as extensibility, scalability, reconfigurability, flexibility, usability, and data mining functionality. We also discuss briefly further issues in developing genome comparison systems where users can perform genome comparison flexibly on the sequence analysis level.
Development Methodologies and Users
Authors: Singh Shawren , Kotzé Paula 
Published: May 2011

There are various development methodologies that are used in developing ISs, some more conventional than others. On the conventional side, there are two major approaches to systems development methodologies that are used to develop IS applications: the traditional systems development methodology and the object-oriented (OO) development approach. The proponents of HCI and interaction design propose life cycle models with a stronger user focus than that employed in the conventional approaches. Before the researcher looks at these approaches, he or she needs to ponder about the method of comparing and assessing the various methodologies. There are always inherent problems in comparing various development methodologies (The Object Agency, 1993). It is, in many instances, difficult to repeat the results of a methodology comparison with any accuracy. Since few (if any) of the comparisons cite page references indicating where a particular methodology comparison item (e.g., a term, concept, or example) can be found in the methodology under review, it is difficult, if not impossible, to verify the accuracy of these methodology comparisons. The researchers did not compare the methodologies step-by-step, but rather in terms of whether and when they address the human element. Researchers have to acknowledge that methodologies are always in a state of flux. In theory, one thing happens, and in practice the methodologies are modified to suit individual business needs.
The Key Elements of Online Learning Communities
Authors: Du Jianxia , Liu Yunyan , Brown Robert L. 
Published: May 2011

An online learning community can be a place for vibrant discussions and the sharing of new ideas in a medium where content constantly changes. This chapter will first examine the different definitions that researchers have provided for online learning communities. It will then illuminate several key elements that are integral to onlinelearning communities: interactivity, in both its task-driven and socio-emotional forms; collaboration, which both builds and nurtures online communities; trusting relationships, which are developed primarily through social interaction and consist of shared goals and a sense of belonging or connectedness; and communication media choices, which impact the other three elements. This chapter also provides suggestions for the practical application of these elementsin the online classroom.
Dispatches from the Graduate Classroom
Authors: Nordengren F.R. Fritz , York Ann M. 
Published: May 2011

This chapter is a practical overview of both the theoretical, evidence-based research in pedagogy and the anecdotal, experience-based practices of faculty who work daily in online and blended learning communities. This approach combines best practices with theoretical aspects of delivering and facilitating education with diverse adult learners. Issues and trends in E-learning are presented with specific examples for implementation and suggestions for future research. Using an evidence-based approach, theauthors will explore and summarize recent research with a concurrent analysis of the anecdotal popular literature. Theauthors explore the concept of information literacy andother skills necessary to succeed in the Web 2.0 world.Their discussion takes us away from the traditional “sage on stage” versus “guide on side” dichotomy towards both a new understanding of Web 2.0’s role in education as well as a preface to what may become Web 3.0 and beyond.
Balancing Tradeoffs in Designing, Deploying, and Authoring Interactive Web-Based Learn-By-Doing Environments
Authors: Qiu Lin 
Published: May 2011

Computer-based learn-by-doing environments have been used to provide students supportive and authentic settings for challenge-based learning. This chapter describes the design tradeoffs involved in interactive learning environment design, deployment, and authoring. It presents a combination of design choices in INDIE, a software tool for authoring and delivering learn-by-doingenvironments. INDIE’s design balances the tradeoffs andleverages Web technologies to improve the accessibilityand deployability of learning environments as well as feedback generation and authorability. It explores a vision of learning environments that are more accessible andusable to students, more supportive and customizable to instructors, and more authorable to software developers.