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Restructuring Help Systems Using Formal Concept Analysis, Peter W. Eklund, Bastian Wormuth
Restructuring Help Systems Using Formal Concept Analysis, Peter W. Eklund, Bastian Wormuth
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
This paper extends standard help system technology to demonstrate the suitability of Formal Concept Analysis in displaying, searching and navigating help content. The paper introduces a method for building suitable scales directly from the help system index by computing a keyword extension set. The keyword extension technique is generalisable in any document collection where a hand-crafted index of terms is available.
Personal Response Systems Workshop, Brian Murphy, Ciorstan J. Smark
Personal Response Systems Workshop, Brian Murphy, Ciorstan J. Smark
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
Personal response systems (PRS) are known under several names. "Clickers"; "Audience Response Systems"; "Group Response Systems"; and "Classroom Performance Systems"; all of these are systems where the audience can respond to questions or give feedback to the presenter of a lecture or workshop whilst that presentation is taking place. This allows for immediate, and (if wished) anonymous feedback to the presenter and to the class.
Globalization And National Industrial Relations Systems: Theoretical Implications From The Singapore Case, Tan Ern Ser, Balakrishnan Parasuraman
Globalization And National Industrial Relations Systems: Theoretical Implications From The Singapore Case, Tan Ern Ser, Balakrishnan Parasuraman
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
In the 1960’s, Kerr and his associates (1973[1960]) — Dunlop, Harbison, and Myers— proposed the convergence thesis, which resonates with the “end of ideology” thesis propounded by Bell (1962). Not surprisingly, the thesis about the inevitability of societal convergence prompted some scholars to look for continuing diversity, an oft-cited prime example being Japan (Dore, 1973). Indeed, until the late 1980’s, Japan was still touted as a critical case which not only defied the convergence thesis, but could also serve as a growth model worthy of emulation by developing countries aspiring to First World living standards and, paradoxically, even developed countries …
Implementing Systems In Complex Work Organisations, Wannapa Suratmethakul, Helen M. Hasan
Implementing Systems In Complex Work Organisations, Wannapa Suratmethakul, Helen M. Hasan
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
This paper describes research on a case of the introduction, into a large educational institution, of a complex timetabling system that was already well established in other similar organisations. The research has used a grounded theory approach to reveal details within complex phenomena in an organisation when a substantial new system was implemented. The study revealed three critical issues: Knowledge Transfer, System Capability, and Organisational Context that appeared to be related to the problems of implementing the new information system in the organisation. This research adds to the understanding of a common situation where management have an over simplified view …
Application Of Human Reasoning In Question Answering Systems, Farhad Oroumchian, E. Darudi, M. Rahgozar, B. Ofogi
Application Of Human Reasoning In Question Answering Systems, Farhad Oroumchian, E. Darudi, M. Rahgozar, B. Ofogi
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
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Executive Information Systems And The Top-Officers' Roles: An Exploratory Study Of User-Behaviour Model And Lessons Learnt, Emmanuel Ikart
Executive Information Systems And The Top-Officers' Roles: An Exploratory Study Of User-Behaviour Model And Lessons Learnt, Emmanuel Ikart
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
In recent years a number of organisations have implemented executive information systems (EIS) in order to improve the performance of their executives’ jobs. Although the use of EIS is important in executives’ work, the majority of executives are unwilling to use EIS applications because of their design flaws. By using social factors, habits and facilitation condition variables from Triandis’ framework, this paper extends the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) to derive useful variables to address the problem of the low usage of EIS by executives. This paper reports on research in progress in Australia on the adoption and usage of EIS …
Towards Executive Information Systems Adoptions By Knowledge Workers: An Extension Of The Technology Acceptance Model To Account For Social-Cultural Factors, Emmanuel Ikart
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
In recent years a number of organisations have implemented executive information systems (EIS) in order to improve the performance gains on their executives’ job. Although the use of EIS is important to executives, majority of executives are unwilling to use EIS because of their design failures. By using social factors, habits and facilitation conditions variables from Triandis’ framework, this paper extends the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) to derive useful variables to address the problem of the low usage of EIS by executives. This paper reports on the research in progress in Australia on the adoption and usage of EIS by …
Hoglex Demand Systems And Welfare Policy In Major Asean Developing Countries: A Bayesian Analysis Using Expenditure Unit Records, Hikaru Hasegawa, Rebecca Valenzuela, Tran Van Hoa
Hoglex Demand Systems And Welfare Policy In Major Asean Developing Countries: A Bayesian Analysis Using Expenditure Unit Records, Hikaru Hasegawa, Rebecca Valenzuela, Tran Van Hoa
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
the explicit and estimable HOGLEX demand system ( Tran Van Hoa, 1983, 1985 and Jerison and Jersion 1984) links for the first time an important aspect of economic theory and the statisticals of Box-Cox transformation analysis.
Socio-Technical Systems: From Individual Transactions To Situated Community Activity, Helen M. Hasan
Socio-Technical Systems: From Individual Transactions To Situated Community Activity, Helen M. Hasan
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
Although basic concepts of Activity Theory were articulated almost a century ago, they have stood the test of time and are proving to be appropriate for research into modem situation involving the use of socio-technical systems. Over the past decades the field of Information Systems has advanced from a focus on routine transaction processing systems to more sophisticated applications that support situated community activity. This chapter will describe how Activity Theory is becoming increasing relevant to these types of systems and can be complemented by other approaches such as Complexity Theory and a particular Knowledge Lens. Research is presented that …
Systems Resemblance And Workpractice Evolution: Implications For Work Activity (Re)Design, Rodney J. Clarke
Systems Resemblance And Workpractice Evolution: Implications For Work Activity (Re)Design, Rodney J. Clarke
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
This paper is concerned with addressing the question of how apparently disparate and unconnected systems can resemble each other. The question of what counts as a systems resemblance necessitates developing contextual workpractice descriptions associated with the systems features and ultimately entire systems. Using systemic semiotics an apparent ontogenetic convergence between entirely different systems is used to show that systems resemblance can be inferred when the constituent workpractices of information systems consist of comparable register features and especially if they exhibit comparable generic features. The implications of these findings for a new class of work activity (re)design practices are considered.