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The Chain

SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute

Blockchain has begun to revolutionise the world of tech. Surrounded by digital technology, big data and social media, information has never been so readily available to us -- but that information is often disorganised and inaccessible. Blockchain offers the opportunity to design new ways to organise that information and to put it to good use

Are You Working Well?

SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute

It is nothing new for employers to recognise the importance of a healthy and happy workforce. But now, new technology is changing the way that we approach wellness in the workplace.

Into The Laboratory!

SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute

HKDI's new Media Lab is a platform where students can interact with the latest technology; a hub for exploring new ideas and finding new solutions

Shenzhen's Shifting Fortunes

SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute

From sleepy border town to booming manufacturing hub to design city -- Shenzhen is continually transforming itself as it spearheads China's passage to an innovation-based society.

A Multi-Method Scheduling Framework For Medical Staff, Wael Rashwan, John Fowler, Amr Arisha

Conference Papers

Hospital planning teams are always concerned with optimizing staffing and scheduling decisions in order to improve hospital performance, patient experience, and staff satisfaction. A multi-method approach including data analytics, modeling and simulation, machine learning, and optimization is proposed to provide a framework for smart and applicable solutions for staffing and shift scheduling. Factors regarding patients, staff, and hospitals are considered in the decision. This framework is piloted using the Emergency Department(ED) of a leading university hospital in Dublin. The optimized base staffing patterns and shift schedules actively contributed to solving ED overcrowding problem and reduced the average waiting time for …

Smart Cities And Urban Management, Singapore Management University

Research Collection Office of Research

In this booklet, read about SMU’s research and initiatives related to smart cities and urban management, and how we strive to make meaningful impact on business, government and society for Singapore and beyond.

Contents:

Liveability and quality of life

• Community participation through mobile crowdsourcing
• Smarter, healthier eating with Food AI
• Data-driven community eldercare platform for sustainable ageing-in-place
• A date with AI
• Smart mobility accessibility for barrier-free access
• Food security

Optimisation and resource management

• Collaborative urban delivery optimisation
• Seat occupancy detection through capacitance sensing
• Large-scale crowd simulation based on real-world data
• Gaining insights through Wi-Fi technology
• Taxi driver guidance system
• Efficiency …

Drivers Of Early Technology Sector Development In Ireland, Sarah Davis, Breda Kenny

Irish Business Journal

This paper explores the origins of the electronics and software sector, now called the Information Communications and Technology (ICT) Sector in the Republic of Ireland and its subsequent development from 1960 to 2010 inclusive. The research sought to identify key developments that influenced the emergence of the sector. For the purposes of this study, the ICT sector is defined as the foreign-owned and indigenous firms actively involved in the production, design and/or servicing of hardware and software electronic products within the Republic of Ireland. Empirical evidence in the form of 15 semi-structured interviews was analysed and validated by three respondents …

Where Will Technology Lead Us?, Jerry Kennelly

Irish Business Journal

Artificial intelligence is a misnomer in my opinion. You get out what you put in. AI seeks to simulate intelligent human behaviour in software and computers. If you consider AI software like a big database and learns along the way. It is programmed by clever humans who create algorithms which use all of the data available and process it to give a calculated result. For example, my IPhone will tell me that it’s going to take me ten minutes to drive home when I walk onto the street from my office in Killorglin. It doesn’t know I’m going home, but …

Nutech Ventures Annual Report 2017-2018

NUtech Ventures: Publications

NUTech Ventures annual report 2017-2018.

Economics-Based Risk Management Of Distributed Denial Of Service Attacks: A Distance Learning Case Study, Omer Keskin, Unal Tatar, Omer Poyraz, Ariel Pinto, Adrian Gheorghe

Engineering Management & Systems Engineering Faculty Publications

Managing risk of cyber systems is still on the top of the agendas of Chief Information Security Officers (CISO). Investment in cybersecurity is continuously rising. Efficiency and effectiveness of cybersecurity investments are under scrutiny by boards of the companies. The primary method of decision making on cybersecurity adopts a risk-informed approach. Qualitative methods bring a notion of risk. However, particularly for strategic level decisions, more quantitative methods that can calculate the risk and impact in monetary values are required. In this study, a model is built to calculate the economic value of business interruption during a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack …

Gallery Swap, Denise Szekely

MA Projects

In a world increasingly dominated by mega-Galleries like Zwirner and Gagosian with outposts in several continents, an international presence seems almost required for success. The rising cost of real estate in art capitals like London or New York is harming the gallery ecosystem, with less than half of the galleries reporting profitability. Smaller galleries, if they continue to run the current course, will never be able to compete with the likes of Hauser & Wirth or David Zwirner.

Art fairs are an expensive alternative to providing international reach, as they provide a small yet impersonal space in a different place …

Technological Innovation: A Case Study Of Mobile Internet Information Technology Applications In Community Management, Wan Su, Xiaobo Xu, Yangchun Li, Francisco J. Martinez-Lopez, Ling Li

Information Technology & Decision Sciences Faculty Publications

The Mobile Internet Information Technology MIIT has been widely accepted as one of the most promising technologies in the next decades, having various applications and different value positions. However, few published studies explore and examine the effects of MIIT on community management. Based on the Dramaturgical Theory, this article uses a case study method to get an insightful understanding of MIIT. This article found that the MIIT was used by grid organizations to realize technological innovation and change organizational routines and structures, but eventually it was shaped by them, so this new technology was only able to embed itself into …

Voice Over Internet Protocol (Voip) Best Service Provider Decision Making With Using Hierarchical Decision Model (Hdm), Fayez Alsoubaie

Engineering and Technology Management Student Projects

Most technical researchers expect VoIP will lead the future communications. VoIP services are offered by a wide range of providers based on the customer’s intended business or corporate need. It is thus plausible for any entity to do a well detailed research on selecting best VoIP provider that would maximize the efficiency of their work. In a hierarchical structure of a given organization the choice of VoIP is determined by the number of users through the different protocols, number of devices that are required to attain a complete network, the most lucrative choice will also be based on multi criteria …

Assessing The Validity And Reliability Of Family Factors On Physical Activity: A Case Study In Turkey, Sharalyn Steenson, Hilal Ozcebe, Umut Arslan, Hande Konsuk Unlu, Ozgur M. Araz, Mahmut Yardim, Sarp Uner, Nazmi Bilir, Terry T.-K. Huang

Department of Supply Chain Management and Analytics: Faculty Publications

Background: Childhood obesity rates have been rising rapidly in developing countries. A better understanding of the risk factors and social context is necessary to inform public health interventions and policies. This paper describes the validation of several measurement scales for use in Turkey, which relate to child and parent perceptions of physical activity (PA) and enablers and barriers of physical activity in the home environment.

Method: The aim of this study was to assess the validity and reliability of several measurement scales in Turkey using a population sample across three socio-economic strata in the Turkish capital, Ankara. Surveys were conducted …

There’S Nowhere To Hide: Artificial Intelligence And Privacy In The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Sarah Denton, Eleonore Pauwels, Yujia He, Walter G. Johnson

Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce Faculty Publications

At its core, artificial intelligence (AI) optimizes data. Machine-learning algorithms, one component of AI, are trained using massive datasets curated by humans to predict various aspects of our daily lives. Such predictive intelligence could be a positive force amplified by continued decentralization of the technology. Or, ubiquitous cognition and surveillance could be a disruptive force amplified by the unregulated proliferation of AI technologies. Yet, though we will certainly see more and more AI systems being integrated into every facet of our infrastructures, homes, and bodies, the proliferation of AI technology isn’t the problem. A privacy-security quagmire arises from the interconnectivity …

The Use Of Smart Devices For The Detection Of Aflatoxin In Ground Corn Feeds, Gil Nonato C. Santos, Mary Gillian Santos, Karen Doniza, James Salveo L. Olarve

Angelo King Institute for Economic and Business Studies (AKI)

Aflatoxins are toxic and carcinogenic secondary metabolites produced predominantly by two fungal species: Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus parasiticus (Gourama, H., & Bullerman, L., 1995). These fungal species are contaminants of food crops as well as animal feeds, and are responsible for aflatoxin contamination of these agricultural products. The toxicity and potency of aflatoxins make them the primary health hazard as well as responsible for losses associated with contaminations of processed foods and feeds (Gourama, H., & Bullerman, L., 1995). Determination of aflatoxins concentration in food crops and animal feeds is thus very important for Food Safety Regulatory Agencies (FRSA) to …

Alternative Energy: An Examination Of Costs, Safety, And Potential, Evan Searles

Honors Theses and Capstones

No abstract provided.

Classification Of Eeg Signals Of User States In Gaming Using Machine Learning, Chandana Mallapragada

Masters Theses

"In this research, brain activity of user states was analyzed using machine learning algorithms. When a user interacts with a computer-based system including playing computer games like Tetris, he or she may experience user states such as boredom, flow, and anxiety. The purpose of this research is to apply machine learning models to Electroencephalogram (EEG) signals of three user states -- boredom, flow and anxiety -- to identify and classify the EEG correlates for these user states. We focus on three research questions: (i) How well do machine learning models like support vector machine, random forests, multinomial logistic regression, and …

Consolidation And Innovation In The Pharmaceutical Industry: The Role Of Mergers And Acquisitions In The Current Innovation Ecosystem, Joanna Shepherd

Faculty Articles

Recent changes in the pharmaceutical industry have spurred an unprecedented wave of mergers and acquisitions. Some researchers and agencies have questioned whether pharmaceutical consolidation could impede drug innovation. However, as I explain in this Article, these concerns are largely based on an outdated understanding of the drug innovation ecosystem. Whereas a few decades ago almost all drug discovery took place inside traditional pharmaceutical companies, today most drug innovation is externally-sourced from biotech companies and smaller firms. Internal R&D is no longer the primary source, or even an important source, of drug innovation. As a result, analyses that focus on the …

Understanding Innovation, Kenneth B. Kahn

Marketing Faculty Publications

While innovation has become a pervasive term, many of today’s organizations still find innovation elusive. One reason may be that much of what is being said about innovation contributes to misunderstanding. To truly manifest innovation and reap its benefits, one must recognize that innovation is three different things: innovation is an outcome, innovation is a process, and innovation is a mindset. Innovation as an outcome emphasizes what output is sought, including product innovation, process innovation, marketing innovation, business model innovation, supply chain innovation, and organizational innovation. Innovation as a process attends to the way in which innovation should be organized …

Software Intrusion Detection Evaluation System: A Cost-Based Evaluation Of Intrusion Detection Capability, Agbotiname L. Imoize, Taiwo Oyedare, Michael E. Otuokere, Sachin Shetty

VMASC Publications

In this paper, we consider a cost-based extension of intrusion detection capability (CID). An objective metric motivated by information theory is presented and based on this formulation; a package for computing the intrusion detection capability of intrusion detection system (IDS), given certain input parameters is developed using Java. In order to determine the expected cost at each IDS operating point, the decision tree method of analysis is employed, and plots of expected cost and intrusion detection capability against false positive rate were generated. The point of intersection between the maximum intrusion detection capability and the expected cost is selected as …

Time Dependent Attribute-Level Best Worst Discrete Choice Modelling, Amanda Working, Mohammed Alqawba, Norou Diawara, Ling Li

Mathematics & Statistics Faculty Publications

Discrete choice models (DCMs) are applied in statistical modelling of consumer behavior. Such models are used in many areas including social sciences, health economics, transportation research, and health systems research and they are time dependent. In this manuscript, we review references on the study of such models, develop DCMs with emphasis on time dependent best-worst choice and discrimination between choice attributes. Referenced measurements of the dynamic DCMs are simulated. Expected utilities over time are derived using Markov decision processes. We study attributes and attribute-levels associated with the quality of life of seniors, report the estimation results, and discuss our findings.

Real-Time Inbound Marketing: A Use Case For Digital Banking, Alan Megargel, Venky Shankararaman, Srinivas K. Reddy

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Over the years banks have been strategically using digital technologies to help transform various aspects of their business. In recent times, this strategy has evolved into one of digital augmentation of the bank’s processes, products and channels. This allows for reaching out to customers and partners through digital platforms, for example; the addition of mobile apps for customers to access and perform service transactions. Marketing continues to play a major role in supporting the expansion of business and increasing revenue for the bank. Marketing has evolved from mass direct targeting to more personalised, face-to-face and real-time targeting. In the digital …

Innovation, Dynamic Capabilities And Family Firms Operating In An Emerging Economy, Abel Duarte Alonso, Seamus O'Brien, Seng Kok

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

Drawing on the dynamic capabilities framework (DCF), this exploratory study examines family firms' involvement in innovation practices, including reasons and ways to innovate. The cases of four family firms operating in an emerging economy (Uruguay) are investigated. Semi-structured, face-to-face and telephone interviews were conducted with owners and managers, and complemented with e-mail correspondence. Based on the imperative need to solve problems in their industry, firms' managements were intensively involved in various innovative processes. These processes included quality improvements, responding to a dynamic and competitive business and consumer environment, and extending the life and survival of the family enterprise for future …

Agile–Stage Gate Management (Asgm): Npd Implementation Practices From Global Firms Developing Complex, Physical Products, John J. Salvato

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports

Stage Gate Management (SGM) has been used successfully by global organizations to direct the New Product Development process (NPD) for years, recently a new variant of this venerable approach has emerged. Researchers and firms have begun to intersperse elements of Agile, as popularized for the development of software, to create an Agile – Stage Gate Management (ASGM) hybrid NPD framework. Agile practitioners believe in process waste reduction, an intense focus on customers, and the creation of nimble entrepreneurial project teams, which, for software products, has positively impacted development time to market, resource utilization, and market success, more generally, improved business …

Custom Windows Patching Methodology - Comparative Analysis, Brent Michael Henderson

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

Windows Server Update Services has been a common mainstay among organizations with a heavy footprint of Windows operating systems since it was originally released as Software Update Services in 2002. While the product has grown in scope, the primary allure remains the same: WSUS offers organizations greater control over the patches that are released to their environment and saves bandwidth by allowing a centralized device to download and offer patches to internal clients rather than having each of those clients download the content they require from the Internet. Unfortunately, the product has a structural limitation in that it lacks the …

Algorithms And Automation: Fostering Trustworthiness In Artificial Intelligence, Andrew B. Ware

Honors Theses and Capstones

No abstract provided.

นวัตกรรมระบบสารสนเทศเพื่อสนับสนุนการตัดสินใจในการจัดการฟาร์มกุ้งของเกษตรกรรายย่อยภายใต้กลุ่มสหกรณ์, ธนภัทร ยีขะเด

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

วิทยานิพนธ์นี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อ 1) ศึกษาพฤติกรรมด้านสารสนเทศต่อการสนับสนุนการตัดสินใจในการจัดการฟาร์มกุ้งของเกษตรกรผู้เลี้ยงกุ้งรายย่อยภายใต้กลุ่มสหกรณ์ 2) พัฒนาต้นแบบนวัตกรรมระบบสารสนเทศเพื่อสนับสนุนการตัดสินใจในการจัดการฟาร์มกุ้ง 3) ศึกษาการยอมรับการใช้งานนวัตกรรม และ 4) การนำนวัตกรรมต้นแบบไปสู่เชิงพาณิชย์ โดยในการวิจัยนี้ใช้ระเบียบวิธีวิจัยแบบผสม โดยการวิจัยเชิงคุณภาพเพื่อศึกษาพฤติกรรมด้านสารสนเทศในการจัดการฟาร์มและสนับสนุนการตัดสินใจ และการวิจัยเชิงปริมาณเพื่อการศึกษาปัจจัยที่มีอิทธิพลต่อการประยุกต์ใช้เทคโนโลยีในการจัดการข้อมูลร่วมกันผ่านระบบออนไลน์ จากกลุ่มตัวอย่างเกษตรกรผู้เลี้ยงกุ้งจำนวน 90 ตัวอย่าง และการพัฒนาตัวแบบพยากรณ์ราคากุ้งเพื่อใช้สนับสนุนการวางแผนและตัดสินใจจากชุดข้อมูลราคากุ้งและข้อมูลทุติยภูมิที่เกี่ยวข้องย้อนหลัง 5 ปี (2557-2561) จำนวน 830 ชุดข้อมูล โดยใช้เทคนิคการวิเคราะห์ถดถอย และได้นำโมเดลพยากรณ์ราคากุ้งมาพัฒนาระบบวางแผนและสนับสนุนการตัดสินใจด้านการเงินและจัดการข้อมูลการเลี้ยงกุ้งผ่านโมบายแอพพลิเคชั่น จากนั้นได้ศึกษาการยอมรับการใช้งานและแนวทางการนำนวัตกรรมต้นแบบสู่เชิงพาณิชย์ ผลการศึกษาพบว่า 1) เกษตรกรผู้เลี้ยงกุ้งภายใต้กลุ่มสหกรณ์ใช้สารสนเทศในการวางแผนและสนับสนุนการตัดสินใจบนพื้นฐานของ 7 งานหลักคือ การเลือกแหล่งที่ตั้งของฟาร์ม การวางแผนธุรกิจเลี้ยงกุ้ง การจัดการบ่อเลี้ยง การจัดการกุ้ง การจัดการด้านการเงิน การจัดการฟาร์ม และการจัดการชุมชน สังคมหรือกลุ่มเกษตรกร และปัจจัยที่มีอิทธิพลต่อการใช้เทคโนโลยีในการจัดการข้อมูลร่วมกันผ่านระบบออนไลน์ของเกษตรกรผู้เลี้ยงกุ้ง พบว่า ความไว้วางใจซึ่งกันและกัน ความคาดหวังต่อความพยายาม อิทธิพลจากสังคม การสนับสนุนของทรัพยากร และอำนาจของผู้มีส่วนร่วม มีอิทธิพลต่อการยอมรับการใช้เทคโนโลยีที่ระดับ 51.4% 2) ผลการวิเคราะห์ข้อมูลเชิงสถิติเกี่ยวกับโมเดลพยากรณ์ราคากุ้งพบว่า ราคากุ้ง = -1759.426-1.066(ขนาดของกุ้ง)+9.881(อัตราเงินเฟ้อ)+11.135(ดัชนีราคาผู้ผลิต)-1.835(ดัชนีราคาผู้ผลิตภาคเกษตรกรรม) +1.863(อัตราแลกเปลี่ยนเงินตรา)+0.002(อัตราผลิตกุ้งขาวแวนนาไมรวม)-1.864(ราคาน้ำมันดีเซล)+42.448(ถ้าเป็นเดือนมกราคม)+53.286 (ถ้าเป็นเดือนกุมภาพันธ์)+30.325(ถ้าเป็นเดือนมีนาคม)+2.057(ถ้าเป็นเดือนเมษายน)-20.070(ถ้าเป็นพฤษภาคม)-10.085(ถ้าเป็นเดือนมิถุนายน)-3.180(ถ้าเป็นเดือนกรกฎาคม)-3.320 (ถ้าเป็นเดือนสิงหาคม)-11.835(ถ้าเป็นเดือนกันยายน)-30.390(ถ้าเป็นเดือนตุลาคม)-11.835(ถ้าเป็นเดือนพฤศจิกายน) ซึ่งปัจจัยดังกล่าวมีอิทธิพลต่อราคากุ้งร้อยละ 89.7 ที่ระดับความเชื่อมั่นร้อยละ 99 โดย โมเดลพยากรณ์ราคากุ้งนี้ได้นำมาพัฒนาเป็นโมบายแอพพลิเคชั่นเพื่อวางแผนและสนับสนุนการตัดสินใจทางด้านการเงินของผู้เลี้ยงกุ้งภายใต้ชื่อ Smart Aqua 3) จากการสอบถามทัศนคติจากกลุ่มตัวอย่างผู้ใช้งานนวัตกรรมต้นแบบจำนวน 30 ตัวอย่าง พบว่ามีความพึงพอใจต่อการใช้งานระบบในด้านความสามารถของระบบ ด้านเนื้อหา ด้านการออกแบบ ด้านความปลอดภัย ด้านการรับรู้ประโยชน์ของระบบ ด้านการสนับสนุนทรัพยากรและข้อมูล ทัศนคติต่อการใช้ และการยอมรับการใช้ในระดับพอใจมากและ 4) การให้ใช้สิทธิโดยไม่จำกัดแต่เพียงผู้เดียวเป็นรูปแบบที่เหมาะสมที่สุดในการนำนวัตกรรมต้นแบบสู่เชิงพาณิชย์ โดยคาดว่าจะใช้ระยะเวลาคืนทุน 3.5 ปี

Social Media Usages In Small Not-For-Profit Organizations, Sarah Nolan

MPA/MPP/MPFM Capstone Projects

Effective social media management takes time, effort, and intentionality. Small not-for-profit organizations would benefit from doing this, but often have difficulty with being able to do so. In order to find out how small not-for-profit organizations use their social media and how social media could best be used to accomplish their mission, the following research questions were asked: What communications policies and procedures are followed by small not-for-profits organizations? Are the current social media practices of these organizations effective? What are the primary needs of these organizations in terms of social media and how can they be addressed?

In order …

Design Thinking: A Case Study Of Implementation Within The It Software Industry., Jean-Baptiste Liberge

Theses

In the global economy, competition and market pressures push the majority of company managers to drive with more efficiency by improving processes, optimizing performance and reducing costs. Companies are increasing shareholder value by improving cash flow' and cutting costs. How many cost savings can finance departments reproduce and for how long? Is this enough to lead their markets to deliver better services to their customers? Is it enough to build customer loyalty? The 11 industry fails to escape these constraints, operating in an intensely competitive market. To compete in this environment, companies need to face frequent new product launches and …