New ride-matching model for a transport infrastructure, controlled by internet technologies has been developed. So far, models in the literature have assumed that the pickup and drop-off of a particular rider is performed at his origin and destination, respectively. However, such models restrict the number of feasible matches because only the driver side is adapting. We have introduced standard meeting points, controlled by new technology, into the system to allow riders to move to/from a more desirable pickup/ drop-off location using different means of transport. The solution approach that has been developed seeks to optimize the matching with respect to several objectives that model the convenience of solutions from the perspective of riders and drivers and optimization of the infrastructure service.
COBISS.SI-ID: 22832870
This research work presented describes the development of the new Internet based service known as Virtual Conference Centre Portal (VCCP) – Global Plaza. The service was intended to be used by the academic and educational community cooperating on scientific projects all over the world. The development of VCCP was carried out within the EU FP6 ICT project Global Plaza with an intention to provide new innovative environment and Internet service for an effective collaboration and communication between the researchers and scientists participating in different events and meetings. The development was carried out with tight cooperation with the involved virtual communities. The VCCP service offers easy organization of events and conferences that happen simultaneously in virtual auditoriums all over the globe and with direct synchronous communication provided through plug-ins for different communication channels and devices. The success of this service was tested with an exhaustive study between the communities of three continents with an aim to discover if different attitudes exist between the Internet users due to their different culture background. The study has shown that no difference in the attitudes of these communities exists.
COBISS.SI-ID: 28533799
The research presented is based on experimental evaluation of most frequently used types of mobile phones originating from five world producers in a special laboratory network environment enabling testing and assessment of the in-built security technology that enables protection of the user data and their privacy. In addition, the capability of the device with in-built technology to enable mitigation of Internet content blocking and communication eavesdropping was assessed as well. The findings are encouraging as most of the smart phones provide some sort of protection but the possibility to use mitigation technology was rather low. The awareness of the mobile users regarding the protection of their privacy and personal communication was evaluated with empirical investigation in ten countries known with low level of human rights protection. The user capabilities to use modern Internet technology for mitigation of Internet blocked sites were also studied. It was found that the user awareness depends on the level of development, accessibility of the modern technology and the user purchasing power.
COBISS.SI-ID: 28413479
Capabilities of analysing large amounts of diverse data that companies can nowadays obtain in the Internet of things (devices and systems that are connected and controlled in the Internet) can form the basis for achieving competitive advantage, but only if these capabilities are actually being utilized or when the analytical systems are accepted by users. We followed an exploratory approach in order to conceptualize a business intelligence acceptance model in those systems. The key achievement of our study is the finding that in the business intelligence systems (BIS) context, unlike in traditional acceptance models, there is a significant emphasis on organizational factors, such as result demonstrability, social influence and facilitating conditions with sufficient resources that help build an adequate information culture all substantially influencing the effective acceptance of BIS.
COBISS.SI-ID: 22726630
The well-known Pisa empirical study reported in 2013 that the relationship between the domain-specific PISA test scores and the measure of the intensity of the student`s gaming activity is the only ICT indicator that is positively correlated in the majority of studied European countries for mathematics, science and the language of instruction. All the other ICT-activity measures in the same study show negative correlations with the PISA scores. Our study has found that the current serious game taxonomies do not contain framework that enables an assessment of the game's learnability. The paper presents the new developed upgraded taxonomy derived from the study of three known learning theories that explain the process of learning. The applicability of the 14 developed learnability parameters of the new taxonomy was confirmed through the learnability assessment of two known serious games and with an empirical research that involved students and teachers. The necessity for upgrading was approved by the taxonomy author (Greco).
COBISS.SI-ID: 28471079