Research funding is a process based on thorough and rigorous research evaluation performed by international experts, organised and managed by the independent national research funding organisations. ...In the European Union, the majority of research funds still originate from the budgets of the Member Countries. It is nearly a decade since the national research funders started to cooperate, aiming to improve their expertise, encourage the cooperation of scientists and make the research potentials ready to compete in the demanding calls within European research framework programmes, with special attention on prestigious projects of the European Research Council. In this paper self-organisation of research funders is shown at the European, global and regional levels, stressing the goals, instruments and challenges of the latest. The comparable evaluation system, independence of the funders and sound handling of the possible conflicts of interests is the prerequisite for the cooperation of research funders at any level. A case of CEUS (Central European Union of Science funders) is used in the discussion.
Integration of the two best-known quality management models for software production and maintenance, the Capability Maturity Model and the ISO 9001 Model (including ISO 9000-3) is of great interest ...for both the European and the American software market. The definition of a quality management model which would conform to the requirements of both models and use the advantages of each was a key goal of our research work within the project PROCESSUS.1 Research work was conducted in two steps: first, the detailed comparison of both models was made in order to define their common issues and specifics of each model, and secondly, the integrated model based on the results of the comparison was defined. In this paper the comparison method and results are described. Further, a method for the integration and a framework of the integrated model are presented. The core of our work is actually the content of the integrated model. Due to extensive content of the integrated model examples of some parts only are given in the appendix. The integrated model presented in this paper has already been successfully used in organizations which are cooperating in the project PROCESSUS o these organizations achieved the needed maturity for certification to the ISO 9001 standard and a maturity level near level 3 of CMM.
Purpose
This paper aims to explore the digital economy in the fields of the most promising new technologies: information and communication technologies, biotechnology and nanotechnology. It ...highlights the convergence of nano-, bio-, info- and cognitive (NBIC) technologies by developing a model for the accurate evaluation of different types of options in the development process of convergent technologies.
Design/methodology/approach
The empirical research is based on theoretical analysis and case studies. The authors conducted six in-depth interviews. The study covered different research projects led by centres of excellence, competence centres and institutions that support the transfer of innovations in the economic and business environment.
Findings
The research findings prove that there is a convergence of NBIC technologies that can be observed and modelled. The created evolutionary model of NBIC convergence, also based on the theory of real options, allows a proper evaluation of the entire convergence process.
Practical implications
For enterprises and scientific research institutions, the NBIC model could represent the starting point for developing further concepts of investment evaluation. The model also considers the indicators of the innovation system, which, in addition to the marketing area, include regulatory challenges of companies (competition, copyrights, patents, taxation, etc.).
Originality/value
This paper enhances the understanding of new technologies in a digital economy. The purpose of this study is to clarify the principal factors for the effective observation and measurement of the convergence phenomenon. It also offers suggestions for improvement of the research and innovation system in the new economy.
The authors present guidelines that should be followed when designing the curricula for educating engineers who will be capable of managing and evaluating quality in the software design and ...development process. It is pointed out that quality management is impossible without planning. Consequently, the preparation of planning, which is divided into technical, quality, and resource plans, is of primary importance. In addition to the preparation of plans, a quality system that supports the elaboration of plans should be worked out. However, a quality system cannot be established without knowledge of process models, design methodologies and planning techniques, which requires that one observe standards from the group ISO 9000 and structured approaches. The authors present their experience regarding the level of knowledge that is satisfactory for the computer engineering level and for other predominantly electrical engineering levels, how and where to integrate software quality topics into the curriculum, which courseware to use, and how to persuade students that high quality software is not only code-weighted but that also depends on all attributes that make a software of high quality.< >
OO metrics data gathering environment Hericko, M.; Rozman, I.; Horvat, R.V. ...
Proceedings. Technology of Object-Oriented Languages. TOOLS 24 (Cat. No.97TB100240),
1997
Conference Proceeding
Object technology has been recognized as an enabling factor and it is largely introduced into MIS departments. However, the benefits and improvements related to object technology are not obvious and ...could not be realized and achieved without appropriate evaluation criteria and metrics. The paper presents some evaluation criteria, measures and metrics, suitable for object oriented software development. Basic concepts of the OOMetDaGa Environment that provides automatic support for metrics data gathering are described and some empirical data presented.
Diagnostics and a qualitative model Druzovec, Marjan; Welzer, Tatjana; Colnaric, Matjaz ...
International journal of medical informatics (Shannon, Ireland),
09/2001, Letnik:
63, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
First generation expert systems were using shallow knowledge based on heuristic information to solve a diagnostic problem. This approach has many disadvantages, which can be avoided by using deep ...knowledge. Diagnostic reasoning based on deep knowledge is called model-based diagnostics. Recently, the use of qualitative modeling in relation to deep knowledge in expert systems has become increasingly important. The main purpose of our contribution is to present the model-based diagnostic approach at a formal level. The originality of the presented formalization is the concept of the diagnostic space, the characterization of the minimal diagnoses, and the measurement. The formalization serves as the theoretical background to prove our view to the design of qualitative system models and to establish the diagnostic architecture called DISY. The qualitative system model in our diagnostic approach needs not to be specially adopted for use in the diagnostic domain. The only requirement is that it must simulate the system behavior expressed by normal or abnormal functioning of its components. Proposed DISY architecture is not complex and simply takes into an account the previous diagnostic result to obtain a new one from the additional observation-measurement (medical tests or examinations) of the system.
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