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The case for ICT work-integrated learning from graduates in the workplace

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The case for ICT work-integrated learning from graduates in the workplace Koppi Tony; Edwards Sylvia; Sheard Judy; Naghdy Fazel; Brookes Wayne Clear, T. and Hamer, J. An online survey of recent ICT graduates in the workplace was carried out as part of a recent project funded by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council. The survey was concerned with the ICT curriculum in relation to workplace job requirements and university preparation for these requirements. The survey contained quantitative and qualitative components and findings from the former have been published (Koppi et al., 2009). This paper reports on a quantitative comparison of responses from graduates who had workplace experience and those who did not, and a qualitative analysis of text responses from all ICT graduates to open-ended questions concerning the curriculum and their perceived university preparation for the workplace. The overwhelming response from ICT graduates in the workplace was for more industry related learning. These industry relationships included industry involvement, workplace learning and business experience, up-to-date teaching and technologies, practical applications, and real-world activities. A closer relationship of academia and industry was strongly advocated by ICT graduates in the workplace.

Multi-hop and directed routing based on neighborhood cooperation in WSN

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Multi-hop and directed routing based on neighborhood cooperation in WSN Nikodem Jan; Klempous Ryszard; Nikodem Maciej; Chaczko Zenon Imre Rudas The paper describes a relational abstraction of neighborhood cooperation for the Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) where node can identify its neighbors around it. Since radio links have limited range only some nodes have a direct contact with the Base Station (BS) and data transmission is executed using multi-hop communication to ensure that information is send from one node to another towards the BS. The novel abstract uses a subordination relation, to manage the neighbor cooperation between the WSN nodes, that exploits topological properties of the WSN. Based on the hop-distance from the BS, any node k is able to establish a set N<(k) consisting of nodes to which k has to send communication messages in order to maintain the data-flow direction towards the BS.

An Integrated Model Supporting Billing and QOS in the internet

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

An Integrated Model Supporting Billing and QOS in the internet Myint Hla; Nanda Priyadarsi Morshed Chowdhury; Sid Ray; Roger Lee This article develops a charging scheme that is simple and easily usable for the users and provides them with the incentives to use only the resources they need. This scheme is developed on the time-volume charging approach to show how the contributing providers can share the total charge earned by each mobile and wireless service instance in a fair way, with each provider collecting the portion of charge that corresponds to the consumption of its own resources for the service. This is alos an important issue for the commercial viability of mobile service to mobile users, given that its provision spans multiple domains. Our proposed architecture is compliant to the relevant standards and can serve as a basis for applying other internet charging schemes as well

Development of Software with Cloud Computing in 3TZ Collaborative Team Environment

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Development of Software with Cloud Computing in 3TZ Collaborative Team Environment Chaczko Zenon; Aslanzadeh Shahrzad; Klempous Ryszard Agbinya, J In the global economy, we have seen a decrease in the barriers towards communication across the globe along with an increase of service availability to support this communication. Software development is one discipline that is capable of effectively utilizing and benefiting from global collaboration prospect lent by ever increasing capability of information and communication technology. 24-hour continues development is ideal for application towards tasks that have hard-deadlines or require work completed as soon as possible. This article will mainly focus on introducing 24/7 global models that can be applied in cloud environment used in three different time zones. The case study related to developing agricultural software has been investigated in this article.