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  • Economic Vitality of Polish Suburbs

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    - Year 2015

    For over 25 years, Poland has been undergoing major political, social and economic transformations. The country's system changed from a planned economy to a free-market, neo-liberal one. The effects of these changes are visible on several levels, including the field of urban planning, where they manifested themselves as the birth of the suburbanization process. In the field of economics, it could be noticed that since 1989, the...

  • Economic vitality of Polish suburbs

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    - GSTF Journal of Engineering Technology - Year 2016

    Since 1989, Poland has been undergoing major political, social and economic transformations. The effects of these changes are visible on several levels, including the field of urban planning, where they manifested themselves as the birth of the suburbanization process. In the field of economics, it could be noticed that since 1989, the SME sector has been awakening very dynamically. Correlation of the parallel development of these...

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  • HOW TO ASSESS THE MATURITY OF SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES TO LEAN SIX SIGMA PROJECTS

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    This article describes the considerations for the implementation of the Lean Six Sigma (LSS) methodology in small and medium-sized enterprises. Pilot research was conducted in Polish and French SMEs (nine Polish and nine French enterprises from the service and production sectors) referring to the context of the implementation and application of the Lean Six Sigma concept. The studies led to the identification of the motives, needs,...

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  • How Small KIBS Companies Manage Their Intellectual Capital? Towards an Emergent KM Approach

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    - Year 2015

    The growing interest in Intellectual Capital management and Knowledge Management is now reaching small companies, especially those in the Knowledge-Intensive Business Services (KIBS) sector. This paper aims to explore this issue, starting from the assumption that a planned and systematic approach to KM, as is used in large companies, is rarely applicable in small organizations. It is more likely that small companies adopt an approach...

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  • Evaluation of a company’s image on social media using the Net Sentiment Rate

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    - Year 2020

    Vast amounts of new types of data are constantly being created as a result of dynamic digitization in all areas of our lives. One of the most important and valuable categories for business is data from social networks such as Facebook. Feedback resulting from the sharing of thoughts and emotions, expressed in comments on various products and services, is becoming the key factor on which modern business is based. This feedback is...

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  • Family business succession – the practical or also theoretical problem. Bibliometric analysis

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    - Year 2020

    Family businesses, in various forms, have existed since societies began to be created. However, family business research has a decidedly shorter tradition. In favorable conditions, family enterprises develop for many generations, and their fate is intertwined with the fate of the families. The topics of family businesses are raised by researchers around the world. Estimates regarding the number of family businesses are a frequent...

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  • The EU enlargement and domestic employment

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    - Economics Bulletin - Year 2009

    The study focuses on the interactions between EU member states' labor markets (manufacturing and tradable business services) over the period 1995-2005. We use recently released detailed sector level employment statistics, considering the effects of trade integration on the creation of links between labor force in ''Old'' and ''New'' partners in the enlarged EU. Empirical estimations show that the domestic demand for labor in the...

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  • Generalized access control in hierarchical computer network

    The paper presents the design of the security layer for a distributed system located in the multizone hierarchical computer network. Depending on the zone from which a client’s request comes to the system and the type of the request, it will be either authorized or rejected. There is one common layer for the access to all the business services and interactions between them. Unlike the commonly used RBAC model, this system enforces...

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  • Disruption of the communication process on the example of ALEP-PL web application

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    - Year 2013

    By creating a dedicated web service, such as the presented ALEP-PL solution, you can not assume that its users have suffcient knowledge of the energy sector. This application is dedicated to the local energy planning. The ALEP-PL makes it easier to incorporate in the planning of key players in the local energy market. This group of ALEP-PL users represents mainly the ocials of energy companies and specialist offcers. In the paper...

  • Call processing performance in multidomain IMS/NGN architecture

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    The Next Generation Network (NGN) architecture, which bases on the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) concept, is a proposition of a telecommunication network dedicated to the needs of the modern information society. The main goal of NGN is to provide Quality of Service (QoS), for which proper network design and dimensioning are necessary. This also requires appropriate traffic models, which should be efficient and not excessively complicated...

  • Knowledge management approaches among KIBS companies and their determinants – case study analysis

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    - Year 2018

    This paper aims to present knowledge management (KM) approaches manifested by knowledge intensive business service (KIBS) companies together with their potential determinants (company size, type of services offered, and organizational structure). In particular, two types of approaches have been selected and examined, i.e. emergent KM approach and deliberate KM approach. Indeed, although KM approaches have been abundantly investigated...

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  • Superkomputery do wspomagania procesów gospodarczych ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem sektora bankowego

    W artykule omówiono wykorzystanie superkomputerów do wspomagania procesów gospodarczych ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem sektora bankowego. Odniesiono się do wybranych projektów wspierających rozwój gospodarczy w oparciu o superkomputery. W szczególności zaproponowano zastosowanie HPC do implementacji wybranych metod sztucznej inteligencji w bankowości, w tym oceny ryzyka wybranych przedsięwzięć. Zaproponowane podejście umożliwia...

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  • Knowledge management implementation in small and micro KIBS : A categorization

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    - Knowledge and Process Management - Year 2023

    he main goal of the paper is to provide a statistical categorization of small and micro knowledge-intensive business service (KIBS) companies, based on their knowledge management (KM) attitude. Since knowledge is the main production factor and output of these companies, it is essential to achieve a better understanding of how they manage this resource. A questionnaire-based survey was conducted on a sample of Polish small and micro...

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  • Sustainability reporting in the airline industry: Current literature and future research avenues

    Sustainability reporting (SR) allows organisations to communicate their non-financial impacts to stakeholders. It has also become a widespread business practice in aviation, a transport sector that contributes significantly to global warming. Academia has begun to examine SR in the context of airlines surprisingly late, and no comprehensive reviews of its respective developments have been made so far. Consequently, a systematic...

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  • Traffic model for evaluation of call processing performance parameters in IMS-based NGN

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    - Year 2012

    In the modern world requirements for accurate and fast information distribution are becoming more and more important, which creates a strong necessity for appropriate telecommunication network architecture. Proposition of such an architecture is the Next Generation Network (NGN) concept, which in order to guarantee Quality of Service (QoS), should be correctly designed and dimensioned. For this reason proper traffic models must...

  • Creating Polish space language dictionary - lessons learned

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    Polish space industry suffers from lack of space vocabulary. Since joining European Space Agency in 2012, the sector has expanded rapidly now employing over 1000 specialists focusing mainly on space sustainability, space debris detection and tracking, robotics and propulsion systems. The Polish Space Agency together with The Polish Committee for Standardization have committed to creating the first lexicon of space language, along...

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  • WYKORZYSTANIE GRYWALIZACJI (GAMIFICATION) W SEKTORZE MSP DO BUDOWANIA RELACJI KLIENT-USŁUGODAWCA PRZY PROJEKTOWANIU USŁUG

    Artykuł przedstawia nowe pojęcie grywalizacji, które wykorzystuje i przenosi mechanizmy tworzenia gier do świata biznesu i projektowania usług. Autor tekstu wprowadza czytelnika w tematykę zagadnienia grywalizacji, jednocześnie wyjaśniając, na czym ono polega. Prezentuje i omawia mechanizmy, jakie wyróżniają grywalizację. Twórca tekstu pokazuje przykłady zastosowania grywalizacji oraz opisuje zagadnienia związane z wykorzystaniem...

  • Knowledge Sharing and Managing Intellectual Capital in the Times of COVID-19: Evidence from Polish Restaurant Industry

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    - Year 2022

    Purpose: The aim of this paper is to show how restaurants in Poland managed their intellectual capital (IC) in the COVID-19 crisis and how knowledge sharing (KS) helped them to survive in those dynamically changing conditions. Methodology: The study is based on qualitative research – semi-structured interviews with a few restaurant owners and managers responsible for the business operations during...

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  • Implementing a CSR Strategy in a Small Enterprise - a Case Study

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    As a result of employees’ meetings conducted according to Kaizen workshops formula and seeking new development directions for the company (including CSR actions) various product and service innovations have been implemented. Also a market niche has been discovered, and as a consequence the company gained another profitable aspect of the business activity. The atmosphere and contribution in performing tasks have improved among...

  • Polish Suburban Landscape made of Enterpereneurial Tissue

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    - Year 2013

    Dwa ostatnie dekady w Polsce to okres ekspansywny rozwój małych przedsiębiorstw i równolegle dynamiczne przekształcenia przestrzeni wokół miasta . Rozwój tych dwóch zjawisk nastąpiło w okresie transformacji gospodarczej po 1989 roku . Głównym celem pracy jest zbadanie poziomu interakcji między procesem suburbanizacji i rozwojem sektora MSP w wybranych podmiejskich obszary, na przykładzie Metropolii Trójmiejskiej.

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  • Testing Situation Awareness Network for the Electrical Power Infrastructure

    The contemporary electrical power infrastructure is exposed to new types of threats. The cause of such threats is related to the large number of new vulnerabilities and architectural weaknesses introduced by the extensive use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in such complex critical systems. The power grid interconnection with the Internet exposes the grid to new types of attacks, such as Advanced Persistent...

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  • Zastosowanie metody studium przypadku w kształceniu menedżerów

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    Kształcenie z wykorzystaniem metod rozwiązywania problemów (problem-based learning) staje się coraz bardziej popularne na wszystkich poziomach kształcenia, również w edukacji biznesowej. Przykładem takiej metody jest studium przypadku (case study). Metoda studium przypadku pozwala na rozwijanie umiejętności i kompetencji wykorzystywanych przez menedżerów w ich pracy, np. umiejętności syntezy, identyfikacji problemów, czy podejmowania...

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  • Transformation of Energy Markets: Description, Modeling of Functioning Mechanisms and Determining Development Trends

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    One of the key contemporary economic and social issues today is the global energy transition. Energy transition processes are having a significant impact on the development of world economies, increasing their TFP and leading to an increase in their level of innovation through the transfer of myriad new technologies. These processes also contribute to an increase in foreign direct investment and, consequently, an increase in the...

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  • Measuring the effectiveness of digital communication - social media performance: an example of the role played by AI-assisted tools at a university

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    - Year 2023

    The aim of the article is to show the role played by AI-powered tools in measuring the effectiveness of digital communication in social media using a university case study. Therefore, a research problem was formulated to identify the metrics (KPIs) used to measure the effectiveness – non-financial outcomes – of digital social media communication at the university using AI tools. The literature review on the role of AI in digital...

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  • Modelling Long‐Term Transition from Coal‐Reliant to Low‐Emission Power Grid and District Heating Systems in Poland

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    Energy systems require technological changes towards climate neutrality. In Poland, where the power system is dominated by outdated coal-fired power plants, efforts to minimize the environmental impact are associated with high costs. Therefore, optimal paths for the development of the energy sector should be sought in order to achieve ambitious long-term strategic goals, while minimizing the negative impact on the consumers’ home...

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  • Model oceny dojrzałości przedsiębiorstw do zastosowania zwinnych metodyk zarządzania projektami IT

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    - Year 2024

    Dysertacja koncentruje się na budowie modelu, który ocenia gotowość przedsiębiorstw do wdrożenia zwinnych metodyk zarządzania projektami IT. Analizuje istniejące metody oceny dojrzałości projektowej i wprowadza własny model, biorąc pod uwagę krytyczne czynniki sukcesu i skuteczność zwinnych metod. Rozprawa zawiera badania literaturowe, empiryczne studium przypadku oraz weryfikację i rekomendacje modelu, dostarczając wglądu w praktyczne...

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  • Service and service decomposition model - theoretical foundation of it service management

    The publication contains different definitions of Service - one of the fundamental IT Service Management term. It describes types of Service attributes nad introduces so-called ''distinguish functions'' in order to propose different categories of Services. It proposes both general model of Service decomposition and practical model based on CMDB implementation limitations. In summarizes obtained results and gives some remarks about...

  • Zarządzanie wiedzą w małych przedsiębiorstwach oferujących wiedzochłonne usługi biznesowe

    Celem artykułu jest przedstawienie praktyk zarządzania wiedzą oraz czynników wpływających na sukces, bądź porażkę w ich wdrażaniu na podstawie badania jakościowego przeprowadzonego w trzech firmach działających na terenie województwa pomorskiego. Firmy te należą do sektora małych i średnich przedsiębiorstw oraz oferują wiedzochłonne usługi biznesowe (knowledge-intensive business services – KIBS). W artykule podjęto próbę odpowiedzi...

  • Searching for innovation knowledge: insight into KIBS companies

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    - Year 2015

    Purpose – The paper analyzes the patterns of research of “innovation knowledge” (i.e. knowledge that can result in introducing innovations in the company that can be observed in KIBS (Knowledge-Intensive Business Services) companies. Particularly, it identifies and classifies the possible approaches adopted by companies on the basis of two dimensions: the intensity/proactivity of search efforts, and the source primarily used. Design/methodology/approach...

  • Struktura źródeł finansowania ponadprzeciętnie rentownych przedsiębiorstw z sektora MSP

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    Celem artykułu jest przedstawienie w przekroju sektorowym kształtowania struktury finansowania przez MSP uzyskujące ponadprzeciętnie wysoką rentowność aktywów. W trakcie przeprowadzonych badań uwzględniono 109 174 sprawozdań finansowych przedsiębiorstw prowadzących działalność gospodarczą w 27 różnych działach gospodarki narodowej. Sektorowe zróżnicowanie wartości wskaźników struktury źródeł finansowania zostało potwierdzone przy...

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  • Activity and discrimination against women in the labour market in the countries of Baltic Sea Region

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    - Year 2014

    An increasing participation of women in the labour market seem to be a key to overcome the problems of the EU labour market and to achieve the objectives of Strategy Europe 2020. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to identify differences in the situation of women in the labour market in selected countries such as those in the Baltic Sea region and to attempt to verify the hypothesis of the existence of discrimination against...

  • Cybersecurity in the Electricity Sector

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    - Year 2019

    This book offers a systematic explanation of cybersecurity protection of electricity supply facilities, including discussion of related costs, relevant standards, and recent solutions. The author explains the current state of cybersecurity in the electricity market, and cybersecurity standards that apply in that sector. He then offers a systematic approach to cybersecurity management, including new methods of cybersecurity assessment,...

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  • Third sector characteristics and importance

    This article aims to present a brief overview of existing definitions and specific characteristics of the third sector. It also highlights the basic functions of NGOs as an important institutional and organizational actor in the global political and economic landscape.

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  • Communication as a Factor Limiting University-Business Cooperation

    Objective - Despite the broad extent of the scientific activity dealing with university-business cooperation, Poland has yet to develop a satisfactory cooperation strategy that takes business needs into account. This issue is still relevant due to the need for continuous improvement and resulting benefits aimed at improving enterprise competitiveness. Methodology/Technique - Authors of this article attempt to select an overriding...

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  • Analiza sentymentu jako narzędzie monitorowania wyników finansowych przedsiębiorstwa

    Media społecznościowe tworzą globalną platformę do dzielenia się interesującymi pomysłami lub nowościami, komentarzami i recenzjami. Stanowią bogate źródło danych do eksploracji opinii w celu pozyskania wcześniej nieznanej i użytecznej wiedzy biznesowej, która umożliwi nie tylko zwinne zarządzanie na rzecz skutecznej obsługi klienta, ale również powinna mieć odzwierciedlenie w finansowych wynikach przedsiębiorstwa. Za główny cel...

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  • The Third Sector in the Universities’ Third Mission

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    - Year 2017

    The interactions between the today’s university and its environment, as part of the university’s social responsibility, have been subject to many scientific papers. Their authors typically focus on interdependencies between universities, the state and the market. What is lacking are publications related to the interactions between universities and third sector organisations, and more broadly – a civil society, that may play an...

  • A sector-an industry? Definitional challenges in economic sciences

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    - Year 2010

    the aim of our paper is to present definitional challenges that we as scholars and teachers face while attempting to relate to a sector and an industry terms in economic analyses and from strategic management perspective. we employ secondary research and analyse the state of the academic discourse and common usages of the above terms. we argue that for an economic statistician classifications should be consistent and highlight...

  • Towards Changes of Macro-Economic Structures in Middle Eastern Countries. Empirical Evidence for 1970–2018

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    Middle East countries share a wide bundle of specific structural economic features and one of the latest is a high dependency of these economies on fossil fuels, which is quantitatively demonstrated through the share of oil and gas revenues in total export, but also in gross domestic product composition. This high economic dependency on natural resources on one hand has recently generated a material wealth of Middle Eastern countries...

  • The dynamics of the total output of the fishery sector: The case of Indonesia

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    - Year 2016

    The purpose of this study is to analyze the dynamics of the total output of the Indonesian fishery industry when the changes of the final demand occur. This study employs a demand-pull Input-Output (IO) quantity model, one of the calculation tools in the IO analysis, as an analysis instrument. Two conditions are noticed in calculation and analysis parts, namely (1) “whole sector change”, and (2) “pure change”. An initial period...

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  • Concentration in ICTs sector - cross country analysis

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    - Year 2010

    In the chapter below, the author present inequalities in sector of new information and communication technologies. Having in mind inequalities we can also discuss concentration issues, and the concentration itself is a problem to which the author refers on first place. The paper is organized as following: first basic measures of concentration are defined, after we can read a discussion referring to concentration in ICTs sector...

  • Service-based Resilience via Shared Protection in Mission-critical Embedded Networks

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    - IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management - Year 2021

    Mission-critical networks, which for example can be found in autonomous cars and avionics, are complex systems with a multitude of interconnected embedded nodes and various service demands. Their resilience against failures and attacks is a crucial property and has to be already considered in their design phase. In this paper, we introduce a novel approach for optimal joint service allocation and routing, leveraging virtualized...

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  • Knowledge risks inherent in business sustainability

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    - JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION - Year 2020

    Since the connection between business sustainability and knowledge risks has not been established in the literature so far, this paper provides a conceptual framework to demonstrate the possible impact of various knowledge risks on business sustainability and offers potential ways to manage and overcome these risks. The aim of this conceptual paper is to address two main questions: What are the potential effects of knowledge risks...

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  • A business simulation method in educating architects

    In this article, the authors analyse the application of the business simulation method as a support tool in educating undergraduate architecture students. While running a fictional architectural practice, students learn about the role of an architect in the investment process and are introduced to economic aspects of running a small practice, including the importance of cash flow. They are also made aware about the importance of...

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  • Interoperability Constraints in Service Selection Algorithms

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    - Year 2012

    In Service Oriented Architecture, composite applications are developed by integration of existing, atomic services that may be available in alternative versions realizing the same functionality but having different Quality of Service (QoS) attributes. The development process requires effective service selection algorithms that balance profits and constraints of QoS attributes. Additionally, services operate in a heterogeneous environment,...

  • A Survey on Identifying and Addressing Business Analysis Problems

    Despite the growing body of knowledge on requirements engineering and business analysis, these areas of software project are still considered problematic. The paper focuses on problems reported by business analysts and on applicability of available business analysis techniques as solutions to such problems. A unified set of techniques was developed on the basis of 3 industrial standards associated with IIBA, REQB and IREB certification...

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  • IT Business Standards as an Ontology Domain

    The aim of this paper is to report a selection of Semantic Web aspects pertaining to ontology development activities in the domain of the IT business standard (TOGAF 9) such as formulating competency questions, conceptualization of the domain, resolution of the source knowledge deficiency and applying common design patterns in the OWL formalization. Authors also try to determine target groups that may benefit from such ontology...

  • Business Process Modelling and Enterprise Improvement Analysis

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    - TASK Quarterly - Year 2015

    The main trends in developing an approach and tools for business process modelling are discussed. Business Process Management (BPM) and BPM Notation (BPMN) are presented. Moreover, the possibilities of C2NIWA in a wide range of these tools running on a supercomputer are suggested. Firstly, the company development strategy can be planned . Secondly, quick and flexible changes of its processes can be modelled, analysed and implemented....

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  • EE-ISAC—Practical Cybersecurity Solution for the Energy Sector

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    - ENERGIES - Year 2022

    A recent survey of cybersecurity assessment methods proposed by the scientific community revealed that their practical adoption constitutes a great challenge. Further research that aimed at identifying the reasons for that situation demonstrated that several factors influence the applicability, including the documentation level of detail, the availability of supporting tools, and the continuity of support. This paper presents the...

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  • Extending Service Selection Algorithms with Interoperability Analysis

    Application development by integration of existing, atomic services reduces development cost and time by extensive reuse of service components. In Service Oriented Architecture, there exist alternative versions of services supplying the same functionality but differing in Quality of Service (QoS) attributes, which enables developers to select services with optimal QoS. Existing algorithms of service selection focus on the formal...

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  • Simulation of the IT Service and Project Management Environment

    The authors of this paper present a simulation of the socio-technical system in which teams of students – regarded as low-maturity organizations – were given a task to utilize the (relatively) mature technologies that support IT project and service management. The experiment consisted of the following phases: teams formation, introduction to technologies used during the simulation, performing a set of reactive and proactive service...

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