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User Verification Based on the Analysis of His Images in the Distance Learning System

Author(s): Daniil Loktev,Alexey Loktev / Language(s): English Issue: 03/2019

In this paper an algorithm for user visual verification based on the analysis of images of his face is considered. Continuous verification of the presence of the user and his position in front of the workplace is necessary to control the user in the process of distance learning and assessing the independence of the student passing control works. A modified Viola-Jones algorithm for user face recognition taking into account the image blur analysis is proposed, that allows evaluating the spatial characteristics of the user and exclude the possible replacement of the real user with his photo. To determine the distance to the surface points of the object in the image in real time, the use the algorithm of dynamic camera focusing, which leads to a change in the blur of the image of the object without changing its location in front of the workplace with the camera, it is proposed. For the operation of the proposed algorithm in real-time the technology Ajax and the modified Marilena source based on the OpenCV computer vision library are used. The architecture of the developed system consisting of three modules – a verification module, a web application and a connecting front-end application – is presented. At the same time, user verification controls the entire system and manages it depending on the functions assigned to it. To implement a web application an ActiveX component that has a number of necessary interfaces with the containing web page is created. As one of the possible options, it is proposed to use Adobe Flex SDK, which is a modern programming model based on common language standards, which supports the most commonly used design templates.

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SIEM-Platform for Research and Educational Tasks on Processing of Security Information Events

Author(s): Alexey MITKOVSKIY,Andrey A. Ponomarev,Andrey PROLETARSKIY / Language(s): English Issue: 03/2019

Nowadays, the technology of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) becomes one of the most important research applications for advanced security threat detection in a complex enterprise environment. The underlying principles of every SIEM system is the aggregation of security events, captured from across an enterprise network and analysis of the gathered log data in real time through set of correlation rules to provide rapid response to security incidents. This article is about applying a unique practical method of teaching undergraduate students in the field of enterprise infrastructure protection from cyberattacks. The introduction of practical methods in learning consists of a review of stages, required for an attacker to infiltrate an enterprise's network, allowing students to realize, which events need to be monitored to detect signs of possible threats on the network. The architecture and principles of the SIEM-platform are described in details. In addition, this paper discusses how an emulation testbed of virtual enterprise can serve as a platform for generating event logs from network security appliances to analyze, which sequences of events are likely indications of cyberattack. The article also discusses how students can develop and test their own correlation rules to identify threats within IT environment. The following cases can be considered as the basis for testing the correlation rules: logon success and failures, systems with disabled security services, modification of user accounts and other events. After completing this course, students acquire skills to detect and identify assets in the network, collect events using various protocols to detect suspicious activities and investigate policy violations.

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Team Work and Strategic Skills Development through the Use of the General Management 2 Business Simulation

Author(s): Ioan Cristian Mustaţă,Ioana Raluca Guică,Vlad CARAS / Language(s): English Issue: 03/2019

The paper addresses several issues related to the use of the General Management 2 Business Simulation, especially the advantages and disadvantages of two different forms of required team work and decision making: decision making by meeting in person vs. decision making by remote collaboration using IT&C communication instruments. The paper is testing if business decision making is better when the team members are working together being physically in the same room, compared to working together using e-communication. This is possible through a survey with participants to the General Management 2 Business Simulation Game from two master programs of the University Politehnica of Bucharest: Geschäfts- und Industrieverwaltung GIVE and Business Administration and Engineering MBAE given the fact that participants used different collaboration and decision making methods. On the other hand the results of each team is analysed in relationship with the used form of collaboration. Another issue analysed is the impact of time between game periods and the differences arising from two different setups: playing the business simulation in 6 weeks with game periods separated by one week, or playing it in a concentrated form in 2 weeks, each week with 3 consecutive days. The analysed issues have the purpose of improving the educational use of serious games like the General Management 2 Business Simulation in special, or the setup for master courses in general by giving insights for the best options in the future. The paper is concluded with some recommendations for organizers of serious games implemented in master programs based on the authors’ experience.

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Developing the ESP Ability of Vietnamese Students through the use of Blended Learning

Author(s): Phuong Anh Ngo / Language(s): English Issue: 03/2019

This study investigates and evaluates the effects of ESP training with the participants using Canvas- a virtual classroom and an actual one in parallel at a technical university in Vietnam. To achieve this, the study examined the students’ perception on the use of Canvas, their reported difficulties in learning via Canvas, the effects of the training upon them, and their use and reflections on the use of virtual classroom. 60 third-year ESP students at the technical university were recruited. Participants were split into three groups: the pilot group (G1), the experimental group (G2) and the control group (G3). The research was implemented in an ESP training course of ten 180-minute classes, each class consisting of group discussion and ESP training with the use of virtual classroom. Quantitative data were collected from G2 and G3 on ESP ability using pre-tests and post-tests. Participants’ reflective reports, supplemented by the researcher’s journal were also collected as qualitative data. The quantitative results reveal a statistically significant difference in ESP performance between G2 and G3. The overall improvement in all ESP skills were recorded over the period of training, while G3’s improvement was negligible. Qualitative data reveals the difficulties encountered by the participants during the training (such as the lack of technical skills, interrupted internet connection), their positive feedback on and interest in the training using Canvas. The results of the study are discussed in terms of its contribution to research in this area and to the teaching and learning of ESP in the Vietnamese context.

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Clustered and Nonclustered Indexes in Databases and Educational Tasks on Development the Structure of Databases

Author(s): Andrey A. Ponomarev,Yury SHASHKIN,Alexey MITKOVSKIY,Andrey PROLETARSKIY,Oleg Korotkevich / Language(s): English Issue: 03/2019

Nowadays, the technology of clustered and nonclustered indexes in databases is used in practically all relational databases. Indexes tell the Database management system (DBMS) how to store the information in the file system of the computer. Clustered and nonclustered ones are the most widespread, because they can increase the speed of selecting from a table many times. The article is about applying a new practical method of teaching undergraduate students in the field of effective development the structure of databases. The introduction of a new method of learning the development of the stricter of databases using clustered and nonclustered indexes, that is required for effective development and further usage of databases in production with big amounts of data. That will allow students to understand, which indexes they should use to increase the speed of selecting, inserting and updating the data in tables of a database. Database design consist of two stages - logical and physical. The logical stage - selection of entities, tables planning, fields, definition of data types for each field, keys, and integrity constraints. The physical stage - planning and index adjustments, file groups, program modules. Indexes are the most basic part of the physical stage. There are many different types of indexes, which used for different purposes. For example, column store index can provide you with a great speed of executing of the aggregation functions. If it is necessary to increase the speed of selection the data from the table, clustered and nonclustered indexes are required. They will be discussed in this article.

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Improving the Quality of Engineering Education through Modern Educational Technologies

Author(s): Tatiana Anatolyevna Salimova,Elena SOLDATOVA,Irina Filippova / Language(s): English Issue: 03/2019

The purpose of this paper is to identify the features of Higher Education Institutions in the transition to the digital economy and the active introduction on this basis IT in the educational process. The changes that are now being implemented in leading universities have been identified. The core concepts of digital economy, information and communication technologies and the result of their pedagogical implementation are considered. It is defined that the active use of information and communication technologies within pedagogical process is one of the conditions for the formation of a harmoniously developed person. The paper contains the results of the research conducted by the authors in the framework of the international project “Excellence in Engineering Education Russia and Tadjikistan / EXTEND” of the Erasmus+ Capacity Building Program in Higher Education. The aim of the study was to estimate the National Research Mordovia State University maturity level in the field of introduction and use of educational and ICT technologies and to identify opportunities for improvement. The methodology of self-assessment of teaching approaches in engineering training programs at the University is proposed. For the self-assessment 3 levels were distinguished: the Institutional level of self-assessment, the level of the educational program, the level of stakeholders. The survey was conducted by the case of more than 300 respondents from different levels of the University. The results of the self-assessment allowed to identify strengths and areas for improvement related to the use of modern educational and ICT technologies and to develop recommendations for solving the problems.

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New Approaches to the Organization of Educational Processes for Engineering Directions in Tajikistan

Author(s): Elena Smirnova,Abduvahhob Vahhobov,Vosidjon Sidikov / Language(s): English Issue: 03/2019

This paper is about new approaches to the organization of educational processes for engineering directions in Khujand State University, Tajikistan, carring on now in the framework of the ERASMUS+ Capacity Building for Higher Education just starting a project (# 586060-EPP-1-2017-1-RO-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP). The name of the project is "Excellence in Engineering Education through Teacher Training and New Pedagogic Approaches in Russia and Tajikistan". The Introduction describes EXTEND Center main activities in the framework of the project and how Tajikistan universities take part in this project. The main section is about teaching teachers process. For the training of engineers, new teachers are needed nowadays. New teaching of technical specialized subjects should not be organized now only as in-line lectures, and all classes and lectures and practical should be organized in specialized real or virtual laboratory classrooms. In practical classes, it is desirable for students to set problem tasks that exist or arise in the workplace or in the scientific field, in order to use the ability of non-standard thinking of students. This part of the article describes the first experience of this approach at Khujand State University. New approach concerns to the methods of student's estimation also. Second section shows the results of students ' assessment which is done not only by the correct results of solving the problem, but also by the style of creative thinking. The paper describes the experience of the EXTEND center, which provides a close link between the educational institution, industry and science. It is shown how the training programs of engineering specialties are formed on the basis of the requirements formed by the enterprises of the industry.

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The Kolmogorov Complexity as a Tool of Phd Students’ Preparation to be a Researcher

Author(s): Elena Smirnova,Maria Stepanova,Ksenya Zvereva / Language(s): English Issue: 03/2019

ERASMUS+; Kolmogorov complexity methods; engineering education;This paper is about new approach to teaching in Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Russia, carrying on now in the framework of the ERASMUS+ Capacity Building for Higher Education just starting a project (# 586060-EPP-1-2017-1-RO-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP). The name of the project is "Excellence in Engineering Education through Teacher Training and New Pedagogic Approaches in Russia and Tajikistan". It concerns to Kolmogorov Complexity usage in PhD students curricula. Introduction part is about the growth of massive amount of data generated by different sources at real time or near real time. Generally, data is heterogeneous by its content and exists at every human sphere such as education, government, finance, medicine and so on. That cause fundamental issues in data storage, data security and high-speed access to data. Such issues directly related to new research aims. The first part of the paper describes an example of one PhD student's approach to her research using Kolmogorov complexity. The second part of the paper is about the managing immense volumes of data, which was possible and held only with help of supercomputers that lead to great expenses. Applying of distributed computing systems allow to assign and handle operations on homogeneous or heterogeneous nodes with less expenses compared to supercomputers. However, data and operation partition and distribution among nodes could be a challenge by itself. Furthermore, nodes interaction can cause significant difficulties as generally distributed systems consist of great number of nodes, which could be constant in quantity or constantly growing. In practice, most systems should be scalable due to incessant data growth and tasks for processing that means that any system needs to meet with such circumstances and not limited by constant number of nodes. The third part of the paper is about the possibility's analyses of Kolmogorov complexity usage for optimal way of data dividing and processing in distributed computing systems without quantity nodes limitations. The Conclusion show that the investigation is fundamental as distributed systems could be beneficial at any spheres and organizations including universities and business companies and the PhD students could use Kolmogorov complexity as an investigation tools. Besides, this paper's aims is to describe the advantages, disadvantages of Kolmogorov complexity with criticism and arguments.

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Intelligent Feedback Systems in Higher Education – Why and How?

Author(s): Karlis VALTINS,Natalja MURACOVA / Language(s): English Issue: 03/2019

Universities tend to think that they know their students very well, but in real life conditions, many aspects are being left out of the consideration. This paper has set the main focus on the Information and Communication Technology based feedback systems for collection and analysis of student feedback who are mainly studying engineering sciences about everyday student life issues (such as study content, teachers, class schedule, satisfaction rates, environment, accessibility of resources and other). In the paper, authors propose a model of student feedback system that could intelligently address the gap between what student wants and thinks - what higher education institutions know about their students. Authors also review current offerings of the systems and addresses feedback as a part of quality assurance and demand driven University actions. With simple, but intelligent solution it would be possible to easily obtain and work with the information about neglected courses, personalized schedules, student voting, extracurricular activities, student research and more. Author also elaborates on perspective of social innovation that comes in a shape of new organizational form, where quality, decisions, and activities are bound to the continuous feedback that gets collected from the students. This would help Universities all across the globe to establish indisputable evidence for their actions. Challenge here lies within the responsibility of students to give correct, precise, honest and timely feedback. Findings of the paper are based on the literature review as well as five international expert discussions executed in the period of 2015-2017 in five different countries.

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Use of Network Services Web 2.0 for ICT Competence Formation of Students in Engineering with Application of Project Approach

Author(s): Natalya N. Zerkina,Galina Chusavitina,Ekaterina KARMANOVA / Language(s): English Issue: 03/2019

The article describes the experience of increasing efficiency of competence formation of students of applied information science. Authors underline the necessity of improving theoretical materials of disciplines and elaborating new methodical approaches to teaching technical disciplines for students in engineering of higher education institutions. One of the primary problems of future software engineers training is the lack of efficient approaches to ICT competence formation and particularly in development of its creative and research components. As a solution to the problem, application of project activities for teaching disciplines which are related to information and communication technologies is proposed as well as the active use of web 2.0 services. The authors point out the following advantages of using web 2.0 in the educational process: services allow increasing students' cognitive interest to the problems of the academic discipline, diversifying the main activities during the project, presenting design solutions in a visual, interactive form, forming their own unique digital content. The article presents a mental map of web 2.0 services with categories and particular resources that will be useful for carrying out applied informatics bachelors’ projects. The authors offered examples of project topics in the disciplines of computer science, application programming, information security, design activities, and development of Internet applications. In addition, the pedagogical capabilities of such services as comics creation service (Pixton), development of mental maps (mindmup), creation of infographics (Piktochart), organization of teamwork (Yougile) are described. The research results showed that the use of web 2.0 network services while applying the project approach in the process of developing ICT competence among applied informatics bachelors allows not only increasing interest in technical disciplines study, enhancing information exchange, communication among students, but also developing ability of cooperate, teamwork, as well as creative and research activities. The article reveals methods of applying network services Web 2.0 for organizing educational projects. The review of services according to categories is offered and specific examples of their application for organizing project activities while studying ICT disciplines are described.

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Extend Centre’s Resources for Increasing General Digital Literacy

Author(s): Natalya N. Zerkina,Yekaterina A. Lomakina,Olesya V. Kisel,Elisabeth Lazarou / Language(s): English Issue: 03/2019

The era of powerful technology progress raises the question of digital literacy. The lack of knowledge and basic skills within the majority of potential users among common people slows down the development of the IT industry as whole as far as it is focused on consumers. It is impossible to educate IT specialists, engineers or any other highly qualified professionals without paying appropriate attention to digital literacy. Due to mass start of daily IT usage among the population it comes to influence the informational sphere as well as the learning process as it is the significant part of the education. So there appears a special user’s category it is mass-user’s. This category of users is mainly oriented on digital consume but is not aware of digital competence that is the consumers whether common or professional are to be able to learn from digital etiquette to digital security. As for professional for example sphere the issue of digital literacy and its components acquire far too much concern as it affects the industrial, economical, social and other areas of life. The aim of the article is to study the digital literacy as a significant component for modern education process and in particular for specialists in engineering. There were used the method of analysis, interview survey and comparison.

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The Influence of National Culture on Technology Adoption

Author(s): Florin Ogigău-Neamţiu,Cristina Antonoaie / Language(s): English Issue: 03/2019

Understanding the organizational culture when studying the information technology is critical as both influence each other on multiple levels. The culture plays an important role in the managerial decision making and directly influences the IT field. Each organization is based on three fundamental pillars: people, processes and technology, and this holistic model is largely accepted and used in modern present-day organizations. Multiple systems that control the organizational performance and which have as a main focus efficiency improvements of the organizational processes (ITIL, ERP, BI) are adopting this model. Understanding the relationships between people, processes and technology leads to identifying the optimal decisions that must be taken in order to achieve the strategic objectives of the organization. Organizational change – the capability to adapt to environmental transformations – is essential in today’s world and it is determining the survival capacity of the organization on the market. But the resistance to change is a big obstacle in this process and also in the case of adopting a new information technology that is influenced at the same time also by the political authority, rules and legislation, changes in the dynamic of the population and other factors. That is why we are considering that the relationship between the organizational culture and the way of adopting the IT elements can be analyzed by using the Geert Hofstede’s model of dimensions of national culture: power distance index, individualism versus collectivism, masculinity versus femininity, uncertainty avoidance index, long term orientation versus short term normative orientation, indulgence versus restraint.

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The Design and Implementation of Student Attendance Tracking System Using QR Code Card

Author(s): Siti Nazleen Abdul Rabu / Language(s): English Issue: 03/2019

In institutions of higher learning, the attendance of students to the class is directly related to their academic performance. However, the record-keeping of most student attendance is still performed conventionally, which is tedious and time consuming, especially that involve large classroom. Higher education institutions in Malaysia are now encouraged to explore the potential use of Quick Response (QR) code and smartphone as a future attendance management system to track and record the student's attendance to the class and tutorial. In response, this study attempts to explain the design and implementation of a proposed system developed using Google Drive, Google Form, Google Sheet, Notepad, and QR Code Generator Add-ons in Google Sheet. Students were required to scan the unique QR code assigned to them using their smartphone during or at the beginning of each lecture in order to confirm their attendance. This affordable QR code-based attendance system enables lecturers to speed up the process of taking attendance, especially in a large classroom and would save them valuable teaching time. The proposed system provides better security than the conventional methods that depend on the sign-in sheet or roll calling student names including eliminating chances of students signing up for others who may not be present. In addition, it also provides a faster and simpler way to take attendance, which could be easily adopted by lecturers to facilitate the process of taking, managing and keeping the record of students’ attendance.

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Implement Online Laboratories in Electrical and Computer Engineering Education using Virtual Learning Environments

Author(s): Adrian Adăscăliței,Sebastian Arădoaiei,Marinel TEMNEANU,Ashraf Salah El-Din Zein El-Din / Language(s): English Issue: 03/2019

The article presents a review of current e-pedagogical methods of designing study programs for education in the field of electric and computers engineering. Experimental engineering skills and abilities can be developed by using remote labs and simulations. The development of critical thinking of engineer students takes place while students work with virtual resources, and students need to understand what kind of results they get for each experiment. Even if it addresses the same problems - by differentiating the simulation laboratories - it focuses on another field: not the ability to do this, but how you can do it. Online laboratories are also fundamental to the experiments the student performs in the individual study because they are specially designed for distance students who need to gain an introductory knowledge and familiarity with real-life phenomena. These on-line experiments can be carried out in various engineering fields, including Electrical and Computer Engineering. The instructional design model is based on the ADDIE model, which includes the phases of analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation. Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) are used to make online interactions between Students and Teachers. Moodle (Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment) is known as an online course management system (CMS). Learning Process and Content Management Systems (LCMS), in this case, Moodle (an open source software platform for e-learning), provides instructors with the tools to create e-learning or Blended Learning course. The article provides resources and information to help educators, administrators, and decision-makers better apply ITC in engineering education programs. The resources were analyzed by the Faculty of Electrical Engineering ("Gh. Asachi" Technical University of Iași, Romania) in collaboration with Menoufia University, Egypt with extensive experience in integrating ICT in the training programs of engineering teachers.

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Innovation of Teaching and Learning Practices through Online Collaborative Projects

Author(s): Alexandra Aramă / Language(s): English Issue: 03/2019

Year by year, the interest for new technologies and how to bring them effectively in the classroom increased, even if we think from the teacher’s perspective or from the students’ perspective. The use of ICT in school partnerships is well supported by the European initiatives and programs, as Erasmus+ and eTwinning, and through political strategies as Education and Training 2020 initiative. The educational projects and activities that are implemented at European level are effective tools that schools can use in order to innovate practices, to successfully and actively involve students in their learning and to diversify the teaching practices in order to a meet the current need of leaners and to integrate new technologies in learning and teaching. During 2017, at European level, 5900 eTwinners declared that eTwinning had a significant impact on the development of individual teachers’ skills and teaching practices, as well as on student’s motivation and learning practices, confirming that eTwinning is an important tool to promote innovation in schools. European eTwinning projects have demonstrated during the last 12 years their pedagogical value through the innovation of teaching practices, encouraging group / partnership work and peer learning, the use of new information and communication technologies (ICT) to support the teaching process, involving students in teaching-learning-evaluation activities, diversification of learning activities by valorisation of projects in the formal curriculum, etc. The article explores the development of the eTwinning Action and its impact reported by teachers involved in eTwinning online school projects, trying to underline the added value of this type of projects in terms of innovation of educational practices and making learning more attractive.

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A Study on the Satisfaction at the Workplace

Author(s): Ramona-Cristina Balanescu / Language(s): English Issue: 03/2019

The professional satisfaction is a multidimensional concept, generating countless research in certain branches of psychology, in the human resource management, and in performance management, and studying the relationship between the professional satisfaction and the performance in the workplace has a longstanding research tradition in the industrial and organisational psychology. In a synthetic presentation following the performed studies, some researchers reached the conclusion that the satisfaction is associated to the performance, effort, commitment and intention, and others suggested that the type of reward used by the employers has a strong influence over the performance-professional satisfaction relation. The contemporary man dedicates a vast part of his life to exercising their profession, and the work satisfaction becomes a very important aspect of the professional activity, with extensive consequences, both on the personal, and on the organisational level. Thus, the work satisfaction is an indicator that each employee relates to the organisation through. It can be influenced by individual factors - age, training level, qualification level, seniority in the organisation, climate - organisational policies, work conditions, concern for improving the working conditions or personality factors. In the context hereinabove, this study was performed to investigate both the employees’ perceptions on the work satisfaction, and the relation between the recorded performance and the satisfaction at the workplace. The used researched method is the survey, and the research instruments consist of the questionnaires. In accordance with the purpose, objectives and proposed hypotheses for this study, we opted for a double research approach: both a qualitative approach, and a quantitative approach.

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Millennials and the Need for Adapting e-Learning Methods for Business Performance – a Case Study

Author(s): Cătălin Ionuţ Silvestru,Gabriela MEHEDINŢU,Ramona Camelia Silvestru (Bere),Vasilica-Cristina Icociu / Language(s): English Issue: 03/2019

As millennials, in general, are digital natives, we make the assumption that they have other learning competencies and expectations and are more attracted to digital and exciting learning methods. In this context, when looking at them as new employees, there arises the discussion within companies regarding the level of adapting the learning methods for on-the-job training. For these reasons, companies need to gradually introduce training practices based on e-learning, whose results are visible and quantifiable, after the training period, through the gained employee performance. Based on these aspects, we conduct a case study, from the perspectives of the trainee and of the manager, focusing on efficiency of the e-learning methods implemented in a company in view of enabling skills development during on-the-job training, on the possible improvements, with taking into account specificities in learning among millennials and company policies. The case study is conducted on digital learning in a niche German speaking financial department in a large company (with over 1000 employees) from Romania, with a high turnover rate among millennials, for which one of the reasons is that the training period with less attractive classic on-the-job training methods are no more attractive for young employees. The methodology combines quantitative and qualitative approaches, with online survey conducted among the employees who used the e-learning, while the qualitative approach involves conducting direct individual semi-structured interviews with their managers. As a result of our research, we can make recommendations regarding better adaptation and development of upcoming on-the-job training methods using e-learning, with taking into account the employee’s requirements. Moreover, based on the research results regarding the company’s practices in the small analyzed target group, proposals may be provided for the company in relation to possible expansion of the e-learning within on-the-job-training in other departments, to reach an overall higher performance level.

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Novel Artificial Intelligence Technologies for Enhanced Recruitment Campaigns Using Social Media

Author(s): George SUCIU,Adrian Pasat,Cristian VASILESCU / Language(s): English Issue: 03/2019

The recent digital development forced many market leaders to adopt advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies to facilitate the transition from rigid processes to more flexible, outcome-driven approaches. The use of AI presents numerous benefits. First of all, the AI technology helps enable the analysis of unstructured data from a variety of sources across social media channels. Also, AI allows companies not only to automate certain processes but also to reconfigure them to complement and, more importantly, augment the skills and expertise of employees. The new era of artificial intelligence-systems gather information, analyze, recommend, plan and more importantly, learn. This paper presents an innovative approach to recruitment. According to recent studies, business intelligence and analytics showed to be the most crucial area that AI can deliver results. We analyze how software companies are more prone to integrate AI applications in marketing because of the new market trend - digital marketing. Services companies, on the other hand, are more interested in the use of AI in human resources. Our case study applies Sentiment Analysis (SA) techniques to improve the recruitment processes aiming to increase the efficiency of internship campaigns by ensuring a better match between the candidates' professional skills and the hiring company fields of activity. We demonstrate that AI can improve the recruitment process and assist in hiring the right persons. Thus, the HR staff has the opportunity to select the internship candidates based on their skills and determine the right position where abilities of an individual candidate are most needed. This novel approach not only increases the company productivity but also motivates candidates to improve their skills.

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A New Method to Help the Human Resources Staff to Find the Right Candidates, Based on Deep Learning

Author(s): Cristian VASILESCU,George SUCIU,Adrian Pasat / Language(s): English Issue: 03/2019

The paper presents a new way of finding the internship candidates' opinion about the company they intend to work in. Candidates go to the company, and Human Resources staff outlines the company's main areas of activity. Afterwards, candidates are asked to express their views/opinions on each field of activity in a few sentences. These sentences are automatically analyzed using Artificial Intelligence (AI), namely Deep Learning (DL). In this case, the necessary analysis is the "Sentiment Analysis" which indicates how much the candidate likes or not to work in each field of activity, as a score in the range from very negative to very positive. This score is used by human resources staff to choose the right candidate for the right job matching their knowledge and attitude towards the job. Furthermore, personalized training programs are suggested to the candidate after the recruitment in order to accelerate their induction to the new work place and the impact of the training on the performance of the new employees is measured. Therefore, we analyze several different versions of sentiment analysis algorithms based on DL, from different sources: Stanford University, Google, Microsoft and IBM, NLTK, OpenAI, Apache Open NLP, LexisNexis, Amazon. Some of these algorithms are open source and others are proprietary, but accessible using web services from the cloud and we have chosen the most appropriate. The novelty of this paper is the method of objectively automatically finding the candidates' opinion about the company where they intend to work using the most appropriate algorithm for sentiment analysis which is based on DL.

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Attitude Prediction towards ICT and Mobile Technology for the Real-Time: An Experimental Study using Machine Learning

Author(s): Chaman Verma,Zoltán Illés / Language(s): English Issue: 03/2019

An experimental study was conducted to predict the attitude of students towards Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Mobile Technology (MT) in Indian and Hungarian university. We structured five levels of attitude such as Very High, High, Moderate, Low and Very Low to measure the attitude of students. A primary dataset was gathered from two popular universities belongs to India and Hungary in the year 2018. The dataset consists of 331 instances and 46 features belong to the 4 major ICT parameters named attitude, development and availability, educational benefits and usability of modern ICT resources and MT. This paper focuses on the prediction of the students’ attitude towards ICT and MT in higher education of both countries individually and collectively. Experiments were conducted using four machine learning classifiers multilayer perceptron (ANN), Support vector machine (SVM), K-nearest neighbours (KNN) and Discriminant (DISC). The multiclassification problem was solved using test, train and validated datasets separately and jointly in SPSS IBM Modeler version 18.1. It is also revealed that the future awareness level for attitude will be Very High or Moderate in both countries. The results of the paper reveal that the feature aggregation with train-test-validation technique improves the SVM's prediction accuracy for attitude as compared to others. Further, the attitude prediction accuracy for Hungarian students was found 98.1% (by SVM) which is greater than the accuracy of 96.6% (by SVM) for Indian students. It was also concluded that SVM classifier outperformed others in prediction of attitude. Further, we recommend presented predictive models to be implemented as real-time awareness level prediction of the university's students in future research.

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