Since the announcement of the establishment of the Islamic ‘caliphate’ in the Middle East on June 29 2014, the number of people leaving Western European countries to join the ISIS military has dramatically increased. It is estimated that over 1,430 French, around 700 British and at least 180 Dutch nationals …

The use of robots as educational tools provides a stimulating environment for students. Some robotics competitions focus on primary and secondary school aged children, and serve as motivation for students to get involved in educational robotics activities. Although very appealing, many students cannot …

Author supplied: "Abstract Software Architecture Compliance Checking (SACC) is an approach to verify conformance of implemented program code to high-level models of architectural design. Static SACC focuses on the modular software architecture and on the existence of rule violating dependencies between …

Cyber criminals use phishing emails in high-volume and spear phishing emails in low volume to achieve their malicious objectives. Hereby they inflict financial, reputational, and emotional damages on individuals and organizations. These (spear) phishing attacks get steadily more sophisticated as cyber …

Introduction Childhood-onset epilepsy during the years of transition to adulthood may affect normal social, physical, and mental development, frequently leading to psychosocial and health-related problems in the long term. Objective This study aimed to describe the main characteristics of patients in …

In deze afstudeeropdracht is een management dashboard ontwikkeld bij het UWV WERKbedrijf waarbij gebruik is gemaakt van de BI-projectcyclus. Hierbij is d.m.v. de watervalmethode eerst de informatiebehoefte in kaart gebracht en vervolgens een dashboard ontwikkeld middels de interactieve methode 'Scrum'. Het …

Author supplied, from ACM website: Architectural patterns are a helpful means for designing IT architectures, as they facilitate re-using proven knowledge (good practices) from previous exercises. Furthermore referencing a pattern in an architecture model helps improving the understandability of the …

An exploratory and opportunistic approach was taken to combine business intelligence (BI) with smart-glasses. Using Google Glass as testing device, the current possibilities and limits for reporting purposes were to be investigated. Independent surveys of the public perception on smart-glasses were conducted. …

iqbs Solutions, levert het standaard business intelligence product “iqbs BI”. Dit standaardproduct dekt ongeveer 70% van de informatiebehoefte van de gemiddelde klant, de rest wordt als maatwerk geleverd. Voor de beheersing van de projectindustrie biedt iqbs BI nog geen standaard rapportages. Om tot …

Author supplied: Based on the Enterprise Architecture Value Framework (EAVF) - a generic framework to classify benefits of Enterprise Architecture (EA) - a measurement instrument for EA benefits has been developed and tested in a survey with 287 respondents. In this paper we present the results of this …