Communication, Management and Information Technology

Marcelo Sampaio de Alencar was born in Serrita, Brazil in 1957. He received his Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering from Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil, 1980, his Master Degree from Universidade Federal da Paraiba (UFPB), Brazil, 1988 and his Ph.D. from University of Waterloo, Canada, 1994. For the past 18 years he has worked for the Department of Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Paraiba, where he is Full Professor and supervised more than 60 graduate and several undergraduate students. He published over 400 engineering and scientific papers and 19 books.Marcelo is Chair Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Campina Grande since 2003. Previously, he worked for the State University of Santa Catarina (UDESC). He spent some time working for Embratel and University of Toronto as Visiting Professor. He is founder and President of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Communications (Iecom), founder and vice-president of the Academy of Sciences of Paraiba, and IEEE Senior Member. Marcelo is a columnist for the traditional Brazilian newspaper Jornal do Commercio since 2000.

• Preface, Organizers, Critical discourse analysis on inclusive education: School leadership and networks, An empirical study of the MIS impacts and organizational efforts on improving business performance, Social benefits of innovative public administration services, The use of Information and Computer Technology in the decision-making process of foreign students concerning their future professional career, Modelling of the process teaching-training in E-learning, The instrumentalisation of the MOOCS vector of educational innovation and consecration of the academic training quality, Interdisciplinary as a vector of consecration and development metacognitive transversal on line skills, Interactive formation from afar and cognitive intelligence increased at the adult learners: Case of the master technological engineering for the education and the formation, The engineering andragogical in the device “blended learning”: Case of the academic formation courses professionalizing “development of a conceptual and methodological” setting, A general scheme for MRI images’ segmentation based on slice-by-slice learning, FreebaseViz: Interactive exploration of freebase schema using query-driven visualisation, Towards a future mobile multihomed environment, Information security challenge: The responsibility of management, Information System case study for the management of research, Effects and impact of playing computer games, The utilization of the HR analytics by the high and mid-level managers: Case from Eastern Poland, The relation between friendship, commuting time, and student performance: A Social Network Analysis, Optimized clustering protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks using compressive sensing, Compositional writing to cope with electronic media, MVDR beamformer model for array response vector mismatch reduction, Enhancing quality of service by balancing the traffic load in Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs), Artificial intelligence in e-learning, Highlighting the evaluation gaits in the adaptive learning system ALS_CORR[LP], Towards a blended learning using mobile devices, podcasts and QR codes in Algeria, Evolutionary algorithm to solver impairment aware wavelength assignment problem, Using the 3M method for the optimization of the managerial act, Business Process modeling: Case of undergraduate program, A full duplex media access protocol for hybrid visible light communication networks, Combining feature extraction methods to classify three motor imagery tasks, Telemedicine home program in patients with cystic fibrosis: Results after 10 Years, DIABESITY: Design of mHealth integrated solutions for empowering diabetic and obese citizens in self-monitoring and self-management using mobile devices, apps, social media and web-based technologies, Mining complex networks: A new challenge for supporting diagnostic decisions, VoIP providers trunk round trip delay remote measurement methodology, Automatic identification and data capture techniques by radio frequency identification RFID tags applied to reader authentication, The impact of using educational gamification in mobile computing course: A case study, Efficient mining of high average-utility itemsets, An extension for the mobile payment collaborative model proposed for developing countries—Egypt case study, Measuring adolescents awareness security of internet a critical analysis of the internet and adolescents self-injury, Optimal throughput of time power switching relaying protocol with imperfect channel state information, Content based video retrieval—towards full multimedia join, Modeling the seller’s strategy when sales depend on buzz, Verification of merge sorting technique using formal methods, Barriers surrounding e-government implementation: A case study of Government to Business (G2B) system, The effectiveness of an educational website for promoting design skills and use of educational blogs by teachers of secondary education in Saudi Arabia, Using machine learning technique towards personalized mobile flyer, Barriers of knowledge acquisition in telecommunications companies in Saudi Arabia: An exploratory study on Etihad Etisalat Mobily, The effect of using computerized educational software based on interactive video in developing some of using computer skills for the preparatory year students at Albaha University, Saudi Arabia, The reality of tacit knowledge sources in educational training center in department of education of Bisha province: Saudi Arabia case study, Digital institutional repositories in Saudi universities between facts and future: A comparative study between Australian and Saudi digital institutional repositories, The role of digital repositories in supporting the main functions of universities: A survey of Arab universities, Importance of integrating knowledge management methods and tools to enhance risk management processes. Exploratory study in Saudi Arabia business environment, Supporting knowledge society using digital repositories, Impact of information resources on decision-making process in different enterprises, The reality of using various information resources to support the managerial decision-making process: Survey study on Saudi Arabian airlines enterprise in Jeddah City, Brain storming algorithm for coverage and connectivity problem in wireless sensor network, Evaluating IPTV network performance using OPNET, Time Based Weighted Shortest Path Movement Model (TBW-SPMM), Video steganography using P-frame motion vector, A study to evaluate the role of social networks in supporting the educational process: Survey study, Promote the process of higher education based on social media as a creative ICT tools, ICT and digital sources challenges in the university library: The case of King Khalid University library, An exploratory evaluation of the awareness of e-government services among citizens in Saudi Arabia, The role of social media in creating new knowledge for graduate students at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Fuzzy decision trees for text document clustering, Generation of use case UML diagram from user requirement specifications, Modeling guidelines of FreeRTOS in Event-B, Comparative study of various open source digital content management software, Institutional digital repositories specializing in cognitive science: An exploratory study, Enterprise architecture moving from professional certificates into academic credentials, Digital warehouse for research in economics: Analytical study between reality and expectations, Social network applications: Critical review study, The effective use of social networks to support knowledge acquisition process at KAU, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, The role of open access in supporting the digital repositories activities, The digital repository Arxiv: A comparative study with similar repositories, Pros and cons of social networks and their impact on human behaviour, Scientific and traditional communication obstacles of free access to information in institutional digital repositories, Assessment on course learning outcome aligned to students’ achievement, Management aspects of big data in various enterprises, Towards an approach based on hadoop to improve and organize online search results in big data environment, The efficacy of using electronic educational bag in developing functional expression skills among secondary school students at Bisha Governorate, Saudi Arabia, A proposed real-time EMG intelligent robot control algorithm based on swarm intelligenceand neural networks, Solving the problems of linguistically diverse the 1st year university student’s using digital learning, Multi-agents based framework for selecting cloud service provider, Human work perspectives in cyber-physical systems impacting industry & business (with accent on Czech Republic), Statistical analysis of mobility patterns and passive bandwidth reservation in vehicular networks based on a dynamic programming approach, WARM in the city: WAste Route Management in the smart city (WARM City), A new application for analyzing driving behavior and environment characterization in transportation systems based on a fuzzy logic approach, Trust-based intrusion detection in mobile ad-hoc networks using a dynamic approach for energy-efficient monitoring, Anemia types prediction based on data mining classification algorithms, Energy Efficient Optimized Routing Algorithm (EEORA), MERS-CoV Disease Estimation (MDE) A study to estimate a MERS-CoV by classification algorithms, E-learning standards, Cross-layer quality of service protocols for wireless multimedia sensor networks, OXLP: An optimized cross-layers protocol for wireless sensor networks, Classification for data stream clustering protocols in wireless sensor networks, An architecture for selling internet data using mobile hotspot, Big data mining: A classification perspective, ICT drivers of intelligent enterprises, The presence of sustainable entrepreneurship in Polish companies based on the selected examples, Raising demand for implementation of systemic logistics management activities in agribusiness, Implementation of the principles of the process orientation in the aspect of logistic management of supply chain, Analytical grounds and effective operation area of green logistics management in the transport area, Information and communication support for the agricultural sector of Ukraine, Vendor Managed Inventory—implementation of VMI concept from the dynamic management perspective, Logistics chain management elements at global market of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), An IoT course for a computer science graduate program, An innovative knowledge discovery mechanism for unique pattern, The degree of knowledge management practice in the department of legal affairs: Saudi Arabian Airlines case study, A novel adaptive e-learning model matching educator-student learning styles based on machine learning, Feasibility for a seamless integration of admission, registration and academic advising in KAU-SIS, Author index