Background – Leveraging external sources of innovation (ESI) is found to be vital for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) innovation work as they commonly suffer from a lack of resources to facilitate and execute this work. The interaction with the external environment does, in turn, enable access to knowledge and capabilities that SMEs currently not possess. Moreover, as collaborative software tools (CSTs) have proven to play a critical role in today’s innovation processes and have transformed the way of interacting with the external environment, it becomes obvious that research in this field must account for the usage of these tools. CSTs have a significant impact on communication, cooperation, and coordination and are, therefore, widely used to facilitate collaborations in intra-organizational groups. Thus, these tools can be beneficial for SMEs as it provides them with greater access and availability to the external environment. Purpose – This research aims to understand how SMEs can leverage external sources of innovation with the application of collaborative software tools and develop fruitful insights that can be used to facilitate innovation work for SMEs that typically lack internal resources.  Method – This study approaches the underlying philosophy of a relativist ontology, a social constructionist epistemology, and iterative grounded theory. For the methodology, empirical data was collected through 31 semi-structured interviews with participants from SMEs and their ESI in the region of Jönköping County following a purposive sampling method. The empirical data was further analyzed by conducting a grounded theory strategy for process analysis. Findings – We develop two processes illustrating how SMEs can leverage ESI with the application of CSTs. It was found that the application of CSTs in these processes enables SMEs to explore, acquire, and utilize information and knowledge from ESI in ways that previously have not been possible. By providing new ways of communicating and cooperating, CSTs facilitate the activity of sourcing knowledge and resources from ESI. Consequently, the SMEs are provided with new knowledge and resources that, in turn, improve and enhance the development of innovations. Thereby we contribute to an understanding of how SMEs can leverage ESI in the 21st century.

As the world and society evolve into a more digitized era, school systems have to follow. Sweden the national board of education has started to include digital tools into the curriculum and to place demands on the digital competence of Swedish teachers. The consequences that follow are that teachers are expected to implement digital tools of varying kinds into their lessons, which is done with varying success. This thesis aims to examine how software tools such as Kahoot and elevspel are perceived by English teachers in Sweden as tools they can use as they teach learners in grades 4-6. More specifically, this thesis will focus on how English teachers in an EFL setting perceive that they can use these tools to facilitate vocabulary development. In this essay, we have conducted quantitative research by using a questionnaire to gather data from English teachers in Sweden. Along with this, we have also examined previous research in this field to review the scientific background and take this into consideration. The results from this questionnaire showed that English teachers in Swedenincorporate software tools in their lessons and perceive software tools as necessary. However, a majority of the participating teachers noted that more support and ideas are needed for them to incorporate these tools to a fuller extent.

This thesis aimed to investigate how moderated remote usability testing (RUT) tools can support the moderator's role and skills to create design principles for RUT tools. The study gathered knowledge of how to perform a RUT and the skills of a good moderator. This study resulted in a contextual inquiry with findings of what could support or obstruct the moderator according to the moderator's role and skills, opportunities and difficulties with RUT tools. The findings led to design principles of designing RUT tools to support the moderator's role and skills. The study resulted in usability, user and functional requirements with a prototype of a RUT tool to visualize how to use the design principles. / Denna studie syftade till att undersöka hur verktyg för modererade användbarhetstests på distans kan designas för att stödja moderatorns roll och färdigheter. Studien innefattar kunskap om hur man utför ett modererat användbarhetstest på distans och vilka färdigheter som krävs för att vara en bra moderator i sådana test. Studien innefattade en fältstudie som resulterade i funktioner i ett verktyg för användbarhetstester på distans som kan stödja eller hindra en moderators utförande med avseende på dess roll och färdigheter samt möjligheter och svårigheter i sådana verktyg. Designprinciper skapades i syfte att vägleda designen av verktyg för användbarhetstest på distans som stödjer moderatorns roll och färdigheter. Studien resulterade i användbarhets, användar- och funktionskrav som med designprinciperna visualiserades i en prototyp av ett verktyg för modererad användbarhetstest på distans.

Yes / In this perspective paper, we present challenges and opportunities that the chemical, biochemical and related industries pose to the process system engineering community to help deliver reliable and novel sustainable alternatives. More specifically, we highlight the need for a systems approach where model-based sustainable process synthesis, design, and analysis serve as opportunities to tackle the challenges. Three technology areas (interlinked to each other) that impact the sustainability of earth, namely, chemical processes linked with CO2 capture and utilization, biorefineries and water desalination are selected to highlight our views as well as the need for further development of computer-aided tools to efficiently solve the large and complex mathematical systems the problems represent. Analysis of these problems and their reported solutions indicate that opportunity exists for development of a new class of model-based methods and tools and their integration with the currently available ones to obtain the desired sustainability development goals.

Upgrading or migrating a build system can be a daunting task. Complete build system migration requires significant effort. To make the process more effective, we automated the first steps of migration, and attempted to analyze the new build results to find anomalies. Our findings show promise for automation as a first step of migration, and we see that automated evaluation could have some potential.

Η εργασία αυτή αποτελεί συνέχεια μιας προσπάθειας για την ανάπτυξη της πύλης WEP (Web Engineering Resources Portal). Πρόκειται για ένα Μοντέλο Αναφοράς και μια Πύλη Πόρων που φιλοδοξεί να αποτελέσει ένα σημαντικό εργαλείο για το web engineering, αλλά και αναφορά στην ανάπτυξη εφαρμογών / πληροφοριακών συστημάτων παγκοσμίου ιστού και οδηγό στην ανεύρεση και κατανόηση τεχνολογιών και εργαλείων. Το κομμάτι με το οποίο θα ασχοληθούμε εδώ αφορά το τελευταίο μέρος και τον εκπαιδευτικό χαρακτήρα που επιθυμούμε να προσδώσουμε στην πύλη. Συνοπτικά, η διπλωματική εργασία κινείται σε τρεις άξονες: Πρώτον, στη μελέτη σύγχρονων δυνατοτήτων συλλογής πληροφορίας για την επιλογή των κατάλληλων εργαλείων για εισαγωγή στην πύλη και την ανάπτυξη της δικής μας μεθοδολογίας. Η διαρκής και ραγδαία αύξηση του όγκου των δεδομένων κατέστησε εμφανές το πρόβλημα της ευρέσεως και εξαγωγής της ''χρήσιμης'' ή ''επιθυμητής'' πληροφορίας, καθώς για κάθε κατηγορία ιστοεφαρμογών υπάρχει μια πληθώρα εργαλείων ανάπτυξης (τα οποία μάλιστα διαρκώς ανανεώνονται) καθιστώντας τη διαδικασία επιλογής των καταλληλότερων ιδιαίτερα επίπονη και χρονοβόρα. Δεύτερον, στην εφαρμογή της παραπάνω μεθοδολογίας εργασίας με στόχο την εισαγωγή των αντίστοιχων εργαλείων που προέκυψαν με τη μετατροπή της πληροφορίας σε XML για τη δόμηση της πύλης WEP. Εξηγούμε πως έγινε η εισαγωγή και διαχείριση περιεχομένου με χρήση της τεχνολογίας XML και πως καταλήγουμε στην υλοποίηση των παραπάνω μέσα από την πλατφόρμα του stringbeans. Τρίτον στον εκπαιδευτικό χαρακτήρα της Πύλης. Αναφερόμαστε στις έννοιες του e-learning, και τις διάφορες εναλλακτικές που υπάρχουν στο χώρο της ηλεκτρονικής μάθησης στην εποχή του Web 2.0, όπου οι χρήστες συμμετέχουν ενεργά στη συγγραφή του εκπαιδευτικού υλικού. Αναλύουμε τα χαρακτηριστικά των PLE (Personal Learning Environments) και των LMS (Learning Management Systems) και εκθέτουμε πλεονεκτήματα και μειονεκτήματά τους. Τέλος, καταλήγουμε σε μια γενική αξιολόγηση της προσπάθειάς μας, καταγράφοντας τα αποτελέσματα και τους στόχους που υλοποιήθηκαν, τα συμπεράσματα και τις προτάσεις μας. / This paper is a follow up of the previous work concerning the Web Engineering Resources Portal (shortly WEP). It consists of a Reference Model and a Resources Portal. The aim of WEP is to provide a tool for web engineering as well as a reference for the development of applications / information systems and a guide for finding and understanding web engineering technologies and tools. Here we deal with that last part and the educational aspect of WEP which we are trying to achieve. Briefly, the thesis involves three parts: Firstly, the study of modern possibilities for collecting and importing information regarding the choice of suitable tools and the development of our own methodology. The rapid growth of data volume rendered obvious the problem of finding and extracting of ''useful'' or ''desirable '' information, since there is an abundance of development tools (which are indeed constantly renewed) for every category of web application making the process of choosing the most suitable ones particularly laborious and time-consuming. Secondly, it refers to the enforcement of the above methodology aiming at the import of resultant tools with the transformation of information in XML for the layout of WEP. We explain the way the import and management of content using XML technology is completed and we come to the adaptation and implementation phase through the Stringbeans framework. Thirdly we try to highlight the educational character of WEP portal. The concept of e-learning is described and the various alternatives at the age of Web 2.0, where the users participate actively in the writing of educational material are taken into consideration. Furthermore, we analyze the characteristics of PLE (Personal Learning Environments) and LMS (Learning Management Systems) quoting advantages and disadvantages of both. Finally, we lead to a general evaluation of our effort, mentioning the results and the objectives that were achieved, the conclusions and our proposals for the future.

Tarptautiniai tyrimai rodo, jog moderniosios ugdymo priemonės gali pagerinti mokymą ir mokymąsi. Analitiniu būdu nustatyta, kad, mokant fizikos, mokomosios kompiuterinės priemonės (toliau MKP) naudojamos rečiausiai, nes daugelis programų yra užsienio kalba, jos nesuderintos su ugdymo programa ir nepritaikytos pamokoms, pernelyg sudėtingos. Atsižvelgiant į MKP analizės rezultatus, sukurta interkatyvi su bendrosiomis programomis ir išsilavinimo standartais suderinta mokomoji fizikos svetainę 8-ai klasei „Tiesiaeigis tolyginis judėjimas“. Projektuojant mokomąją svetainę, pirmenybė suteikta aktyviems ir mišriems interaktyvumo tipams bei labai aukštam, aukštam ir vidutiniam interaktyvumo lygiui. Išanalizavus tiesiaeigio tolyginio judėjimo teorinę ir praktinę dalį, parinkti mokomosios medžiagos pateikimo svetainėje būdai. Išanalizavus svetainių kūrimo priemones, parinkta Front Page 2003 programa. Svetainės interaktyvumas programuotas su Java Script kalba. Iš kelių animacijos kurimo priemonių parinkta 2D & 3D Animator programa. Su svetaine ir jos galimybėmis buvo supažindinti 8-os klasės moksleiviai. Moksleiviai teigiamai įvertino mokomąją svetainę. Svetainės mokomosios medžiagos dalys, kurių interaktyvumo lygis aukščiausias, gavo aukščiausius įvertinimus. Todėl interaktyvi mokomoji fizikos svetainė 8-ai klasei „Tiesiaeigis tolyginis judėjimas“ gali būti naudojama kaip mokymo ir mokymosi priemonė. / International researchers demonstrate that modern training aids may improve teaching and learning process. It is appointed in analytic way that interactive learning computer-aided software tools are used more rarely than in other subjects. There are some reasons for that: programess are too complicated, they are not adjusted to curriculum and most of them is in foreign language. Analysis of internet sites on physics subject indicates that they mostly are accessible easily and have suitable, comprehensible navigation, also they are quite well animated. Considering results of analysis it is decided to create an interactive internet site which is coordinated with common curriculum and with standarts of education and would be devoted for training physics subject in 8 classes. This internet site was named “Rectilineal gradual moving”. When this training internet site was being designed, preference was given to active and mixed active types as well as to very high, high and medium high level of interaction since active learning computer-aided software tools interaction type directly stimulates actions of students. When the part of theory of rectilineal gradual moving was analysed, ways of presentation training material were chosen. The site was designed with programme Front Page 2003. For creation of interaction there are explored two language in script writing: VBScript and Java Script. Considering that these languages have not essential differences interaction of learning site... [to full text]

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The thesis is aimed at the modeling of releases of hazardous substances to the designated software tools. The work consists of three parts. The first part is theoretical, which deals with hazardous substances and their legislation, accidents in industry, physical models of leakage and dispersion of hazardous substances and factors influencing their spread in the air and finally software tools. The second part, experimental, describes some software tools and their subsequent modeling. The third part is devoted to the results of modeling and analysis of selected software tools. The aim of the thesis is to analyze selected software tools for modeling the release of hazardous substances, to compare their explanatory power and potential use.

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