An introduction to the potential of social networking sites in education
This paper reviews Social Networking Sites (SNS) that have become available via the Internet in the light of usability for teaching and learning. Membership rules relating to entries for some popular sites, such as “Facebook” and “MySpace” are reviewed. Characteristics of these sites are reviewed and then compared to evaluate the trust and privacy issues of shared information available to any given social group. Trust and privacy plays a critical role when SNS are used for the purpose of teaching and learning. Thus, the negative and positive aspects of SNS are reviewed in detail. This knowledge will form the basis to assist with regulating SNS for teaching and learning. Publication Details This conference paper was originally published as Griffith, S and Liyanage, L, An introduction to the potential of social networking sites in education, Proceedings of the Emerging Technologies Conference, University of Wollongong, 18-21 June 2008. This conference paper is available at Research Online: http://ro.uow.edu.au/etc08/9
An approach for decomposing requirements into analysis pattern using problem frames (DRAP-PF)
Requirements engineering is one of the necessary and difficult tasks during software development process. The steps in requirements engineering depends very much on the analysts experience and educations. Here, the process starts from decomposition of the environment using problem frames (PF) approach into problem domains where we can get requirements and it gives a formal requirement phenomenon of the interconnected domains. In each step, the requirement reusability can be helped towards the problem frame where analysis pattern can help to overcome the reconstruction of requirements and provide guidance to the analysts. In such cases for solving each problem frame, appropriate patterns should be retrieved and it is used for providing a solution space to it. Once the requirements are clear then they can be included for requirement progression to derive its specification towards the machine with the help of analysis pattern. The influence of the requirement progression of the whole problem will be analyzed. Finally, the given framework is implemented with a case study using ATL(Atlass Transformation Language). In this paper, we propose a new methodological framework for guiding requirements domain to development with the help of analysis pattern.
Research on Application of Information Technology and Mathematical Modeling in Precision Agriculture
Abstract:  This paper analyses the principle and development potential of Precision Agriculture, then provides the elementary scheme of Precision Agriculture in China based on applied mathematical model and information technology.