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AUTHOR
Boldur E. Barbat
Paradigm shift in engineering education More time is needed
Abstract Information Technology (IT) becomes: innovation motor, engineering toolbox; basic part of curricula. The impact on engineering education is due to shifting from industrial towards post-industrial engineering. IT is the most suitable domain to bear the paradigmatic shifts able to lessen the paradox of temporal dissociation between the present process of teaching and its future mirroring in life-long learning. Hence, a modern approach to time and to its related concepts is focused upon. The essence of applying new paradigms in education is exemplified via the advanced subdomain of artificial intelligence. Conclusion: carrying out such educational innovations is urgent, painless and a…
Sustainable Development: E-teaching (now) for Lifelong E-Learning
Abstract To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day. LAO TZU , “Tao Te Ching” The paper aims at convincing psychologist to cooperate in permanent education, by giving them a general idea about the first objectives of the PhD thesis titled “Nondeterministic e-Teaching for Sustainable Development in Rapidly Changing Environments”: a) Validating the role of e-teaching for sustainable development in Eastern Europe in line with the Europe 2020 strategy. (Europe 2020 is a 10-year strategy proposed by the European Commission on 3 March 2010 for reviving the economy of the European Union. It aims at “smart, sustainable, inclusive growth” with greater coordi…
Bounded Rationality for “Just In Time” Education
Abstract If you cannot get answers keep putting questions The paper has three targets: a) Taken per se , it advances the research presented in a series of seven papers about education in a post-industrial (i.e., service-oriented) society broadening the scope from engineering to any kind of education reachable through reachable through permanent endeavour. b) Regarded as part of a “EU 2020 research cluster” with the aim to pro pose affordable approaches to education for sustainable development, the paper reveals bounded rationality (BR) as common denominator of, mechanism for, and connection between the two facets of permanent education: e- teaching and e- learning , the research aiming to m…
Agent-Oriented Captology for Anthropocentric Systems
Abstract Considering that anthropo centric systems are an adequate domain for captological approaches, and that interface agents are most natural interactants for the humans involved, the paper presents a broad-spectrum generic architectural framework to support developing flexible interfaces for industrial applications, based on synergetic correlation between persuasive technologies and polymorphic agents. The design space for agent-oriented captology is defined and several of its main dimensions are elaborated upon. The main mechanisms used are dynamic priorities, "flexible cloning" and fuzzy temporal windows. Some agent-oriented test-bench applications instantiating the generic architect…