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Elements of Sustainability for Public Sector Software : Mosaic Enterprise Architecture, Macroservices, and Low-Code

2021

Public sector is a large consumer for software. In countries such as Finland, many of the systems are made to order by consultancy companies that participate in public tenders. These tenders initiated by the state, cities, and other public sector organizations. Furthermore, as public sector tasks are often decomposed to various actors, each and every one of them makes their purchase based on their own needs. In this paper, we argue that to maintain software sustainability in this context, there is a need for three key elements. Firstly, there is a need for an enterprise architecture where independent services from various vendors are can be easily deployed and integrated. Secondly, these se…

AI Ethics - Critical Reflections on Embedding Ethical Frameworks in AI Technology

2021

Embedding ethical frameworks in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies has been a popular topic for academic research for the past decade [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]. The approaches of the studies differ in how AI technology, ethics, role of technical artefacts and socio-technical aspects of AI are perceived. In addition, most studies define insufficiently what the connection between the process of embedding ethical frameworks to AI technology and the larger framework of AI ethics is. These deficiencies have caused that the concept of AI ethics and the construct of embedding ethical parameters into AI are used in an ambiguous, rather than in a complementary manner. One reason for the ambiguity…

Evaluating End-user Support : Validating the Use of Multiple Media in a CSCW Application

2006

Human-centred views on information systems are gaining more and more attention in IS community. The need to evaluate information systems from such a perspective is thus evident. In this paper, we exploit our earlier developed theoretical framework for evaluating end-user support in information systems, and demonstrate its usage in validating the use of multiple communication and collaboration media in a CSCW application. The evaluation is performed in terms of user perception in ISD process, users’ role in organizational information processing, and users’ behavioural nuances. Our study shows that a context specific theoretical framework is useful in validating the empirical results of syste…

Cognitive Mimetics for AI Ethics : Tacit Knowledge, Action Ontologies and Problem Restructuring

2020

Ethics and ethical information processing are an important problem for AI development. It is important for self-evident reasons, but also challenging in its’ implications and should be welcomed by designers and developers as an interesting technical challenge. This article explores AI ethics as a design problem and lays out how cognitive mimetics could be used a method for its design. AI ethics is conceptualized as a problem of implementation on the one hand, and as a problem of ethical contents on the other. From the viewpoint of human information processing, ethics becomes a special case of ethical information processing - one that has deep implications in terms of AI abilities and inform…

Chaos and its Degradation-Promoting-Based Control in an Antithetic Integral Feedback Circuit

2022

This letter deals with a novel variant of antithetic integral feedback controller (AIFC) motifs which can feature robust perfect adaptation, a pervasive (desired) ability in natural (synthetic) biomolecular circuits, when coupled with a wide class of process networks to be regulated. Using the separation of timescales in the proposed kind of AIFC, here we find a reducedorder controller that captures the governing slow part of the original solutions under suitable assumptions. Inspired by R(ossler systems, we then make use of such a simpler controller to show that the antithetic circuit can exhibit chaotic behaviors with strange attractors, where the bifurcation from a homeostatic state to c…

Kasvavan liikenteen kannattava kanava : Saimaan kanavan rahtiliikenne autonomian aikana

2013

Optimizing the SYBR green related cyanine dye structure to aim for brighter nucleic acid visualization

2022

In recent years, the studies of RNA and its use for the development of RNA based vaccines have increased drastically. Although cyanine dyes are commonly used probes for studying nucleic acids, in a wide range of applications, there is still a growing need for better and brighter dyes. To meet this demand, we have systematically studied the structure of SYBR green-related cyanine dyes to gain a deeper understanding of their interactions with biomolecules especially how they interact with nucleic acids and the structural components which makes them strongly fluorescent. Herein, five new dyes were synthesized, and their photophysical properties were evaluated. Observations of photophysical cha…

Patvaļīga piekļūšana automatizētai datu apstrādes sistēmai. Ar to radītais kaitējums un problemātika

2016

Darbā tiek apskatīts viens no bīstamākiem un neparedzamiem noziedzīgiem nodarījumiem kas tiek dvti par kibernoziegumiem. Šo noziedzīgo nodarījumu skaits un sarežģītība pieaug ar katru gadu. Latvijā var sastapt vairākus kibernozieguma veidus. Viens no izplatītākajim ir paltvaļīga peikļūšana automatizētai datu apstrādes sistēmai, par kuru paredzēta kriminālatbildība Krimināllikuma 241.pantā. Izmeklējot šāda veida noziedzīgus nodarījumus rodas problēmas, kā parezi kvalificēt noziedzīgo nodarījumu, kam jāpievērš uzmanība, lai izmeklēšanas gala rezultātā noziedzīgs nodarījums netiktu kvalificēts pēc cita krimināllikuma panta. Pastāvot šāda veida noziedzīgo nodarījumu izmeklēšanas problēmām, Latv…

Investigating the effectiveness of a digital game-based task on the acquisition of word knowledge

2020

This study investigates the probable effect of a digital game-based vocabulary learning (DGBVL) task on the acquisition of some components of a word knowledge framework. In so doing, 124 Persian speakers (56 males and 68 females) were randomly assigned to either a control or an experimental group. The experimental group participants completed a DGBVL task for acquiring ten low-frequent inanimate object names, or lexical nouns, by playing a commercial adventure game. The control group participants practiced the same words in a fill-in-the-blank vocabulary acquisition exercise. In brief, first, all participants sat for a word-checklist and a proficiency test; next, they completed their tasks,…

A Contrastive Evaluation of Word Sense Disambiguation Systems for Finnish

2019

Aiempi saneiden alamerkitysten yksiselitteistämistä käsittelevä työ, kuten monet muut luonnollisen kielen käsittelyyn liittyvät tehtävät, on enimmäkseen keskittynyt englannin kieleen. Vaikka hieman työtä on tehty myös muilla kielillä, mukaan lukien uralilaiset kielet, vertailevaa arviointia suomen kielen saneiden alamerkitysten yksiselitteistämisestä ei ole tähän mennessä julkaistu huolimatta siitä, että tarvittavat leksikaaliset resurssit, erityisesti FinnWordNet, ovat jo pitkään olleet saatavilla. Tämä työ pyrkii korjaamaan tilanteen. Se tarjoaa tuloksia merkittävimpiä lähestymistapoja saneiden alamerkitysten yksiselitteistämiseen edustavista ohjelmista, sisältäen joitakin parhaiten engla…