TY - JOUR A1 - Stantchev, Vladimir A1 - Barnawi, Ahmed A1 - Ghulam, Sarfaraz A1 - Schubert, Johannes A1 - Tamm, Gerrit T1 - Smart Items, Fog and Cloud Computing as Enablers of Servitization in Healthcare JF - Sensors & Transducers N2 - In this article we argue that smart items and cloud computing can be powerful enablers of servitization as business trend. This is exemplified by an application scenario in healthcare that was developed in the context of the OpSIT-Project in Germany. We present a three-level architecture for a smart healthcare infrastructure. The approach is based on a service-oriented architecture and extends established architectural approaches developed previously at our group. More specifically, it integrates a role model, a layered cloud computing architecture, as well as a fog-computing-informed paradigm in order to provide a viable architecture for healthcare and elderly-care applications. The integration of established paradigms is beneficial with respect to providing adequate quality of service and governance (e.g., data privacy and compliance). It has been verified by expert interviews with healthcare specialists and IT professionals. To further demonstrate the validity of this architectural model, we provide an example use-case as a template for any kind of smart sensor-based healthcare infrastructure. KW - Sensors KW - Smart items KW - Cloud computing KW - Fog computing KW - Servitization Y1 - 2014 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0298-opus4-7184 VL - 185 IS - 2 SP - 121 EP - 128 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Stantchev, Vladimir A1 - Hoang, Trung Dang A1 - Schulz, Tino A1 - Ratchinski, Ilja T1 - Optimizing Clinical Processes with Position-Sensing JF - IT Professional N2 - The authors propose an optimization of clinical processes with position- sensing technologies and evaluate existing solutions and their applicability. KW - Healthcare IT KW - Surgery KW - Position Sensing KW - Process Optimization Y1 - 2008 N1 - Volltext aus urheberrechtlichen Gründen nicht verfügbar. Fulltext due to copyright not available. VL - 10 IS - 2 SP - 31 EP - 37 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Stantchev, Vladimir A1 - Prieto González, Lisardo A1 - Tamm, Gerrit T1 - Cloud computing service for knowledge assessment and studies recommendation in crowdsourcing and collaborative learning environments based on social network analysis JF - Computers in Human Behavior N2 - Interactions among people have substantially changed since the emergence of social networks, the expansion of the Internet and the proliferation of connected mobile devices, and so have the possibilities of collaborative learning, with the inclusion of new e-learning platforms. From this point, assessing human knowledge in these virtual environments is not a trivial task. This work presents a novel cloud-computing-based service which relies on advanced artificial intelligence mechanisms to infer knowledge and interest from users considering the aggregated data presented from/to these users in different social networks. This way it is possible to assess with a certain degree of confidence the user knowledge level in different topics as well as recommend additional specific education related to his/her former studies in order to get a better/desired job. KW - Collaborative learning KW - Social networks KW - e-learning KW - Knowledge representation model KW - Artificial Immune System KW - Big Data Y1 - 2014 N1 - Volltext aus urheberrechtlichen Gründen nicht verfügbar. Fulltext due to copyright not available. VL - 51 SP - 762 EP - 770 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Álvarez-Rodríguez, Jose María A1 - Colomo-Palacios, Ricardo A1 - Stantchev, Vladimir T1 - Skillrank: towards a Hybrid Method to Assess Quality and Confidence of Professional Skills in Social Networks JF - Scientific Programming N2 - The present paper introduces a hybrid technique to measure the expertise of users by analyzing their profiles and activities in social networks. Currently, both job seekers and talent hunters are looking for new and innovative techniques to filter jobs and candidates where candidates are trying to improve and make their profiles more attractive. In this sense, the Skillrank approach is based on the conjunction of existing and well-known information and expertise retrieval techniques that perfectly fit the existing web and social media environment to deliver an intelligent component to integrate the user context in the analysis of skills confidence. A major outcome of this approach is that it actually takes advantage of existing data and information available on the web to perform both a ranked list of experts in a field and a confidence value for every professional skill. Thus, expertise and experts can be detected, verified, and ranked using a suited trust metric. An experiment to validate the Skillrank technique based on precision and recall metrics is also presented using two different datasets: (1) ad hoc created using real data from a professional social network and (2) real data extracted from the LinkedIn API. Y1 - 2015 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0298-opus4-7264 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schermuly, Carsten C. A1 - Draheim, Michael A1 - Glasberg, Ronald A1 - Stantchev, Vladimir A1 - Tamm, Gerrit A1 - Hartmann, Michael A1 - Hessel, Franz T1 - Human resource crises in German hospitals: an explorative study JF - Human Resources for Health N2 - The complexity of providing medical care in a high-tech environment with a highly specialized, limited labour force makes hospitals more crisis-prone than other industries. An effective defence against crises is only possible if the organizational resilience and the capacity to handle crises become part of the hospitals’ organizational culture. To become more resilient to crises, a raised awareness — especially in the area of human resource (HR) — is necessary. The aim of this paper is to contribute to the process robustness against crises through the identification and evaluation of relevant HR crises and their causations in hospitals. Qualitative and quantitative methods were combined to identify and evaluate crises in hospitals in the HR sector. A structured workshop with experts was conducted to identify HR crises and their descriptions, as well as causes and consequences for patients and hospitals. To evaluate the findings, an online survey was carried out to rate the occurrence (past, future) and dangerousness of each crisis. Six HR crises were identified in this study: staff shortages, acute loss of personnel following a pandemic, damage to reputation, insufficient communication during restructuring, bullying, and misuse of drugs. The highest occurrence probability in the future was seen in staff shortages, followed by acute loss of personnel following a pandemic. Staff shortages, damage to reputation, and acute loss of personnel following a pandemic were seen as the most dangerous crises. The study concludes that coping with HR crises in hospitals is existential for hospitals and requires increased awareness. The six HR crises identified occurred regularly in German hospitals in the past, and their occurrence probability for the future was rated as high. KW - Crises Management KW - Hospital Y1 - 2015 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0298-opus4-7288 VL - 40 IS - 13 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Stantchev, Vladimir A1 - Tamm, Gerrit T1 - SOA Governance for the Internet of Services T2 - 18th Biennial Conference of the International Telecommunications Society, Tokio N2 - Keine Angabe No details KW - Internet of Services KW - SOA Y1 - 2010 N1 - Volltext aus urheberrechtlichen Gründen nicht verfügbar. Fulltext due to copyright not available. ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Prieto-González, Lisardo A1 - Stantchev, Vladimir A1 - Colomo-Palacios, Ricardo T1 - Applications of ontologies in knowledge representation of human perception JF - International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologie N2 - Information overload is becoming bigger as internet grows. This entails several problems such as difficulty in finding information and redundancy of knowledge. In this paper, a solution of these problems is presented as a global representation of knowledge based on human perception, and modelled by means of ontologies. In this study we present the approach with several advantages as well as some drawbacks related to state of the art technologies. Y1 - 2014 N1 - Online: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262247874_Applications_of_ontologies_in_knowledge_representation_of_human_perception VL - 9 IS - 1 SP - 74 EP - 80 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Dzombeta, Srdan A1 - Stantchev, Vladimir A1 - Colomo-Palacios, Ricardo A1 - Brandis, Knud A1 - Haufe, Knut T1 - Governance of Cloud Computing Services for the Life Sciences JF - IT Professional N2 - This analysis of the legal regulations for cloud computing in healthcare is based on the authors’ expertise in cloud-based data processing for healthcare and life sciences organizations. The proposed implementation roadmap should help organizations govern health data processing and storage. Y1 - 2014 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0298-opus4-5908 VL - 16 IS - 4 SP - 2 EP - 9 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Stantchev, Vladimir A1 - Colomo-Palacios, Ricardo A1 - Soto Acosta, Pedro A1 - Misra, Sanjay T1 - Learning management systems and cloud file hosting services: a study on students’ acceptance JF - Computers in Human Behavior N2 - The aim of this paper is to investigate the motivations that lead higher education students to replace several Learning Management Systems (LMS) services with cloud file hosting services for information sharing and collaboration among them. The research approach is based on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). More specifically, the model is devoted to identifying barriers and enablers to the acceptance of these technologies. A questionnaire comprising three factors (Attitude toward using technology, Perceived ease of use and Perceived usefulness) was applied to a sample consisting of 121 higher education students. Results show that the perceived ease of use of cloud file hosting services is above that of LMS tools and services and that cloud file hosting services presented higher levels of perceived usefulness than standard learning management tools. In addition, attitude toward using cloud file hosting services is well above that of using LMS tools. KW - Learning Management Systems KW - Technology Acceptance Model KW - Attitude toward using Technology KW - Perceived Ease of Use KW - Perceived Usefulness Y1 - 2014 N1 - Online: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261959989_Learning_management_systems_and_cloud_file_hosting_services_A_study_on_students'_acceptance VL - 31 SP - 612 EP - 619 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Ghulam, Sarfaraz A1 - Schubert, Johannes A1 - Tamm, Gerrit A1 - Stantchev, Vladimir T1 - Integrating Smart Items and Cloud Computing in Healthcare Scenarios N2 - Use of cloud computing in healthcare is a promising trend, particularly in utilization of smart items. Access, affordability and quality to proper healthcare is a great challenge in world society. With the utilization of smart sensors, there are possibilities to improve the quality of healthcare services whenever needed. Hence, such smart items services lead to economic advantages for the whole healthcare system. Keeping in mind these opportunities as well as challenges such as security or legal issues, it is important to bring healthcare and IT together. As a result, healthcare business processes need to be modeled in order to provide IT solutions tailored for practice-oriented applications. In this paper, we present a three-level architecture for a smart healthcare infrastructure. Our approach is based on recent literature work and results from conducted expert interviews with healthcare specialists and IT professionals. To demonstrate the applicability of this architecture model, we provide an example use-case as a template for any kind of smart sensor-based healthcare infrastructure. KW - Healthcare KW - Smart Items KW - Cloud Computing Y1 - 2014 N1 - Online: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/284430113_Integrating_Smart_Items_and_Cloud_Computing_in_Healthcare_Scenarios ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schermuly, Carsten C. A1 - Draheim, Michael A1 - Flessa, Steffen A1 - Glasberg, Ronald A1 - Stantchev, Vladimir A1 - Tamm, Gerrit A1 - Hartmann, Michael A1 - Hessel, Franz T1 - Management of Crises and Risks in German Hospitals: Factors Influencing Medication Errors JF - Value in Health N2 - In German hospitals there is a need for optimized crisis- and risk management. About one third of all hospital-acquired patient damages are due to medication errors. The aim of our interdisciplinary project “Risk Management in Hospitals” is to analyze the behavior of the various key players in the fields of medical care, human resources, supply and IT-systems in the context of various simulated risk scenarios as well as to develop adequate risk management tools. In this abstract, the first Results on medication errors are presented. KW - Health Management KW - Crisis Management KW - Risk Management KW - Medication Errors Y1 - 2014 N1 - Online: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280259250_PHP133_Management_of_Crises_and_Risks_in_German_Hospitals_-_Factors_Influencing_Medication_Errors VL - 17 IS - 7 SP - A426 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Stantchev, Vladimir A1 - Dzombeta, Srdan A1 - Brandis, Knud T1 - IT Compliance Management in the Field of Cloud Computing: competence Management Approach supporting Continuing Engineering Education JF - International Journal of Engineering Education N2 - Keine Angabe - No details KW - IT Compliance Management KW - Cloud Computing Y1 - 2013 N1 - Volltext aus urheberrechtlichen Gründen nicht verfügbar. Fulltext due to copyright not available. VL - 29 SP - Keine Angabe - No details EP - Keine Angabe - No details ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Radant, Olaf A1 - Colomo-Palacios, Ricardo A1 - Stantchev, Vladimir T1 - Analysis of Reasons, Implications and Consequences of Demographic Change for IT Departments in Times of Scarcity of Talent: a Systematic Review JF - International Journal of Knowledge Management N2 - The skill shortage is becoming an ever-increasing challenge for IT departments. Allocation of resources in the best possible way is even more important. The challenge is to improve the enterprise not only on the side of the organizational and process level, but to develop new strategies and approaches in human resource management. Only a symbiosis of the disciplines economics, psychology and information technology will enable relevant and indispensable employees and promote loyalty to the company. A frequent change of the work place, for a well-trained professional, is so long associated with normality until they find the best environment for fulfilling their needs and expectations. These expectations are no longer just on a financial level. This paper will analyse the previous work on these topics and demonstrate first conclusions regarding a way forward. KW - Demographic Change KW - IT Management KW - Human Resource Management Y1 - 2014 N1 - Online: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/286454413_Analysis_of_Reasons_Implications_and_Consequences_of_Demographic_Change_for_IT_Departments_in_Times_of_Scarcity_of_Talent_A_Systematic_Review VL - 10 IS - 4 SP - 1 EP - 15 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Stantchev, Vladimir T1 - Addressing Sustainability in IT-Governance Frameworks N2 - Keine Angabe No details KW - IT-Governance KW - Software Engineering Y1 - 2014 N1 - Volltext aus urheberrechtlichen Gründen nicht verfügbar. Fulltext due to copyright not available. ER - TY - GEN A1 - Stantchev, Vladimir T1 - Minitrack Chair Service Directories for SaaS N2 - Keine Angabe No details KW - SaaS KW - Minitrack Y1 - 2013 N1 - Volltext aus urheberrechtlichen Gründen nicht verfügbar. Fulltext due to copyright not available. ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Stantchev, Vladimir T1 - Towards Ambient IT in Healthcare N2 - Keine Angabe No details KW - Ambient IT KW - Healthcare Y1 - 2015 N1 - Volltext aus urheberrechtlichen Gründen nicht verfügbar. Fulltext due to copyright not available. ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Stantchev, Vladimir T1 - The Perspectives for IT in Healthcare: the Case of Spain and Germany N2 - Keine Angabe No details KW - IT KW - Healthcare Y1 - 2015 N1 - Volltext aus urheberrechtlichen Gründen nicht verfügbar. Fulltext due to copyright not available. ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Stantchev, Vladimir T1 - PrevenTAB: Towards Ambient IT in Healthcare N2 - Keine Angabe No details KW - Ambient IT KW - Healthcare Y1 - 2015 N1 - Volltext aus urheberrechtlichen Gründen nicht verfügbar. Fulltext due to copyright not available. ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Stantchev, Vladimir T1 - Requirements Engineering and Risk Management Solutions N2 - Keine Angabe No details KW - Risk Management KW - Information Technology KW - Electronic Commerce Y1 - 2015 N1 - Volltext aus urheberrechtlichen Gründen nicht verfügbar. Fulltext due to copyright not available. ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Stantchev, Vladimir A1 - Prieto-González, Lisardo A1 - Tamm, Gerrit T1 - Cloud computing service for knowledge assessment and studies recommendation in crowdsourcing and collaborative learning environments based on social network analysis JF - Computers in Human Behavior N2 - Interactions among people have substantially changed since the emergence of social networks, the expansion of the Internet and the proliferation of connected mobile devices, and so have the possibilities of collaborative learning, with the inclusion of new e-learning platforms. From this point, assessing human knowledge in these virtual environments is not a trivial task. This work presents a novel cloud-computing-based service which relies on advanced artificial intelligence mechanisms to infer knowledge and interest from users considering the aggregated data presented from/to these users in different social networks. This way it is possible to assess with a certain degree of confidence the user knowledge level in different topics as well as recommend additional specific education related to his/her former studies in order to get a better/desired job. KW - Cloud Computing KW - Crowdsourcing KW - Collaborative Learning KW - Artificial Immune System Y1 - 2015 N1 - Volltext ist aus urheberrechtlichen Gründen nicht verfügbar. Full text due to copyright not available. VL - 51 IS - B SP - 762 EP - 770 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Vera-Baquero, Alejandro A1 - Colomo-Palacios, Ricardo A1 - Stantchev, Vladimir A1 - Molloy, Owen T1 - Leveraging big-data for business process analytics JF - The Learning Organization N2 - This paper aims to present a solution that enables organizations to monitor and analyse the performance of their business processes by means of Big Data technology. Business process improvement can drastically influence in the profit of corporations and helps them to remain viable. However, the use of traditional Business Intelligence systems is not sufficient to meet today's business needs. They normally are business domain-specific and have not been sufficiently process-aware to support the needs of process improvement-type activities, especially on large and complex supply chains, where it entails integrating, monitoring and analysing a vast amount of dispersed event logs, with no structure, and produced on a variety of heterogeneous environments. This paper tackles this variability by devising different Big Data based approaches that aim to gain visibility into process performance. KW - Business process analytics KW - Business intelligence KW - Business performance management KW - Cloud computing Y1 - 2015 N1 - Online: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280088163_Leveraging_big-data_for_business_process_analytics VL - 22 IS - 4 SP - 215 EP - 228 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Stantchev, Vladimir T1 - Mathematical Models for Data Analysis in Econometrics N2 - Keine Angabe No details KW - Data Analysis KW - Econometrics Y1 - 2015 N1 - Volltext aus urheberrechtlichen Gründen nicht verfügbar. Fulltext due to copyright not available. ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Stantchev, Vladimir T1 - Mathematical Models for Data Analysis in Healthcare N2 - Keine Angabe No details KW - Data Analysis KW - Healthcare Y1 - 2015 N1 - Volltext aus urheberrechtlichen Gründen nicht verfügbar. Fulltext due to copyright not available. ER -