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{"title":"Emerging Role of Artificial Intelligence","authors":"Mohammad Ilyas","doi":"10.54808/jsci.20.06.58","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54808/jsci.20.06.58","url":null,"abstract":"Artificial Intelligence (AI) is considered a branch of science that deals with the process of machine learning and intelligent behavior of machines. AI is increasingly becoming involved in our existence. Many see emergence of AI as a revolution that will impact every aspect of our lives. Some see it as an evolution based on the recent advances in hardware/software technologies, powerful computational platforms, and access to massive amount of data collected through pervasive communication networks such as Internet of Things (IoT). Irrespective of these opinions, AI is expected to profoundly impact many aspects of our existence including healthcare, transportation, agriculture, energy, social life, entertainment, fighting crime, and many more. How far AI will infiltrate in human existence is within our hands, at least, for now. We, human beings, design algorithms for AI, we restrict or relax the boundaries of their use, we benefit from the artificial intelligence, and we deal with the consequences of the decisions made by machines using AI. How far AI can go in improving our lives and how significant and deep its interference can be in our existence, remains to be seen. This paper captures the current state of AI and discusses its potential to make human existence better.","PeriodicalId":30249,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Systemics Cybernetics and Informatics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44592057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bridging the Gap Between the World of Education and the World of Business via Standards to Develop Competences of the Future at Universities","authors":"Paweł Poszytek","doi":"10.54808/jsci.20.06.38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54808/jsci.20.06.38","url":null,"abstract":"The author of this article has proven in a separate bibliometric analysis that in most cases the world of education and the world of business use different terminology when discussing the competences needed on the current and future labor market. The former tends to refer to competences of the future while the latter uses the term competences 4.0 more often, which results from binding this phenomenon with the digital transformation and current changes in industry generally called the 4th industrial revolution. The differences in terminology in this respect also refer to the way these competences are defined, although in most cases they refer to three main domains: (1) technical competences; (2) cognitive competences and (3) social competences. On the basis of the above, the research group of the Polish NGO, The Platform for the Industry of the Future, designed the certification system for universities which would like to be labelled as universities that educate for the future and develop the competences of the future among their students. This certification system is based on the following standard: (1) curriculum; (2) internal ecosystem at a university; (3) cooperation with an external ecosystem; (4) the teaching staff and (5) infrastructure at a university. The certification system provides and defines detailed criteria for each element of the standard mentioned above, as well as indicators that measure the fulfilment of these criteria.","PeriodicalId":30249,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Systemics Cybernetics and Informatics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45968631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Differentiated Learning and Digital Game Based Learning: The KIDEDU Project","authors":"Eleni Tsami","doi":"10.54808/jsci.20.06.53","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54808/jsci.20.06.53","url":null,"abstract":"The present paper discusses the current developments with regards to digital game-based learning and its applications in the primary education. Furthermore, it presents the KIDEDU project initiated at the University of Piraeus, in order to provide a student-appealing means for cultivating mathematical aptitude.","PeriodicalId":30249,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Systemics Cybernetics and Informatics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46991346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From Spirituality to Technontology in Education","authors":"F. Pasquier","doi":"10.54808/jsci.20.06.49","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54808/jsci.20.06.49","url":null,"abstract":"Following the traumatic earthquake caused by the wave of terrorist attacks in France in 2015 and its aftershocks in Belgium, Germany and Great Britain, many people questioned the possibility of spirituality in education. For many, a concern on the interest and the possible place of the spiritual in the educational processes found its source following the traumatic collective earthquake caused by the wave of attacks in France in 2015 and then by its aftershocks in Belgium, Germany and Great Britain. These dramatic events have rekindled existential questions that professionals had previously put to one side by lack of a dedicated institutional space and time to reflect on educational bodies aims and modes of operation. This concern is motivated by the idea that our world ought to be passed these behaviors. Indeed, the immense advances in modern technology and the easy access to information it provides, combined with worldwide available primary education seem far from being up to the level we would hope for. This concern is therefore based on an appreciation of a contemporary humanity and state of the world that seems far from being up to the level that would have been hoped for by the immense advances in modern technology, including access to information, combined with a very large scale of primary education across the planet. According to UNESCO's 2013 figures, 92% of the world's population had a mobile phone (55% in developing countries), and 82% of the world's population had completed basic education, the equivalent of primary school (74% in developing countries). Seven years later, the Digital Report 2020 produced by We Are Social and Hootsuite, based on data provided by the UN and government sources, counts for a world population of 7.75 billion people: 17.2% of women and 11.2% of men over 15 are illiterate; \"103% (of) mobile connections as a percentage of the total population\" (due to the possession of multiple devices by some owners and/or of multiple-users for each device); 49% of people are active on social media; 59% of internet users, for an average of 6h43 min, i.e., 40% of the daily waking time. For all that, the overall global situation of humanity still does not seem to have improved, as if, according to the findings of the Complexity Intelligence Network, global connectivity has not resulted in a global human consciousness. Despite these incredible advances, it seems as if the overall global situation of humanity still hasn't improved. In the words of Complexity Intelligence Network, it looks as if global connectivity has not yet resulted in a global human consciousness. It is still being seen as such because of the lack of access to clean water for more than two billion people in 2019, massive displacement of populations for economic, ecological or armed conflict reasons that are not decreasing etc. A central hypothesis of my work is that if the spiritual dimension is in some way already present in schools' curricula and in the com","PeriodicalId":30249,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Systemics Cybernetics and Informatics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46986999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Transdisciplinary Approach to Refereeal","authors":"R. J. Hendel","doi":"10.54808/jsci.20.06.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54808/jsci.20.06.20","url":null,"abstract":"The paper studies best practices for refereeal by a trans-disciplinary approach. Jewish Slander laws, governing best practices for communications with potentially adverse consequences, has developed a checklist to use prior to any such communication. We review the checklist and show its applicability to academic refereeal. The paper closes with four actual case studies of refereeal, representing typical situations that occur.","PeriodicalId":30249,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Systemics Cybernetics and Informatics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49349310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Impact of Convictions on Interlocking Systems","authors":"Teresa Henkle Langness","doi":"10.54808/jsci.20.06.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54808/jsci.20.06.26","url":null,"abstract":"What gives a researcher the conviction that a project deserves the time spent collecting data—or does the data itself inspire the research? Conviction, in this context, refers to the confidence that the data will potentially inform or enhance the work in a given field (a system). While objectivity about the collection process itself requires integrity, the decision to apply for funding and move forward requires this more elusive sense of commitment. Discussions about integrity in research assume a universal standard, but only recently have studies examined the varied interpretations of \"integrity.\" More than a moral code, more than a lack of statistical bias, to most researchers, integrity may imply response to an undefinable sense of \"truth\" (Shaw, Satalkar 2018). Today's constantly changing conditions remain fraught with decisions about topical relevance, questions of bias, and the caution not to act on outdated statistics that confirm our worst assumptions and confuse questions of \"truth\" (Rosling 2018). This paper draws on research in systems theory, health informatics, environmental and behavioral science, and transdisciplinary education to define an analog for long-term research in which the data itself inspired the conviction to sustain a project with counterintuitive data. Once set in motion, the pattern of sustainability redefined expectations, thus launching parallel research—imitable patterns of hopeful action--in surrounding systems, each driven by new observations and statistics. In these transdisciplinary examples, decisions to expand problem-solving contexts or hypotheses resulted from an analog built loosely on these steps: Statistics-gathering; Collaboration and interpretation of data; Conviction of a need to replicate the results, based on the data; Adaptation of the project (and the thinking) based on the data; Stakeholder actions based on confidence in the data; Long-term impacting one field; and finally, Mimicry or movement in parallel fields of research or institutions or locations, based on the results of the prior steps. In the best-case scenarios cited, a project grounded in data affirms hope and leads to resilience or sustainability over time and across disciplines and interlocking systems (Goodall, 2021, Rosling, 2018, Ribeiro 2021, Langness 2020, Platt 2022).","PeriodicalId":30249,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Systemics Cybernetics and Informatics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45561287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Undergraduate Research on Physics-Informed Graph Attention Networks for COVID-19 Prediction","authors":"Yu Liang, Dalei Wu","doi":"10.54808/jsci.20.05.148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54808/jsci.20.05.148","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted most countries in the world. Analyzing COVID-19 data from these countries together is a prominent challenge. Under the sponsorship of NSF REU, this paper describes our experience with a ten-week project that aims to guide an REU scholar to develop a physics-guided graph attention network to predict the global COVID- 19 Pandemics. We mainly presented the preparation, implementation, and dissemination of the addressed project. The COVID-19 situation in a country could be dramatically different from that of others, which suggests that COVID-19 pandemic data are generated based on different mechanisms, making COVID-19 data in different countries follow different probability distributions. Learning more than one hundred underlying probability distributions for countries in the world from large scale COVID- 19 data is beyond a single machine learning model. To address this challenge, we proposed two team-learning frameworks for predicting the COVID-19 pandemic trends: peer learning and layered ensemble learning framework. This addressed framework assigns an adaptive physics-guided graph attention network (GAT) to each learning agent. All the learning agents are fabricated in a hierarchical architecture, which enables agents to collaborate with each other in peer-to-peer and cross-layer way. This layered architecture shares the burden of large-scale data processing on machine learning models of all units. Experiments are run to verify the effectiveness of our approaches. The results indicate the proposed ensemble outperforms baseline methods. Besides being documented on GitHub, this work has resulted in two journal papers.","PeriodicalId":30249,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Systemics Cybernetics and Informatics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48887806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Acceptance of Technology and Academic Writing: Analyze in Perspective of Theoretical Models","authors":"Bilquis Ferdousi","doi":"10.54808/jsci.20.05.94","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54808/jsci.20.05.94","url":null,"abstract":"This paper studies the factors that contribute to students' acceptance in improving their technical and academic writing skills by applying digital technology. The study also focuses on identifying the available digital technology that can improve students' technical and academic writing performance. The study analyzes students' acceptance of technology in academic writing from various theoretical models that stem from socio-psychological disciplines. Analyzing different well validated theoretical models established in sociology, psychology, and information technology, this study seeks to better understand the factors that may contribute to students' acceptance to improve their writing skills. The ultimate goal of this study is to develop a theoretical framework to address the gaps in knowledge existing in current literature about different contributing factors and their level of significance on students' motivation for improving writing skills and adopting digital technology for that purpose. Given the persistent limited writing performance and low motivation of learning academic and technical writing among the students, especially in the computer technology programs, this study is significant. The conceptual framework developed in this study can be the foundation for future empirical research extending the body of knowledge in the area of academic writing while applying digital technology in the higher education institutions.","PeriodicalId":30249,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Systemics Cybernetics and Informatics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45513477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Overcoming Gender Differences in Education","authors":"Elona Limaj, Esmeralda Strori","doi":"10.54808/jsci.20.05.83","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54808/jsci.20.05.83","url":null,"abstract":"Gender equity in education is a priority aiming to promote the right to education for everyone. It is necessary to ensure equal access to girls and boys for completion of their education cycles, as well as empower equity all through the education education process. Lack of equity between boys and girls schools is not a special specific of one country, but also a sensitive issue. Annual reports show that a considerable number of children, mainly girls, have interrupted their education in various levels of Albanian education system, due to a number of reasons. Lack of gender equity in the education system is a big obstacle for dynamic development of the society. The education of girls and women in Albania is important, not only as a matter of respecting a basic human right for half of the population, but also as a powerful force for economic development and achieving other social goals such as improved health and civic involvement. This work will focus on gender disparity in Albanian education system, where number of boys and girls is not the same in all education cycles - primary, elementary, secondary, according to data in the largest region in the country. A coordination of the qualitative and quantitative analysis is provided to indicate the reasons for this disparity and compare data according to random chosen schools. This work shall offer suggestions and recommendations to improve school curricula and determine the role of teachers in this aspect in order to create a favourable environment for both genders as well as making the education system more inclusive for all children includes improving standards, curricula and a focus on teacher training and development in Albania.","PeriodicalId":30249,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Systemics Cybernetics and Informatics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41327541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Metabolite Fragmentation Visualization","authors":"M. Kwak, Matthew Molina, Spencer Arnold, Andrew Woodward, Jin-Young An, E. Nuckels, Yingfeng Wang","doi":"10.54808/jsci.20.05.138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54808/jsci.20.05.138","url":null,"abstract":"Tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) is a popular technology for identifying small molecules involved in metabolism, better known as metabolites. Coupled with liquid chromatography (LC), LC-MS/MS instruments first separate, ionize, and fragment metabolites, then measure mass-to-charge ratios (m/z) and intensities of metabolite fragments. Understanding metabolite fragmentation is crucial to develop computational tools for identifying metabolites based on this spectroscopic data. Metabolite fragmentation patterns have large variations making it especially difficult for computer scientists to design and implement metabolite identification approaches. To address this interdisciplinary challenge, this article presents FragView, a web-based application providing the web service for visualizing metabolite fragmentation. Users can break chemical bonds to produce metabolite fragments and export 3D fragment structures for 3D printing. Developing FragView is an opportunity for exposing student participants to this interdisciplinary bioinformatics project. This paper summarizes the experience of training student participants in bootcamps and designing the implementation plan based on student backgrounds. Students were exposed to project meeting discussions on coding and raw data visualization and visited a lab with an LC-MS/MS instrument. FragView is an open source, freely accessible tool, released under the GPLv3 license. We will continue to improve and update FragView in the future based on feedback.","PeriodicalId":30249,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Systemics Cybernetics and Informatics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42185856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}