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Data science has revolutionized chemical research and continues to break down barriers with new interdisciplinary studies. The introduction of computational models and machine learning (ML) algorithms in combination with automation and traditional experimental techniques has enabled scientific advancement across nearly every discipline of chemistry, from materials discovery, to process optimization, to synthesis planning. However, predictive tools powered by data science are only as good as their data sets and, currently, many of the data sets used to train models suffer from several limitations, including being sparse, limited in scope and requiring human curation. Likewise, computational data faces limitations in terms of accurate modeling of nonideal systems and can suffer from low translation fidelity from simulation to real conditions. The lack of diverse data and the need to be able to test it experimentally reduces both the accuracy and scope of the predictive models derived from data science. This Account contextualizes the need for more complex and diverse experimental data and highlights how the seamless integration of robotics, machine learning, and data-rich monitoring techniques can be used to access it with minimal human labor.We propose three broad categories of data in chemistry: data on fundamental properties, data on reaction outcomes, and data on reaction mechanics. We highlight flexible, automated platforms that can be deployed to acquire and leverage these data. The first platform combines solid- and liquid-dosing modules with computer vision to automate solubility screening, thereby gathering fundamental data that are necessary for almost every experimental design. Using computer vision offers the additional benefit of creating a visual record, which can be referenced and used to further interrogate and gain insight on the data collected. The second platform iteratively tests reaction variables proposed by a ML algorithm in a closed-loop fashion. Experimental data related to reaction outcomes are fed back into the algorithm to drive the discovery and optimization of new materials and chemical processes. The third platform uses automated process analytical technology to gather real-time data related to reaction kinetics. This system allows the researcher to directly interrogate the reaction mechanisms in granular detail to determine exactly how and why a reaction proceeds, thereby enabling reaction optimization and deployment.

The deep chlorophyll maximum (DCM) layer is an ecologically important feature of the open ocean. The DCM cannot be observed using aerial or satellite remote sensing; thus, in situ observations are essential. Further, understanding the responses of microbes to the environmental processes driving their metabolism and interactions requires observing in a reference frame that moves with a plankton population drifting in ocean currents, i.e., Lagrangian. Here, we report the development and application of a system of coordinated robots for studying planktonic biological communities drifting within the ocean. The presented Lagrangian system uses three coordinated autonomous robotic platforms. The focal platform consists of an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) fitted with a robotic water sampler. This platform localizes and drifts within a DCM community, periodically acquiring samples while continuously monitoring the local environment. The second platform is an AUV equipped with environmental sensing and acoustic tracking capabilities. This platform characterizes environmental conditions by tracking the focal platform and vertically profiling in its vicinity. The third platform is an autonomous surface vehicle equipped with satellite communications and subsea acoustic tracking capabilities. While also acoustically tracking the focal platform, this vehicle serves as a communication relay that connects the subsea robot to human operators, thereby providing situational awareness and enabling intervention if needed. Deployed in the North Pacific Ocean within the core of a cyclonic eddy, this coordinated system autonomously captured fundamental characteristics of the in situ DCM microbial community in a manner not possible previously.

The study aimed to identify the experience of Tanta University in the field of e-learning in light of the Corona pandemic that passed in the world in late 2019, as the researcher studied the reality of e-learning at Tanta University by shedding light on the application of the idea of e-learning in the Department of Libraries, Documents and Information, Faculty of Arts, Tanta University The study also aimed to get acquainted with the opinions of students and faculty members in the department about this experience, and to achieve these goals the researcher used the case study methodology, which is concerned with collecting information about a specific phenomen ,As well as the uses of the descriptive and analytical method, to analyze the contents of the electronic platforms made available by Tanta University for faculty members to communicate with students, and the researcher relied on personal interviews with officials of the university's e-learning center, faculty members in the department, and a questionnaire to collect study data, during the academic year 2019 - 2020. The study reached many results, the most important of which are: Tanta University provided three electronic platforms for communication between faculty members and students of the various faculties of the university, the first platform, the electronic platform for raising lectures, and the second platform, the Microsoft Teams distance education platform; For communication between students and faculty members and completing explaining lectures, and the third platform, Student Research Evaluation Platform

We consider the problem of cross-view geo-localization. The primary challenge of this task is to learn the robust feature against large viewpoint changes. Existing benchmarks can help, but are limited in the number of viewpoints. Image pairs, containing two viewpoints, e.g., satellite and ground, are usually provided, which may compromise the feature learning. Besides phone cameras and satellites, in this paper, we argue that drones could serve as the third platform to deal with the geo-localization problem. In contrast to the traditional ground-view images, drone-view images meet fewer obstacles, e.g., trees, and could provide a comprehensive view when flying around the target place. To verify the effectiveness of the drone platform, we introduce a new multi-view multi-source benchmark for drone-based geo-localization, named University-1652. University-1652 contains data from three platforms, i.e., synthetic drones, satellites and ground cameras of 1,652 university buildings around the world. To our knowledge, University-1652 is the first drone-based geo-localization dataset and enables two new tasks, i.e., drone-view target localization and drone navigation. As the name implies, drone-view target localization intends to predict the location of the target place via drone-view images. On the other hand, given a satellite-view query image, drone navigation is to drive the drone to the area of interest in the query. We use this dataset to analyze a variety of off-the-shelf CNN features and propose a strong CNN baseline on this challenging dataset. The experiments show that University-1652 helps the model to learn the viewpoint-invariant features and also has good generalization ability in the real-world scenario., accepted by ACM Multimedia 2020

This article is from a subproject entitled Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for the tourism and hospitality sector, which is part of a larger research Senac/SC and means of accommodation, which aims to identify and propose management indicators for the segment. Here is a literature review of the possibilities of use of ICTs for this sector and the results of an exploratory phase aimed at identifying the technologies used in the state of Santa Catarina. As results of the research, we present this analysis in an attempt to map the existing technology and future possibilities, as well as to show the results of the questionnaire applied to the companies of the sector in the state. Among the resources which can be more explored by the accommodation sector is the third platform. The findings point to a huge potential for the use of ICTs which have not yet been implemented by accommodation facilities. The research also hints to existing gaps in research related to the topic, and which can be further developed based on the present research.

This research aims to explore the usability and gameplay experiences of a two-player game across three platforms. The game is based on a variation of the board game Jenga—a game played in social, casual settings. Our game requires spatial, tactical, and mental reasoning from players to win and consists of a tower of blocks piled on top of each other. Players take turns to remove one block at a time from the tower then place it on the top of the tower; the game ends when at least one block of the tower falls to the ground—the losing player is the one whose turn caused this fall. The game can be played by two players simultaneously through the use of virtual reality head mounted displays (HMD) like the Oculus RIFT or HTC Vive, two separate mobile tablet devices, or a shared television (TV) display. The first two platforms provide players with their own independent views of the game, whereas the third platform allows the players to use one single screen. This research is an attempt to better understand how virtual reality and mobile technologies can support multiplayer gaming experiences when gamers are engaged in a competitive casual game.

Цель. С учетом расширения сфер применения компьютинга возникает необходимость выявления связей между постоянно зарождающимися требованиями к профессиональным компетентностям и новыми разделами знаний компьютинга для совершенствования процесса формирования новых образовательных программ. Методика. Авторами предлагается подход, направленный на построение специализированных баз знаний, формируемых с использованием технологий искусственного интеллекта и ориентированных на работу с множеством разнородных ресурсов или источников данных по определенной образовательной тематике. Как инструмент, обеспечивающий формирование базовых онтологий, используется редактор онтологий Protégé 4.2. В качестве одного из модулей разработанной системы семантического анализа, обеспечивающего доступ к онтологии понятия и возможность ее обработки, должен использоваться Java-фреймворк Apache Jena, который формирует программную среду для работы с данными в форматах RDF, RDFS и OWL, а также поддерживает возможность формирования запросов к онтологии на языке SPARQL. Особенностью данного подхода является связывание информационных ресурсов трехплатформного представления дисциплинарной структуры в контексте выявления связей между профессиональными компетентностями. Результаты. Разработаны модель и структура IТ-ориентированного онтологического фреймворка, предназначенного для обеспечения конвергенции компонентов трехплатформенной информационно-коммуникационной среды ВУЗа. Сформирована структура онтологии – основы базы знаний, описывающей ключевые особенности образовательных стандартов отрасли «Информационные технологии». Научная новизна. В рамках проектирования и формирования структуры отрасли дисциплины «Информационные технологии», в контексте компетентностного подхода к образованию, предлагается архитектура системы семантического анализа дескрипторов компетентностей, реализующая алгоритм интеграции онтологической и продукционной моделей представления знаний об исследуемой предметной области. Практическая значимость. Предлагаемый подход позволяет систематизировать контент, структуру и связи компонентов области информационных технологий для корректировки спектра формируемых компетентностей при разработке образовательных программ подготовки IТ-специалистов в университете, с учетом расширения сфер применения компьютинга., Purpose. Taking into account the expansion of computing application scopes there is a need to identify the links and features of the constantly emerging professional competencies of the new sections of computing knowledge to improve the process of forming new curricula. Methodology. Authors propose the new approach aimed to build specialized knowledge bases generated using artificial intelligence technology and focused on the use of multiple heterogeneous resources or data sources on specific educational topics is proposed. As a tool, ensuring the formation of the base ontology the Protégé 4.2 ontology editor is used. As one of the modules of the developed system of semantic analysis, which provides access to ontology and the possibility of its processing, the Apache Jena Java framework should be used, which forms the software environment for working with data in RDF, RDFS and OWL formats, and also supports the ability to form queries to Ontologies in the SPARQL language. The peculiarity of this approach is the binding of information resources of the three-platform presentation of the disciplinary structure in the context of identifying the links of professional competencies. Findings. The model and structure of the IT-oriented ontological framework designed to ensure the components convergence of the university three-platform information and communication environment are developed. The structure of the knowledge base ontology-basis, describing the main essence of the educational standards of the "Information Technologies" branch is formed. Originality. Within the framework of design and formation of the knowledge sector disciplinary structure "Information Technologies" in the context of the competence approach to education, the architecture of the competence descriptors of semantic analysis system is proposed. It implements the algorithm for integrating the ontological and product models of knowledge representation about the subject domain. Practical value. The proposed approach allows systematizing the content, structure and connections of the information technologies field components for adjusting the range of competences formed in the development of educational programs for training IT specialists at the University, taking into account the growth of the field of computing., Мета. З урахуванням розширення сфер застосування комп'ютингу виникає необхідність виявлення зв'язків між професійними компетентностями, що постійно зароджуються, та новими розділами знань комп'ютингу для вдосконалення процесу формування нових освітніх програм. Методика. Пропонується підхід, спрямований на побудову спеціалізованих баз знань, що формуються з використанням технологій штучного інтелекту та орієнтовані на роботу з безліччю різнорідних ресурсів або джерел даних за певною освітньою тематикою. Як інструмент, що забезпечує формування базових онтологій, використовується редактор онтологій Protégé 4.2. Одним із модулів розробленої системи семантичного аналізу, що забезпечує доступ до онтології та дає можливість її обробки, повинен використовуватися Java-фреймворк Apache Jena, який формує програмне середовище для роботи з даними в форматах RDF, RDFS та OWL, а також підтримує можливість формування запитів до онтології на мові SPARQL. Особливістю даного підходу є зв'язування інформаційних ресурсів трьохплатформного уявлення дисциплінарної структури в контексті виявлення зв'язків поміж професійними компетентностями. Результати. Розроблено модель та структуру ІТ-орієнтованого онтологічного фреймворку, призначеного для забезпечення конвергенції компонентів трьохплатформного інформаційно-комунікаційного середовища ВНЗ. Сформована структура онтології – основи бази знань, яка описує ключові особливості освітніх стандартів галузі «Інформаційні технології». Наукова новизна. В рамках проектування та формування структури дисципліни галузі «Інформаційні технології», в контексті компетентнісного підходу до освіти, пропонується архітектура системи семантичного аналізу дескрипторів компетентностей, що реалізує алгоритм інтеграції онтологічної та продукційної моделей уявлення знань про досліджувану предметну область. Практичне значення. Пропонований підхід дозволяє систематизувати контент, структуру та зв'язки компонентів області інформаційних технологій для коригування спектру формованих компетентностей при розробці освітніх програм підготовки ІТ-фахівців в університеті, з урахуванням розширення сфер застосування комп'ютингу.

This bachelor thesis deals with the readiness of selected companies for a digital transformation. It is divided into theoretical and practical parts. The introduction is followed by a chapter in the theoretical part about the third platform and its elements - cloud service technologies, big data, social technologies, mobility and Internet of Things. These technologies are the basics of the digital transformation, which is the topic of the following chapter. This chapter aims to describe the necessary theoretical background of the digital transformation readiness. Implementing the aforementioned technologies is not enough. The key to fully grasp and handle the digital transformation is leadership. To better understand the complexity of the topic, a list of other terms and definitions with regards to the survey is made. The digital transformation readiness of selected companies is evaluated based on the results of the survey, which is the main aim of this thesis.

Nowadays, the IT industry is revolving around the build-out and adoption of a new platform, characterized by mobility, cloud-based application and service delivery, and value-generating overlays of social business and pervasive analytics. The paper explores the convergence of mobile, cloud, and social, as well as the effects for the enterprise and the emergence of the new enterprise application platforms. In the beginning we set the stage, while showing the expansion of the mobile, cloud, and social in the business information system, as they were found in the literature. We then look over the IT trends, especially the consumerization of IT, as reasons and basis for the information systems embracing of mobile. Afterwards, we present a mobility roadmap for the enterprise and illustrate the reconfiguration of the enterprise application platform.Keywords: Mobile Technology, Cloud Computing, Social Networking, Enterprise Applications1 IntroductionThe changes set in motion by the Internet and the web technologies are irreversible and have strong impact, but it will take more time to diffuse through organizations. Migrating from old to new ways of doing business has always been a continuous, open-ended process [1],We have witnessed so many IT trends in the last 20 years and we believe that none was as pervasive as mobile technology. The ability to access any content, on any device over any network in any location, is becoming a reality. While the whole IT budget is either same or declining, the one bright point is mobility. According to some studies, in 2011 and 2012, mobility budgets were 40% larger than in 2010 [2], Organizations consider the enlargement of the number of employees with smartphones (from less than 50% in 2010 to over 70% by 2013), which triggers the raise of the number of devices requiring support (Apple, Android-based and RIM devices, as well as tablets) and the associated costs. The new environment demands to deliver services to employees in a mobile cloud computing model.Social networking evolved massively in the last few years, at an incredible pace and became the preferred way of interaction, sharing and collaboration between people. Particularly, the last few years repositioned the interaction and sharing on the mobile devices. According to some studies, 60% of Facebook updates are from mobile devices and around 80% of staff members are using their phones and other devices for both work and personal purposes and these figures must prompt the managers' interest and reconfigure the enterprise information architecture [3], Passing over the social networks, other social technologies like blogs, wikis, emeetings, instant messaging or document sharing are noteworthy instruments for employees to collaborate and come upon innovation.From the business point of view, the wireless access ubiquity, the proliferation of mobile devices and the urgency to keep business moving have brought the mobile technology in the enterprise information system. From the users and consumers point of view, their real-time, continuous collaboration and their new behavior combined with the first two arguments have brought the social in the enterprise information system. If we add a fourth ingredient - the cloud - we obtain the entire representation of enterprise mobility. Today the state of the art in business technology is repositioning in "the third platform", which includes mobile devices and applications; the cloud services; the explosive data growth and a new generation of solutions. Let us mention that the first two platforms were: (1) mainframes and terminals and (2) the client-server model supported by the PC.This blend of social capabilities, mobile technology and cloud computing materialize into a new platform that forms the basis of a new information system [4], The interdependency is illustrated in Figure 1, where we also considered the position and the role of the enterprise applications. …

Whilst organizations accept that effective information management (IM) is now crucial to information/knowledge worker productivity and organizational performance, the continued dramatic growth in information volumes has not been accompanied by increased information management capability. This is the case for both data and unstructured information. At the same time the consumerization of technology, growth in social media, and expectations of the work environment are resulting in pressure on IT and IM functions to deliver information and information tools via multiple channels/devices and simple interfaces. This article charts the evolution of views on the digital workplace and the drivers that now render this an essential strategic direction for organizations. The desirable features of the digital workplace can be achieved now through integration of four technologies – mobile; big data; cloud computing and search-based applications – and with a focus on developing for the mobile environment. Providing this environment could transform the way in which work is accomplished both in terms of individual and organizational productivity and competitiveness. Understanding organizations through an ethnological and cultural perspective will be essential to the design and management of this transformation.

Populationwide and community-level platforms are important for the delivery of mental, neurological, and substance use (MNS) interventions along the continuum of care. Certain interventions that promote mental health, prevent MNS disorders, and protect people are most appropriately delivered on a populationwide basis. Legislation, regulations, and public information campaigns are the common delivery channels of this platform.Other interventions are best delivered by targeting a particular community setting or group in the community that shares a certain purpose. Community delivery channels include schools, workplaces, and neighborhoods and community groups.Populationwide and community-level interventions often require coordinated efforts among different sectors, such as health, education, social development, labor, and criminal justice systems.A third platform for delivering interventions—the health care system—is the subject of chapter 11 in this volume (Shidhaye, Lund, and Chisholm 2015).

This chapter envisions a new role for the electric utility in the 21st century, as a platform for innovation that will support the emerging Internet of Things (IoT). It explains the visionary challenge for utilities to think beyond their current paradigm, describes the Infrastructure-to-Services transformation experienced in the telecom and information industries, the role that platforms play in today’s economy, and the essential nature of innovation in the emerging era of the IoT. As infrastructure matures to support greater personalization and value, utilities have an opportunity for redefinition and another century-long run of success.

Launched in 1981,the journal "Marine Geology and Quaternary Geology" published thirty volumes,and like tree rings the thirty volumes have recorded the development of marine geology over the 30 years of China's reform and opening-up.Today the Chinese marine science community is on the march to the deep open ocean,getting active on the ocean science frontiers.As shown by recent discoveries,the deep sea floor provides a passageway between the surface and interior parts of the Earth system,and its understanding has become a bottleneck in the Earth system studies.On the other hand,the marine science is now at the transition from "expedition" to "observation",and the sea-floor observatories are building up the third platform for the Earth system observation.Looking forward to the 30 years ahead,the "Marine Geology and Quaternary Geology" will mirror the progress of marine geology in China,keeping track of its growth in the international scientific arena.

The Digital Universe, which consists of all the data created by PC, Sensor Networks, GPS/WiFi Location, Web Metadata, Web-Sourced Biographical Data, Mobile, Smart-Connected Devices and Next-Generation Applications (to name but a few) is altering the way we consume and measure IT and disrupting proven business models. Unprecedented and exponential data growth is presenting businesses with new and unique opportunities and challenges. As the ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) and Third Platform continue to grow, the analysis of structured and unstructured data will drive insights that change the way businesses operate, create distinctive value, and deliver services and applications to the consumer and to each other. As enterprises and IT grapple to take advantage of these trends in order to gain share and drive revenue, they must be mindful of the Information Security and Data Protection pitfalls that lay in wait ─ hurdles that have already tripped up market leaders and minnows alike.

When Service science, management, and engineering (SSME) was introduced in the mid-2000s, top IT vendors, IBM, HP, and Oracle were very aggressive and established research organizations and standardization organizations. But today, it seems that they have changed their course. IBM says it plans to expand Pre-tax Income margins through a shift to higher value material, namely, Software. HP's CEO, Meg Whitman, said in her interview on February 20, 2014 that “We are doubling down on Hardware”. Oracle joined in creating an industry consortium called the Service Research and Innovation Initiative (SRII). But we can't find its name on SRII Management team. As for their sales goods (materials) aspects, all of them are eagerly selling so-called converged infrastructure products, which consist of server, storage, network, and management software, and are featuring UX (user experience) interface to realize self-service system. They put strong emphasis on cloud system, which enable users to construct their systems more easily than before without the help from Services or Solutions Providers. But, these phenomena do not mean that SSME became past relic for IT vendors but mean that IT vendors are trying to develop holistic service systems. Third Platform, which is defined by IT Research consultancies and includes Mobility, Cloud, Social, IoT (Internet of Things) and Big Data as key components, makes it possible to realize its arrival. In this paper, We overview what is really happening in IT industry and discuss a mechanism about why Third Platform makes it possible to invite a new era through the holistic view of Service Science framework. The way to discuss the above topic is simple. I used basic Holistic Systems Science approach, i.e., fixed the perspective and methodology at first, then case-studied IT vendors' activities, and at last analyzed them. The curious thing is that personal behavior seems to affect whole system, namely, IT vendor's activity more intensely than we usually expect and that whole system (environment) affects personal behavior vice versa.

This study investigates strategic innovation changes designed to facilitate 'Collaboration as a Service' that were undertaken on information technology platform sites hosting online communities by NSW state government agencies in Australia. The initial platform hosted the Guardianship Tribunal site dealing with people that have disabilities. The second platform involved working groups (WGs). The third platform hosted knowledge resource centre user group sites. A WG focusing on climate change issues that collaborated within and across agencies, as well as with outside organizations was investigated. A feature of the climate change group is that it requires data and collaboration from many agencies with a future-oriented function and duration of 20+ years. Overall, the WGs perform better following the adoption and implementation of collaborative tools resulting in the benefits of there being a single-point document, reduced duplication of information and effort and a design that complements WG operational activities. Lessons were learned from changes in service delivery for the design of face-to-face services that drove pre-implementation factors and assisted change and collaboration in earlier platforms through enhancing later sites features and functionality limiting user resistance. However, the organizational change contributed to enhanced centralization and panopticism of organizational power relations. © 2013 Taylor & Francis.

In order to keep up with the next generation of technology and accommodate ever-increasing consumer demands for options, convenience, and, of course, the lowest prices, businesses must build their strategies on appropriate technology that can answer those demands. This paper will discuss the benefits, challenges, and implications of SMAC (social, mobile, analytics, cloud) technology and the effects of SMAC implementation on a business’s enterprise architecture and IT.The research supports the utilization of social, mobile, analytics, and cloud (SMAC) technology to respond to consumer demands based on a review of the literature. Real-world considerations are offered to the reader on implementation and application of SMAC technology into today’s business world.SMAC technology offers a state-of-the-art, adaptable enterprise solution that addresses these needs and can project a business’s enterprise platform into today’s modern economy. Although incorporating SMAC technology into an enterprise presents challenges, namely with security and high user expectations, the SMAC technology also offers a multitude of benefits. Effective change management, including assimilation of SMAC technology into an organization’s culture, and communication at all levels of an organization are key to the successful implementation of the SMAC stack. Hurbean and Fotache’s (2013) research concludes that businesses are wise to adopt “the third platform” of social media, mobility, big data, and cloud computing, and the authors of this paper agree with these findings based on the research conducted

ASTEX is a large multi-agency program to investigate all aspects of marine stratus clouds because of their overall importance in regulating the earth`s climate system. The program focused on clouds in the Eastern Atlantic during the month of June, 1992 because of the expected frequency of low clouds in that area. The experiment was based on the islands of Santa Maria in the Azores and Porto Santo about 800 km away in the Madeira Archipelago with large complements of remote sensors operated from both islands. To form an equilateral triangle of remote sensors, a ship was used as the third platform.