This paper focuses on the issues facing Albania as a country aiming the membership to the Europea... more This paper focuses on the issues facing Albania as a country aiming the membership to the European family. First, European policies for rural areas revitalization are presented and then, the challenges Albania has to overcome to become a EU member and second, to revitalize the rural areas. Small holding size is a major concern as it does not stimulate cooperation amongst farmers. Land legal issues is another problem that needs to be addressed. The revitalization of Albanian rural areas demands investments in ICT and a collaboration between the public and the private sectors.
Software Engineering Techniques Applied to Agricultural Systems presents cutting-edge software en... more Software Engineering Techniques Applied to Agricultural Systems presents cutting-edge software engineering techniques for designing and implementing better agricultural software systems based on the object-oriented paradigm and the Unified Modeling Language (UML). The book is divided in two parts: the first part presents concepts of the object-oriented paradigm and the UML notation of these concepts, and the second part provides a number of examples of applications that use the material presented in the first part. The examples ...
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2014
International audienceThe publication of the International Journal of Agricultural and Environmen... more International audienceThe publication of the International Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Information Systems (IJAEIS) started in 2010 in order to promote the new research advances in information systems applied to agriculture and environment. This special issue celebrates the 4th anniversary of IJAEIS. The four papers selected for this issue present different important topics in the field of agricultural and environmental information systems
This chapter aims to present a new modeling paradigm that promises to significantly increase the ... more This chapter aims to present a new modeling paradigm that promises to significantly increase the efficiency of developing enterprise information systems. Currently, the software industry faces considerable challenges as it tries to build larger, more complex, software systems with fewer resources. Although modern programming languages such as C++ and Java have in general improved the software development process, they have failed to significantly increase developer’s productivity. Thus, developers are considering other paths to address this issue. One of the potential paths is designing, developing and deploying enterprise information systems using the Model Driven Architecture (MDA). MDA is a model-centric approach that allows for modeling the overall business of an enterprise and capturing requirements to developing, deploying, integrating, and managing different kinds of software components without considering any particular implementation technology. At the center of this approach are models; the software development process is driven by constructing models representing the software under development. Code that expresses the implementation of the model in a certain underlying technology is obtained as a result of model transformation. Thus, the intellectual investment spent in developing the business model of an enterprise is not jeopardized by the continuous changes of the implementation technologies. Currently there are two main approaches trying to implement MDA-based tools. One of the approaches is based on the Object Constraint Language and the other on Action Language. An example of designing, developing and deploying an application using this new modeling paradigm is presented. The MDA approach to software development is considered as the biggest shift since the move from Assembler to the first high level languages.
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), Nov 1, 2020
This study analyzed the close interaction among organizational networking and financial mechanism... more This study analyzed the close interaction among organizational networking and financial mechanisms of growth and sustainable growth of SMEs operating in Albania. Data on 120 SMEs for 2017–2018 were analyzed using multivariate regressions and multilayer perceptron artificial neural networks. Initially, the data were analyzed using multivariate regression analyses to find the correlation between firms' growth measured by three different indicators: return on equity, return on assets and business size. In this approach, growth takes into consideration a firm's liquidity, its operational efficiency, and leverage indicators in addition to organizational characteristics. The results obtained during the initial phase were fed to the multilayer perceptron artificial neural networks model to evaluate SMEs growth and further their sustainable growth process by using the age of the firm, classified into start‐up, grown, and matured stages. The model results showed that SMEs in the start‐up stage assume a risk‐taker approach toward sustainable growth. In the grown stage, they implement a market‐timing strategy in selecting investments toward a sustainable growth perspective. Those in matured stage replicate the liberal managerial style of the SMEs in start‐up stage, but employ a less aggressive strategy.
There is a growing amount of data available from many resources that can be used effectively in m... more There is a growing amount of data available from many resources that can be used effectively in many areas of human activity. The Human Genome Project, for instance, provided researchers all over the world with a large set of data containing valuable information that needs to be discovered. The code that codifies life has been read, but it is not yet known how life works. It is desirable to know the relationships among the genes and how they interact. For instance, the genome of food such as tomato is studied with the aim of genetically improving its characteristics. Therefore, complex analyses need to be performed to discover the valuable information hidden in this ocean of data. Another important set of data is created byWeb pages and documents on the Internet. Discovering patterns in the chaotic interconnections of Web pages helps in finding useful relationships for Web searching purposes. In general, many sets of data from different sources are currently available to all scientists.
This paper focuses on the issues facing Albania as a country aiming the membership to the Europea... more This paper focuses on the issues facing Albania as a country aiming the membership to the European family. First, European policies for rural areas revitalization are presented and then, the challenges Albania has to overcome to become a EU member and second, to revitalize the rural areas. Small holding size is a major concern as it does not stimulate cooperation amongst farmers. Land legal issues is another problem that needs to be addressed. The revitalization of Albanian rural areas demands investments in ICT and a collaboration between the public and the private sectors.
Software Engineering Techniques Applied to Agricultural Systems presents cutting-edge software en... more Software Engineering Techniques Applied to Agricultural Systems presents cutting-edge software engineering techniques for designing and implementing better agricultural software systems based on the object-oriented paradigm and the Unified Modeling Language (UML). The book is divided in two parts: the first part presents concepts of the object-oriented paradigm and the UML notation of these concepts, and the second part provides a number of examples of applications that use the material presented in the first part. The examples ...
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2014
International audienceThe publication of the International Journal of Agricultural and Environmen... more International audienceThe publication of the International Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Information Systems (IJAEIS) started in 2010 in order to promote the new research advances in information systems applied to agriculture and environment. This special issue celebrates the 4th anniversary of IJAEIS. The four papers selected for this issue present different important topics in the field of agricultural and environmental information systems
This chapter aims to present a new modeling paradigm that promises to significantly increase the ... more This chapter aims to present a new modeling paradigm that promises to significantly increase the efficiency of developing enterprise information systems. Currently, the software industry faces considerable challenges as it tries to build larger, more complex, software systems with fewer resources. Although modern programming languages such as C++ and Java have in general improved the software development process, they have failed to significantly increase developer’s productivity. Thus, developers are considering other paths to address this issue. One of the potential paths is designing, developing and deploying enterprise information systems using the Model Driven Architecture (MDA). MDA is a model-centric approach that allows for modeling the overall business of an enterprise and capturing requirements to developing, deploying, integrating, and managing different kinds of software components without considering any particular implementation technology. At the center of this approach are models; the software development process is driven by constructing models representing the software under development. Code that expresses the implementation of the model in a certain underlying technology is obtained as a result of model transformation. Thus, the intellectual investment spent in developing the business model of an enterprise is not jeopardized by the continuous changes of the implementation technologies. Currently there are two main approaches trying to implement MDA-based tools. One of the approaches is based on the Object Constraint Language and the other on Action Language. An example of designing, developing and deploying an application using this new modeling paradigm is presented. The MDA approach to software development is considered as the biggest shift since the move from Assembler to the first high level languages.
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), Nov 1, 2020
This study analyzed the close interaction among organizational networking and financial mechanism... more This study analyzed the close interaction among organizational networking and financial mechanisms of growth and sustainable growth of SMEs operating in Albania. Data on 120 SMEs for 2017–2018 were analyzed using multivariate regressions and multilayer perceptron artificial neural networks. Initially, the data were analyzed using multivariate regression analyses to find the correlation between firms' growth measured by three different indicators: return on equity, return on assets and business size. In this approach, growth takes into consideration a firm's liquidity, its operational efficiency, and leverage indicators in addition to organizational characteristics. The results obtained during the initial phase were fed to the multilayer perceptron artificial neural networks model to evaluate SMEs growth and further their sustainable growth process by using the age of the firm, classified into start‐up, grown, and matured stages. The model results showed that SMEs in the start‐up stage assume a risk‐taker approach toward sustainable growth. In the grown stage, they implement a market‐timing strategy in selecting investments toward a sustainable growth perspective. Those in matured stage replicate the liberal managerial style of the SMEs in start‐up stage, but employ a less aggressive strategy.
There is a growing amount of data available from many resources that can be used effectively in m... more There is a growing amount of data available from many resources that can be used effectively in many areas of human activity. The Human Genome Project, for instance, provided researchers all over the world with a large set of data containing valuable information that needs to be discovered. The code that codifies life has been read, but it is not yet known how life works. It is desirable to know the relationships among the genes and how they interact. For instance, the genome of food such as tomato is studied with the aim of genetically improving its characteristics. Therefore, complex analyses need to be performed to discover the valuable information hidden in this ocean of data. Another important set of data is created byWeb pages and documents on the Internet. Discovering patterns in the chaotic interconnections of Web pages helps in finding useful relationships for Web searching purposes. In general, many sets of data from different sources are currently available to all scientists.
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