Convergence Of Technologies Research Articles

Convergence of educational technologies as an imperative for the development of innovation cooperation in the context of circular transformation

The object of the study is the process of convergence of educational technologies as an imperative for the development of innovative cooperation under the conditions of circular transformation. The central element of circular transformations is a person who must quickly react and adapt to changes in the external environment and solve management problems through systematic professional growth. This can be achieved thanks to the introduction of high-quality modern educational technologies, which require both special knowledge of the theory and practice of management, as well as personal development qualities. To achieve a state of sustainable development, managers making management decisions must quickly respond and adapt to changes in the external environment to solve various management problems. This requires systematic professional growth through the transition to high-quality new educational technologies. Combining the principles of global cooperation, defining the key imperatives of sustainable development and finding innovative measures of cooperation under the renewed conditions of the circular economy must be based on education. The main generally accepted indicator of the level of development of any country in the world is GDP. But under conditions of uncertainty and change, the real state of development and progress can be determined using the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI), which is an integral indicator. One of the main issues is the determination of the level of sustainable development in the context of circular transformations, taking into account the influence of the level of education and existing approaches to its assessment. If we take into account that the conditions for cyclical transformations must occur, including through raising the level of education and the constant transfer of education into practice, then the inclusion of the Index of the level of education is necessary to calculate the real state of development of any country

경쟁강도와 시장수요의 환경불확실성 하에서 ICT투자가 제조업의 비재무적 운영성과에 미치는 영향

This study defines ICT smartization as the convergence of information, information technology, information systems, and manufacturing and production processes, and aims to identify the empirical impact of the ICT smartization on non-financial operational performance. In addition, it aims to identify environmental uncertainty and the empirical impact of ICT investment as antecedent factors that affect ICT smartization. To this end, this study utilized the business panel survey from the Korea Labor Institute. After reliability and validity analysis, multiple regression analysis and regression analysis were performed. As a result, environmental uncertainty and ICT investment had a significant effect on ICT smartization. As a result, ICT smartization had a positive effect on each operational performance. Meanwhile, as a result of the verification of the mediating effect of ICT smartization in the relationship between ICT investment and individual operating performance, it was confirmed that ICT smartization has a significant indirect mediating effect. This study theoretically confirmed the effectiveness of integrating ICT and information through ICT investment into the production process by verifying the mediating effect of ICT smartization in the relationship between ICT investment and each operational performance.

경제적 이익을 창출하는 데이터의 활용과 재산적 권리

Car rental companies are earning revenue by selling driving data and transforming into mobility companies that collect data beyond the car rental business. The paradigm shift in the economy and society has already begun with the convergence of disparate sciences and technologies, aiming to create new businesses that combine existing industries and data in the digital transformation. All government ministries are calling for a paradigm shift in the digital transformation for economic and social development, and the keyword mentioned for this is the analysis and utilization of data. In recent years, the amount of data generated by humans and objects has increased exponentially, and it is clear utilizing data to unleash the social and economic potential of data will greatly help economic development. However, when it comes to harnessing the economic utility value of data, there is a need to discuss who has the right to the data and how the benefits should be distributed. It is not clear who owns the data and how it will be protected, not only for data generated by individuals but also for data collected by machines or online services. On the one hand, data should be freely circulated to create economic value, and on the other hand, it contains objects that need to be protected, such as personal information and intellectual property, and the value of reuse and utilization of collected data is great, but since aggregated data is concentrated in a few giant companies, legal, institutional, and technical measures are needed to utilize data fairly.
 Data is produced by a variety of entities, and in some cases, the entity that produces the data and the entity that has the right to process the data are separated. Depending on the type of data, personal information, which emphasizes the control of the information subject, non-personal information, which is de-identified, and data collected from products have different characteristics. However, in this paper, I have attempted to approach each data as an object of property rights under the premise of recognizing its economic value. In the case of personal information, which is considered to be subject to protection, the effect of strengthening the control of the information subject can be expected when it is recognized as a subject of transaction, and in the case of other industrial data, it is necessary to clarify the right to profit sharing for the creation of economic value. The EU data law takes a contractual approach to the allocation of data, an important resource in the digital economy. We hope that the EU Data Act will help us to refine our legislation, and we should continue to seek ways to promote the fair and safe use of data and revitalize the data economy.

THE NEED FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN THE FIELD OF FINTECH DEVELOPMENT

The main trend in the field of financial technologies (fintech) is their increasing influence on the global economic order, international relations, as well as changes in organizational and managerial decisions related to their development at the national level. The article proves that these processes are not just a «reassembly» of the financial system on a new technological basis2, but have all the signs and forms of regular international financial integration. The active introduction of financial technologies into the practice of financial integration justifies the need for international cooperation in this area at a qualitatively different level, taking into account the convergence of technologies and the specifics of national models of fintech development. The results of the study of trends in international relations and forms of their coordination in the field of fintech development are presented: from the formation of intersectoral and interregional ecosystems to international agreements, alliances and coalitions. The stages of international financial integration and their corresponding forms and areas of coordination are highlighted.

Research on the Application of Storytelling in Display Spaces

The 21st century is a very perceptual era, the interpretation of happiness and games are highlighted, so interactive space displays are of great significance. In the interactive display space, significant changes are necessitated, driving rapid transformations in display methods. Modern exhibition spaces have shifted from mere listing, explaining, and introducing items to adopting narrative display themes that communicate content and materials in an emotional and vivid manner. This has led to the emergence of a new display method, “displaying the content through stories,” which imbues the experience with fun and interest. The use of narrative techniques in display spaces allows for the simultaneous fulfillment of visitors’ desires to acquire information about the displayed content while offering a more expressive and enjoyable experience. It successfully meets the dual needs of visitors, providing both fun and information at the same time. In addition, it also has the advantage of technology convergence. Through the use of digital media technology, the content of the story can be expanded, allowing visitors to participate in the interactive display, so as to achieve an immersive visiting experience.

Folk Ballads: An Enduring Connection in the Digital Age

Folk Ballads: An Enduring Connection in the Digital Age this paper explores the timeless appeal of folk songs and their continued resonance in today's digital age This explores how these traditional narrative songs retain their relevance through culture internal transformation, digital convergence and cross -generational destiny. By examining the intersection of oral tradition and online community, this study reveals the ways in which folk galdas identify, evoke emotion, and bridge generational gaps through historical context and on a mixture of contemporary examples, this insight reveals the enduring power of folk music to connect people across time and technology. It delves into the fascinating world of folk music, tracing their journey from ancient oral tradition to its current significance in the digital age and examining what a given of these narrative gems would look like multiple generations are capable of exceeding the limits of time and technology. By examining the fusion of traditional storytelling and contemporary digital platforms, the study revealed the ways in which folk galdas can become vehicles for cultural expression, emotion and resonance Online communities, streaming services , social to revive interest in these ballads among contemporary audiences -It also highlights the role of the media. The study also examines the ways in which folk music serves as a means for intergenerational connections and generates shared historical and cultural heritage. Through a multi-dimensional lens, this research sheds light on the enduring thread that connects past classical music and current digital performance.

Re]Imagining Indigenous Educational Design: A Conceptual Manifesto to Grow Disruptive Indigenous Digital Activists

AbstractThe ubiquity of digital technologies and the harvesting of individual data has modified global societies, reinforcing systems of oppression. While a contemporary phenomenon, the convergence of technology and human subjugation is historical, with links to the racialised reproduction of settler-colonialism. Australia, a settler-colonial state, has escalated the prioritisation of digital competitiveness with a recent policy directed at stimulating infrastructure and research-industry-government partnerships. Strategically, Indigenous communities remain constrained, where the ubiquity of technology and the escalation of digital competitiveness compounds the socio-economic impacts of continuing colonisation. Offline, Indigenous communities continue to face rigid political constraint that limits online access and denies opportunities for their people to live anchored to ancestral lands, seas, languages, and knowledge systems. Given the rapid advance of digital disruption, the inability to limit racialised socio-technical systems, or compete at parity in cyberspace, suppresses Indigenous digital activism, governance, and entrepreneurialism. This conceptual paper (part manifesto, part vision statement) offers initial thoughts intended to stimulate further research on twenty-first-century Indigenous educational design. Central to future design considerations is the search for pragmatic solutions capable of overcoming the racialised challenges limiting the collective development of digital activists essential for Indigenous nation-building. In [re]imagining an alternate digital educational agenda, Indigenous communities must collectively advance strategies that deliberately shift away from Australian schools toward local community digital learning hubs.

From Machine Learning to Artificial General Intelligence: A Roadmap and Implications

The prospect of developing artificial general intelligence (AGI) with the same comprehensive capabilities as the human mind presents humanity both tremendous opportunities and dire risks. This paper explores the potential applications and implications of AGI across diverse domains including science, healthcare, education, security, and the economy. However, realizing AGI's benefits requires proactive alignment of its goals and values with those of humanity through responsible governance. As AGI approaches and possibly surpasses human-level intellectual abilities, we must grapple with complex ethical issues surrounding autonomy, consciousness, and disruptive societal impacts. The exact timeline for achieving AGI remains uncertain, but its emergence will likely stem from the convergence of advanced technologies like big data, neural networks, and quantum computing. Ultimately, the creation of AGI represents humanity's greatest opportunity to profoundly enhance flourishing, as well as our greatest challenge to steer its development toward benevolence rather than catastrophe. With sage preparation and foresight, AGI could usher in an unparalleled era of insight and invention for the betterment of all people. But without adequate safeguards and alignment, its disruptive potential could prove catastrophically destabilizing. This paper argues prudently governing the transition to AGI is essential for harnessing its transformative power to elevate rather than endanger our collective future.

Convergence of Virtual Reality and Digital Twin technologies to enhance digital operators’ training in industry 4.0

Industry 4.0 technologies enable the generation of added value throughout the production process. Among them, Digital Twins (DT) allow the modelization of cyber–physical systems in the virtual world and Virtual Reality (VR) allows an immersive perspective of the behavior of industrial equipment in a digitized environment. The combination of DT and VR can generate a digital platform for operators’ training where the industrial operator can perceive a more realistic environment for digital learning. In this paper, we introduce the convergence of DT and VR to enhance the digital learning process of driving an industrial mobile robot. To validate this proposal, an experimental methodology looking for measuring the transfer of skills from digital training into the real world has been set. This experiment consists of handling a mobile robot in a predefined course looking for committing the lowest number of failures in the minimum possible time. The experiment has been carried out by defining three different training methods: training with real equipment as the control group and two different experimental groups following digital training (VR and computer application-supported techniques). The abilities of their subjects have been measured in the initial and final stages of the experiment showing an improvement of 47% through real training, 38% through VR and 28% through the computer application. Results demonstrate the utility of using DT to attain significant digital learning and validate the initial hypothesis demonstrating the enhancement of digital learning through VR-supported training.

AI Renaissance, artificial intelligence, information overload, human-computer interaction, decision-making

Objective: This paper aims to explore the concept of AI as a modern-day Renaissance movement, triggered by the proliferation of the internet and advancements in artificial intelligence technologies. It delves into the transformative impact of AI on human-computer interactions and decision-making processes.
 Results: O’Leary's (1997) early notion of a Renaissance movement sparked by the internet's ubiquity finds resonance in the emergence of the AI renaissance. AI technologies such as natural language processing, machine learning, heuristic language processing, and neural networks have integrated into intricate networked computing environments. These technologies facilitate the handling, retrieval, and analysis of vast amounts of data available on the World Wide Web. Given the overwhelming volume of data, direct human analysis has become impractical, necessitating AI-driven support for efficient data utilization. In today's competitive and tech-driven landscape, the time available for decision-making has diminished, prompting reliance on intelligent agents and delegating decision-making tasks to these digital surrogates.
 Conclusions: The contemporary AI renaissance signifies a paradigm shift in human-computer dynamics. The convergence of AI technologies with the internet's vast information landscape has created a symbiotic relationship, redefining traditional computer roles. AI-enabled tools not only manage the deluge of data but also extend decision-making capabilities, optimizing efficiency in an increasingly fast-paced world. This transformative movement transcends conventional computing boundaries and has paved the way for a new era of human-machine interaction.

Micro Air Vehicles in India - An Overview

The genesis of the Micro Air Vehicles (MICAV) program and its progress in the last decade is discussed. Fixed, rotary and flapping wing MICAVs (300 mm class) have been successfully flown using remote control by Educational Institutions, Laboratories and enthusiastic entrepreneurs, transmitting video imagery. They are now moving on to autonomous control and its integration with navigation and guidance. The need for micro-sensors has led to work on convergence of micro, nano, bio, info and cogno technologies which are discussed. The need for simulation and cooperative flying of MICAVs with UGVs is stressed and finally the thrust areas for the next five years have been suggested for aerodynamics, structures, control, navigation, guidance, sensors (including bio sensors), power sources, simulation and operations involving brain-machine interface.

Food companies' productivity dynamics: Exploring the role of intangible assets

AbstractFood insecurity has risen amid economic recovery from the COVID‐19 pandemic. Food companies' productivity dynamics can be driven by intangible assets, financing, economies of scale, lifecycle, and technological convergence. We confront this by studying productivity drivers for detailed food manufacturing industries using cross‐country firm‐level panel data. The results show that intangible assets nonlinearly and heterogeneously affect productivity growth, and countries with fewer product market regulations demonstrate higher productivity benefits from asset intangibility. Intangible assets do not play a major role for start‐up companies, while technological convergence drives productivity growth as they learn new technology in the food markets. Regarding the industrial differences, the bakery sector benefits the most from asset intangibility because of its brand images. Financing is particularly important for the meat/fish and dairy sectors, where capital equipment is necessary, and leverage effects are larger for countries with more access to financial institutions. Economies of scale are a vital productivity enhancer in the grain and starch sector for lowering fixed costs. Industrial policies to (i) raise the quality of intangible assets, (ii) promote financial access, and (iii) utilize scale economies are critical for improving the productivity of food manufacturers [EconLit Citations: D24, G32, L66, O34].

Longitudinal scientific mapping of emerging and converging trends between the Internet of Things and digital transformation

Purpose The purpose of this study is to analyze the technological change under development linked to the convergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) and digital transformation (DT) from the perspective of a scientific mapping in a context marked by the occurrence of an unexpected event that accelerated this process such as the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and its variants. Design/methodology/approach The study was developed under the longitudinal scientific mapping approach and considered the period 1990–2021 using as a basis the descriptors DT and IoT. The steps followed were identification and selection of keywords; design and application of an algorithm to identify these selected keywords in titles, abstracts and keywords using terms in Web of Science (WoS) to contrast them; and performing a data processing based on the journals in the Journal Citation Report during 2022. The longitudinal study uses scientific mapping to analyze the evolution of the scientific literature that seeks to understand the acceleration in the integration of technology and its impact on the human factor, processes and organizational culture. Findings This study showed that the technologies converging around IoT form the basis of the main DT processes being experienced on a global scale; furthermore, it was shown that the pandemic accelerated the convergence and application of new technologies to support the major changes required for a world with new needs. Finally, China and the USA differ significantly in the production of scientific knowledge with respect to the first eight followers. Originality/value The knowledge gap addressed by this study is to identify the production of scientific knowledge related to IoT and its impact on DT processes at the scale of individuals, organizations and the new way of delivering value to society. This knowledge about researchers, institutions, countries and the derivation is multiple indicators allows improving decision-making at multiple scales on these issues.

Recombination between coronaviruses and synthetic RNAs and biorisk implications motivated by a SARS-CoV-2 FCS origin controversy.

The urgent need for improved policy, regulation, and oversight of research with potential pandemic pathogens (PPPs) has been widely acknowledged. A 2022 article in Frontiers in Virology raises questions, reporting on a 100% sequence homology between the SARS-CoV-2 furin cleavage site (FCS) and the negative strand of a 2017 patented sequence. Even though Ambati and collaborators suspect a possible inadvertent or intentional cause leading to the FCS insert, the related underpinnings have not been studied from the perspective of potential biorisk policy gaps. A commentary on their article contests the low coincidence likelihood that was calculated by Ambati et al., arguing that the sequence match could have been a chance occurrence alone. Additionally, it has been suggested that the odds of the recombination event may be low. These considerations seem to have put many speculations related to any implied viral beginnings, notably from a research setting likely outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology, to rest. However, potential implications for future disasters in terms of biosafety and biosecurity have not been addressed. To demonstrate the feasibility of the Ambati et al. postulate, a theoretical framework is developed that substantially extends the research orientations implicated by these authors and the related patent. It is argued that specific experimental conditions, in combination, could significantly increase the implied recombination profile between coronaviruses and synthetic RNAs. Consequently, this article scrutinizes these largely unrecognized vulnerabilities to discuss implications across the spectrum of the biological risk landscape, with special attention to a potential "crime harvest." Focusing on insufficiently understood features of interaction between the natural and man-made world, vulnerabilities related to contaminants, camouflaging, and various misuse potentials fostered by the digitization and computerization of synthetic biology, it highlights novel biorisk gaps not covered by existing PPP policy. Even though this work does not aim to provide proof of the viral origin, it will make the point that, in theory, a convergence of under-appreciated lab experiments and technologies could have led to the SARS-CoV-2 FCS insert, which analogously could be exploited by various threat actors for the clandestine genesis of similar or even worse pathogens.

Global Collaboration in Technology Sectors during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Patent Review

This study aims to identify the international technology trends and convergence structures that emerged during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic by analyzing COVID-19-related patents. Accordingly, network analysis was performed using data drawn from COVID-19-related patent applications submitted to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) between 2020 and 2022. The results showed that patent applications were submitted in 21 countries, with 97% of all applications coming from the intellectual property 5 (IP5) countries (US, Korea, China, Japan, and Europe). Technology convergence has occurred between the fields of physics and biology or between different biotechnology sectors. Owing to the nature of government-initiated development processes, technologies related to infectious diseases may exhibit a correlation between national patents and disease control policies. This study is significant since it empirically analyzes the convergence structure and development direction of global technologies engaged in overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic by analyzing new patent applications after the COVID-19 outbreak. The findings of this study will help to establish new directions for overcoming other infectious diseases that may emerge in the future.

Knowledge convergence of science and technology in patent inventions

Knowledge convergence of science and technology in patent inventions

Digital Humanities and Librarianship

Digital Humanities (DH) is an emerging academic discipline that helps to provide solutions to problems of humanities and social sciences through computational techniques. It is the result of the convergence of digital technologies with social sciences and humanities. The libraries now have the responsibilities of planning, designing, and developing digital content, digital preservation, and digital archives to preserve the historical humanities and archaeological resources. Libraries have played a crucial role in the development of DH1. It is inspiring that library professionals are now wanted to engage with digital humanities actively2. DH is one of the key research areas of the library profession and can integrate with library technologies and methods such as knowledge organization, knowledge management, search and retrieval design, user education, metadata, semantic mapping, ontology, thesaurus construction, digital curation, discovery services, etc. which finds application in DH. Libraries support the digital humanities more explicitly in digital scholarly publishing, digital libraries, digital collections, text mining, and digital pedagogy

Trajectories Matter: A Study of Interfirm Technological Convergence and Alliance Formation

Trajectories Matter: A Study of Interfirm Technological Convergence and Alliance Formation

Dynamic scheduling of multi-memory process flexible job shop problem based on digital twin

Digital twin is one of the newly-emerged enabling technologies for achieving intelligent manufacturing. Based on the physical–digital convergence, digital twin provides manufacturing systems with a new model of collaboration between the workforce and industrial processes. With the characteristics of real-time communication and data-driven enablers, the digital twin scheduling strategy requires close cooperation between workers, systems and processes. However, in the process of digitization and intelligentization, industry will need to face the challenge of supporting new technologies and worker skills development. To this end, the paper considers workers’ multi-memory process (learning and forgetting) in the flexible job shop scheduling problem (MPFJSP). Meanwhile, the dynamic scheduling strategy of the digital twin-driven MPFJSP is proposed under machine breakdowns aiming at simultaneously minimizing the makespan, total carbon emissions, total production cost and product quality stability. A virtual workshop is adopted to simulate and optimize the dynamic scheduling scheme to realize intelligent workshop scheduling. Finally, a computational experiment is carried out to verify the effectiveness and advantages of the proposed intelligent scheduling strategy.

Approaches to the intellectualization of information and telecommunication networks security control in transport

The specifics of modern information and telecommunication networks in transport, as an object of information security control, are investigated. The main trends in the development of information and telecommunication network protection technologies (TNPT) have been identified. The presence of the interrelation of the main integrative properties: readiness, mobility, throughput, stealth, accessibility, manageability, which is a consequence of the convergence of information transmission and processing technologies, is noted. A new integrative property of ITCS has become the presence and characteristics of distributed system memory, which allows storing transmitted messages for a certain time. An important feature of modern TNPT is the presence of artificial intelligence, which is formed on the basis of information and algorithmic support of modern TNPT, providing flexibility of the system behavior. These trends indicate the transformation of TNPT into a supersystem, the management tasks of which are insufficiently investigated at present. The purpose of this work is to study new approaches to ensuring the safety management of modern TNPT critical infrastructure, which includes modern systems of sea and river transport, taking into account their features. The object of the study is the information security control system of modern TNPT. The subject of the study is the scientific and methodological support of the TNPT critical infrastructure control. The research objectives are to analyze existing and develop new conceptual frameworks, as well as approaches to improving the TNPT information security control system based on intellectualization methods. The analysis of the existing methodology for managing complex organizational and technical systems and information security control technologies is carried out. The concept of TNPT information security control is formalized schematically. The analysis of the existing approach to the organization of the TNPT information security control process is carried out. The tasks of control intellectualization are defined. The problem of ensuring the efficiency and reliability of the TNPT control is formulated. The main scientific tasks of the development of the TNPT information security control methodology are defined.