Digital Network Environment Research Articles

Digital Twin-Driven Virtual Network Architecture for Enhanced Extended Reality Capabilities

Extended Reality (XR) technology is proposed as a key enabler for the development of immersive applications, thus transforming the way users interact within digital environments. In communication networks, XR will be able to introduce immersive network functions with the potential to enhance the network experience. This paper proposes a comprehensive architectural framework designed to support the deployment of XR Functions (XRFs) within a Digital Twin Network (DTN) environment in order to provide immersive functions of any type, including control and management functions, that are not available in the original network. The proposal can be deployed in relevant fields where digital twins are promising, such as medical applications, surveillance systems, autonomous driving and space communications. The proposed architecture must consider the need for minimal hardware and software resources, along with a network topological configuration with the objective of providing a robust yet lightweight framework, allowing devices with limited computing power, such as smartphones and laptops, to benefit from the enhanced network functionalities provided in the Digital Twin Network, without affecting the original network (ON).

Modeling of stakeholder influence on effectiveness of team decisions in the digital network space of crisis management centres of the EMERCOM of Russia

The article deals with issues related to modeling of stakeholder influence on effectiveness (sustainability) of teamwork in crisis management centres (hereinafter referred to as CMC) of the Ministry of the Russian Federation for Civil Defence, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters (hereinafter referred to as EMERCOM of Russia) while analysing, forecasting development and resolving/reducing conflictness of social emergencies (hereinafter referred to as SE). The problem is considered from the perspective of using a nonlinear approach in modeling in the form of the Verhulst equation which allows to analyse complex social processes. The influence of different stakeholder groups is modeled at different values of the “a” parameter of its intensity– weak, medium, strong. The article presents the results of practical research on assessing the influence of stakeholders, primarily the external ones, on effectiveness (sustainability) of the CMC teamwork in the analysis, forecast of development, and resolution/reduction of conflictness of SE. The definition of SE is given as an attractor that has emerged due to unresolved social contradictions which have caused an imbalance in public relations. The work of the CMC teams is conducted in the digital network environment of the centres, and it introduces certain specifics into its activities. The research shows the general scheme of the stakeholder approach implementation in team management in the analysis, forecast of development and resolution/reduction of conflictness of SE. The author presents the results of the nonlinear modeling of effectiveness (sustainability) of the CMC teamwork, depending on the intensity of stakeholder influence on decisions made by the team. A system of indicators characterising the regression model of the “a” coefficient of stakeholder influence is proposed, the specific values of which can be measured during field research. Three modes (three types of attractors) of teamwork are investigated. The key objective of the study is to create prerequisites for the formation of a digital twin of the CMC teamwork of the EMERCOM of Russia in SE.

Society and State Responsibilities for Security in the Digital Network Space: The Opinions of Citizens and Experts

This article is devoted to the study of the role of state bodies and civil structures in ensuring the security of the digital network space. The purpose of this work was to determine the subjective opinions of citizens about the boundaries of society and state responsibility for security in the digital network space. This sociological study included a combined online and offline survey, as well as a survey of experts. A sample of 1,000 respondents aged 16 years and older was recruited, which was representative on gender and age grounds. The sample for the expert survey consisted of 90 specialists across areas of activity. Based on the results, the authors concluded that in order to legitimize power, it is necessary to re-distinguish states and societies from the responsibility of ensuring personal and public security. Respondents considered the state and society to be equally responsible for the moral components of personal security, and that the state is responsible for protecting the personal data of citizens and ensuring public security. Experts were inclined to believe that both personal and public security in the digital network environment should be provided by authorities.
 Keywords: digitalization, responsibility, state, society, security, digital network space

Culture as an attribute of digital transformation

The article comprehends the concept of digital culture that appeared with the beginning of the information/digital era at the end of the last century. The paper considers digital culture from the point of view of the general resource of the knowledge society and as a new social ecology that determines the experience and capabilities of people at the present time, when the digital network environment has brought new practices, opportunities and threats. Speaking about culture in the context of information and communication technologies, the authors emphasize that its influence is even more significant, since the way it is used can affect the change in the essence of our communication and cultural models and become a support for the digital transformation of organizations. Digital culture is understood as the way that society uses to receive and process information. It is required to comprehend and create a new digital culture as a guarantor of the implementation and adoption of changes in the context of widespread digitalization and rethinking of business processes, distribution channels and relations with consumers, leading, in turn, to a change in the value proposition and the consumer segments themselves. Based on the analysis, the authors formulate and substantiate five main reasons why building a digital culture should become a key problem for the successful development of any organization: 1) digital transformation will not be complete without the development of a thriving digital culture; 2) insufficient organizational culture is detrimental to success in the digital age; 3) a strong digital culture is a competitive advantage for an organization; 4) a strong digital culture is the key to business longevity; 5) using a digital culture can increase employee engagement in the work process.

ОРГАНІЗАЦІЙНІ ЗАСАДИ ПІДГОТОВКИ БАКАЛАВРІВ ГОТЕЛЬНО-РЕСТОРАННОГО БІЗНЕСУ В УМОВАХ АНГЛОМОВНОГО ОСВІТНЬО-ЦИФРОВОГО МЕРЕЖЕВОГО СЕРЕДОВИЩА

There is an increase in demand for highly skilled professionals in hotel and restaurant business which can provide a high level of service at the level of international standards. Modern hotel and restaurant business professionals should be fluent in several foreign languages, capable of organizing service at hotel and restaurant enterprises and sanatorium and resort complexes, possessing modern information and communication technologies. Due to this, there is a need to modernize the system and content of training specialists of the specified specialty. Based on the analysis of the scientific and methodological literature of the hotel and restaurant business we can note that one of the main problems is the dissatisfaction of the needs of employers of this industry with the specialists of the new generation. High quality education, the study of foreign languages, theoretical knowledge and practical skills, based on the world leaders’ experience of hotel and restaurant business, must be implemented in the conditions of the English-language educational and digital network environment. The article has elements of training future specialists in hotel and restaurant business in the framework of the study of compulsory components in the context of the English-language educational and digital network environment. The author presents the scheme of the formation of the curriculum ecourses for training future specialists in hotel and restaurant business and provides a methodology for determining the percentage of competence formation for specialists in this field.

Marcos sociales y jurídicos en la publicación de contenidos en los albores del siglo XXI

This article addresses the current social and legal frameworks that affect circulation and amplification of data, information and knowledge as an integral part of the process of capital accumulation, Knowledge Economy or Cognitive Capitalism; and on the other hand, conceptions framing knowledge as a free resource sharing under the headings of the theory of common property in the digital commons. The definitions of editing, publication and publishing in the digital network environment standardized by the Internet in the XXI century as well as its necessary mapping from the perspective of Information Science are reviewed.

Research on College English Autonomous Learning Strategies Based on the Digital Instructional Platform

Under the digital network environment, one of the objectives of college English teaching is to cultivate students’ autonomous learning ability and make students become lifelong learners. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the current situation of college English autonomous learning strategy use based on the digital instructional platform. Through questionnaire and interview, it is found that the digital learning environment is not so good, and the use of learning strategies is not satisfactory in some degree, especially metacognitive strategy, affective strategy and social strategy. The following suggestions are put forward: strengthen the training of autonomous learning strategies, improve teachers’ educational technology literacy, network environment, perfect the teaching management, and improve teachers’ educational technology literacy and students’ information literacy.

Research on Reader Service Mode in the Library Based on Digital Networked Environment

Along with the development of science and technology, the digital technology and networking enter into the development of the library. The paper researches the networked library system service mode based on the digital environment, and verifies through the service concept, library resource, query method and other tests that the library system based on digital network environment improves the reading method and information query method. In this way, readers are more convenient, thus exploring a new means for the library digitization and networking.

Reconstruction of copyright limitations and exceptions in the digital network age: importation of legal flexibility and certainty

This article proposes to reconstruct the system of copyright limitations and exceptions under the digital network environment by introducing mechanisms that guarantee legal flexibility, certainty and predictability. Facing the increasing convenience of exploitation of copyrighted works brought on by digital network technology, this article suggests proposals for revising copyright limitations and exceptions by importing a four-factor balancing test based on the USA copyright system with the focus on the first and fourth factors, namely, the purpose and nature of the use, and the influence on the market of the original work as an abstract guidance to guarantee legal flexibility and a list of non-exclusive exceptions as the minute prescriptions to guarantee legal certainty. The importance of the analysis is placed on weighing the transformative nature of user-generated contents and remix creation in the abstract guidance as well as the typical situations in the non-exclusive list by comparative research on legislations of copyright limitations and exceptions among different jurisdictions. This article finally provides several alternative schemes such as compulsory licensing, no action notice scheme and community guidelines to supplement copyright limitations and exceptions.

Study Online Course Evaluation System

[Objective] This paper investigates new Web-based course content in the Networkenvironment, the role of curriculum evaluation and significance, the evaluation methods, processes,and should adhere to the principles of the network. [Process and methods] The process and methodsare compared with the traditional environment through experimental research, theoretical researchand system analysis combined with the digital network environment, access to experimental controlwith a combination of survey methods. [Results] It focuses on teaching content, learning resourcesand resides among the contents of teaching strategies and learning strategies of evaluation,involving students, teachers, learning materials, online teaching support systems, learning supportand service system in each part. evaluation of online courses plays a guiding role in guiding thedesign and development of online courses in the right direction; By analyzing the course of learningresources, learning process and its causes, we can determine its effectiveness, shortcomings,contradictions and problems and find out the reasons, ways and measures for improvements. canimprove the network quality of the course and optimize teaching. [Conclusion] Online courseteaching evaluation of network can provide reliable protection and guidance function, and it is astrong fulcrum in the whole systems engineering courses and online teaching.

도서관간 복제·전송에 의한 디지털 정보의 공동이용을 위한 도서관 면책 연구

디지털 네트워크 환경 하에서 정보이용자의 지식<TEX>$\cdot$</TEX>정보의 창출을 도모하고 국가경쟁력을 제고하기 위해서는 도서관간 디지털 복제<TEX>$\cdot$</TEX>전송은 필수적이다. 도서관간의 디지털 복제<TEX>$\cdot$</TEX>전송에 의한 정보의 공동이용 정책에 절대적인 영향력을 미치는 것은 저작권법상의 도서관 면책 규정이다. 먼저 국제규범(베른협약, TRIPs협정, WCT)과 미국, 유럽연합의 저작권 제한과 예외 규정을 분석하였다. 이어서 우리나라 2003년 개정저작권법상 도서관 면책 규정의 관련 규정, 도서관 보상금 제도, 권리 보호 조치 등의 내용을 집중 분석하였다. 그와 관련하여 제기되는 문제점도 논의하였다. 끝으로 본 연구 결과를 기초로 하여 도서관간 디지털 복제<TEX>$.$</TEX>전송에 의한 정보의 공동이용 활성화를 위하여 개정된 저작권법에 대한 도서관의 현실적인 조치와 대응방안을 제시하였다. To promote the production of information and knowledge in information user and to raise national competitiveness in digital network environment, the cooperative utilization of digital information by digital republication and transmission between library and library is indispensable. The policy for cooperative utilization of digital information by digital republication and transmission between library and library is influenced by the regulation of library exemption in copyright law. First of all, this study analyzes limitations and exceptions of copyright in international norm (Berne Convention. Agreement on TRIPs and WCT), Copyright Law of the United States of America and EU Directive. And then this study analyzes and examines the regulation of library exemption in the revised Copyright Act of Korea in 2003, library remuneration system, technical measures for protection of copyright, etc. Also this paper points out related problems. As a results of the legal analysis. this study suggests necessary measures and the corresponding plans to the revised Copyright Act of Korea in 2003 to promote the cooperative utilization of digital information by digital republication and transmission between library and library

A real-time PC-based video phone system on ISDN/LAN

A low-cost video phone system has been developed with a graphical interface on a personal computer platform. The system is based on a novel high-speed variable frame sizing approach which enables it to achieve economical, real-time performance giving jerk-free motion images in an integrated services digital network or local area network environment. The hardware and software design issues are presented in this paper. >

Public Information Access Policy in the Digital Network Environment

Public Information Access Policy in the Digital Network Environment

B-ISDN multimedia workstation architecture

Technical issues involved in integrating computer and communication technologies in the broadband integrated services digital network (B-ISDN) environment are discussed. The Multimedia Environment for Remote Multiple-Attendee Interactive Decision-making (MERMAID), an ISDN-based multimedia and multiparty desktop conference system, is described. MERMAID involves B-ISDN key technologies related to multimedia and multicast protocols, and workstation architecture for groupware applications. Technical issues based on user experiences and evaluations of MERMAID over three years are presented and discussed in connection with the system's evolution in the B-ISDN environment. >

A high‐speed four‐channel subscriber fibre‐optic link for broadband networks

AbstractThis paper describes the performance of a 560 Mb/s digital fibre‐optic link designed specifically for possible use in a broadband integrated services digital network (BISDN) environment. Four 140 Mb/s non‐return‐to‐zero (NRZ) channels are time division multiplexed using a bit‐by‐bit multiplexing strategy and transmitted using potentially low cost 1.3 μm EE‐LED and laser sources. A 10−9 bit error rate with a power level of ‐34 dBm was achieved for each independent channel over a distance of 10 km.