Implementation Of Events Research Articles

The Experience of Organizing the First Italian Youth Debating Championship

We present here a report about the first Italian Youth Debating Championship (IYDC, Campionato Italiano Giovanile di Debate 2021) from an organizational and management perspective. We show the complexity of the event's implementation and the importance of managing information and communication technologies. We underscore that not only have the participants recognized that the IYDC is a powerful method to improve participants' soft skills and active citizenship, but the European Commission and the European Parliament have officially as well. While the IYDC would not have been conceivable and viable before the COVID-19 pandemic, as organizers of informal education activities, we are convinced that this innovative educational model presented will continue to spread even after the pandemic ends.

Multimodal Fusion, Fission and Virtual Reality Simulation for an Ambient Robotic Intelligence

In this paper, we present an architecture that demonstrates multimodal fusion and fission using semantic agents and web services that interacts with worldwide-web computers, services and users. This solution extracts the meaning of a situation using the semantic memory of agents to manage the interaction process involved. The fusion of values from different sensors produces an event that needs implementation. The fission process suggests a detailed set of actions that are for implementation. Before such actions are implemented by actuators, these actions are first evaluated in a virtual environment which mimics the real-world environment. If no danger arises from such virtual evaluation, then implementation is feasible. Otherwise, there might be a need to add one or more smaller actions to render the action safe and free from danger. Our work presents the following contributions: (i) a design of agent memory and a model of the world environment using a knowledge representation language that is compatible with the current standards, (ii) creation of a pervasive architecture with several scenarios of composition and adaptation, (iii) presentation of how agents and services interact to provide support in a real-world, and (iv) simulation of an event in a virtual environment to assess the feasibility of the event's implementation.

A test of the evolution and predictive capacity of managers' interpretations of change

The present study examines the extent to which managerial interpretations of change evolve as the change process unfolds and the extent to which such interpretations are likely to predict those of employees. This study provides a quantitative test of Isabella's (1990) model of the evolution of managerial interpretations of change. This study found some support for the existence of discrete interpretive tasks at each stage of the change process when respondents were asked to provide retrospective accounts of such tasks (as per Isabella, 1990). Thus, when managers attempt to make sense of an event that has occurred, they tend to associate specific tasks with particular stages of the event's implementation, i.e. they attempt to create order where, possibly, none exists. However, ‘real time’ accounts did not follow the hypothesized pattern of interpretive tasks. While a change event is in progress, managers appear to simultaneously perform a rich mixture of interpretations. They assess and evaluate the change event before it is complete; they attend to rumours throughout a change event; and they attempt to fit new information with their current knowledge base. In addition, managers' interpretations of change were, for the most part, not significant predictors of employees' interpretations.