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Proceedings of the 16th International Multiconference Information Society - IS 2013, October 7th – 11th, 2013, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Proceedings of the 16th International interdisciplinary scientific multiconference “Information Society”, considering topical technical and social problems of modern information society
The paper presents a new look at the process of education when the values of the student act like a lighthouse for the teacher at the moment of presenting material and arranging the process of education, the process of acquiring knowledge. The following new scientific statements and methods are described: (a) why the problem of secure living in modern information society demands developing and realizing the methods of much earlier socialization of children than its is usually done now; (b) why it is necessary to differentiate the methods of teaching in accordance with the values of the learners; (c) how to split young children in two groups: children with preponderance of material values and with preponderance of sublime values; (d) how to differentiate the methods of teaching for each of these groups; (e) what is cognitive engagement of the learners and how to achieve it at lessons for educational success in case of each of two values-homogeneous groups. As a result, a new psychological and educational paradigm is presented, it was developed under the framework of a new scientific discipline – cognitonics.
The positive psychology movement fulfills a shift from the accent on repairing weakness to the enhancement of positive qualities of the personality and preventing the problems before the moment when these problems arise. The publications on positive psychology allow for distinguishing a factor being especially beneficial to well-being, this factor is called mindfulness. Generalizing a number of available definitions of this concept, mindfulness can be characterized as the ability to maximally proceed from the context while taking decisions in any situations. The paper sets forth the deep connections of cognitonics with the positive psychology movement. Cognitonics is a new scientific discipline aiming at compensating the negative shifts in the cognitive-emotional development of personality and society caused by stormy progress of information and communication technologies and globalization processes. It is shown that cognitonics suggests a system of original, mindfulness-based educational methods supporting effective cognitive-emotional development of the personality in modern information society.
At the present level of development the information and knowledge become important engines of global economic growth and key elements of national strate-gy for increasing country’s competitiveness in the international market. The article is aimed to analyze two monitoring systems of innovation capacity (ICT Development Index and Networked Readiness Index) as the indicators of development of knowledge economy and information society.
The study of existing monitoring systems is topical, because at the present level of development the transition to information society and knowledge economy becomes one of the key elements of national strategy aimed to increase country's competitiveness in the international market. There are many index systems that study the nature of this phenomenon and compare countries by the level of digital development. To ensure objective evaluation of innovation capacity the analysis of current monitoring systems applied in measuring the development of ICT and e-readiness together with data collection was suggested.
This chapter explores Russia’s implementation of the national e-government strategy and information policies. . Based on official, national strategic documents and a number of e-government cases that highlight different projects at the federal and regional levels, we outline the formidable barriers and idiosyncrasies of managing e-government development in Russia.
This paper is an overview of the current issues and tendencies in Computational linguistics. The overview is based on the materials of the conference on computational linguistics COLING’2012. The modern approaches to the traditional NLP domains such as pos-tagging, syntactic parsing, machine translation are discussed. The highlights of automated information extraction, such as fact extraction, opinion mining are also in focus. The main tendency of modern technologies in Computational linguistics is to accumulate the higher level of linguistic analysis (discourse analysis, cognitive modeling) in the models and to combine machine learning technologies with the algorithmic methods on the basis of deep expert linguistic knowledge.
The scope of the conference is to gather researchers from different areas and disciplines to present results and participate in discussions under the common theme of intelligent systems and computing. These interactions will facilitate a better understanding of the diversity of the different approaches as well as of their similarities. In addition it will open the way for applying approaches that have been successful in one area to problem solving in different areas and applications.
The results of cross-cultural research of implicit theories of innovativeness among students and teachers, representatives of three ethnocultural groups: Russians, the people of the North Caucasus (Chechens and Ingushs) and Tuvinians (N=804) are presented. Intergroup differences in implicit theories of innovativeness are revealed: the ‘individual’ theories of innovativeness prevail among Russians and among the students, the ‘social’ theories of innovativeness are more expressed among respondents from the North Caucasus, Tuva and among the teachers. Using the structural equations modeling the universal model of values impact on implicit theories of innovativeness and attitudes towards innovations is constructed. Values of the Openness to changes and individual theories of innovativeness promote the positive relation to innovations. Results of research have shown that implicit theories of innovativeness differ in different cultures, and values make different impact on the attitudes towards innovations and innovative experience in different cultures.
This article is talking about state management and cultural policy, their nature and content in term of the new tendency - development of postindustrial society. It mentioned here, that at the moment cultural policy is the base of regional political activity and that regions can get strong competitive advantage if they are able to implement cultural policy successfully. All these trends can produce elements of new economic development.