Acta Informatica Pragensia, 2020 (vol. 9), issue 1

Factors Influencing Researcher Cooperation in Virtual Academic Communities Based on Principal Component Analysis

Jiangang Pang, Jan Capek

Acta Informatica Pragensia 2020, 9(1), 4-17 | DOI: 10.18267/j.aip.1283322  

As a professional virtual community, the virtual academic community meets the new needs of scholars for academic cooperation in the network environment. It provides a more convenient way for scientific research cooperation. The purpose of this paper is to combine the factors influencing researcher cooperation in virtual academic communities and to verify and improve the index system of the factors influencing researcher cooperation in virtual academic communities with data support. Data for the research was obtained in an online questionnaire survey wjx.cn from forum muchong.com, which is the largest virtual academic community in China. Using principal...

Greiner’s Model and Its Application in Automotive Companies in the Czech Republic

Lenka Sukova

Acta Informatica Pragensia 2020, 9(1), 18-29 | DOI: 10.18267/j.aip.1294600  

This paper deals with Greiner’s model, which is considered as an alternative concerning the life cycle of companies. There are many models that describe the life development of enterprises. The models differ in the number of individual phases, the size of the undertakings or their use. This paper aims to verify Greiner’s model in the Czech Republic. The research was carried out in 2019 from September till the end of November and within the geographical delimitation of the Liberec region. The research included entrepreneurial subjects from the field of national economy – automotive industry. A characteristic of the companies in question...

Knowledge Management-Enabling Technologies: A Supplementary Classification

Monika Dávideková, Michal Greguš, Marek Zanker, Vladimír Bureš

Acta Informatica Pragensia 2020, 9(1), 30-47 | DOI: 10.18267/j.aip.1304773  

Scientific and technological developments in informatics enable intensive transformation of data into valuable information. Enriched with context, information may be turned into knowledge, allowing organizations to optimize their processes and profile themselves as learning knowledge organizations. Several classifications of knowledge and knowledge management are available in scientific literature and research publications. In this paper the implementation and application of information and communication technology in knowledge management is being assessed from the perspective of synchrony and mutual interaction among collaborating parties.  Following...

Hand-Based Biometric System Using Convolutional Neural Networks

Katerina Prihodova, Miloslav Hub

Acta Informatica Pragensia 2020, 9(1), 48-57 | DOI: 10.18267/j.aip.1314175  

Today, data security is an increasingly hot topic, and thus also the security and reliability of end-user identity verification, i.e. authentication. In recent years, banks began to substitute password authentication by more secure ways of authentication because passwords were not considered to be secure enough. Current legislation even forces banks to implement multi-factor authentication of their clients. Banks, therefore, consider using biometric authentication as one of the possible ways. To verify a user's identity, biometric authentication uses unique biometric characteristics of the user. Examples of such methods are facial recognition, iris...

Akademické konference v časech pandemie COVID-19 – osobní ohlédnutí za XP 2020

Academic Conferences During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Personal Look Back at XP 2020

Michal Doležel

Acta Informatica Pragensia 2020, 9(1), 58-69 | DOI: 10.18267/j.aip.1323534  

This note deals with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis on the ways how academic conferences are organized and run. Specifically, I reflect on my personal experience gathered during the attendance of the 21st International Conference on Agile Software Development, which was organized as a solely virtual event for the first time. First and foremost, I summarize the technical and other challenges encountered as a conference presenter and participant. Then, I shortly discuss a possible impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the future publication standards in the sciences of computing.