Papers by Ramona Lacurezeanu
Annals of Faculty of Economics, 2016
The digitization as a general phenomenon is influencing even the students we meet nowadays, makin... more The digitization as a general phenomenon is influencing even the students we meet nowadays, making their expectations grow regarding the experiences offered by the eLearning context. At the global level it is found that the student as consumer of pieces of different content, with different levels of involvement as well as with a different level of attention is hard to be pleased. It is difficult to follow their interests and from here stems the difficulty of measuring the studentsˊ behavior. Our study will provide a model / tool for measuring the involvement of the student specializing in tourism within the courses by capturing levels of involvement in the course of learning and outlining their behaviour. We will compare the achieved results with the model of the student as it was imagined by the teacher when constructing the entire course. Our research will provide the specialized literature with conclusions on the impact of using collaborative environments in teaching and learning...
2019 6th International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT), 2019
During the past ten years, the authors have developed a blended learning space provided with web ... more During the past ten years, the authors have developed a blended learning space provided with web 2.0 features, which offers unique opportunities for the study, analysis and interpretation of students' behavior so as to identify teaching methods and techniques that are adequate to the big data era. They are investigated with a mix of web usage mining techniques and formal concept analysis. The present article explores a novel approach, which will allow for the automatic discovery of concepts from students' behavior patterns that are generated as a reaction to teacher thinking and behavior patterns. The main objective of the study is to create a structure of meta-attributes needed by students in order to gain knowledge and skills (detection and prediction patterns) in a learning environment where support and guidance is provided by a more “knowledgeable other”. The results are expected to provide a minimal set of attributes that students need in order to be considered active p...
The paper presents several considerations regarding the e-Learning field, and some experimental d... more The paper presents several considerations regarding the e-Learning field, and some experimental data mining results regarding the acceptance of e-Learning and related technologies. The study consists in mining the information collected from questionnaires in order to gain insight of the students' preferences in opting for an e-Learning environment versus a traditional one.
The web 2.0.-era education is in a continuous reformation and evolution. Nowadays, information te... more The web 2.0.-era education is in a continuous reformation and evolution. Nowadays, information technologies are developed and widespread impetuously. Thus, digital mind maps are becoming more and more popular but little is known about the use of this subject and its application in the economic academic field. This paper aims to offer some results in mind mapping applied to a course from the higher education in the economic area by using a mixed research methodology. Thus, we combined a survey and a participant observation, aimed to illustrate the way in which we projected, implemented and used the Web2 instruments with mind mapping. On the one hand, this framework is useful for measuring the students’ attitude towards traditional teaching with WEB 2.0 instruments with mind mapping. On the other hand, we want to check if the engagement of the students will increase. So, our study will provide conclusions in the field of research related to the measurement of students' attitudes a...
There has never been such a rich offer in terms of ERP solutions that customers can choose from b... more There has never been such a rich offer in terms of ERP solutions that customers can choose from because the problem of knowledge has never been emphasized in the past. An ERP system in line with the company’s business is metamorphosed into a knowledge management tool that improves information transfer and generates “knowledge”. On the other hand, major decisions are rarely simple, and the best alternative can befall only after careful deliberation. In the present research we endeavor to provide a model of multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) in the selection of ERP applications. We illustrate and apply a MCDM technique, namely analytical hierarchy process (AHP) to assist SMEs to select the most appropriate ERP. We formulate an AHP decision model and apply it to a hypothetical case study to demonstrate the feasibility of the choice to select the most appropriate ERP software for a specific SME. We believe that our work could become a didactic source of inspiration for teaching de...
Sustainability
In the conditions of the pandemic crisis, implementing an enterprise resource planning (ERP) syst... more In the conditions of the pandemic crisis, implementing an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system with a sustainability component represents a crucial investment for a small and medium enterprise (SME) but critical for the organization, if it is not the matching solution. A comprehensive framework for selecting the S–ERP system was elaborated, including a set of relevant criteria for an SME to draw and assess the selection of an ERP system, considering that the factors extracted as well as the importance in the proposed model have been debated for years in the available literature. A methodology based on the brainstorming and questionnaire techniques was proposed in establishing the selection criteria, and the AHP decision analysis method was used for evaluating the weight of the criteria, all these in order to provide a model for ERP selection. This model was tested on a set of numerical, hypothetical, and applied data of the Romanian context. The use of the recommended model sho...
Audit Financiar
Nowadays, Information Technology (IT) is part of virtually every business, and companies that can... more Nowadays, Information Technology (IT) is part of virtually every business, and companies that cannot keep the pace with new technologies will disappear over time. Due to their nature of specific activities and exceeding other areas, professional accounting and auditing services can improve their performance through Robotic Process Automation (RPA). Furthermore, RPA can contribute to increasing the credibility of the accounting profession, as well as streamlining the activity in order to comply with the requirements imposed by professional standards but with much lower costs. This study is based on a review of the literature and through an exploratory approach opens a discussion on the concept of RPA and customises it in the field of professional accounting services by analysing robotics models specific to accounting and audit.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTERS COMMUNICATIONS & CONTROL
To become higher competitive a university needs to develop a viable students’ absorption strategy... more To become higher competitive a university needs to develop a viable students’ absorption strategy on the labor market. A key to the successful development of such a strategy rests to synchronize jobs descriptions with profiles and behavior of IT students. In order to generate this synchronization, it is essential to identify a way to improve university curricula, learning and teaching process based on the students’ profile and on the labor market needs. In this manner, universities could offer IT companies information about their IT students’ profile and behavior. Our paper proposes a data mining and social network analysis to examine IT students’ skills and behavior in order to generate their actual profile. The results contribute to the development of knowledge concerning the IT graduates’ profile and based on this, a solution that might match the university curricula with the labor market requirements. Finally, the results attempt to provide IT companies with information with the...
Sustainability
In terms of corporate governance, the board of directors (BoDs) is the main responsible structure... more In terms of corporate governance, the board of directors (BoDs) is the main responsible structure in meeting and safeguarding both shareholders and stakeholders’ interests. Integrated reporting’s primary aim is to improve information quality provided to shareholders while responding to stakeholders’ interests and needs. Using lenses of stakeholder theory, this study explores the relationship between board of directors’ characteristics as size, gender diversity, activity, tenure, outside directors, chief executive officer (CEO) duality and the Integrated Reports alignment level to the International Integrated Reporting Committee (IIRC) framework, using a self-constructed disclosure index. Applying a content analysis method, data were collected from integrated reports to determine the self-constructed disclosure index (Integrated Reporting Score—IRS). Through quantitative analysis, we analyzed which BoDs’ characteristics are correlated to IRS. The analyzed sample was formed of 98 inte...
Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Digitalia
The aim of the present study is to create the profile of persons who have become aware of their n... more The aim of the present study is to create the profile of persons who have become aware of their need to have a specific tool to move intelligently in an urban space. The research is conducted within the frame of smart cities literature and approaches cities from the perspective of the presence of Information and Communication Technologies in all areas of social, economic and political life. In this context, smart people are considered to be persons who use the advantages of technology to obtain information-knowledge and are capable to identify the need of a smart tool to assist them in various domains. A concept map is created that is interpreted as a tool to measure the physical and virtual presence of senior undergraduate students in Economic Informatics in places significant for academic information and knowledge transfer. The authors try to demonstrate the importance of combining data mining and social network analysis methods so as to carry out a complex analysis of the problem and validate by their findings important research by Fortunato, Girvan, Papadopoulos, Adedoyin-Olowe et al.
Business Excellence and Management, 2012
Nowadays, the delivery of learning services is accomplished in a diversity of ways and subordinat... more Nowadays, the delivery of learning services is accomplished in a diversity of ways and subordinated to the rules of a competitive market, in the context of a globalization expansion. Moreover, the Internet, the websites and related technologies sustain this unprecedented diversity. In this paper we try to provide a usability requirement analysis from the e-Learning perspective, as psychology studies have demonstrated that users follow their intuition, they are inpatient and want their results immediately, but at the same time they don't always do optimal interaction decisions. In other words, we illustrate user requirements through a method of analyzing educational portal usability for higher education in economics. Using data mining methods, we also built a profile for the students and grouped them in specific clusters based on their preference for e-Learning (instead of traditional methods) for their studies-a very motivating approach which could help both institution and students.
The Amfiteatru Economic Journal, 2014
The information explosion has led inevitably to the need to design and implement software solutio... more The information explosion has led inevitably to the need to design and implement software solutions to the new information environments faced by any person, group, company, and nation. Measuring software product quality has been neglected for a long time but now both producers and researchers recognize the importance of field testing and assessment software. In this context, the aim of the article is to propose, validate and demonstrate the importance of using dynamic indicators of software quality measurement that reflect the implications that quality has in the emergence of gaps in each stage of the process leading to the achievement of application software. Method proposed is part of applied researches field having the purpose of being a specific instrument for the domain studied and it is intended to become the means by which the required effectiveness for the assumed objectives is reached: increasing responsibility to customers through quality improvement. Moreover, by applying measures to improve product quality, any company signs up in the current trend of increasing responsibility to the client which, in its turn, is an important component of CSR.
The paper presents several considerations regarding the e-Learning field, and some experimental d... more The paper presents several considerations regarding the e-Learning field, and some experimental data mining results regarding the acceptance of e-Learning and related technologies. The study consists in mining the information collected from questionnaires in order to gain insight of the students' preferences in opting for an e-Learning environment versus a traditional one.
The educational policy documents at European level reaffirm professors’ status as key players o... more The educational policy documents at European level reaffirm professors’ status as key players of strategies aimed to stimulate socio-economic development. In a powerful knowledge-based society, the e-Learning system has the capacity to transform education, creating major initiatives required to identify new skills and behaviors. In this paper we try to outline the position of this new educational system in the
Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, 2012
In recent years of intense transformations in Internet and information technologies, higher educa... more In recent years of intense transformations in Internet and information technologies, higher education institutions seek to implement novel tools in an attempt to enhance their activities. Among these tools, the decision support systems (DSS) play an important part to assist in all managerial and academic processes. While previous DSS research focused on enterprise-level decision making [15], we center on the individual and introduce a DSS architecture for students’ support in decision processes, which integrates some operative data mining tasks.
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