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The coronavirus pandemic has compelled academic institutions across the globe to initiate online teaching, impacting thereby the teaching-learning process to undergo a structural change. Among various pedagogical techniques that have been adopted, organizing synchronous classes has been found to be the most beneficial. It simulates the classroom environment, facilitating thereby parallel knowledge dissemination to a broader audience. This study measures the efficacy of synchronous web-based learning during this ongoing pandemic, among postgraduate Library and Information Science (LIS) students of Bangladesh. Using an online questionnaire, a survey was conducted among the postgraduate students of the Department of Information Science Library Management (ISLM) of the University of Dhaka. The results revealed that limitation of internet data, unstable internet, along with power blackouts were some of the primary inhibitors blocking the participants to attend classes online. Finally, this study concludes that as most students do not seem to be ready yet to study in a synchronous delivery mode, it recommends educational institutions in Bangladesh to provide an alternative delivery method, in order to sustain academic excellence in these challenging times.

The motivation of this paper is to examine empirically the effect of social media marketing on value equity, relationship equity and brand equity on fashion apparel brand among Universiti Malaysia Kelantan (UMK) students who have high attributes of internet savvy’s and take delight in undertaking social media marketing. This study is backed by the use and gratification theory that creates desire for amusement and enhancement of information while people use social media marketing.  Data was collected by means of Google Form online survey from a total of 361 respondents. The simple random sampling approach was utilized to collect data from the respondents and data analyzed using the SPSS. The findings indicated that social media marketing activities, which are entertainment, interaction, trendiness, and customization had a positive effect on customers’ equity among students. The results confirm that social media marketing is one of the key success factors in enhancing customer equity. Further, the results showed that interaction is the first concern among the respondents. In other words, the communication between the apparel fashion brands industry with customers is important and helps to create relationships so that customers can get more information about them.

The Special Issue of the Journal of Information Technology Management (JITM) is publishing very selective papers on information management, Internet of Things (IoT), Algorithms, Quality of Service (QoS),Tourists Perception , Technology in higher education, integrated systems, enterprise management, Self-Service Technology (SST) , cultural thoughts, strategic contributions, management information systems, and cloud computing. We received numerous papers for this special issue but after an extensive peer-review process, eight papers were finally selected for publication. In the digital age, the management of electronic archives became a trend as well as the focus of management development in many institutions.

The influence of disintegration processes on the development of regional trade agreements is revealed. Opportunities and threats to cooperation between Ukraine and the EU within the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area at the state level, for enterprises and the population have been identified. To achieve the aim of the research, the method of hypotheses, the method of developing search questions and questionnaires, the method of expert questionnaire survey of government officials, business community and the scientific community were applied in combination with statistical methods of primary information processing and the software SPSS Statistics 23. The aim of article is to identify threats and opportunities of the Ukraine - EU Free Trade Area and priority forms of cooperation. Ukraine is exposed to disintegration tendencies and destabilizing political processes, influence of loss of control over the most industrially developed eastern territories, disruption and severance of established internal economic ties. The efficiency of cooperation forms in ensuring the stability of international economic relations is estimated. Based on results of the study, practical recommendations were developed for both enterprises (micro-level of international cooperation) and for the government (macro-level). In the context of digitalization and informatization in the global environment and the dynamic growth of the IT sector, international cooperation in this area is becoming especially important. According to the results of the study, Ukraine and the EU have mutual economic interests to develop cooperation in the IT field, which requires support and involvement of both parties in improving regulatory conditions and integration mechanisms.

One of the most important risks that the banks and financial institutes face, is credit risk which is related to not-paid instalments or the instalments paid with delay by borrowers. Banks use credit scoring models In order to prevent this type of risk. The goal of this research is to investigate the joint effect of economic time cycles and the industry sector on credit scoring models we are seeking to answer the key question: “when should bank change their credit scoring models based on economic time cycles and for which industry sectors?”. The dataset of the research involves all companies that were applied for a loan in one of the Iranian major banks during the years 2008-2011. The companies have been divided into four industry sectors including “Industry and Mine”, “Oil and chemical”, “Service and Infrastructure” and finally “Agriculture”. Based on the sector of the industry and year, 54 explanatory variables, both financial and non-financial, 12 distinct industry sectors and time-specific data sets are built then classification methods were used to classify customers into two groups of defaults and non-defaults. Finally, we compared the results by Wilcoxon Test. The results show that the companies that are in the groups of Industry and Mine and Agriculture, need their own special credit scoring based on industry type model and time but two other groups don’t need of course in the studies dataset duration. Finally, the study concluded by introducing the credit scoring strategies for different four-cycle of economies

Now a day's software is the baseline for the success of any organization. There is a huge demand of quality software in the customer-oriented market. Regression testing makes it possible but it’s a costly affair. Regression test suite minimization is way to reduce this cost but it is NP hard problem. This paper proposes an effective approach for regression test suite minimization using Artificial Ecosystem Optimization algorithm. To improve its performance a modified Artificial Ecosystem Optimization algorithm is proposed for Test case minimization. To evaluate the performance of proposed approach experiment is conducted in controlled parameter setting on open-source subject program from SIR repository. The results are collected and analyzed in comparison to existing approaches using statistical test. The test results reflect the superiority of proposed approach.

Due to enchantment in network technology, the worldwide numbers of internet users are growing rapidly. Most of the internet users are using online purchasing from various sites. Due to new online shopping trends over the internet, the seller needs to predict the online customer’s choice. This field is a new area of research for machine learning researchers. A random forest (RF) machine learning method is a widely used classification method. It is mainly based on an ensemble of a single decision tree. Online e-commerce websites accumulate a massive quantity of data in large dimensions. A Random Forest is an efficient filter in high-dimensional data to reliably classify consumer behaviour factors. This research article mainly proposed an extension of the Random Forest classifier named “Weighted Random Forests” (wRF), which incorporates tree-level weights to provide much more accurate trees throughout the calculation as well as an assessment of vector relevance. The weighted random forest algorithm incorporates the C4.5 method named a “Hybrid Weighted Random Forest” (HWRF) to forecast online consumer purchasing behaviour. The experimental results influence the quality of the proposed method in the prediction of the behaviour of online buying customers over existing methods.

The article considers the main aspects of the use of digital platforms as a tool for the transformation of strategic consulting in public administration. The study substantiates the feasibility of using the results of consulting activities in the implementation of strategic objectives by the executive authorities at any level of government. The ways and methods of organizing consulting activities on the basis of digital platforms for the purpose of informational and analytical support of management technologies of public administration and civil service reform analyzed. Based on the results of the study, a model of using consulting services in the public administration system was developed. The criteria of efficiency of realization project management consulting in the public sector, based on digital platforms highlighted.

Globalization is one of the important elements of external environment of the enterprises, that is why it is defined to be the main object of this study. The main signs of globalization in international trade and the qualitative / quantitative changes caused are studied, in particular, attention is paid to the mutual exchange of resources to solve international problems, including environmental ones. The transformation of competitive / monopoly relations under the influence of globalization in the areas of levels of cooperation, the ratio of competition / rivalry, the dependence of competition on innovation, models of competitive behavior are analyzed. The impact of globalization on economic processes of influences redistribution in the markets between residents and nonresidents is investigated, the factors that cause changes in investment activity of nonresidents are identified, namely the direct relationship between changes in the index of economic globalization and the number of foreign enterprises in Ukraine. Based on the research, the identified exogenous factors are complemented by such factors as protection of intellectual property rights and prevention of abuse of intellectual property rights, and endogenous - as a relationship of decisive influence on businesses in specific markets, management awareness of the impact of their transactions on the market and others. It is concluded that globalization does not take into account the national characteristics of individual economies, the resource potential of development, but involves the use of existing benefits, respectively, those who want to become part of it must acquire certain exclusivity, disseminate relevant information, introduce innovation in enterprise management systems, show interest in cooperation with the relevant participant for the development of digitalization, social and economic transformations.

Enterprise Social Media (ESM) has been normally embraced by companies to boost team performance and agility for workers. The goal of this study is to investigate the mediating effect of workplace isolation on the relationships among usage ESM, employee agility and Team Performance along with exploration of the moderating influence of workplace Integrational study model. This research adds to corporate awareness in illustrating the impact of ESM use on team performance and employee agility based on theory of social exchange, theory of information processing and the theory of transactive memory. Cross-sectional survey was employed to collect data from telecommunication firms (public & private). 400 respondents were selected through purposive sampling technique and given close ended questionnaires, 348 questionnaires were selected for further analysis; through a number of statistical tools, after screening out the filled responses. It resulted in Suggesting ESM has a favorable effect on Employee Agility and Team Performance, but the negative relationships were observed among workplace isolation and employee agility and team performance. Further, Workplace Isolation mediated the relationship among ESM, Employee Agility and Team performance. Additionally, Workplace Integration strongly moderated the relationship between ESM and Workplace Isolation.  Experts and/or administrators should pay consideration to the impact of using ESM on agility and team performance of the workers. In addition, when implementing ESM to increase team performance they should concentrate on the extent of team diversity. By presenting the relationship between use of ESM, isolation in the workplace, workplace integration, agility of workers and performance of teams; it enriches the ESM use works by exploring the moderating functions of workplace integration while describing the beneficial consequences of workplace integration.

In the current paper, we have assimilated fuzzy techniques and optimization techniques, namely differential evolution, to put forward a modern archive-based fuzzy evolutionary algorithm for multi-objective optimization using clustering. The current work account for the application of a cluster associated approach. Specific quantitative cluster validity measures, i.e., J-measure and Xie-Beni, have been referenced to carry out the appropriate partitioning. The proposed algorithm introduces a new form of strategy which attempts to benefit the feasible search domain of the algorithm by minimizing the analysis and exploration of less beneficial search scope. This clustering method yields a group of trade-off solutions on the ultimate optimal pare to front. Eventually, these solutions are united and maintained in an archive for further evaluation. The current work summarizes and organizes an archive concerned with excellent and diversified solutions in an effort to outline comprehensive non-dominated solutions. The degree of efficiency is revealed with respect to partitioning on gene expression and real-life datasets. The proposed algorithm seeks to reduce the function assessment analysis and maintains a very small working population size. The effectiveness of the proposed method is presented in comparison with some state-of-art methods.

Equity is the basic structural component of the development of any business, so it is important for an industrial enterprise to develop tools to determine its effective management. It it is impossible without conducting qualitative financial analysis, timely and effective adaptation of valuation approaches in the modern conditions of functioning of enterprises. The effective functioning of enterprises is impossible without the use of modern complex methods, which include not only a methodology, a system of indicators, but also modern technologies for their assessment, planning and control. Information management is one of these technologies. To solve the problems of the study we used the method of structural-logical analysis, methods of theoretical generalization and comparative analysis, synthesis and method of grouping of absolute and relative values, graphical method and information management methods. The result of the study is the formation of a comprehensive approach to the financial analysis of the equity of the enterprise on the formed system of four groups of indicators. These indicators take into account the state of equity, its efficiency, ensuring risks in the process of the enterprise and directions of financial analysis.

The aim of the study is to develop a set of organizational and pedagogical conditions for integrated training of working teachers and students of pedagogical institutions of higher education to perform labor functions, highlighting the role of teachers in the professionalization of the educational process in a Smart Environment. The article considers the main directions of transformation of the role position of future teachers in the professionalization of the educational process. The article has presented structurally functional model development of role positions of teachers in the formation of professional competencies of students. The development of the role position of the teacher has considered in relation to his professional and personal development and self-awareness as a subject of the educational process under the influence of a Smart Environment. The mechanism of realization of such model has offered by the integrative program which provides integration of formal and informal education and formation on such basis of new competences and development of components of a role position of the future teacher.