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Article Citation - WoS: 20Citation - Scopus: 24A Study on the Key Soft Skills for Successful Participation of Students in Multinational Engineering Education(Tempus Publications, 2017) Fernandez-Sanz, Luis; Teresa Villalba, Maria; Amelio Medina, Jose; Misra, Sanjay; Computer EngineeringSoft-skills have proved to be a necessary complement to technical skills in today's multinational workplaces. As universities are facing the challenge of promoting internationalization and mobility in students and teachers, they have to decide how to help their students in developing these skills as well as increase their awareness on the cultural differences in multinational settings. After a long trajectory of participation in multinational educational experiences, the authors launched a survey to check if their previous findings on the preferred soft skills by educational experts and managers still remain valid after 5 years. Another goal of the study was the analysis of the link between preference for specific soft skills and cultural background in each country as characterized by Hofstede's indicators. The data collected from 123 experts from 45 different countries have confirmed the existence of a stable core set of preferred soft skills at global level and also for European countries. Results have also shown links between specific cultural indicators and preference for some soft skills.Article Citation - WoS: 7Citation - Scopus: 10Efficient Software Review Process for Small and Medium Enterprises(inst Engineering Technology-iet, 2007) Mishra, D.; Mishra, A.A considerable amount of software is produced world-wide by small and medium enterprises (SMEs). These organisations do not have enough resources to implement a rigorous quality plan. It has been established that reviews of various artifacts play a very important role in ensuring the quality of software. Traditional review methods are rigorous and their implementation is cumbersome for SMEs. A new review process which is easy to implement and requires almost no documentation is introduced. It is based on reviewers' efforts to produce high-quality software while minimising the inspection cost. Additionally, people who are conducting this review need not be present at the same place during most phases of the review process. This process has been successfully implemented in a CMM level 3 software development company intending to achieve CMMI level 5 and results are found to be quite encouraging.Article Citation - WoS: 172Citation - Scopus: 190Interpolative Reich-Rus Type Contractions on Partial Metric Spaces(Mdpi, 2018) Karapinar, Erdal; Agarwal, Ravi; Aydi, HassenBy giving a counter-example, we point out a gap in the paper by Karapinar (Adv. Theory Nonlinear Anal. Its Appl. 2018, 2, 85-87) where the given fixed point may be not unique and we present the corrected version. We also state the celebrated fixed point theorem of Reich-Rus-Ciric in the framework of complete partial metric spaces, by taking the interpolation theory into account. Some examples are provided where the main result in papers by Reich (Can. Math. Bull. 1971, 14, 121-124; Boll. Unione Mat. Ital. 1972, 4, 26-42 and Boll. Unione Mat. Ital. 1971, 4, 1-11.) is not applicable.Article Citation - WoS: 27Citation - Scopus: 28Generalized Meir-Keeler Type Contractions on g-metric Spaces(Elsevier Science inc, 2013) Mustafa, Zead; Aydi, Hassen; Karapinar, ErdalIn this manuscript, we introduce generalized Meir-Keeler type contractions over G-metric spaces. Moreover, we show that every orbitally continuous generalized Meir-Keeler type contraction has a unique fixed point on complete G-metric spaces. We illustrate our results by some given examples. (C) 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.Article Citation - WoS: 82Citation - Scopus: 87On Common Fixed Points in g-metric Spaces Using (e.a) Property(Pergamon-elsevier Science Ltd, 2012) Mustafa, Zead; Aydi, Hassen; Karapinar, ErdalIn this paper, we introduce some new types of pairs of mappings (f, g) on G-metric spaces called G-weakly commuting of type G(f) and G-R-weakly commuting of type G(f). We obtain also several common fixed point results by using the (E.A) property. (c) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.Article Citation - Scopus: 1Maintaining Software Through Bit-Parallelism and Hashing the Parameterized q-grams(Univ Osijek, Tech Fac, 2012) Prasad, Rajesh; Agarwal, Suneeta; Misra, Sanjay; Sharma, Anuj Kumar; Singh, Alok; Computer EngineeringIn the software maintenance, it is often required to find duplicity present in the codes. Two code fragments are equivalent, if one can be transformed into the other via consistent renaming of identifiers, literals and variables. This equivalency can be detected by parameterized string matching. In this matching, a given pattern is said to match with a substring of the text, if there exists a one-to-one correspondence between symbols of and symbols of. In this paper, we propose an efficient algorithm for this problem by using both the overlapping and non-overlapping q-gram. We show the effect of running time of the algorithm on increasing the duplicity present in the code.Article Citation - WoS: 33Citation - Scopus: 37Discrete Sizing Optimization of Steel Trusses Under Multiple Displacement Constraints and Load Cases Using Guided Stochastic Search Technique(Springer, 2015) Azad, S. Kazemzadeh; Hasancebi, O.The guided stochastic search (GSS) is a computationally efficient design optimization technique, which is originally developed for discrete sizing optimization problems of steel trusses with a single displacement constraint under a single load case. The present study aims to investigate the GSS in a more general class of truss sizing optimization problems subject to multiple displacement constraints and load cases. To this end, enhancements of the GSS are proposed in the form of two alternative approaches that enable the technique to deal with multiple displacement/load cases. The first approach implements a methodology in which the most critical displacement direction is considered only when guiding the search process. The second approach, however, takes into account the cumulative effect of all the critical displacement directions in the course of optimization. Advantage of the integrated force method of structural analysis is also utilized for further reduction of the computational effort in these approaches. The proposed enhancements of GSS are investigated and compared with some selected techniques of design optimization through six truss structures that are sized for minimum weight. The numerical results reveal that both enhancements generally provide promising solutions with an insignificant computational effort.Article Citation - WoS: 31Citation - Scopus: 30Structure of the Ξb< Resonance(Amer Physical Soc, 2018) Aliev, T. M.; Azizi, K.; Sarac, Y.; Sundu, H.We explore the recently observed Xi(b)(6227)(-) resonance to fix its quantum numbers. To this end, we consider various possible scenarios: It can be considered as either a 1P or 2S excitation of the Xi(b) and Xi'(b)(5935) ground-state baryons with spin-1/2 or the 1P or 2S excitation of the ground-state Xi(b)(5955) with spin-3/2. We calculate the masses of the possible angular-orbital 1P and 2S excited states corresponding to each channel employing the QCD sum rule technique. It is seen that all the obtained masses are in agreement with the experimentally observed value, implying that the mass calculations are not enough to determine the quantum numbers of the state under question. Therefore, we extend the analysis to investigate the possible decays of the excited states into Lambda K-b(0)- and Xi(-)(b) pi. Using the light cone QCD sum rule method, we calculate the corresponding strong coupling constants, which are used to extract the decay widths of the modes under consideration. Our results on decay widths indicate that the Xi(b)(6227)(-) is a 1P angular-orbital excited state of the Xi(b)(5955) baryon with quantum numbers J(P) = 3/2(-).Article Citation - WoS: 19Software Development Outsourcing: Challenges and Opportunities in Nigeria(Taylor & Francis inc, 2014) Casado-Lumbreras, Cristina; Colomo-Palacios, Ricardo; Ogwueleka, Francisca N.; Misra, SanjayIn recent years, several emergent regions have become software development sourcing countries. This article investigates the possibilities of sub-Saharan Africa as a sourcing destination in the software field. To find out the reasons why sub-Saharan Africa countries, in general, and Nigeria, in particular, are not considered a destination for global software development projects, the authors interviewed a set of professionals from Europe and Africa. Results indicate that there are many disadvantages and difficulties impeding Nigeria from becoming a preferred sourcing destination, mainly the absence of a strong software industry and the concerns about legislative, fiscal, and commercial premises. On the other hand, it is observed that there are also relevant added values and competitive advantages in Nigeria (English-speaking country, same time zone, and cost); therefore, it can become a potential target for software development outsourcing in the medium and long terms.Article Citation - WoS: 178Citation - Scopus: 184Couple fixed point theorems for nonlinear contractions in cone metric spaces(Pergamon-elsevier Science Ltd, 2010) Karapinar, ErdalThe notion of coupled fixed point is introduced by Bhaskar and Lakshmikantham (2006) in [13]. In this manuscript, some results of Lakshmikantham and Ciric (2009) in [5] are extended to the class of cone metric spaces. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
