Andrea Tick

• PhD in Military Sciences - MA in English Language and Literature; Mathematics and Computer Sciences - BSc in Economics
• Professor at Óbuda University

Business Intelligence is still in its infancy stages in developing countries, particularly Kenya. Research has shown that different models are available to assess the usage and adoption of Business Intelligence (BI). In this case, the technological, organizational, and environmental (TOE) model was proposed as a suitable model for developing econom...

The solution for an error-free and cost-effective operation of complex administrative and business processes, or rather, the effectiveness of the solution, is a very important issue in both the profit-oriented and the non-profit sector. This is because the optimal effectiveness of business and administrative automation processes is a high-priority...

Since private cars and vans accounted for more than 25% of global oil consumption and about 10% of energy-related CO2 emissions in 2022, increasing the share of electric vehicle (EV) ownership is considered an important solution for reducing CO2 emissions. At the same time, reducing emissions entails certain economic losses for those countries whos...

Many countries around the world have embarked on long-term plans to actively replace fossil fuels—gas, oil, and coal—with renewable energy sources (RES), mainly using solar and wind power. However, the slow pace of such substitution, which has been observed in the global energy sector over the past 30 years, casts doubt on the reality of these plan...

Napjaink pandémiás helyzete, valamint az erősödő gazdasági és energetikai válság egyre inkább felerősíti a versengést a vállalatok ügyfélekért folytatott harcában éppúgy, mint a munkavállalókért folytatott küzdelemben. A széles piaci kínálattal és az ebből eredő árverseny növekedésének köszönhetően a vevők gyakrabban váltanak márkát vagy szolgáltat...

Concerns about climate change are a hot topic in the current debate about a sustainable future, and despite more than 30 years of international conferences, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP), the annual usage amount of fossil fuel-based energy sources has remained l...

The global energy transition is an uneven process, fundamentally related to the level of economic development of countries and their access to energy resources (renewable and non-renewable) to a large extent. The global climate is interconnected, and all nations impact it through their products and services. The six countries discussed—China, Brazi...

The establishment of relationships relies fundamentally on trust. Investigating the attributes contributing to trustworthiness holds significant merit for enhancing decision-making processes across social, political, business, education, and healthcare domains. A critical challenge lies in discerning how individuals make trust-related decisions and...

The COVID-19 pandemic has faced up health systems around the world with the challenge of organizing supplies and effectively distributing vaccines to citizens. Clear planning of need and constant tracking of actual values are necessary to achieve sustainable collective immunity and high rates of healthcare innovation. This chapter describes these p...

The purpose of the study is to examine how Industry 4.0, and the digital environment, have together created a new situation for companies and universities in terms of soft skills for employability. While companies aim to introduce a new structure, universities try to align with these changes by developing new educational methods, curricula, and mod...

A 21. században működő vállalkozásoknak számos kihívással kell szembenézniük. Ilyen egyebek mellett a digitális transzformáció kényszere, a fenntarthatósági törekvések miatt szükségessé váló üzletimodell-váltás, és mindez olyan formában, hogy közben nyereségesek maradjanak és az üzletmenetüket is fenntartsák. Ez a tanulmány arra keresi a választ, h...

Mobile phones and internet form a crucial part of modern life, which raises important questions, such as security, data protection and privacy. Countless studies examine what influences users' approaches towards security. The attitude theory gives the basic background to the present study through which the topics of cyber safety and security, data...

The use of ChatGPT in academic studies burst into the public consciousness during the last year. However, as being a disruptive technology in education it must be assessed and examined. The learning experiences of students in higher education can be improved by using such language models, which present new and exciting prospects. These approaches e...

Vaccination is critical to preventing the spread of diseases. It stimulates the immune system to produce antibodies that fight specific diseases, eradicating and reducing their incidence. However, despite the proven benefits, there is hesitation and skepticism in some areas due to side effects and lack of knowledge. Developing a data collection and...

In an unstable economic climate, all market participants want to know is when is the timing to overcome a recession, and what measures and means to use for economic recovery. In this regard, the process through which the Eurozone economy has gained momentum since the summer of 2022 has been a volatile one. This was reflected in a sharp rise in the...

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted education and required academics to shift to emergency remote education. The efficiency of the teaching learning process is determined by several factors in a technologically enhanced learning environment. As part of the improvement of education, educational methodologies and the rate of involvement of digital techno...

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are becoming more popular in Indonesia, especially after the pandemic. The government also encourages people to establish their own businesses as it has a good impact on the nation’s economy. @khimar.yumnaa, is one of the Indonesian SMEs established in 2017. Unlike other SMEs which usually failed 1-2 years after...

Robotic process automation refers to the use of software robots that are programmed to perform repetitive and time-consuming tasks. This makes them ideal for numerous applications in the field of finance and accounting. RPA-friendly tasks include sending email, opening applications, copying and pasting information from one banking system to another...

Numerous digital services are available in our current economy and society, such as public and business services, which enhance efficiency and convenience for citizens. There has been notable advancement in digitalizing education, social media, and entertainment. However, individuals require digital competencies to utilize these services effectivel...

Globalization activates qualitative changes in multiple economic entities and requires the development of alternative forms of business organization. At present, one of the most promising development tracks is represented by the implementation of network structures, aimed at achieving common goals and obtaining a win-win outcome via joint effort. B...

In the third decade of the 21 st Century, thanks to the technological developments and digitization, the spread of Industry 4.0 (I4.0) in production and manufacturing as well as in trade and service industry is unquestionable. The spread is inevitable not just among large, capital-strong companies but I4.0. is also penetrating into the life of SMEs...

Reflecting on the impact of COVID-19 on teaching and learning, this study investigates the possible shifts from short-term reactive educational delivery approaches to a more strategic, innovative, and sustainable approach to teaching and learning. This study aimed to understand the evolution of perceptions and experiences of academics during, and a...

A digitalizáció elengedhetetlen azon vállalatok számára, amelyek talpon szeretnének maradni a változó üzleti környezetben. Ugyanakkor sok kis- és középvállalkozás még mindig nem él ezzel a lehetőséggel, mely mögött több tényező is állhat, például tudáshiány, vezetési stílus, magas költségek, fenntarthatóság. Jelen tanulmány ezen okok közül a digita...

Artificial Intelligence is rapidly developing and being introduced into an increasing number of industries, such as medicine, agriculture and construction. This trend has not ignored the aviation industry, but it is only in its infancy. This article focuses on the technological perspectives of the aviation industry and their potential impact on the...

Digital technology has firmly entered our daily lives, and it is almost impossible to imagine life without it. Considering autonomous transportation vehicles and the degree of heterogeneity of traffic flows, it is reasonable to say that their share will only increase in the coming future, which will naturally initiate further growth in the intellec...

Currently, the convention and exhibition industry is at the stage of active development. Despite the events related to the impact of the pandemic on all fields of life and activity of society, new commercial and non-profit organizations continue to appear in the industry, whose activities are aimed at the development and implementation of projects...

Knowledge, both tacit and explicit, has become a valuable commodity for any organisation's survival and competitive advantage within the age of the fourth industrial revolution. The organisational culture within HEIs, however, can be quite hierarchical, highly individualistic, and self-directed, with the focus for advancement being the main driver...

The active digitalization of the healthcare system has given impetus to the emergence of a new type of enterprise—high-tech medical organizations (HMO). Their main distinguishing feature is the use of innovative high-tech medical equipment. However, the high cost of this equipment has become a factor slowing down the development of such organizatio...

Seventeen sustainable development goals were formulated to create a harmonious world order for the benefit of different nations and peoples. At the same time, economic practice provides a lot of examples of conflicts of an economic nature between individual sustainable development goals. One of these conflicts is the need for environmental imperati...

The consideration of infectious diseases from a mathematical point of view can reveal possible options for epidemic control and fighting the spread of infection. However, predicting and modeling the spread of a new, previously unexplored virus is still difficult. The present paper examines the possibility of using a new approach to predicting the s...

The outburst of the COVID-19 pandemic and its rapid spread throughout the world in 2020 shed a new light on mathematic models describing the nature of epidemics. However, as the pandemic shocked economies to a much greater extent than earlier epidemics, the recovery potential of economies was emphasized and its inclusion in epidemic models is becom...

Education is an important part of individual's life, however the choice of where to study or which country to gain knowledge in order to become a relevant player in the society's labor market is very crucial. The integration of students into a diverse educational system began by agreed partnerships of two countries, involving in a fair trade, stemm...

The COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent emergency measures had a fundamental and disruptive impact on societies and, in particular, on the educational sector. The transition of the modality of educational delivery from face-to-face to online occurred within days; this research study considered the concepts of digital trust and digital access, usin...

Trust is critical in communication, especially in a cross-cultural setting. For this reason, there are a growing number of studies on understanding and predicting trustworthiness in various domains. However, there are still not many open source annotated data for trust studies, which may be due to the lack of a suitable annotation platform or a rel...

Industry 4.0 has penetrated through production and manufacturing industry into trade and services in the last couple of years. At another dimension it was first introduced in capital-strong large companies and infiltrated down to small- and medium-sized companies throughout the years. By now the use of Industry 4.0 is inevitable while the introduct...

Digitalisation as the megatrend for industrial and business transformation influences SMEs to various extent. Depending on the sector and the size or even the age of SMEs digitalisation becomes beneficial or even means some limitations to further business development. The present research paper as part of the international project on the ‘Possibili...

Digitalisation and sustainability are by far the two most dominant megatrends in the latest decades. The business implications of these two areas and the relationship between the two trends are popular research topics among both academics and practitioners. Each company has its own ability to adapt and respond to changing environmental challenges a...

SMEs operating in the 21st century must face several challenges including a push towards digital transformation, reorganising business operations to maintain sustainability but on the other hand not to lose profit and keep the business running. This paper aims to reveal whether the profit and the high rate of digitalisation or the sustainability co...

The positive benefits of digitalisation are nowadays generally recognised and acknowledged by companies and are typically seen as essential in a rapidly and constantly changing business environment. Yet the level of digitalisation is still below expectations, especially among small and medium-sized enterprises. Several factors are behind it, rangin...

The subject of analysis in this article is digital platforms as a key driver of medical organizations sustainable development in the modern world. The research purpose is to consider the main components of the digital platforms using examples of works by different authors and to formulate the platform author’s definition. On the basis of scientific...

Monitoring the security of cyber-physical systems (CPS), including IoTh components, is an important task for modern information security. Modern approaches to the protection of cyber-physical systems are based on the theory of control and sustainability, but the CPS is not considered from this point of view as an object of evaluation and analysis (...

Kondratiev’s long economic cycle has been dubbed one of the most debatable macroeconomic phenomena for over half a century. This paper considers an intrinsic link between Kondratiev’s long waves and the Schumpeterian growth paradigm. The research recognizes a significant contribution of such economists as G. Mensch, Ch. Freeman and M. Hirooka in th...

Abstract: Today's pandemic situation intensifies companies’ competition for customers. The rapid acceleration and growth of economic competition, is a serious challenge to meet, for many companies. With the wide range of market supply and the resulting increase in price competition, customers are increasingly switching brands or service providers,...

A digitalizáció és a fenntarthatóság a közelmúlt két messze legmeghatározóbb megatrendje. A két terület üzleti hatásainak vizsgálata, és a két trend közötti kapcsolat népszerű kutatási témák. A vállalatok, egyéni adottságaik szerint alkalmazkodnak a változó környezeti kihívásokhoz, egyesek hatékonyabban, mások kevéssé képesek beépíteni a legújabb t...

In 2020, a global pandemic led to lockdowns, and subsequent social and business restrictions. These required overnight implementation of emergency measures to permit continued functioning of vital industries. Digital technologies and platforms made this switch feasible, but it also introduced several cyber related vulnerabilities, which students mi...

The rise in cybercriminal activities in recent years has sparked concern about the costs of technological advancement and the growing reliance of humans on technology. The seriousness of this situation in the business world is indeed more noteworthy and more prominent than other areas, prompting many people to wonder how external auditors - who are...

The pandemic and subsequent ‘lockdowns’ dramatically changed the educational landscape of higher education institutions. Before-COVID-19, traditional universities had choices in pedagogical practice, which included a variety of teaching delivery modes. Overnight, a single mode of delivery became the only option for traditional higher education inst...

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In the developed world, digitalisation permeates each profession, industry, form of entertainment, education and life in general. First, Industry 4.0. then Health 4.0 and later Agriculture 4.0 appeared, and after that, all of a sudden, in Japan, Society 5.0 has emerged. The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted education and in the case of higher educati...

The paper explores university lecturers’ experiences in digital education during the first wave of COVID-19 in Hungary and the opportunities of reengineering higher education practices for the future.

The learning habits among students in higher education, has radically changed in the last 20 years, partially due to the features of the information and digital society, wide scale broadband internet access, proliferation of smart devices and consequently, available online mobile applications. As a result, the use of eLearning systems, in higher ed...

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This article is devoted to the study of the applicability of machine learning methods for one-dimensional problems in the mechanics of a deformable solid. The authors analyzed the available research works at the time of writing. As part of the work, the tasks of restoring the values of the bending moment and deflection of the cantilever beam were c...

Within the digital culture, the increasing internet consumption and the constant development of technology, especially smartphones have made cyber awareness turn to be increasingly urgent. This study focuses on comparing the level of cyber security awareness, knowledge and behavior among university students in general and between Hungary and Vietna...

The digitalisation of online booking services is creating space to new types of security threats. Services based online metasearch booking have their own specificity and vulnerability resulting from their unique character. Attempts of cyberattacks on platforms using metasearch engines may have various forms such as: decryption of sensitive data, ga...

Nowadays in the modern digital societies a radical teaching-learning methodological change is still underway in higher educational practices. Universities and higher educational institutions are shifting their teaching practices toward digital-and eLearning applications combining with face-to-face education. At the same time the very extensive use...

The use of e-learning systems in higher education is a must in the 21 st century. The extensive use of smart phones and mobile devices, the transition in the methodology, methods and ways of learning from a traditional form to a digital form as well as the shift of learning from offline to online platforms is unquestionable not only in case of indi...

A 21. század mindent átható trendje a digitalizáció beépülése szinte valamennyi gazdasági ág működésébe. A digitalizáció ebben a szerepében már nem cél, hanem eszköz ezekben az ágazatokban a hatékonyság, termelékenység növelése, a működés új szintjének eléréséhez. A jelenséget számos névvel illetjük, így beszélhetünk a 4. ipari forradalomról, az ip...

Humanity runs towards automatization in every aspect of life. Daily processes become automatized, the environment as well as the tools we use every day. By following this pattern we create a possibility for an easier, more predictable and enjoyable lifestyle. It is presumable that in a few decades everything will be connected with everything, contr...

The p-graph-based workflow has been introduced for modeling administrative processes in earlier papers then it was completed with necessary descriptors to conceptualise the dynamic model and we determined the initial model as well as the operational algorithm of the activities. Starting from model this this paper examines the simulation possibiliti...

Out of the workflow representations that are excellent to model business processes this paper examines the possibilities of the p-graph-based workflow modeling for administrative activities. Taking the special requirements of document management into account it gives a possible solution for document processing, the more reality like modeling of act...

In the Information Society in the 21st century the ever evolving information technological innovations and challenges force education to introduce these innovations in the teaching and learning processes. Students expect stimuli and challenges and are not satisfied any more with the traditional and conventional ways of learning. Thus the launch and...

In the information society the exponentially growing knowledge means a serious challenge to all the participants in the teaching-learning process. The methodology of education and its technical background have developed and improved drastically, which after the proliferation of the information technology and the internet got a new spur. It has been...