Egils Ginters

Riga Technical University | RTU · Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology (FCSIT)

The rapid and pervasive development of digital technologies not only affects but determines the life of society and the economy, as well as changing our living models. Today, society can be described as a complex socio-technical system, the model of which is heterogeneous, stochastic, and the results are therefore difficult to predict. To simulate...

Abstract. Today, almost all systems are sociotechnical. The validation of the technical component is based on quantitative measurements and compari-sons with various standards. On the other hand, the assessment of social fac-tors is not so simple and is based on measurements of the audience's atti-tude. Usually, Likert-type surveys are used for suc...

Data show that only a third of the total volume of IT projects are successful, and that more than 80% of developers of large-scale projects will fail. The main reason for this is the ignorance of the social and human factors at play during the development of the conceptual model of the project. The aim of this article is to present an approach for...

In 2022, the EC Digital Decade 2030 Compass identified seven cutting-edge digital technologies, the development of which will receive special attention in the coming years. Digital technologies are a specific type of technology that is critical to the existence of today's society. Failures in technological development can have fatal consequences, s...

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The modern world can be described as a sociotechnical system, the existence and development of which are determined by the successful interaction of technology and society. When introducing a technology, it is important to assess its potential sustainability. There are currently more than a hundred different sustainability assessment methods that a...

The oil and gas industry is the eighth largest in the world. Its market size is expected to grow from USD 4.6 trillion in 2020 to USD 5.9 trillion in 2021, and in 2025 it will reach USD 7.4 trillion. The oil and gas industry is the backbone of today’s economy, and it is difficult to imagine that the share of the industry’s influence in world econom...

Technological developments ensure the well-being of society, but unreasoned introduction can be detrimental to both society and the environment. It is important for technology authors and investors to know whether the technology will be accepted, adopted and used to reap the benefits of the financial resources invested. The article deals with hidde...

FLAG-ERA FP7/H2020 project FuturICT 2.0 (2017-2020) "Large scale experiments and simulations for the second generation of FuturICT" was aimed to promote collaboration among engineering and social sciences. The Proceedings of Annotations involves the abstracts of articles published by project research groups and indexed in Scopus and/or Web of Scien...

Today, we live in a challenging but interesting time in which disruptive and pervasive digital technologies permeate society. These technologies promote business efficiency, improve society’s wellbeing, and at the same time leave a footprint on the environment. The adoption and lifecycle of technologies are well characterized by the Gartner curve....

Visual Analytics enables a deep analysis of complex and multivariate data by applying machine learning methods and interactive visualization. These complex analyses lead to gain insights and knowledge for a variety of analytics tasks to enable the decision-making process. The enablement of decision-making processes is essential for managing and pla...

A variety of new technologies and ideas for businesses are arising in the domain of logistics and mobility. It can be differentiated between fundamental new approaches, e.g. central packaging stations or deliveries via drones and minor technological advancements that aim on more ecologically and economic transportation. The need for analytical syst...

New technologies are needed to ensure a targeted development of the economy which measures the well-being of the population and the quality of life. For the technology to be successfully implemented, it must first be accepted, but then adopted. It’s not always the same thing. The aim of the study is to identify age groups that are prospective and r...

ICTE in Transportation and Logistics 2019. Lecture Notes in Intelligent Transportation and Infrastructure, ISSN 2523-3440, Springer Nature AG, Cham, 2020.

In the domain of mobility and logistics, a variety of new technologies and business ideas are arising. Beside technologies that aim on ecologically and economic transportation, such as electric engines, there are also fundamental different approaches like central packaging stations or deliveries via drones. Yet, there is a growing need for analytic...

Simulation is recognized as a suitable tool for sociotechnical systems research. But the variety and complexity of sociotechnical systems often leads to the need for distributed simulation solutions to understand them. Models that are built for infrastructure planning are typical examples. They combine different domains and involve variety of simul...

Mobility, transportation and logistics are more and more influenced by a variety of indicators such as new technological developments, ecological and economic changes, political decisions and in particular humans’ mobility behavior. These indicators will lead to massive changes in our daily live with regards to mobility, transportation and logistic...

This proceedings volume explores the latest advances in transport and logistics, while also discussing the applications of modern information technologies, telecommunications, electronics, and prospective research methods and analyzing their impacts on society and the environment, which in turn determine the future development of these technologies...

The awareness of market trends becomes relevant for a broad number of market branches, in particular the more they are challenged by the digitalization. Trend analysis solutions help business executives identifying upcoming trends early. But solid market analysis takes their time and are often not available on consulting or strategy discussions. Th...

The book "ICTE in Transportation and Logistics" is interdisciplinary annual issue published by Springer Nature Switzerland AG on the edge between transportation, logistics, economy and computer science highlighting sociotechnical aspects of any real sustainable system. The issue would be the announcing area of successful research projects giving po...

One of the applications of virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) is the social sphere, such as communication among individuals and also sports activities. It is important to select a sustainable technical solution when designing the AR application. At present, AR smart glasses, which are offered by several manufacturers on the market, can be consid...

Transport and logistics are one of the most important sectors of the economy, whose share is increasing every year, which is determined by the globalization of business. In the Europe Union, the transport and storage sector employs around 11 million persons, accounting for more than 5% of total employment and almost 5% of GDP†. Successful industry...

The impact of air pollution on the health of the population and the greenhouse effect determine the development of green transport modes. One is cycling. The developed a dual-use cycling route planning and management tool VeloRouter provides agent-based routing load simulation and allows each user to choose the most attractive travel time. However,...

"The awareness of market trends becomes relevant for a broad number of market branches, in particular the more they are challenged by the digitalization. Trend analysis solutions help business executives identifying upcoming trends early. But solid market analysis takes their time and are often not available on consulting or strategy discussions. T...

"Virtual and augmented reality (VR / AR) applications have successfully overcome the critical part of the Gartner curve. Investments are made and new products entering the economy. However, a very small percentage of society have also heard about AR glasses, mainly linking these with potential identity threats and personal data breaches. The author...

Nowadays practically every real system that reflects the objective reality, is of a sociotechnical nature. System is the result of collaboration of technical and social subsystems, as well as their symbiosis. The existence of a sociotechnical system is determined by the being of a digital society of technology and knowledge. Technology is one of th...

Research on technology acceptance and diffusion focuses either on micro perspective or macro perspective, but there is a gap in the literature regarding a universal approach that would help to evaluate technologies in an easy but comprehensive manner. Integrated Acceptance and Sustainability model was developed to fill this gap. The aim of the ongo...

"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination". Albert Einstein This time the collection mainly includes PhD students and young scientists articles oriented to precise sciences. Variety of sensors generate immeasurable increase of data in the world. New knowledge and algorithms are needed for information processing. A very impo...

Due to limited funding it is important to understand which bike path network would be more efficient and important for municipality and cyclists. The multi agent-based (MAS/ABM) simulator VeloRouter allows bicycle paths occupancy simulation, but quality of the results depends on the data confidence and capacity.

To avoid any voluntary decisions it is desirable to examine the possible consequences that can be done by simulation. Unfortunately there is no unified methodology and technology for simulators designing. Above mentioned problem when development of each simulator has to be started from the scratches makes elaboration expensive and cumbersome. The a...

The European Commission Decision C (2015) 6776 established the specific European Transport Specific Programme implementing Horizon 2020, Part 11 “Smart, green and integrated transport”, which promotes using clean transport methods, one of which is cycling. Although the number of web tools for creating and sharing cycling routes is constantly increa...

Multi-agent system (MAS) models have been increasingly applied to the simulation of complex phenomena in different areas, providing successful and credible results. Citizens behavior related to a specific urban activity (i.e., recreation activities in a park, using bicycle for mobility purposes) can be modeled as an agent (actor) with several affin...

Mobile technologies are significant for sustainability assessment processes in the bio-economy. The project which produced this paper was designed to examine those factors which needed to be included in the study of the significant and complex elements in order to analyse the environmental impact on the bio-economy within protected landscape areas....

Integrated Acceptance and Sustainability Assessment Model (IASAM) is a new approach for evaluation of technologies that combines socio-economic aspects and socio-technical characteristics of technology development and exploitation. Previous IASAM model was based on UTAUT acceptance model and it was laborious. The potential acceptance is a very chal...

The visualization of the simulation results must be done in conformity with beneficiaries perception and professional domain understanding. It means that right data must be identified before. Semantic technologies provide new ways for accessing data and acquiring knowledge. The underlying structures allow finding information easier, gathering meani...

E-Participation and the engagement of citizens in politics are on the agenda in many countries. Therefore, a number of project and programs were initiated that aim at finding creative and effective solutions for involving citizens. One intended aspect is the provision of transparency that enables citizens to analyze socio-economical indicators and...

Abstract Goal definitions and developments are challenging in large-scale projects, because of the different expertise and skills of the stakeholders. Development often fails its intended goal because of misunderstandings and unclear definitions and descriptions during the planning phase. The paper describes a novel approach to collecting requireme...

Integrated acceptance and sustainability assessment model (IASAM2) consists of four main flows and helps to evaluate any new technology and its sustainability. IASAM2 has been validated using Skype and the pattern of Skype development dynamics and life cycle further on serves as a model for technology evaluation. The developed approach combines sta...

Economic development simulation is an important component of policy crafting. The possibility of testing potential solutions and selecting the most applicable is the basis of successful development. The article deals with the Yantai Urban Economic Development Assessment simulator, which is based on a multi agent-based (ABM/MAS) simulation model tha...

The purpose of the deliverable is to describe the FUPOL simulators software versions development and final usability, and sustainability assessment. Integration and interoperability questions are discussed. The beneficiaries of the deliverable are FUPOL partner’s consortium.

Sometime it is important to change something in your research life cycle to maintain sustainability:)

Today the Latvian blogosphere is a community of almost 200 000 blogs. Blogs have become an important part of news agencies and web portals because they deliver information to the reader faster than traditional media. To forecast the computational resources and necessary funding for community development, it is necessary to design an evolutional mod...

Problem identification and solution finding are major challenges in policy modeling. Statistical indicator-data build the foundation for most of the required analysis work. In particular finding effective and efficient policies that solve an existing political problem is critical, since the forecast validation of the effectiveness is quite difficul...

Economic development simulation is an important component of policy crafting. The possibility of testing potential solutions and selecting the most applicable is the basis of successful development. The article deals with the Yantai Urban Economic Development Assessment simulator, which is based on a multi agent-based (ABM/MAS) simulation model tha...

Economic development simulation is an important component of policy crafting. The possibility of testing potential solutions and selecting the most applicable is the basis of successful development. The article deals with the Yantai Urban Economic Development Assessment simulator, which is based on a multi agent-based (ABM/MAS) simulation model tha...

Using simulation solutions, policy planners can examine a variety of real-time solutions before their implementation as well as forecast the impact of potential decisions on the attainable goal in general (Silva et. al. 2009). If the developed policy decision-making support system does not correspond to the requirements of the decision maker, fundi...

For successful crafting political decisions it would be reasonable to verify them theoretically through modelling of potential effect. Therefore, the set of adequate models must be designed demonstrating reaction on policy maker activities. Also is necessary to understand the reaction of potential audience and the new policy accepted by citizens....

E-governance is one area in which the use of simulation could help the decision maker to take better decisions with positive impact in the society. The Multi Agent Systems (MAS) models were already used to foster e-participation in which citizens could be involved in the design of urban policies that affects their habitat environment. Coloured Petr...

FP7 FUPOL project No.287119 (see www.fupol.eu) aims at a new approach to traditional politics modeling. The FUPOL will be able to automatically collect, analyze and interpret opinions expressed on a large scale from the Internet and social networks. This will enable governments to gain a better understanding of the needs of citizens. Likewise the s...

The aim of this paper is to merge simulation modelling and virtual reality technologies more deeply together. There are lot of platforms in field of simulation modelling which provide acceptable three dimensional capabilities and more flexible visualization properties to ease the understanding of the results of simulation model. However virtual and...

Political decision-making is implemented in the framework of a classic sociotechnical system where respect has to be shown for both technical and social aspects. The development of suitable support tools for the previously mentioned requirements is rather complicated because a fundamentally important factor is product functionality and algorithm co...

The Simulation is used as an active research method when analytical solutions are inconvenient or even impossible. One problem is the incompatibility of created simulations on a tool level, but other - is model incompatibility because of different simulation methods. The article dealt with determination of basic principles for effective model migra...

Integrated Acceptance and Sustainability Assessment Model (IASAM) is a new approach for evaluation of technologies that combines socio-economic aspects and socio-technical characteristics of technology development and exploitation. Previous IASAM model was based on UTAUT acceptance model and it was laborious. The potential acceptance is a very chal...

Welcome to the 2013 International conference on Virtual and Augmented Reality in Education, which is being held on 7th-9th November 2013 in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Spain. This year's conference will take place in the beautiful city of Puerto de la Cruz at the Beatriz Atlantis Hotel. VARE 2013 is organized by the University of La Laguna and Soc...

The main objective of this paper is to describe the logistics processes improvement by use of AR (augmented reality) and hybrid RFID (Radio-frequency identification) technologies in outdoor environment. Augmented reality and RFID nowadays are well known and widespread technologies. It is possible to achieve functional and perspective system by merg...

This paper describes the basic elements of logistics and pays special attention to improvement possibilities in packaging, handling, storage and transportation phases where manpower and personnel also play an important role. To decrease the error rate of object selection and decision-making time it is necessary to simplify natural logistics element...

The elaboration and introduction of a new technology is a complex and expensive task, therefore it is necessary to assess the set of factors influencing the future of technology. The most important parameters of assessment are technology acceptance and sustainability. Different models exist, but most of them are static and do not offer possibilitie...

The European 7th Framework FP7-ICT-2009-5 project CHOReOS No. 257178 (2010-2013) “Large Scale Choreographies for the Future Internet (IP)” is aimed to elaborate on new methods and tools related to Future Internet ultra-large-scale (ULS) solution development based on the use of choreographies. The purpose of this research is to identify exploitable...

One important component of the gross domestic product (GDP) is logistics services the quality and added value of which is growing due to the application of modern information and communication technologies and electronics. RFID use increases the performance of logistics items identification, however some errors, which could cause substantial damage...

Simulation trust is a critical issue to foster e-participation in the new e-governance framework in which it is expected to increase citizen's participation in the design or urban policies. In social science, no firm conclusions have been reached on the appropriate way to verify or validate Agent Based Models, due to several aspects, such as agent...

Mathematically justified planning of policy is extremely important because any wrong decision can lead to serious consequences. It is no secret that mathematical modelling and other advanced analytical methods are rarely used for policy planning and decision impact forecasting because those require specific knowledge. The FP7 FUPOL project aims at...

The FP7 FUPOL project aims at a completely new approach to traditional policy modeling providing complex domain use case verification with the FUPOL Simulator and visualisation of the results in a form suitable for beneficiaries. Policy domain use case models are diverse and versatile, therefore architecture of the simulator must fit complexity and...

One important component of the gross domestic product (GDP) is logistics services the quality and added value of which is growing due to the application of modern information and communication technologies and electronics. RFID use increases the performance of logistics items identification, however some errors, which could cause substantial damage...

This article introduces the cornerstones of Integrated Acceptance and Sustainability Assessment Model used for new and existing technologies evaluation. It combines the user acceptance metrics used by UTAUT model with additional socio-technical factors influencing development and running of technology. The model is developed using system dynamics a...

This paper introduces an Augmented Reality application for teaching practice of electrical engineering. In order to improve the student's autonomy and self-ability we have developed new practical AR-manuals for being used in the Electric Machines Laboratory. We have used these AR-manuals and the classical ones observing an improvement in both learn...

Elaboration and introduction of a new technology is a complex and expensive task, therefore it is necessary to assess the set of factors influencing the future of technology. The most important parameters of assessment are acceptance and sustainability of technology. Different models exist, but mostly they are static and do not offer possibilities...

The development of Future Internet and Cloud computing creates new challenges for simulation scientists in terms of enhancing the accessibility to distributed simulation and empowering the researchers from other disciplines. The article tests the operation of simulation communication environment using Cloud infrastructure. The results of the experi...

Relatively quickly, information and communication technology has dramatically changed the knowledge dissemination process. The popularity of e-learning systems is growing and more and more researchers are focusing on efficiency in order to save time and financial resources. To achieve this, it is necessary to adjust training scenarios for every tra...

This report summarizes achievement of the CHOReOS project in terms of disseminating project's goals and results during the first year. It further provides links to the concrete material that has been disseminated so far, hence enabling the interested reader to get access to the published material to know more about CHOReOS.

Simulation nowadays plays an increasing role in the assessment of possible solutions and situation analysis. However, the tools used and previously created models are often incompatible and territorially distributed. Domain specialists lack the expertise and specific programming skills to use them effectively. The development of the Future Internet...

More and more researchers focus on e-learning systems development, which use appropriate training scenario for each temperament and perception type. Usually e-learning systems use traditional questionnaires to identify temperament type and mode of perception, but interviews are very long and irritating, besides that the applicant can manipulate wit...