The main focus of the research is concentrated on the analysis of the teaching practices of the discipline “Intercultural Communication” and the methods of contextual learning. The main idea of the classes using the method of contextual learning is related to immersion of students through performance and visualization in the context of the studied micro and macro cultures. The purpose of in-class sessions with the use of the mentioned techniques is to give students the opportunity to practice the theoretical material and improve the skills of intercultural communication

This research is motivated by two research questions: how does context of information affect the quality of business processes and how does the context problem relate to the type of organization management. In accordance with Business Process Management (BPM) theory and practice, process-oriented companies should pay attention to such process aspects as the process stages, resources, IT support, and information fows. Many organizations today focus their management on identifying and modeling business processes with analysis for time, cost, resource compliance, and performance. At the same time, the context of the messages to be communicated in business processes should include complete and relevant information clearly understood by all sides of communication to make proper interaction

The International Conference on Business Intelligence and Modelling took place in Athens, Greece. IC-BIM is an international interdisciplinary conference focusing on the theoretical approach of the contemporary issues evolved in Business Intelligence and Modelling and the integration of theory and practice. More than 300 pre-registered authors submitted their work in the conference. IC-BIM fnally accepted and hosted about 54 original research papers, after a double-blind peer-review process. During the conference, many Workshops were held in order to advance and contribute to specifc research areas in the feld of Business Intelligence and Modelling. The conference aims at creating a forum for further discussion on a Business Intelligence feld incorporating a series of issues and/or related organizations that manage Business Intelligence in their everyday operations. Therefore, the call for papers was addressed to scholars and/or professionals of the felds of Business Intelligence, Business Informatics, Business Model Innovation, Simulation Modelling, E-Business, Enterprise and Conceptual Modelling, etc. IC-BIM provides a common ground for the exchange of insights on Business issues in the science of Business Intelligence, ensuring signifcant contributions to this feld. Grouping emerging technologies in the Business Intelligence feld together in a close examination of practices, problems, and trends, IC-BIM and its emphases on business presented the state of the art in the feld. This Annual Event is addressed jointly to academics and practitioners and provides a forum for a number of perspectives, based on either theoretical analyses or empirical case studies that fosterthe dialogue and the exchange of ideas.

We consider the problem of ensuring the durability indicators of a distributed communication automatic weather stations network (AWSN), consisting of access points and weather stations (WS), remote from each other at distances of up to several tens of kilometers and connected to the nearest access points and to each other by communication channels. An expert assessment of the durability indicators was carried out and the modes of operation of the distributed AWSN were determined. A model of the complex load factor and resource of the distributed AWSN has been elaborated. A method for assessing and a methodology for determining the durability indicators of AWSN has been developed, which, based on the initial data for AWSN elements, the operating model of the elements and the calculated values of the complex load factor for each of the modes, calculates the gamma-percentage resource before the decommissioning of the AWSN element, based on the criterion of the limit state of the AWSN. The modeling and calculation of durability indicators of the distributed AWSN have been carried out according to the proposed method.

The existence of real solutions of a nonlinear equation in a neighborhood of an abnormal (degenerate) point is studied. We prove that if the mapping describing this equation admits a lambda-truncation that is regular in some direction, then there exist solutions for all right-hand sides in some neighborhood of the image of the abnormal point. Under the same assumption, we prove that there exist nontrivial smooth curves passing through the abnormal point and lying on the level set of the map in question.