PurposeManagement is a blended discipline with characteristics of both science and art. The component science is to be learnt and art to be practiced. This art component of management education is the really challenging part, and this is where the management educational institutions build their uniqueness. The present management education needs a paradigm shift in order to fulfill the growing futuristic demands of the industry. The quality gaps identified through review of literature are preach–practice, industry–institution linkages, quality faculty, updated curriculum, soft skills development, research, online platforms and updated pedagogies. The researcher has taken an attempt to do a dyadic study in India.Design/methodology/approachThe researcher has taken an attempt to do a dyadic study in India to analyze the perception of the management faculty and management students toward filling the quality gaps for a futuristic management education. The study has included 125 management faculties and 1200 management students through simple random sampling, and the data are collected through survey method.FindingsThe independent “t” test has been applied. The management faculties exhibit high degree of acceptance for filling the quality gaps such as research gaps, online platforms and industry and institution linkages since the mean scores are 4.22, 4.20 and 4.14 respectively. The management students exhibit high degree of acceptance for filling the quality gaps such as online platforms, updated pedagogies and soft skills development since the respective mean scores are 3.87, 3.85 and 3.82.Research limitations/implicationsThe research area chosen for the study is reflecting the scenario of management education in developing countries such as India. The scenario may differ to developed countries.Practical implicationsWhen the quality of the management education is enriched, it will create global management professionals who will contribute qualitatively to the industries and uplift the overall global economic developments.Social implicationsThe present study is enriching the existing literature review, by comparing the perception of both the counterparts, the management faculty and students, about the teaching and learning process. Thus, it can be concluded that the outcome of this study is relevant for the management educational institutions, and the need of the hour for the management education is definitely to fill the quality gaps, and all the management educational institutions have to be prepared enough to overcome the gaps with the support of their well-planned strategies. The futuristic demands are ever growing, even then the gap between the present and future expectations of the industry need to be well considered and bridged. As a result of the paradigm shift, the quality of the management education will be enriched, and it will create global management professionals. As a result of this quality-conscious education, a reputed brand image and set of loyal customers may also be developed (Akareem and Hossain, 2016). The learners of quality management education will contribute qualitatively to the industries and uplift the overall global economic developments. Further research is needed to measure the post impact of filling the quality gaps in the arena of management education.Originality/valueThe quality gaps identified through review of literature are preach–practice, industry–institution linkages, quality faculty, updated curriculum, soft skills development, research, online platforms and updated pedagogies.

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Semantic Web is a Web that adds more meaning to the Web documents in order to access knowledge instead of unstructured material and also allowing knowledge to be processed automatically. One of the methods to achieve this is of using Ontology. The Ontology defines the terms and the relations among the terms on a domain. There are number of Ontology repositories present. When this increases day by day, the need for getting relevant ontology for the search keyword also increases. Even though there are number of semantic web search engines, Swoogle is placed first, which ranks the ontologies using an adaptation of Google's Page Rank scoring method. A major drawback with this system is that many ontologies are poorly inter-referenced, which does not reflect the quality of the ontologies. This paper reviews the methodologies used in Swoogle for computing rank score and proposes Semantic Closeness Measure (SCM) which has not been employed in any other ontology ranking algorithms. This work develops a hybrid ranking system to rank the ontologies better than Swoogle and other ontology search engines. The results confirm that the proposed system places the highly relevant and quality ontologies on the top list by reranking the Swoogle's results. This ranking framework enables the searcher to get relevant results quickly and reduces time in searching the long list of results.

Digital multimedia content are used in areas like education, entertainment, business, medical and military fields and also shared over the network for several purposes. The free access of images, videos and audios over the network provides the way to pirate the copyright material. Digital watermarking process prevents the illegal copy of the multimedia content by embedding a watermark to the content. In this paper dual domain digital image watermarking using additive approach is presented. A watermark is attached to the spatial domain of the image using additive approach. Then another watermark is added to the transformed coefficients of the spatially watermarked image using Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) with additive approach. The watermarked image is inspected for image distortion using Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) and Normalized Correlation (NC) measures. The watermarking process embeds dual watermarks to increase the security of the cover image and helps towards ownership even if one watermark is degraded.