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Educational information management shall take full advantages of modern information technologies. The comprehensive and deep integration of information technologies and educational management shall be highlighted. As a major part of the educational information management, the university financial information management has already become the inexorable orientation and trend. By introducing the financial...
Practitioners generally view exploratory testing (ET) as a cost-effective substitute for their daily testing activities. However, empirical evidence reported in the literature gives a more comprehensive picture of ET that considers its technical debt implications.
Almost all decisions people make are based on multiple factors or criteria. Decision makers generally pursue multiple, and often conflicting, objectives. A feasible solution that is optimum with respect to all such objectives or decision criteria almost never exists, and a satisfactory compromise solution is generally sought. Multi-criteria decision-making as a field of research deals with problem...
The behavior of software development projects is a characteristic phenomenon that is difficult to study and analyze. The behavior of a software project is a true indicator of its progress and condition. Unfortunately, very less attention has been given to this important aspect of the software projects and rarely any research study has been presented in this regard. The present study addresses this...
In the late 1980s, the booming Internet technology gave birth to a new business model -- e-commerce. Initially e-commerce met the consumer demand of the customers efficiently with its network of information flow. However, with the continuous development of people's consumption concept, the primary online marketing e-commerce has been unable to realize its initial advantage. Customer demand structure...
The information technology industry faces a growing problem of project failures with losses estimated at billions of dollars. The purpose of the study was to determine whether sponsors' and managers' perceptions differ during the initiation phase of a project life cycle, and whether differences have an impact on project performance. Respondents were dyads of sponsors and managers who were members...
URP as a new kind of education management information system model is the total integration of the University. The level of URP development reflects the overall level and strength of university. URP makes an overall height analysis of the internal relationship in the University and try to establish unified information standards, provide a platform and interface specifications by integrate various...
Securing supercomputing technology and resources are urgently needed for Korea to lead scientific researches and to enhance industrial competitiveness in the next decade. In this paper, supercomputing technologies and services were systematically classified to help KISTI formulate the supercomputing development strategies. These classification systems are also expected to contribute to identifying,...
Under current business environment, product development becomes an important way for a firm to enhance its competitive power. Yet in practice, most product development project fail. This paper tries to discover the key elements for its success or failure by way of survey investigation, whose conclusion can be categorized into 6 issues, i.e. organization management, knowledge management, product development...
IT planning will guide systemically the whole process of the informatization in the private enterprise, make IT apply during the steady developing of the enterprise, and meet the ends for requirement from the enterprise. Therefore IT planning in small and medium-sized enterprises and their sustainable development is one topic worth studying. Having studied the commercial risk within these private...
In nowadays globalized business world, medium-sized enterprises can be global enterprises as well as large enterprises can. Despite being a global enterprise, medium-sized enterprises most often use non-integrated software solutions to run their business. Given the fact that medium-sized global enterprises are equally complex as large enterprises, they could benefit by introducing tailored business...
In order to support local information and communication technology (ICT) companies in western Finland, a three-year program - "ICT WEST" - was established by the Pori unit of the Tampere University of Technology in 2004. The aim was to provide new methods for developing the business environment, competencies and mutual co-operation of local ICT companies. The main focus of the ICT West program...
The advancement of information technology has caused the cost of information equipments to decrease substantially. Consolidation of corporate information into a complete system is a trend for businesses to adapt to the electronic era. Enterprise resource planning (ERP) has contributed to greater efficiency for businesses around the world. Corporations in Taiwan are beginning to introduce ERP to satisfy...
Due to the continuously growing possibilities provided by technology and its wider application, today's IT products are becoming more and more complex both from technical and managerial standpoints. Very often, multiple parties are involved in their development. Consequently, the organization of the integration and testing of these products gets increasingly complex. Organisations already encounter...
This position paper proposes a research agenda for the field of security testing. It gives a critical account of the state of the art as seen by a practitioner and identifies questions that research failed to answer so far, or failed to answer in such a way that it would have had an impact in the real world. Three categories of research problems are proposed: theory of vulnerabilities, theory of security...
This paper presents a structural health monitoring system for monitoring, with reduced visual impact, one historical building structure. The system is based on fiber Bragg gratings and comprises 19 displacement sensors and 5 temperature sensors. All the sensors were custom made according to the monitoring points' characteristics. The results obtained over the first year of monitoring are presented...
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