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In this paper we present the report on the design and development of a platform for the inter-generational exchange of favors. This platform was designed using participatory design approach during a 24-hour hackathon by a team consisting of younger programmers and older adults. The findings of this report show that inter-generational cooperation in which the older adults serve as representatives of...
An individual who re-registers an expired domain implicitly inherits the residual trust associated with the domain's prior use. Adversaries can, and increasingly do, exploit these ownership changes to undermine the security of both users and systems. In fact, many seemingly disparate security problems share a root cause in residual trust abuse. As we enter the dawn of the dead domain, new techniques...
Information-Centric Networking (ICN) has emerged as a promising way for the efficient content delivery over the Internet, and it can be seen as a super large-scale caching distributed system. However, as one of the most important problems, the cache consistency issue, which refers to whether cached contents in routers are outdated, is still not investigated thoroughly in ICN. Thus, in this paper,...
This paper provide a variety of services through multiple service classes where each service class will provide a different performance in terms of response time. These service classes will be designed to provide appropriate levels of service to user applications. Different classes of services and the packets between different classes are classified as per the application request and study and analysis...
In recent years there has been a big development of Information Technology and Communication (ICT). Given the paradigm of society, Information Society, constantly with changes and new challenges, which the schools of the 1st cycle of basic education can't stay apart. This study pretends to infer the interactions between the school and users, mediated by the microblogging system — the Twitter. This...
The word “cyber law” encompasses all the cases, statutes and constitutional provisions that affect persons and institutions who control the entry to cyberspace, provide access to cyberspace, create the hardware and software which enable people to access cyberspace or use their own devices to go “online” and enter cyberspace. In simple way we can say that cyber crime is unlawful acts wherein the computer...
This paper is dedicated to the study of the contribution of Information and Communication Technologies in the process of training coordinators in public schools enrolled in the Postgraduate Course in Pedagogical Coordination, under the National School managers of Public Elementary Education. Were used as instruments of data collection, questionnaires and structured interviews. The data were analyzed...
Sense Everything, Control Everything (SECE) is an event-driven system that lets nontechnical users create services that combine communication, location, social networks, presence, calendaring, and physical devices such as sensors and actuators. SECE combines information from multiple sources to personalize services and adapt them to changes in the user's context and preferences. Events trigger associated...
One of the most important uses of Internet, electronic commerce, which is due to its high interest rate is growing considerably. E-commerce is one of the major concerns playing on the minds of business individuals the world over. E-Commerce is rapidly finding its way into many businesses worldwide, and such is the nature of the Web that any organization can participate in this new business paradigm...
The application of various forms of information technology (e.g. internet, SMS, emails etc.) in businesses have affected how brokerage are being conducted by estate agency firms. Information technology is used to attract new buyers/sellers, reduce marketing costs and to close property deals quickly. This study investigates whether information technology has a significant effect on the earnings of...
In this paper, the author summarized the factors that influenced students' acceptance behaviors of communication tool in online collaborative learning. Based on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), the paper defined task characteristics, technology characteristics, individual characteristics and learning environment as external variables, while perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use and behavioral...
With the growing popularity of Internet, online advertising increases dramatically. But the immunity of users on advertisement gets stronger and stronger and the boycott means become more and more. How to make the clients accept the marketing communication? “Viral marketing” disperses to millions of recipients by taking the advantage of public praise of the clients. The public helps to realize the...
The contribution is focused on senior citizens as a specific and growing group of the society all over the world. Currently education of senior citizens is being developed especially in the area of utilization of information technologies. The paper deals with specific features of education of seniors which is considered to be distinguished space for development of social creativity. Outcomes of the...
This paper presents the results of a research study on the use of electronic communications by college students at public universities. We examine student perceptions and attitudes towards electronic communications, such as email, web browsing, using social networks, and other online activities, as well as their views and expectations of privacy and trust. We discuss a number of important characteristics...
Organizations are slow in utilising information technologies to manage employment screening. A framework is proposed to improve the effectiveness of IT in employment screening. The key elements to this framework include: a) the influence of internet job application tools on preemployment screening checks, b) the influence of web technology orders on online background screening checks, c) the influence...
Information Technology has grown tremendously during the last two decades and became the main source of knowledge. The latest information and the current technology are available through the Internet making it the most valuable source of information to almost all people from the novice to the expert in all fields of knowledge. Yet with the usefulness and importance of the Internet, the misuse and...
Significances of information technology for teaching and learning were discussed, and students' Preference to applying information technology in graduation design was investigated. Tutorship applying information technology has advantages, such as space-time flexibility, visualization, digitalization and mass information. It can't replace traditional means entirely; however, two means should have complementary...
Small and medium size firms (SMEs) are recognized fundamental to regional economies as they represent the majority of the business base, and make large contributions to employment and gross domestic product. However, the rate of integration of SMEs into e-commerce and e-business puts them in a disadvantaged position with respect to larger organizations. The slight utilization of Information Technologies...
The purpose of the study was to investigate the perception of extension agents regarding use of IT in agricultural of Iran. perception of extension agents regarding use of IT in agriculture assessed by 5 items: use of computer in agriculture, use of electronic mail, use of the world wide web, use of Presentation software, Web page editing. Overall (M = 1.69; SD =.91) extension agents tended to agree...
Internet has developed so fast that networked learning is gradually becoming one important part of the modern education. With many great advantages such as the abundant shared resources, convenient communication and flexible collaboration, the networked learning community is now popular among the youth to make individual education. In this paper, networked learning community is introduced including...
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