Meanwhile, standard mobile phones are able to run applications which can be installed additionally tothose provided by the network operators. These applications can be used for various purposes - onepossibility is to use mobile phones for guiding persons on unknown territory. Mobile phones...

Accessing the World Wide Web via mobile end devices is increasing steadily. Mobile access is limitedby device properties and radio networks. In the past, software developers responded to this by specialstandards for a special mobile web: WAP, HDML, WML, C-HTML and XHTML-MP. However, theWorld...

Large costs arise at a seaport container terminal from the duration of the unloading of vessels and from the time a vessel is waiting to be unloaded. The optimal allocation of vessels to berth space (Berth Allocation Problem) becomes more and more important as its solution is also input to...

As one of the application areas of data mining, the credit scoring problem is related to theclassification decision. The problem of classification decision has three professionalbackgrounds: statistics, machine learning, and artificial neural networks. There are manycategories of classification...

Empirical credit scoring as a technique that has its traditional statistical background is in thispaper looked as the classification problem of data mining.Restricted originally in the reject/accept decisions on consumer credits, the applications ofscoring methods have come to cover the area of...

Dr. Einar Fredriksson (Director of IOS Press) opened the second conference AcademicPublishing in Europe 2007 on “Innovation & Publishing”. He thanked the organisers andsponsors. Publishing was to be discussed in a comprehensive academic sense, including notjust STM publishing but SSH...

Among the financing strategies available for Open Access (OA), the author-paysbusiness model has received increasing attention. The consequences of this approach,however, for the system of scholarly communication and for publishing houses asparticipants in value added, have remained largely...

Currently, Semantic Web approaches play an important role in the discussion of knowledgemanagement. Metadata, which contains formal machine-readable information about contents,is added to resources in order to enable machines to access resources which are otherwiseonly understandable to human...