Nowadays, process-aware information systems (PAISs) are widely used for the management of "administrative" processes characterized by clear and well-defined structures. Besides those scenarios, PAISs can be used also in mobile and pervasive scenarios, where process participants can be only...

Fuzzy mathematics comprehensive evaluation method is used to evaluate the geological environment suitability of rural urbanization in Qingdao City, China. A total of 5 first-level evaluation factors are selected, including environmental geological condition, geological resources, engineering...

Over the past few years a new buzzword has entered academic, political and public discourse: the notion of resilience, a term invoked to describe how an entity or system responds to shocks and disturbances. Although the concept has been used for some time in ecology and psychology, it is now...

This paper presents the efforts of using the evolutionary mix-game model, which is a modified form of the agent-based mix-game model, to predict financial time series. Here, we have carried out three methods to improve the original mix-game model by adding the abilities of strategy evolution to...

Quantitatively accurate laws of metabolism and mortality, which are the same for species with different evolutionary history (e.g., humans and flies), are derived and extensively verified. Such conservation (with respect to evolution, i.e., in non-stationary and heterogeneous conditions) laws...

The paper deals with the flexibility of informatic systems in the context of multiple and unavoidable changes at the level of companies. The concept of flexibility of informatic systems is defined and we present the factors which determine the flexibility along the whole life cycle of the...

With dramatic increase in the mobile technology, the mobile cellular phones have played a significant role in the several fields particularly, education, military, business and health. The deployment of mobile phone in the Government has been of high interest of research community to improve...

Access to education is one of the main human rights. Everyone should have access to education and be capable of benefiting from it. However there are a number who are excluded, not because of a lack of ability but simply because they have a disability or specific need which current education...