In a world in which 50 percent of the population is virtually excluded from the benefits of information and communication technology, bridging the digital gap has become an imperative for the international community, particularly for the industrialized countries. The objective of this study is...

In a world in which 50 percent of the population is virtually excluded from the benefits of information and communication technology, bridging the digital gap has become an imperative for the international community, particularly for the industrialized countries. The objective of this study is...

This paper outlines a program for the development of a computerized information network at the University of Kentucky. The Agricultural Network System for Education and Research is an information system to be used both for the delivery of computerized decision aids and for data retrieval systems.

The flexibility growth in the work process represents an objective of the UE, which must be achieved at national as well as regional level, in order to integrate in European Information Society. The information Society implies the modification of the work process because more and more workers...

One way to bring concepts to life in an introductory data networks course is for students to physically build a network that addresses a real business problem. However it can be challenging to find a suitable business problem, particularly if the network can exist only during the class period....

In this paper, we propose a unified framework for trust management that can cover a broad variety of trust mechanisms including reputations, credentials, local data and environment parameters. The proposed trust management framework leverages established standards and it covers a broad variety...

This paper provides an assessment of the Chinese telecommunications market in transition. It tracks the evolution of the Chinese telecommunications carriers and argues that their economic imperatives, notwithstanding progress, will be slow if they do not exercise the political will in untangling...

In a recent paper, we analysed the dynamics of traffic flow in a simple, square lattice architecture. It was shown that a phase transition takes place between a free and a congested phase. The transition point was shown to exhibit optimal information transfer and wide fluctuations in time, with...

Nach einer Beschreibung der bei der Gestaltung von Planungssystemen gegebenen Entscheidungssituation werden die wissenschaftlichen Methoden diskutiert, mit denen der Anwender in dieser Meta-Entscheidung unterstützt werden kann. Ein Uberblick über die bisherigen Anwendungsgebiete der dafür...