A research team from two universities and two IT companies took the challenge of developing a business foreign languages program implemented in a web environment, aiming the effectiveness of the communication in a working multicultural environment, using foreign languages. The online educational...

The model checkers are tools which can be used to verify a given system satisfies a given temporal logic formula. The model is a directed graph where the nodes represent the states of the system and the edges represents the state transitions. The nodes and the edges can be labelled with atomic...

This article explores possible solutions for improving Location Based Services (LBS). For the purpose of this paper context, user profile, previous choices and the choice profiles of similar users are aspects taken into consideration. A possible implementation of an LBS system, in the form of a...

The increasing of the database dimension creates many problems, especially when we need to access, use and analyze data. The data overflow phenomenon in database environments imposes the application of different data mining methods, in order to find relevant information from large databases. A...

Continuous professional training represents a systematic approach of learning and development, having as purpose the improvement of the individual’s, team’s or organization’s efficacy. This can play a very important part and can affect not only the human resources strategy, but also the...

The paper presents a generic framework of an intelligent information system for competence management based on ontologies for information technology companies. The advantage of using an ontology-based system is the possibility of the identification of new relations among concepts based on...

The communitary strategic orientations that the European institutions promoted since Octomber 2006 have at their base the fact that research and innovation have a direct contribution at the prosperity and the welfare of the individual and of the community. The main objective of the research and...

This paper aims to argue why software architecture, does no matter designed to manipulate knowledge or to support regular business activities, must change to adapt to the knowledge era. The first steps in this demarche will be represented in establishing a common meaning for different notions...

It is widely accepted that one of the virtual organizations great advantages, is that the participating firms can join in larger and more complex projects in a more flexible and swift fashion than would be the case for an individual. The shaping of the VO’s architecture in order to be able to...

Project management causes the problem of efficient resource assignment, activity, time constraints and relationships between activities. Traditional scheduling methods like CPM and PERT are incomplete tools to use in practice because they do not consider constraints regarding resources and...