In the world of health care, most specialists appreciate information and communication as a major component in this area. Thus, the Internet becomes also in health - the main source of information and communication of professionals in the system, facilitating access to databases, electronic...

Narrowing the digital divide is an important goal of any ICT policy. It must promote on one hand a high degree of accessibility to the infostructure by promoting competition, interconnection and convergence in the ICT sector. On the other hand, policies must also seek to increase the...

In economic and social sciences it is crucial to test theoretical models against reliable and big enough databases. The general research challenge is to build up a well-structured database that suits well to the given research question and that is cost efficient at the same time. In this paper...

We study whether and how contractual arrangements (fixed price vs. time-and-materials contracts) change the effect of reputation, certification, and language characteristics on the chances of winning outsourcing contracts. Using a comprehensive dataset from an online outsourcing marketplace, we...

The accounting ontologies were conceptualized as a framework for building accounting information systems in a shared data environment, within enterprises or between different enterprises. The model’s base feature was an object pattern consisting of two mirror-image that represented conceptual...

This paper is the following part of a previous article about Business Intelligence regarded as key enabler and effect of the Globalization. Starting from the definitions and from the classifications cho-sen then, this second part brings many other considerations about GBI, G-L, GIS, and also...

The present study investigates the characteristics of online searching behavior with emphasis on query reformulation. The topic has been highly studied starting with Bates (1979), Jansen and Spink (1999), Rieh and Xie (2001), Vakkari (2003), Spink, Zhang and Jansen (2007). Earlier studies...

This paper examines the situation in which a monopolist offers freeware as an advertisement to increase the demand in order to maximize profit even though the existence of such freeware will reduce the power of the monopolist in the market. We prove that the successful application of freeware is...

The information and communication led to the formation of human society, which explains the strong relationship between society and information. From the applied informatics point of view, the ratio between data and information, as first level, offers the possibility of obtaining knowledge from...

Spanish abstract. El cómputo de alto rendimiento es una necesidad para el desarrollo de investigaciones con grandes volúmenes de datos. La creciente demanda de este tipo de resultados ha impulsado a varios centros de investigación a poner en funcionamiento recursos de cómputo de alto...