All transformations of our society are the product of the large use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) and Internet. ICT are technologies which facilitate communication, processing, and transmission of information by electronic means. It is very important to use the new...

In our age cities are complex systems and we can say systems of systems. Today locality is the result of using information and communication technologies in all departments of our life, but in future all cities must to use smart systems for improve quality of life and on the other hand for...

The Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) affect every activity and suppose changes in all domains: in administration (e-government), in business (electronic commerce), in education (long distance education), in culture (multimedia centers and virtual libraries) and in the manner of...

The Lisbon European Council conclusion was that in 2010 Europe will become 'the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustained economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion'. The knowledge economy concept is a part of modern...

The paper describes a secure architecture for an M-Learning system that uses Bluetooth wireless networks to offer services for mobile devices. The solution is implemented on the Java ME platform using SATSA-CRYPTO. The access to these services is made possible by using Bluetooth capabilities of...

The success of national economies is more dependent on the capacity to produce and use knowledge. This paper represents a study on the innovation and knowledge, which become more central to economic performance.

All over the world we find smart solutions which are implemented for improve quality of life. The smart solutions make daily activities more easily, efficiently and represent a real support for city development. The paper aims to analyze and presents the necessity of use smart solutions in...

This paper is an extension to the "Distributed Parallel Architecture for Storing and Processing Large Datasets" paper presented at the WSEAS SEPADS’12 conference in Cambridge. In its original version the paper went over the benefits of using a distributed parallel architecture to store...

All of digital devices which are connected through the Internet, are producing a big quantity of data. All this information can be turned into knowledge because we now have the computational power and solutions for advanced analytics to make sense of it. With this knowledge, cities could reduce...

The concept „smart planet” refers at intelligence which is being infused into the systems and processes and makes the world work better. We think that smarter means to infused intelligence into things which no one would recognize as computers: cars, appliances, roadways, even natural systems...