information and knowledge management have become crucial to the development of a competitive edge on the market. this requires the gathering of complete and consistent information in an environment where companies are working increasingly with a vast network of partners. in this paper, we investigate the case of platforms on the tourism market selling trips in boxes thanks to a wide network of ...

extension of information together with the need for its use in a suitable and appropriate time is one of the important goals in this century – the information century. the user query that is accessibility to the requested text information in a short time must be satisfied using effective techniques. this is performable under text compression and retrieval, which have been treated separately bef...

The approaches for building new information systems based on the integration of reusable components require to hide the semantic heterogeneity which needs a detecting and resolving semantic conflict. The integration systems and semantic conflict resolution are based mostly on ontology alignment techniques. In this work, we focus on semantic integration of Business Components (BC). That’s why; w...

We study the potential contribution of governance theories to analysing the post-merger integration of the IS. We provide a clarifying overview of neoclassical theory of the firm, the nexus of contracts perspective, agency theory, early incomplete contracting literature, transaction cost economics and property rights theory, and discuss their contributions to the existence, boundaries and inter...

The healthcare industry is composed of primary and secondary healthcare providers. Each provider needs to exchange information with other providers. Information Systems (IS) developed on different types of hardware and software platforms serve this need. Due to the heterogeneous and distributed nature of information and communicating technology (ICT) in the healthcare industry, sharing of the d...