The special issue brings together a few selected papers from the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (ICIST 2015), held in Istanbul, Turkey during March 21 23, 2015. The International Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (ICIST) is a forum for researchers, developers, and practitioners in the information systems and computer scie...

Mitášová, H., Hofierka, J.: Impact of new mapping technologies on communication of geospatial information. Kartografické listy 2003, 11 Abstract: GPS, new sensors and increased computational power have dramatically changed mapping of Earth systems. Highly automated data acquisition from space, air and ground enables collection of massive amounts of data at short time intervals creating spatio-t...

as reputed by ranganatan, library is an alive and active and active organism, so it may be changed by environmental changes. today, the level of change in main question instead of what is going to be changed. changed management is investigating some of the changes that are occurring in the library with information technology. for example: collections accessing, catalogues changing, library usin...

We present in this report a summary of the main results produced in the first two years of the Gerindo research project. The aim of this project is to address the increasing demand for software capable of dealing with information available in large document collections, such as the World Wide Web. It involves efforts of researchers from three Brazilian universities to develop core technologies ...

Computerization within newborn screening programs is a developing issue. To date two basic approaches to data storage have been used: (1) a storage system for babies diagnosed with a disorder, (2) a comprehensive system with long-term details for all patient samples, tests performed, test results and interpretations. It usually provides efficient real-time reports for various clinical and quali...

This paper discusses the relationship of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) and sustainable development. It deconstructs popular myths about a sustainable information society. One myth is that telework has reduced the need to travel and hence environmental pollution. The reality is that teleworkers make up only a small share of the total workforce, telework can generate new s...

Improving and enhancing education is a goal for higher learning institutions that seek to provide better learning techniques, technologies, and educators and generate knowledgeable students to fulfill the needs of industry. A field in need of significant improvement is engineering. One approach is to review the delivery and pedagogies used in the current educational system. This paper examines ...

In this paper, we reviewed researches about the titanium nitride (TiN) and titanium carbide (TiC) single and multilayer coatings. These coatings were deposited by the plasma assisted chemical vapor deposition (PACVD) technique. Plasma-based technologies are used for the processing of thin films and coatings for different applications such as automobile and aerospace parts, computer disc drives,...