ACTS Project SUSIE AC320 The SUSIE project deals with the development of a charging approach for QoS-enhanced IP services or Premium IP services provided over ATM. This includes the development of charging schemes as well as the design and implementation of the charging systems. The charging approach is evaluated and validated in the SUSIE trials. In the following, selected achievements of the ...

Information Technology (IT) plays an important role in enabling education services be delivered to users. Most education online services in universities have been run on the cloud to provide services to support students, lecturers, researchers and administration staff. These are enabled with the emergence of cloud computing in the world of IT. Cloud computing offers on demand Internet-based com...

The emerging reference paradigm in a complex, technologically-rich information environment tends toward a more proactive, more deliberate blending of the conservative and liberal philosophies of reference, a new balance between the two. As key agents in the advancement of society and culture, libraries must recognize the value of community and the social context of information in providing serv...

Web search engines (WSE) are powerful and popular tools in the field of information service management. This study is an attempt to examine the impact and usefulness of web search engines in providing virtual reference services (VRS) within academic libraries in Pakistan. The study also attempts to investigate the relevant expertise and skills of library professionals in providing digital refer...

SUMMARY This paper describes a study on the reference models for human machine interaction (interface) (HMI) in a voice telematics services. The goal of the reference models is to reduce the possibilities of drivers' mind distractions even in the cases of hands-free and/or eyes-free driving situations. One of the basic principles is 'Voice telematics services should be controlled so that drivin...

The Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS) provides homogeneous access to heterogeneous information of various origins: information about astronomical objects in Simbad; catalogs and observation logs in VizieR and in the catalogue service; reference images and overlays in Aladin; nomenclature in the Dictionary of Nomenclature; Yellow Page services; the AstroGLU resource discovery t...

In addition to reference measurement procedures and reference materials, reference or calibration laboratories play an integral role in the implementation of measurement traceability in routine laboratories. They provide results of measurements using higher-order methods, e.g. isotope dilution mass spectrometry and may assign values to materials to be used for external quality assessment progra...