Increasing financial pressures on academic publishing and a rapid rate of change create a need for a wider range of financial information to ensure optimum efficiency, and to ensure that the financial implications of new developments are fully understood and planned for. The article describes a number of practical techniques and concepts to respond to these new requirements. Learned Publishing ...

Knowledge management (KM) and e-learning are two concepts that address the requirements of lifelong learning. Over the past several years, there has been an increasing focus on the integration of knowledge management and e-learning systems. By 2003, 70% of organizations implementing knowledge management were linking it with e-learning technically and organizationally (Gartner, 2000). The integr...

Senior executives often criticise the lack of visible returns from expensive investments in Information Technology (IT). In addition, accelerating changes in market environments demand higher business flexibility from IT services which exacerbates the difficulty of managing a return on IT-investment. This paper conducts a state-of-the-art review of methods currently in use for IT controlling, v...

This memo discusses different approaches to configure networks and identifies a set of configuration management requirements for IPbased networks.

One way to extract value from information products is to implement a digital rights management system. The aim of this article is to eliminate common confusions and direct future work among experts with different backgrounds. We introduce a framework to define concepts in this field. According to the framework, an entity may have legal rights in an information product in a certain jurisdiction ...

Organisations invest in Business Intelligence systems to improve their performance, provide management information and support decision-making. In practice however, Business Intelligence can be ineffective. While Business Intelligence software enables company-wide reporting, problems are encountered in the fit between systems’ provision and changing requirements of a growing amount of users. To...

The paper presents a product-based information management approach that promises a more efficient and effective delivery of IT services. Within a product-based information management, service providers and customers cooperate on the basis of a set of defined IT products. Instead of managing joint IT projects, customers purchase IT products offered and delivered by an IT service provider. The co...

Services should be directed towards meeting the actual and potential requirements of customers with maximum efficiency, especially under increased competition. It is therefore necessary to focus on the knowledge and anticipation of market requirements, to adjust the services’ supply to meet the current and future needs of customers. Considering these aspects, the research conducted through the ...

traceability is an ability of system to provide status reports or records pertaining of the current situation in the past. in production systems, traceability to track the product or lot of a product and access to records in the entire production process (or part of the process) of the raw material to finished product that purchased and consumed by customer will be applied. traceability in prod...

water is the most important factor for agriculture development in iran. accordingly the optimal consumptione of water is very important. using pressurized irrigation system is one of the methods to improve agricultural water management. the objecttives of this research were to compare two irrigation methods of furrow and trickle irrigation systems impacts on quantity and quality characters of s...