Exploring the grand challenges for next generation eBusiness While Information Systems continue to transform organizations, organizational IT infrastructures and business models are themselves beginning to change. There is an increased focus on service orientation and performance levels of IT infrastructures and systems. Outsourcing and offshoring strategies are evolving to include utility base...

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)-funded Data Management through e-Social Sciences (DAMES) project is investigating, as one of its four research themes, how research into depression, self-harm and suicide may be enhanced through the adoption of e-Science infrastructures and techniques. In this paper, we explore the challenges in supporting such research infrastructures and describ...

HPC environments have traditionally been designed to meet the compute demand of scientific applications and data has only been a second order concern. With science moving toward data-driven discoveries relying more and more on correlations in data to form scientific hypotheses, the limitations of existing HPC approaches become apparent: Architectural paradigms such as the separation of storage ...

The purpose of this study is to explore infrastructures for establishment of electronic municipality in metropolis city of Tabriz. Thisis a descriptive survey and it is an applied one in terms of goal .Total sample consisted of total number of 120 employees in Statistics and Information Technology Department of municipality as well as those working in related sections to information technolog...

Background: Promoting ethics is one of the goals of education, but the free flow of communication and divulging unethical behaviors in e-learning make the urgent need to clarify ethical values. Therefore, the aim of this study was to prepare ethical codes to develop and deliver e-contents.    Methods: A draft of e-content ethical codes was prepared based on the literature review. Then, it was ...

the projection of information and communication technology (ict) has begun to have its impact in iran. the benefits gained from ict are widely accepted and the iranian government is encouraging the country for adopting ict practices. e-learning is an important branch of ict which has attracted the attention of many people, especially those in educational and academic sectors. however, e-learnin...