The use of XML in data exchanges has extensively grown for the last few years. Furthermore, huge volumes of data are sent through the Internet. Today data mining tools are required in order to provide users with automatic tools to deal with the heterogeneity of the data in order to query it. Some approaches have been proposed in order to mine sub-structures (subtrees) from such XML databases. H...

Support for cooperation is important for the users of a Connguration Management (CM) system, whenever two or more people are simultaneously working on the same product. However, many CM systems today are still lacking in this respect. We have added some cooperation support tools to our own CM system, and we show how these assist the CM users in coordinating their work and resolving connicts. Wh...

Humans today live in an emerging global information society, with a global economy that is increasingly dependent on the creation, management, and distribution of information resources. Information and its use permeate all aspects of modern society. Today, most organizations need information systems to survive and prosper. It is therefore imperative that modern organiza tions, operating in this...

A B S T R A C TThe applications of neurophysiological therapy techniques range far and few in the realm of modern day medicine. However, the concept of electromagnetic stimulation, the basis for many noninvasive brain stimulation (NIBS) techniques today, has been of interest to the scientific community since the late nineteenth century. Recently, transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) a...

The fast pace of bacterial genome sequencing and the resulting dependence on highly automated annotation methods has driven the development of many genome-wide analysis tools. OperonDB, first released in 2001, is a database containing the results of a computational algorithm for locating operon structures in microbial genomes. OperonDB has grown from 34 genomes in its initial release to more th...

Designers of information systems need to address more issues today than ever before because of a recent multi-device context, since in the past few years the possibilities of interaction have significantly grown. To design, test and validate User Interfaces in this complex context is a challenge that cannot be efficiently approached with traditional tools. This work presents a case study of pro...

Public acceptance of vaccination has never been a given. Today there is a set of societal circumstances that may contribute to a growing parental hesitancy about vaccination. These include: increasingly 'crowded' vaccination schedules; lower prevalence of vaccine-preventable diseases; greater access to, and more rapid dissemination of, vaccine-critical messages via digital networks; hyper-vigil...

Institute of Computer Science of Masaryk University is working on the field of supporting medicine multimedia data transport archiving and processing more than ten years. Since first steps like transport of ultrasound and CT images across private fibre optics network these activities have grown up to regional PACS archive. Today more and more hospitals are participating on this project know und...