In this paper we show a Virtual Platform for an Association of Women’s Aid called Centro Integral de Ayuda a la Mujer (CIAM). After analyzing different Content Management Systems (CMS) and the benefits that its use would contribute to the development of the Virtual Platform, taking into account the needs and requirements set by CIAM, we have opted for the use of Joomla!. This free CMS, for its ...

Asynchronous web-based learning environments are not usually as interactive or adaptive compared to traditional classrooms. The use of synchronous communication tools may be a solution to recreating the link between students and professors. However, synchronous collaborative learning environments are often restricted to a set of communication tools and they do not offer any strategy to organize...

In today’s competitive global market place, agility has become a survival factor for many manufacturers. A key measurement of manufacturing agility is the time it takes an organization to respond to market changes. The production management system used by most manufacturers today has disconnected planning and execution processes. This situation often hinders the manufacturer to fully explore ma...

Virtual Learning Environments have been the center of attention in the last few decades and help educators tremendously with providing students with educational resources. Since artificial intelligence was used for educational proposes, learning management system developers showed much interest in making their products smarter and more intelligent. Nevertheless, the questions of what an intelli...

Most of today‘s document analysis systems are employed for specialpurpose tasks and carry their knowledge directly within their algorithms. However, certain office environments demand for more flexible applications of document analysis and understanding (DAU) techniques having a broader application space and being subject to frequent changes while still requiring high precision. Our knowledge-c...

The volume of information being published on intranet, extranet and Internet websites continues to grow at a rapid pace. Therefore, website content management is emerging as a mission-critical business problem that must be resolved and where controlling complexity is key. The purpose of this study is to provide a major overview of content management approaches, strategies, benefits and challeng...

Content Delivery network architectures are initiatives designed to support the effective delivery of continuous and discrete media to end-users. Mobile devices are now capable of exploiting services such as content delivery, but with the protocols governing the Content Delivery Networks designed for wired networked topologies; an assessment of the impact of mobile devices on the network has nev...

Recently, several document management systems supporting asynchronous cooperation over the world–wide web have been proposed. Such systems provide access controlled areas for sharing objects related to a specific topic among a group of people working together. Configuration Management Support is however not present or very much restricted in these systems. We argue that such support is necessar...

Based on experience gathered with several releases of the CoreMedia Content Application Platform (CAP), we argue that a modern, generalized Content Management System should, as database systems do, support explicit content schemata. To control the inevitable evolution of the content schema, the schema should be subject to configuration management together with the actual content. We propose a t...

Website design practice has evolved a lot. Websites are no longer designed from scratch but based on existing designs and patterns, and very often they are implemented using Web Content Management Systems (WCMS). Given all this support, it seems that the traditional web design methods, developed in the past, are no longer relevant. However, we argue that they still have a role to play, but they...