This guest editorial comments on the rapidly changing environment for the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in African Higher Education Institutions (HEI), introduces the e/merge online conferences and gives a brief introduction to the papers in the special issue.

Over the past two decades Romanian higher education has been the subject of numerous policy reforms aiming to increase the overall quality and performance of higher education institutions (HEIs): two comprehensive laws on education and several second-order legislative acts intended to transform the sphere of higher education into a modern system of teaching and research. Funding was one of the ...

This paper analyzes whether nation-state governments can increase their credibility by becoming members of international organizations. Credibility is an important asset because it determines the real interest rate and is expected to have an important impact on investment and growth. It is hypothesized that the degree of delegation to international organizations can improve the credibility of n...

This article identifies two models of nonprofit organization roles: the economic model, which emphasizes business-like methods, and the voluntary spirit model, which emphasizes participation and membership. Highly visible, professional nonprofit organizations must constantly struggle with the extent to which they are to emphasize their role as efficient and competitive economic actors or their ...

With the current economic climate and continuing changes to the structure and functioning of the healthcare system, ACEN, like many other member-dependent organizations, is experiencing significant challenges in sustaining membership. Anecdotal reports from members suggest four major factors contributing to this situation: (1) many of ACEN’s current members are approaching retirement age and, a...

this paper presents a fuzzy goal programming (fgp) methodology for solving bi-level quadratic programming (blqp) problems. in the fgp model formulation, firstly the objectives are transformed into fuzzy goals (membership functions) by means of assigning an aspiration level to each of them, and suitable membership function is defined for each objectives, and also the membership functions for vec...

data envelopment analysis (dea) is a method to evaluate the relative efficiency of decision making units (dmus). in this method, the issue has always been to determine a set of weights for each dmu which often caused many problems. since the dea models also have the multi-objective linear programming (molp) problems nature, a rational relationship can be established between molp and dea problem...

The article is devoted to the analysis of foreign experience business process digitalization in local government institutions. authors indicate following main internal problems regarding introduction digital models public administration Ukraine: absence an officially defined category-concept apparatus; non-compliance with legal, informational-analytical, scientific-methodical, financial, organi...

This paper presents a fuzzy, non-linear similarity measure designed for a clinical casebased reasoning system in radiotherapy treatment planning. The developed fuzzy similarity measure takes into account the distribution of attribute similarity values in the case base to ensure that the numerical values of the similarity between individual attributes are comparable and can be combined to give t...