the present study is an attempt to provide a current synopsis of world englishes within globalized communities, as well as theoretical and applied feasibility of global linguistic features of english as an international language (eil). to do so, first, three main reactions against the spread of english by scholars around the world are discussed. then, the possibility of describing and teaching ...

Today much knowledge – scientific, technological, and cultural – is shared worldwide. The extent to which globalized knowledge existed also in the past is an open question and moreover a question that is important for understanding present processes of globalization. Considering for instance the rapid spread in pre-history of the wheel throughout Eurasia, the spreading of Roman law to such dive...

A key factor for success of companies operating in a globalized market environment is a modern SOA-based infrastructure. An essential component of a SOA infrastructure is the central service registry. Current standards for organizing service registries and their implementations are driven by the technical aspects of the infrastructure. When using such technically organized service registries, b...

In this article, we present and describe current ideas in Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) technology such as focused mostly on integrating VRML with other technologies Geographical Information System (GIS) and Global Positioning System (GPS) applied as new Internet services called Virtual World Webcasting (VWW). The VWW technology is considered a new web communication paradigm, definin...

Outsourcing parts of a company’s processes becomes more and more important in a globalized, distributed economy. While architectural styles and technologies such as service-oriented architecture and Web services facilitate the distribution of business process over several departments, enterprises and countries, these business processes still need to comply with various regulations. These regula...

The purpose of this study is to analyze the degree of globalization of important indicators of education system in Iran including teaching approaches, educational tools and facilities, curriculums and contents, and education management. Findings suggest that the situation of Iranian education system has some distance with the globalized level and post modernism and is more aligned with traditio...

Life in today's global village has two ontological and epistemological aspects. One problem of the globalized world related to these two aspects, which will be discussed in this article first is the fact that the civilization of the globalized world has, in some ways, been disconnected from its culture, since civilization moves towards collectivism whereas culture moves towards ind...

Enterprises often need to communicate and exchange data among each other. Previously, such communication was mainly achieved by human contact, letter exchange, by telephone and by fax. In the early stage of the Internet and electronic procurement (e-Procurement), enterprises built the channel for exchanging data by using EDI (Electronic Data Interchange). However, in the later stage of the deve...