In modern day’s institutions, risk management plays a crucial role as it aims to minimize the likelihood of adverse events and contributes to improve the quality of services delivery. In health care, an effective risk management is only possible if supported by information systems that can produce high quality measures and meaningful risk indicators. These indicators will then allow the healthc...

Metadata in environmental management systems support searching and browsing operations. XMLbased metadata systems can store metadata in a flexible manner that is suitable also for small and medium size organizations. Our EcoExplorer software package consists of three closely cooperating programs for the management of XML-based environmental metadata. It is implemented in Java and therefore plat...

We present a learning outcomes framework for an Information Systems (IS) undergraduate program. This framework includes a supporting software application that goes beyond any other attempt reported to date to integrate learning outcomes into program-wide and course-wide curriculum development, ongoing curriculum redesign, and student learning support. The Learning Outcomes Management System (LO...

The technology that has emerged to facilitate the evolution {rom data 'processing into information processing calls for a concomitment transformation in management perspective, from that of the management of information systems to one of information resource management (IRM). Not only the nature of the technology, but also its widespread dispersion throughout the organization, imply new conside...

In recent years, companies have begun to concentrate on the topic of environment sustainability. They have tried different methods and software in order to reduce their businesses’ effect on the environment, like pollution and unsustainable use of natural resources. These measures contribute to the protection of the integrity of ecosystems and human health, ensuring the sustainable use of natur...

Since 1949, the data of land tenure has a positive effect on reconciling land tenure conflicts, defining the scope of collective land and state-owned land, implementing the system of cultivated land protection and land use control, designing general land use planning, accelerating information-based land resource management, etc. The emphasis in the near future should be placed on establishing r...

Photo collections are one of the promising sources to tell story of life in this digital era. In this paper we present our work on organizing photos of a lifetime by exploiting semantic annotations. The complexity in using semantic technology is managed by introducing an annotation template corresponding to who, when, where, and what. Semantics of each dimension are semi-automatically annotated...