by entering the era of information and communication and moving from manufacturing and industrial economy towards knowledge-based service economy; the competitive bases of businesses have changed from capital budgeting and tangible assets towards intangible assets and intellectual capital, including social and relational capitals. hence, over the past ages, organizations emphasize more on infor...

Graduates of undergraduate Information Technology (IT) programs should have skills desired by regional businesses. Educating the next generation of IT professionals is a continuing challenge. In the IT program at a southeastern United States university, we are exploring ways to integrate real world experiences into the curriculum and allow students to develop relationships with each other as we...

Against the backdrop of new economic realities, one of the larger forces that is affecting businesses worldwide is cloud computing, whose benefits include agility, time to market, time to capability, reduced cost, etc. The intent of this research was to contribute to the body of knowledge that could be applied by researchers, businesses, and IT organizations alike to achieve optimal results thr...

The essentiality of maintenance assessment and maintenance optimization in design stage is analyzed, and the existent problems of conventional maintenance design method are illuminated. MDMVM (Maintenance Design Method based Virtual Maintenance) is illuminated, and the process of MDMVM established, and the MDMVM architecture is given out. The key techniques of MDMVM are analyzed, and include ma...

EDI-Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is the electronic exchange of routine business transactions. Extranet – an extranet is a private network that uses the Internet protocol and the public telecommunication system to share securely part of a business's information or operations with suppliers, vendors, partners, customers, or other businesses. ICT – information and communication technology Int...

The term “knowledge management” is increasingly finding its way into the management lexicon as concepts such as knowledge-based competition, knowledgeintensive businesses and products, and knowledge assets creep into strategy discussions. There is growing consensus about the importance of knowledge as a basis of competition and operational effectiveness, but surprisingly little research has bee...

imagine you have traveled to an unfamiliar city. before you start your daily tour around the city, you need to know a good route. in network theory (nt), this is the traveling salesman problem (tsp). a dynamic programming algorithm is often used for solving this problem. however, when the road network of the city is very complicated and dense, which is usually the case, it will take too long fo...

Web social media includes computer-mediated tools that allow people to create, share or exchange information, ideas, pictures, and videos in virtual communities and networks. Web social media is defined as “a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, and that allow the creation and exchange of user generated content” [1]. Furthe...