This conceptual paper provides guidance for the implementation of a functional ISO 9001 quality management system (QMS) in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). To help a SME understand its starting point, four initial states for QMS implementation are defined. Five paths for moving the QMS from the initial state to the desired state are described. To support the transition from the initia...

This paper presents a Web-based Conference Management System framework that is intended to support multiple conferences and facilitate the conference management starting from the conference preparation until the attendance tracking process during conference day. The framework derived from the analysis of several web-based related applications. The framework is presents and the results are discu...

By introducing the concept of Cloud Computing, the architecture of e-Learning has been changed, So, we propose an autonomous learning support system that encourages learners’ interaction by “the Architecture of Participation”. We developed learning management system based on SNS. This system has two models that describe 1) learner’s acquired knowledge, and 2) learner’s participatory attributes....

Abstract Online presence is becoming an important part of everyday's life and online communities may represent a significant source engagement for the elderlies. Nevertheless, many struggle to be due lack expertise, decentralised architecture provide solution by removing intermediaries, such as webmaster, while not requiring expensive cloud solutions. However, issues concerning accessibility, s...

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The automated creation and the visualization of concept structures become more important as the number of relevant information continues to grow dramatically. Especially information and knowledge intensive tasks are relying heavily on accessing the relevant information or knowledge at the right time. Moreover the capturing of relevant facts and good ideas should be focused on as early as possib...

BACKGROUND The effective management of content is a key challenge in the digital era. The publishing of websites is often a spectacular and expensive " once-off " exercise that delivers an impressive result in the short term, but in the long term represents many challenges for content management and re-use. Currency of website content rapidly becomes an issue. Similarly, many organisations have...