Procedia Computer Science

Water supply tariffs setting is a labour intensive regulatory procedure; currently number of informative and procedural shortages and problems exist. The aim of the current research is improvement of methodology for determination of the substantiated ...

This paper deals with stability analysis of elastic pipeline containing water flow, the velocity of which is perturbed harmonically under an action of pulsate fluid flow. The stability conditions of the pipeline section are analyzed under assumption of ...

The paper focuses on and examines the issues and problems related to remote evaluation of software engineering competences using progressive competence representation model. Authors suggested original approach for Master Program in Software Engineering ...

Software architectural decisions have a significant impact on the software development process as well as on the quality of developed software systems. In this paper, the technique that allows selecting the optimal software architecture among several ...

The frequency of unauthorized actions to information systems (IS) in the process of their integration is steadily increasing, which inevitably leads to huge financial and material losses. According to statistics, internal users of IS, commit more than ...

Agile methodologies are widely implemented and used around the world. There are over 20 different agile methodologies and their types. Choosing and adaptation of the methodology depends on project types, company and its employees. Employee ...

This paper provides various PHP programming framework (CakePHP2, CodeIgniter, Symfony2, Yii and PhalconPHP) popularity overview and comparison using various criteria. Based on the data obtained during the study two frameworks were selected for deeper ...

Nowadays, such socio-technical systems as virtual research environments are increasingly employed in the studies of textual heritage. The paper presents a modular platform based on a combination of Web services that provide tools for historical records ...

For effective management of natural capital, it is necessary to identify all ecosystems provisioning services (supply of food, wood, etc.), evaluating each of them. The article presents ecosystem provisioning services automated valuation process model. ...

Effective media relations and direct communication with customers are essential for all sports organizations. Successful managers in sports field must have a clear understanding of how Information and Communication Technology works to manage the ...

Automation is a one of mandatory success factor of continuous services in the software development area. There are many challenges related to automation of different IT operations to support continuous services up time. The story of current paper has ...

In information systems development models are used to represent real and target enterprise systems. Ideally the enterprise could have two basic enterprise models an As-Is model an To-Be model that may integrate all representations of the enterprise ...

Agile software development and software testing brought new ideas and tools in the software development industry. Day to day more and more companies are adopting an agile approach in their software development process. Scrum is a one of the agile ...

Data warehousing is a traditional domain of relational databases, and there are two main reasons for that: (1) data warehouses mostly are used in enterprises with large-scale data sets created in different legacy systems with relational data storages, (...

The paper introduce to challenges in automation of continuous processes in companies with many active software development projects. Usually companies have automation solutions for particular projects. When new software development projects are coming, ...

Statistics from Innovation Union Scoreboard 20151 shows that the Baltic States have a low innovation index in comparison with other European countries. One of the main reasons is that a lot of developed prototypes do not use in the business area and ...

The usage of information technology (IT) is one of the major factors for ensuring the growth and competitiveness of enterprises, as well as it also benefits the effective knowledge management within the organisation.There are large-scale knowledge ...

The systems of linear equations are a classic section of numerical methods which was already known BC. It reached its highest peak around 1600-1700 due to the public demand for solutions of technical and engineering tasks, nevertheless, it is still ...

The paper discusses an external solution for data quality management in information systems. In contradiction to traditional data quality assurance methods, the proposed approach provides the usage of a domain specific language (DSL) for description ...

The digital revolution is transforming contemporary society. Connective intelligence is an emerging property deriving from the embedding of intelligence into the connected data, concepts, applications, and people. Furthermore, the progress in behavioral-...

Four graphs for personalized study planning constitute the personalized study planning framework, namely, a graph representing a conceptual structure of study program; a graph representing study course; a graph visualizing each topic of study course ...

Information technologies in today's world function as support net for sharing knowledge and information coming more important as well as promoter of mutual cooperation when it comes to development of further education of adults. Because of a passive ...

In this paper, the concept of collaborative intelligent educational system is presented. Different knowledge representation models are compared in the context of their use in collaborative intelligent educational systems. Advantages of semantic networks ...

This paper presents the case study of the Faculty of Informatics and Management, University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic. The study reflects results of the research conducted at the institution to discover learners preferences in higher mobile-...

The SDI4Apps Open INSPIRE4Youth supports creativity, technical capabilities, skills, knowledge and also relations, through the sharing of spatial based content and educational materials around environment. Using new methods of digital cartography ...

In a highly globalized and competition driven business world the role of social is growing. Social media is increasing. The social media has become a tool for marketing. Nevertheless the evaluation of investments in the social media and its benefits is ...

The study examined the relationship between job change, employee's socio-demographic characteristics and labor market conditions in Latvia. Drawing on a nationally representative sample of employees, retrieved from EU-SILC database, inferential and ...

This study proposes a group of indicators in the analysis of port performance. This paper presents a new model of analysis to evaluate how the port cargo openness, the productivity level, the cargo expansion, and the technological change adaptability ...

The sustainable development or sustainability has been highlighted as an essential principle in urban planning and regional development. Integration of Web map application and simulation modeling tools is essential for the analysis of sustainability in ...