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Driving Forces Behind Smart City Implementations - The Next Smart Revolution
Full text linkThe present study examines the driving forces behind smart city implementations. Besides the results of international and European standardization efforts, the importance of holistic approach to cities and the issues of cities as complex systems will also be discussed. Furthermore, the relationship between cyber-physical systems and smart cities will be presented, and finally, certain conclusions will be drawn about the safety and security of smart cities. The urban structures and technological advances presented in this article mark the arrival of the next industrial revolution, which means that these intelligent and smart systems will cover all aspects of life
Approach for Synonyms Detection in Conceptual Data Model
Full text linkDetection of synonyms in data modeling is considered as a significant problem, especially within the semantic evaluation of a conceptual data model. This paper presents an approach for synonyms detection in a system for conceptual data model semantic evaluation. It is based on automated reasoning in ontology mapping with conceptual data model with tool that formalizes ontology and conceptual data model and merges them with a set of reasoning rules. Reasoning was done with Prolog system. These rules are created for ontology–toconceptual data model mapping, as well for synonyms extraction. Examples of\ud
testing reasoning rules are also shown in the paper
Online Loans – New Business model on the Macedonian Financial Market
Full text linkAs a result of new technological developments, every day we witness of new business models and new online products that make daily life. One of these business models and new online financial products that this model offers and which recently appeared on the Macedonian financial market is iCredit or Easycredit model as it is called in some countries. It is an iCredit new model of financial services that enables to get quick loans to certain amounts, for which the application is online. The purpose of this paper is to provide more detailed information on this new business model and new products that it offers and will be made analysis of its strengths and opportunities, but also be made and the comparative analysis of the product in the countries where is used. It will be presented an overview of the issues that most users would set up if decide to choose some of the types of online loans
Information Technologies in Human Resources Management: An Overview
Full text linkHuman resources management is one of the most important areas that influence business performance. Information technologies applied within an organization brings integration of business processes and enables their functionality. Synergy of human resources management and application of information technologies is core architectural component of an organization that brings value to organizational processes outcomes. Therefore, it is of a great interest to determine their mutual influence. There are two mayor research perspectives of human resources management synergy with information technologies, that are presented in this paper: implementing information technologies in human resources management and influence of human resources management to information technology related projects and companies
Modeling and evaluation of VPN laboratory exercises for Information Technology curricula
Full text linkEstablishment of a secure connection over Internet in industrial and commercial environments is very important. Considering that, information technology (IT) professionals are in charge for implementing the appropriate technologies. Therefore, the efficient IT security training inclusion in the university courses has the crucial role. The creation of VPN laboratory exercises for industrial Ethernet and business communication is presented in this paper. The VPN exercises are implemented on two laboratory sets for teaching VPN, the first one based on Allen-Bradley® communication equipment in combination with other hardware and software components, and the second platform based on Cisco routers. The qualitative study was conducted in order to analyze student’s experiences. Research findings indicate the importance of students experience in using learning materials and scenarios, experience in problem solving and using laboratory sets for mastering VPN technology
An Examination of the Relationship between Security Awareness and Digital Competence
Full text linkThis aim of this article to present the relationship between the security awareness and digital competency. The digital world as the achievement of the modern age is developed over the last two centuries because of the needs of a knowledge –based society. Since the electricity and the ability of the information carrying has discovered it started to apply more widely. The Internet and the\ud
World Wide Web are the networking side of this modern age achievements. A man of our times need to develop their digital competences, because more and more widely applied to a digital utilities with which the growing segment of\ud
society reach growth of digital goods day to day. The safety awareness as a form of behavior not only important in the digital world but in the physical reality as well. Using physical security devices are evident for everyone. From another perspective how to use the digital world security tools are not so clear for everyone. It is possible to improve this type of behavior with increasing the digital competence
Incorporation of Defined Quality Attributes into Solutions Based on Service-Oriented Architecture
Full text linkThe shift of the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) to the\ud
Information Technology, its use and implementation enables the feature of having more robust system offered to the Service Industry. This paper will present enhancement efforts to software platform solution with including quality\ud
attributes and will describe the design of the Quality Service-Oriented Architecture. A well known branch of the service industry market in the US is the Pest Control Services which should be part of every single physical object in the USA. There are many Service-Oriented Platforms that handle the Pest Control Industry and our target in this article will be to describe a Quality Oriented and Service-Oriented Design for the Pest Control Industry, which will meet the criteria and the needs of the industry as well to meet all laws requirements to each\ud
US state related to the pest control policies and rules. Most important is that the presented software platform provides competitive edge
Examples of Raspberry Pi usage in Internet of Things
Full text linkVery fast expansion of Internet of Things gives a challenge for the educators in finding tools for efficient teaching Internet of Things (IoT) and related technologies. The growth of the development boards market, which is evident in past few years, gives a number of opportunities and choices. This paper gives the short overview of part of the available platforms together with their main characteristics. Paper explores the applicability of Raspberry Pi development board or single board computer for teaching IoT technologies and environments. Goal of this research is to find and propose low-cost, efficient and\ud
flexible platform which can help in introducing the IoT paradigm in teaching process, as well as to be good enough to be used in classroom for lab exercises or for student projects. The detailed configuration of Raspberry Pi and the whole environment is given in this paper
Development of the Infocommunication System for the Intelligent Rail Transport System of Dangerous Goods in Hungary
Full text linkThrough the examples of recent accidents in Hungary and abroad, we will reveal the possible reasons for the release of dangerous goods into the environment, and, considering these accidents, we will draw conclusions for the safety of rail transport of dangerous goods. While examining the situation of the rail transport of dangerous goods in Hungary, we will present the fundamental concepts and regulations of the transport of dangerous goods in Europe. Today the system of the transport of dangerous goods greatly relies on manual recording and identification methods. Our aim is to provide the ICT bases for tracking the transport of such goods and monitoring their storage conditions, by making suggestions for the development of a monitoring and tracking system to increase the safety of the rail transport system, provide protection for the critical rail infrastructure and ensure the safety of the transport of dangerous goods
Factors influencing the successful adoption of an innovative e-commerce product: single case study
Full text linkThis paper studies the acceptance of an innovative e-commerce product by customers, and how the market characteristics influence its adoption and diffusion. By introducing the concept of e-readiness, which summarizes a broad set of characteristics of a given country, we were able to analyze the factors that drive the adoption of an innovative solution in a market. Our findings suggest that both environmental and firm level factors play an important role in the adoption of an innovative e-commerce solution