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The design of the organization of information services in large public organizations must be improved to give a better answer on the changing political, administrative and social demands being made on large public bodies...

The increase in new services based on information and communications technologies (ICT) represents a panoply of opportunities in every single area of our lives. Aspects such as health, security, training, comfort, sustai...

Financial education is a basic condition for making sound and informed financial decisions. This Financial Guide offers a wide array of topics in order to be useful to anyone making that kind of decisions. Some of the co...

This book provides a practical vision of the different processes that make up the commercial logistics chain, in addition includes key information for organizations interested in importation, export, production, distrib...

An updated metric developed to assess the degree of open data reusability, called MEtric for the evaLuation of Open DAta: Meloda 5 is presented. Previous version of the metric, Meloda 4, had six dimensions: the legal lic...

In the last few years the education environment underwent a paradigm shift due to the rapid growth in technology. This growth made it possible for the education environment to utilize electronic services to enhance their...

Semantic Web is an extension of the current web in which data contained in the web documents are machine-understandable. On the other hand, Web Services provide a new model of the web in which sites exchange dynamic info...

One of the main intents of all digital libraries is to provide wide access to academic resources. Several tools and techniques are available to achieve this goal, some of them focus on harvest and storage of resources wh...

O objetivo deste trabalho é descrever a arquitetura dos Web Services como um dos recursos disponíveis para facilitar a integração de sistemas heterogêneos, ou seja, sistemas que são desenvolvidos em diferentes ling...

Despite the advances in wireless, energy-constrained ad hoc networks, there are still many challenges given the limited capabilities of the current hardware. Therefore, our aim is to develop a lightweight, yet powerful o...

The upper watershed of the Sauce Grande River supplies water to the hydraulic complex of the dike named Las Piedras, being a precious environmental service for the city of Bahia Blanca. A System of Payment for Environmen...

Los modelos gráficos probabilísticos, tales como las redes bayesianas y los diagramas de influencias permiten representar de forma coherente el conocimiento de un dominio bajo condiciones de incertidumbre. Están basad...

En los últimos años las organizaciones aumentaron el uso de las tecnologías de la información, y también aumentaron los riesgos asociados a ellas. La complejidad de las infraestructuras que incluyen un gran número ...

This paper contributes to the discipline of Information Systems (IS) by illustrating the continuing evolution of IS applications to a single, core business function. Historical developments in IS and the major global tre...

In the past years, Web Services (WS) have become the standard for exposing services as application programming interfaces to be consumed from anywhere in the world. Since many operations require the collaboration between...

This paper offers some reflections about advantages of incorporating ecosystem services analysis as a useful tool for proposal and planning of protected natural areas, as well as implementing a assessment methodology for...

Documento de conferencia La implementación de actividades y programas de alfabetización informacional ocupa un lugar central en las bibliotecas en pos de brindar información y capacitación sobre los servicios y recur...

As the use of web grows, organizations are increasingly choosing to use it to provide their services. The modeling process is a previous step in the systematization of a process. Due to the great number of modeling tools...

Nowadays, an increasing number of companies are using process improvement models as a mean to improve the quality of their processes and therefore the quality of their products and services. Although various improvement ...

La gobernabilidad electrónica (e-governance) tiene como propósito proporcionar a los ciudadanos una mejor calidad de gobierno, proveyendo servicios e información y también fomentando la comunicación interactiva entr...

Teniendo como marco de trabajo la cátedra de “Trabajo Profesional” de la Facultad de Ingeniería de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, se presenta una experiencia de desarrollo, en la que se trató de respetar el conoc...

This chapter summarizes information on inequality in living standards in Latin American and Caribbean countries. To that aim we work with a sample of more than 50 household surveys from 20 LAC countries from 1989 to 2001...

In this paper we deal with the problem of forecasting local rainfall at multiple meteorological stations over the Iberian peninsula. To this aim a dynamic Bayesian network is introduced for relating rainfall to broad-sca...

Wireless Technologies have allowed a fast growing of the Internet service in both public and private environments where wireless networks mostly consist of nodes interconnected with a fixed infrastruc- ture; nevertheless...