The growing extent and the increasing complexity of information both require the use of modern systems of information: on the one hand the aim is a fast distribution of information, on the other hand such information ...

Lithuania, as far as other candidate countries, is in the stage of preparation for joining EU. Following the requirements of EU, goes creation of main parts of IS for Agriculture, such as IACS, FADN and Agricultural Market ...

Notebooks are replacing other personal computers in everyday use. Efficient use of such mobile devices requires a creation of an "illusion" of permanent high speed on-line connection. Infrastructure support including ...

The key to efficient and wide spread parallel computing on workstations clusters is a high speed communication subsystem with well known programming interfaces and a cluster management system which makes the use of a cluster ...

The role of the traditional subscription agent focusing on the trade with scientific periodicals between publishers and academic and corporate libraries has nowadays been called in question. Quite a lot of big STM publishers ...

As service requirements of applications grow continuously, the term Quality of Service (QoS), denoting the performance provided by a network, more and more comes into the focus of interest. There are several approaches ...

At the University of Bergen, a new system for documenting current research (CRIS) in administration and strategic planning is under development. There are several motivation factors behind the new system development, one ...

During the last decade, universities have been facing far-reaching changes affecting the areas of teaching, research and administration. More emphasis on student services, increasing financial autonomy, implementation ...

Information filtering and aggregation become increasingly vital for academic communities wishing to use productively WWW-based information infrastructures, which in turn suffer from growing information overload bearing ...

This paper describes the MIS (Management Information Systems) Project in Ireland, which is installing a common Library and Academic Management system in fifteen Institutes of Technology in Ireland. The Project began in ...