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09
Oct
2009

The Opportunity for a Reconsideration of the Dimensions of the Assessment Model of the Customers Satisfaction

Communications of the IBIMA
This paper started from the implementation of the sustainable development concept, for every organization. This requests the reconsideration of the environmental protection and quality assurance policies role, inside of the organizations. The authors consider that the utilization of the specific methods, techniques and instruments request…
08
Oct
2009

The Romanian Entrepreneurial Venture Profile Types

Communications of the IBIMA
This paper presents some preliminary results from a research project aiming to evaluate how the entrepreneurial skills would capture the effect of the knowledge and abilities acquired by founders through their education, training, work experience and the Romanian values, organizational and managerial practices reflect on…
07
Oct
2009

Object-Relational Databases: An Area with Some Theoretical Promises and Few Practical Achievements

Communications of the IBIMA
This paper tries to point out some of the promises, quarrels, achievements, and perspectives of the forced marriage between the relational and object-oriented data models, from both theoretical and implementation perspectives. As practical O-R achievements, the latest SQL standards (SQL:1999-2008) and Oracle implementation are discussed
06
Oct
2009

Using Fuzzy Sets To Define the Information’s Quantity

Communications of the IBIMA
Information is considered as a change of a fuzzy set expressing a state.  In this case, a mange of state is equivalent to a change in the grade of membership   of an element x belonging to a fuzzy set A. The quantity of information can…
05
Oct
2009

Web Based Application for SMEs Economic and Financial Diagnose

Communications of the IBIMA
Effectiveness, efficiency and profitability are examples of major aspects that must be highly considered by any Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) interested in obtaining better economic results. Therefore, in order to achieve better fulfillment of SMEs economic and financial objectives, using a computerized instrument for…
04
Oct
2009

Analysing Micro-Innovation Processes: Universities and Enterprises Collaboration

Communications of the IBIMA
This paper discusses one form of inno-vation work in the area of human technology and its research at universities with The focus is on how to get swiftly advancing basic research knowledge quickly into product development processes.  The paper discusses a  innovation improvement model. The…
03
Oct
2009

Issues in Software Development Practices A South African Software Practitioners’ Viewpoint

Communications of the IBIMA
Software development is a process tasked with the development of artefacts that are used to implement organizational information systems. Depending on the social, economical and environmental setting, different software practices are used. These, however, have an effect on the resultant software product.  In this paper,…
01
Oct
2009

Demographic Factors and Knowledge Sharing Quality among Malaysian Government Officers

Communications of the IBIMA
Knowledge sharing is one of the important elements in knowledge management. Previous works indicate that employees are reluctant to share knowledge among themselves. Many factors impede knowledge sharing among employees in organizations. One of those factors is demography. The purpose of this study is to…
30
Sep
2009

Integrated Platform for R&D Information Systems: A Canadian Experience

Communications of the IBIMA
The “knowledge Economy” is the objective that many countries around the world are targeting in their strategic planning, it is meant to enable social and economical development. For many economists, it is also the sophisticated economy that balances out the dependency on basic commodities as…
28
Sep
2009

Modeling and Simulation of a Robust e-Voting System

Communications of the IBIMA
In this paper we present a simulation model for a multifaceted online e-Voting system. The proposed model is capable of handling electronic ballots with multiple scopes at the same time, e.g., presidential, municipal, and parliamentary, amongst others.  The model caters for integrity of an election…