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The motor insurance is an important branch of non-life insurance in many countries; in some of them, coming first in total premium income category (in Romania, for example). In this paper we present the Gaussian mixture method to model the loss distribution of data from…

Electronic government is an information system (IS) that uses information and communication technology to improve public administration efficiency and policy effectiveness, to increase the convenience, performance and accessibility of government services to internal and external users. This research tests an integrated model of e-Government satisfaction…

Digital medical informatics and images are commonly used in hospitals today,. Because of the interrelatedness of the radiology department and other departments, especially the intensive care unit and emergency department, the transmission and sharing of medical images has become a critical issue.Our research group has…

Technology is now everywhere; integrated into our everyday objects and activities. Mobile computers and devices are now widely affordable and powerful enough. Because of that, developments of mobile applications become a phenomenon today. Mobile applications could be used both to connect people with each other,…

This article attempts to verify empirically the argument that innovation capabilities and research and development activities are important in explaining the discrepancies registered between the nations, in terms of competitiveness. In order to approach in an explicit manner the relation between innovation and competitiveness, it…

Knowledge is one of the enterprise’s most important assets that influence its competitiveness. One way to capture an enterprise’s knowledge and make it available to all its members is through the use of knowledge management practices. This paper discusses the importance of knowledge management (KM)…

The globalisation of financial markets, facilitated by new technology, under which a shock in one region is rapidly transmitted to other centres all over the globe, had ensured that, in less than a year, the USA financial crisis has spread across the continents, including countries…

Contract Cheating is a new phenomenon, which is becoming an issue of concern at educational institutions in the UK, USA and Western Europe. Contract cheating is a form of academic dishonesty in which a student would pay someone (a contractor) to complete a given piece…

This paper provides certain degree of analysis on the benefits that leverage from the use of new technologies in the Travel Industry. Besides the concerns about what technology can do for travelers, we also address the  pressures for changes, the potential impacts on different category…

The activities and skills of the information systems manager evolved extraordinarily in the last half century, from the technician who managed an operational function with a limited importance to the organization, to the position chief information officer, now responsible for a department on which depends…