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E-learning  is  widely  used  in  universities  and  other  organizations  all  over  the  world,  either  to support classroom learning or on its own. The Palestine Polytechnic University (PPU) is no exception. Usually, a special kind of web-based content management system is used for running e-learning courses. …

The persistent improvements in the cost-performance ratio of information technology today facilitate the provision and consumption of electronic business services across corporate boundaries. However, existing technical solutions and organizational approaches are not adequate to support the efficient management of loosely coupled, highly agile business networks…

Production and logistical processes are some of the most critical processes in every industrial enterprise. Mastering these processes has a direct influence not only upon the entrepreneurial activities of individual firms, but also on the whole of the supplier-customer chain and on industrial branches as…

Many topics related to stability of equilibrium, equilibrium selection, transitional dynamics, the long-run evolutionary dynamics of economic processes or other microeconomic or macroeconomic concepts are of the most importance in economic studies and often involve a set of optimization techniques able to provide the best…

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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…