13 articles in this issue
Florin-Gheorghe Filip
MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS: Managing the Digital Firm - 9th editionAuthors: Keneth C. Laudon and Jane P. LaudonPearson Prentice Hall, Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 97458.ISBN 0-13-153841-1; XXXII+641+22+14+2+21 pags. &nb... see more
Abdelmadjid Bentayeb,Nezha Maamri,Jean-Claude Trigeassou
In this paper we present a new method of model reduction via the moments. The reduction technique is composed of two steps, the first one consists on using the Least Squares linear optimization algorithm to minimize a cost function representing the norm 2... see more
Marius George Linguraru,Miguel Ángel González Ballester,Nicholas Ayache
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is commonly employed for the depiction of soft tissues, most notably the human brain. Computer-aided image analysis techniques lead to image enhancement and automatic detection of anatomical structures. However, the inform... see more
Grigore Albeanu
The current issue of the journal contains seven extended papers published in the "Proceedings of the1st International Conference on Virtual Learning, October 27 - 29, 2006, Bucharest, Romania, (ICVL2006)" (M. Vlada, G. Albeanu & D.M. Popovici eds.).
Antonios Andreatos
This paper deals with the concept of informal learning in virtual communities on the Internet. Initially we discuss the need for continuing education and its relation with informal learning. Virtual communities are next defined and then compared to real c... see more
Alla Anohina
The paper focuses on the issues of providing an adaptive support for learners in intelligent tutoring systems when learners solve practical problems. The results of the analysis of support policies of learners in the existing intelligent tutoring systems ... see more
Razvan Andonie,J. Edward Russo,Rishi Dean
Recommender systems (RS) are being used by an increasing number of e-commerce sites to help consumers find the personally best products. We define here the criteria that a RS should satisfy, drawing on concepts from behavioral science, computational intel... see more
Nikolaos Doukas,Antonios Andreatos
A computer-aided assessment system is presented that has been designed to produce and deliver tests to the Hellenic Air Force Academy students and assess their performance. The system is called e-Xaminer and is intended for use in both undergraduate cours... see more
Ikuo Kitagaki,Atsushi Hikita,Makoto Takeya,Yasuhiro Fujihara
This paper reports an algorithm for forming groups of students with regard to a computer system for collaborative learning designed to give a cue for debate utilizing mobile terminals. With this system, questionnaires which should be used as the seeds for... see more
Michael Lambiris
The traditional way of providing feedback to students after tests or assignments is labour-intensive. This paper explains the concepts and techniques used by the author to build computer-based applications that analyse students’ answers and generate indiv... see more
Gabriela Moise
The computer-assisted learning is a very modern study area, which can be applied to the learning process. The main objective of this paper is to present a software system for online learning based on the intelligent software agents technologies. The main ... see more
Mihaela Oprea
Many real-world applications are mapped into combinatorial problems. An example of such problem is timetable scheduling. In this case, the two basic characteristics can be defined by its distributed and dynamic environment. One efficient solution to solve... see more