15 articles in this issue
Raluca Ecaterina Brandabur
Survival of an organization in an environment increasingly aggressive requires a more constant study of it, followed by careful planning of its activities on the market, accordingly with the organization’s mission. In this context, targets and&n... see more
Hariton Costin
Medical imaging mainly manages and processes missing, ambiguous, omplementary, redundant and distorted data and information has a strong structural character. This paper reports a new (semi)automated and supervised method for the segmentation&nb... see more
Nikolaos D. Hasanagas
Motivation for this research was the need to perceive the relations among actors involved in the rural-forest policy networks. The problem of an objective analysis of formal and informal power and information flow structure measurement and ... see more
Miran Karic,Goran Martinovic
This paper examines benefits of using concavity-based structural features in recognition of handwritten digits. An overview of existing concavity features is presented and a new method is introduced. These features are used as complementary feat... see more
Vasile Claudiu Kifor,Nicolae Tudor
In this paper we propose a solution as support for quality systems for production software. The motivation behind this study was to reduce that cost in the production area caused by gaps in the quality of the production software. Our propos... see more
Germán A. Montoya,Carlos Velásquez-Villada,Yezid Donoso
The Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks (MWSN), classified within MANETS, have multiple applications for critical situations management such as target monitoring and tracking in conflict zones, supporting urban security, critical infrastructure moni... see more
Alina Elena Pitic,Ioana Moisil,Simona Dzitac
A study that I have conducted on a sample of 395 children aged 6 to 12, from both the urban and the rural environments, shows that an increasing number of them use computer related technologies. Today there are an increasing number of web sites that infor... see more
Daniela Elena Popescu,Alina Madalina Lonea
The problem of securing access to the online information is acute today when access to bank accounts, health records, intellectual property and business or politically sensitive information are made by only a few clicks, regardless of geographic location.... see more
Puniethaa Prabhu,K. Duraiswamy
One of the major issues in data cluster analysis is to decide the number of clusters or groups from a set of unlabeled data. In addition, the presentation of cluster should be analyzed to provide the accuracy of clustering objects. This paper propose a ne... see more
Souhail Sekkat,Khalid Kouiss,Janah Saadi,Laurent Deshayes
In an industrial context defined by more acute competition, performance measurement becomes a control tool. The Business Intelligence module of Manufacturing Execution System (MES) software achieves Performances analysis function. However, the implementat... see more
Razvan Serbu,Sorin Borza,Bogdan Marza
Agriculture is a business sector ideally suited for the application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) because it is natural resource based, requires the movement, distribution, and/or utilization of large quantities of products, goods, and services,... see more
Tatiana Tabirca,Laurence T. Yang,Sabin Tabirca
This paper presents some theoretical results on the smaller number Nk(a, b) of sensors to achieve k coverage for the rectangular area [0, a] × [0, b]. The first properties show the numbers Nk(a, b) are sub-additive and increasing on each variable. Based o... see more
Abdelwaheb Trabelsi,Houcine Ezzeddine
The evaluation of interactive systems is a wide and rich research domain: many methods, criteria and tools are available. In this article, we are focused on agent-based interactive systems. We first describe the agent oriented architecture used in our res... see more
Óscar C. Vásquez,Juan M. Sepulveda,Miguel D. Alfaro,Luis Osorio-Valenzuela
We present a particular disaster response project scheduling problem (DRPSP) motivated by Fukushima’s nuclear accident of Japan in 2011. We describe the problem as MPS;R,N|prec, dn|Pckf(rk(S)) by using Hartmann and Briskornscheme and formulate a mixed int... see more