This paper reports the methodologies and findings of research done into learning processes in two diverse environments. The research focused on identifying factors that enable and facilitate social learning. These factors are discussed in view of the preliminary architecture and in view of the...

During 2005 – 2008, the tourist circulation in Constanta County is characterized by a slight evolution of the tourists’ number, tourists arrived in this area and their overnight stays in the tourist reception structures with housing functions. Although this county represents an attractive...

The new problems on global market bring a wind of changes in our lives, as well in technology, in environment protection, the future provoke us to find immediately solution and identify new sources for industry. The solution to this problem is the improvement of quality management of enterprises...

Wireless sensor networks increasingly become viable solutions to many challenging problems and will successively be deployed in many areas in the future. A wireless sensor network (WSN) is vulnerable to security attacks due to the insecure communication channels, limited computational and...

The indexes numbers’s rol is to measure and to interpret the average variation in time, space or in relation with other systems of reference, in relative sizes, of the levels for the variables who belong to the statistical units from a collectivity. The indexes achieve a statistical analysis...

The purpose of this paper is to present the way some widely used knowledge management models are structured. We will describe the most important characteristics of each model, with our comments about its usefulness in the economical environment. The models we chose to analyze are as follow: von...

The worldwide economic crisis has strong effect on Romania, which has a developed market economy, but an economy based on consumption and credit. What can we expect from the tour can not meet anyone. The rich suffer less, unfortunately there are the vast majority of the population affected by...

When blogging tools first arrived in 1998, people asked “What’s a blog?” The word “blog” is a contraction of “Web log” and is used both as a noun as well as a verb. To blog is to write content to a blog. By design, blogs are best suited for the spontaneous thoughts and observations...

The concern for performance is a topic that raises interest in the business environment but also in other areas that – even if they seem distant from this world – are aware of, interested in or conditioned by the economy development. As individual performance is very much influenced by the...

Unit tests are a vital part of several software development practices and processes such as Test-First Programming, Extreme Programming and Test-Driven Development. This article shortly presents the software quality and testing concepts as well as an introduction to an automated unit testing...