User's profiles play an important role when information systems try to meet their needs. This work presents a novel approach to build user profiles. It is based on information extraction techniques and proceeds by iterative steps. The use of different statistic metrics, Natural Language...

The K-means is a popular clustering algorithm known for its simplicity and efficiency. However the elapsed computation time is one of its main weaknesses. In this paper, the authors use the K-means algorithm to segment grayscale images. Their aim is to reduce the computation time elapsed in the...

This article describes real-time discrete wavelet transform algorithm implementation for high-level programming language. The article describes multiscale transform algorithms both for direct discrete wavelet transform and inverse discrete wavelet transform. This algorithm has been implemented...

Unified Modeling Language (UML) is using in the design notation in industry and academia projects. Interesting by the critical Real-Time System verification, it is important to ensure its dependability in order to avoid eventual errors. In this paper, the authors aim to extend the UML diagrams...

Companies are investing a lot of resources and effort for migrating their legacy applications and adapting them with the rapid technological changes. For this reason, the authors are interested in the modernization of desktop applications developed in Java Swing to Web 2.0 applications....

Nowadays there is a need for real-time awareness to assure conformity of organizational transactions to increase their reliability and to mitigate organizational risk. In this context, Continuous Assurance has assumed an important role as a management goal and in ensuring improved effectiveness...

The relationship between organizational culture (OC) and corporate performance was commonly studied and reflected in the literature in the last few years. However, the relationship between OC and business excellence is rarely tackled. In this context, this research examined the relationship...

Supply chain innovation has become all the more important in today's competitive world. Supply chain innovation is the development of newer technologies and procedures along with implementation of new ideas of products and services through necessary supply chain activities. As supply chains are...

Universities require basic changes in knowledge and communication-based society in order to achieve higher order learning experience and to satisfy expectations of new generation of students. This study aims to understand the likelihood of the cloud-based collaborative learning technology...

The emergence of social media technologies have drastically changed the face of customer relationship management (CRM), hence firms are incorporating social media technologies in their existing CRM systems which has led to the evolution of social CRM. This article extends capability-based...