The development of the informational and communicational technology makes possible the use of a diversity of systems, instruments and technologies that offer to the decisional factors sharp and safe informations and also proper ways to process and analyse those informations in order to achieve...

Introduction -- Part I: Background of Transactional and Analytical Systems in Logical Database Design and Benchmarking -- Part II: Towards a Benchmark for Mixed Workloads and its Application in Evaluating Database Schemas -- Part III: Implementation, Evaluation, and Discussion -- Part IV: Appendix.

The development of the technologies of wireless telecommunications gave birth of new kinds of e-commerce, the so called Mobile e-Commerce or m-Commerce. Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) represents a new IT research area that combines mobile computing and cloud compu-ting techniques. Behind a cloud...

After some introductory comments devoted to the presentation of Istat new Macroeconometric Model MeMo-It at the LII Annual Scientific Meeting of Sie, the second section of this foreword spells out the main possible areas of cooperation between Istat and Sie, in an effort to implement a more open...

For the immense but necessary task of global climate protection, avenues for action should be designed to consider the intrinsically autopoietic and self-guided behaviour of global power politics. Thus, pragmatic approaches may provide solutions and educational strategies have to prepare global...