The area of MANets (Mobile Ad-hoc Networks) is still in its infancy in the research community, but it plays a vital role surrounded by the growing trend of mobile technology for business as well as private and governmental uses. The concept of ubiquitous/pervasive computing is almost...

This article presents an overview of the public policy issues surrounding digital libraries, and describes some current trends, such as Web 2.0, the social network. It discusses the impact of globalization and the Internet on international and foreign law information, the free access to law...

We define the concept of Information Quality (InfoQ) as the potential of a dataset to achieve a specific (scientific or practical) goal using a given empirical analysis method. InfoQ is different from data quality and analysis quality, but is dependent on these components and on the relationship...

Information by itself is no longer perceived as an asset. Billions of business transactions are recorded in enterprise scale data warehouses every day. The acquisition, storage and management of business information are commonplace and often automated. Recent advances in (remote or other) sensor...

Contemporary enterprises have in recent times experienced significant changes, most of which have been technologically driven. The result of these gales of change has been an overabundance of information [17]. Yet such information abundance has not necessarily resulted in a more informed...

In this paper we examine the Engineering Asset Management (EAM) business process and identify various process areas which are thought to have an impact on the quality of asset information. Therefore, this paper may assist in the enhancement of the collection, storage and use of engineering asset...

The advances in trading technologies and networking infrastructures combined with the globalisation and competitive environment of the financial markets has increased the complexity and dynamics of markets making them difficult to understand and has raised a number of issues in relation to the...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of Property Management Systems (PMS) for data management in hotels. The main objectives are to investigate; the awareness of different PMS software and their functionalities, the key determinants of the choice of a specific system and the...

We offer a tour d'horizon of the data management issues facing macroprudential supervisors. Traditional financial oversight has been very firm-centric, with strong respect for the boundaries of the firm. Even in this firm-oriented context, financial information has been expanding much faster...