The paper establishes the content of the virtual organizations concept, insisting on their collaborative nature. Types of virtual organizations architectures are developed and there are analyzed their characteristics compared to classical organizations existing in the pre-informational economy....

This paper describes types of risks encountered in banking systems and ways to prevent and eliminate them. Banking systems are presented in order to have a view on banking activities and processes that generates risks. The risks in banking processes are analyzed and the collaborative character...

This paper presents distributed informatics applications and characteristics of their development cycle. It defines the concept of verification and there are identified the differences from software testing. Particularities of the software testing and software verification processes are...

Approaches of data analysis in the context of Business Intelligence solutions are presented, when the data is scarce with respect to the needs of performing an analysis. Several scenarios are presented: usage of an initial dataset obtained from primary data as a reference for the quality of the...

Defining elements of the information society are presented. The development stages of the information society are discussed. The defining principles of knowledge-based society are stated. The paper discusses the elements that led to the formation of the knowledge-based society. The paper...

Authentication methods for informatics applications are presented. The functioning mechanism of the knowledge based authentication is analyzed. The implications of the knowledge based authentication in informatics applications are analyzed. Methods for improving the informatics applications...

The paper proposes a new improved algorithm for creating hierarchies of features and options for self-adapting user interfaces against the common one used by many applications. The user interface concept is presented. Types of user interfaces are given. Quality characteristics of the user...

The need for orthogonality analysis for structured entities is presented. The paper presents the basic aspects involving data files. The basic concepts of data files are presented. The paper defines a method for analyzing the orthogonality of structured entities. A model for the orthogonality...

Using a set of well-known complexity metrics, the current paper proposes an alternative method for computing the software complexity, using the cognitive logic. An experiment is made to validate the developed metric using 640 open source classes and 8 experienced software developers. The results...

The paper presents the process of acquiring knowledge. The evolution of the human society is presented from the resource exploitation and industrialization to the information society and the knowledge based society. On the basis of the knowledge society and the information one is the computing...