Purpose: Active product life cycle management contributes to supply chain optimization. However, in nowadays industry the high number of variants and backward loops complicate tracing the entire product lifecycle in an ERP system. Consequently, product lifecycle and corresponding...

Purpose: Our research shows that considering well suited NoSQL databases is beneficial for logistics tasks. For answering tasks we rely on the widespread methods of Data Mining. We stress that using relational databases as basis for Data Mining tools cannot cope with the growing amount of data...

This paper proposes a new tool in the field of telemedicine, defined as a specific branch where IT supports medicine, in case distance impairs the proper care to be delivered to a patient. All the information contained into medical texts, if properly extracted, may be suitable for searching,...