Open systems are characterized by heterogeneous participants which can enter or leave the system at will. Typical examples are e-commerce applications or information agent systems...
Organisations can be defined as a set of entities regulated by mechanisms of social order and created by more or less autonomous actors to achieve common goals. Multi-agent systems...
Governments are employing modern information and communication technologies to better serve society. Raising the effectiveness of government as well as the quality of the civil se...
Dimitrios S. Stamoulis, Dimitris Gouscos, Panagiot...
The aim of the paper is to discuss the distinction between characterisation (classification) and denomination (naming, identifying) in the context of information systems (IS). The...
Over the last fifty years, French public authorities have played a major role in developing a policy for scientific and technical information (STI) in France. Four distinct period...