Approach for Synonyms Detection in Conceptual Data Model

Detection of synonyms in data modeling is considered as a significant problem, especially within the semantic evaluation of a conceptual data model. This paper presents an approach for synonyms detection in a system for conceptual data model semantic evaluation. It is based on automated reasoning in ontology mapping with conceptual data model with tool that formalizes ontology and conceptual data model and merges them with a set of reasoning rules. Reasoning was done with Prolog system. These rules are created for ontology–toconceptual data model mapping, as well for synonyms extraction. Examples of\ud testing reasoning rules are also shown in the paper

Online Loans – New Business model on the Macedonian Financial Market

As a result of new technological developments, every day we witness of new business models and new online products that make daily life. One of these business models and new online financial products that this model offers and which recently appeared on the Macedonian financial market is iCredit or Easycredit model as it is called in some countries. It is an iCredit new model of financial services that enables to get quick loans to certain amounts, for which the application is online. The purpose of this paper is to provide more detailed information on this new business model and new products that it offers and will be made analysis of its strengths and opportunities, but also be made and the comparative analysis of the product in the countries where is used. It will be presented an overview of the issues that most users would set up if decide to choose some of the types of online loans

Information Technologies in Human Resources Management: An Overview

Human resources management is one of the most important areas that influence business performance. Information technologies applied within an organization brings integration of business processes and enables their functionality. Synergy of human resources management and application of information technologies is core architectural component of an organization that brings value to organizational processes outcomes. Therefore, it is of a great interest to determine their mutual influence. There are two mayor research perspectives of human resources management synergy with information technologies, that are presented in this paper: implementing information technologies in human resources management and influence of human resources management to information technology related projects and companies

Inductive Approaches in Software Process Assessment

Software processes play important role in overall business performances of software organizations. However, in many cases processes are not well established, leading to poor performances of software products and services. Since majority of software organizations are small, suffering from the lack of resources, there is a permanent need for developing lightweight inductive approaches for assessing and improving their processes. These approaches should start from the actual state of the practice in software organizations, and result with the most suitable improvement proposals. This paper presents a short introduction into software processes, process assessment and improvement, and motivation for investigating the field of inductive software process assessment. The paper also outlines basic principles of inductive assessment approaches and future challenges

Modern technologies for data storage, organization and managing in CRM systems

In our study we intend to emphasize the main targeted objectives for the implementation of CRM type platforms. According to these objectives, in order to provide the functionality of CRM platforms, we will make a reference to\ud the prime methods of collecting and organizing information: databases, data warehouses, data centers from Cloud Computing field. As a representative procedure of handling information we will exemplify the OLAP technique which\ud is implemented by means of SQL Server Analysis Service software instrument. Finally, we will try to look over some of the Cloud Computing based CRM platforms and how the OLAP techniques can be applied to them

Separation of Players in Teams during Basketball Matches

This paper represents a framework for automatic player separation in teams during basketball matches. Separation is made in images broadcasted via television stations. In them, we have view from only single camera in particular point of time. This makes detection of players and their separation much more difficult. The player detection is based on mixture of non-oriented pictorial structures. After detection we extract image parts that represent player’s jersey. Over that area we calculate histogram on S value from HSV color system. According to top five picks, we cluster players in teams. This approach give us accuracy of 92.38%. Its main advantages are robustness and applicability on the large number of footages from different basketball games without need for additional training and algorithm changes

Intelligence approach in improving business processes

Nowadays, business intelligence (BI) has the top-most priority for the contemporary enterprises. The aim of this paper is to emphasize the advantages of this computer based approach in improving business processes. Data analytics and modeling of sales prediction system for enterprise is realized with artificial neural networks (ANNs). For the purpose of this research are created over 100 artificial neural networks. Three types of artificial neural networks are designed and evaluated: Function fitting neural networks, Focused Time-delay neural networks and NARX (Non-linear autoregressive) neural networks. Also were performed simulations with different architectures that differ to the number of delays and the number of neurons in the hidden layer. The network prediction performance was evaluated with Average Percentage Error (APE) and Root Mean Square Error (RMSE). The obtained results show big accuracy in prediction of the product sale. The precise prediction has influence to optimization of most of the business processes such as: supply of raw materials, organization of production process, staff scheduling, plan the electricity demand, cost reduction etc

Evaluating e-Customers’ Satisfaction in B2C e-Commerce: the Case of Macedonian Students

The rapid development and adoption of information and\ud communication technologies (ICTs), especially the vast proliferation of Internet and Web 2.0 paradigm in the recent years, have profoundly transformed the traditional ways of doing businesses worldwide. Going virtual has offered the companies many new possibilities, but it has also revealed many potential obstacles that have imposed new business strategies. Beyond any doubt, creating satisfied e-Customers, who will generate more e-Customers, is the best business strategy of all for online companies. Satisfied e-Customers are the key premise to attracting new e-Customers and then retaining them on a long term, the two most important aspects of doing business online. In that context, the paper highlights some results of an online survey, conducted among college students in the Republic of Macedonia, regarding their perceived levels of satisfaction vis-à-vis their B2C e-Commerce purchasing experiences. The statistical analysis of the survey results is based on the appliance of elements of descriptive and inferential statistics, as well as linear correlation and factor analysis. As such, the aim of the paper is to provide a profound knowledge and understanding of how Macedonian college students evaluate their online shopping experiences

Economic Factors Affecting Business Decision Making

Innovation is driving force for future growth. Economies of many countries are mostly based on old, traditional linear models of "closed" innovation, that include none or minimal external stakeholder engagement in creating market value. However, in order to achieve the well-being of the whole society, all relevant external stakeholders should be involved in creating open innovation environments and platforms that foster collaboration and co-creation of new business solutions. In today's knowledge society ICT enables availability of different and various pieces of information in global terms. One of the most brilliant scientists Einstein long time ago said that "Imagination is more important than knowledge". The core of every successful business or project is imagination. In order to use information to create new real market value and innovative business approaches, good ideas, imagination and intuition is necessary. Wisdom of innovative open-minded stakeholders creates wisdom society. How can entrepreneurs contribute to the modern economy? What should be changed so that better environment for creative thinking and doing can me make

Wireless sensor networks simulators – computer simulation tools

With the development of embedded systems and network technologies there was a need to find a device that will be used for measurements and at the same time it will be economical. Wireless sensors, using self-configuring sensors\ud are perfect for this purpose. With the sensors it was ensured traceability of the physical conditions of the environment (temperature, humidity, vibration, pressure, sound, movement, etc.) with very low power consumption and high precision. The sensors also have the ability to transmit and return data to a base station. But before implementing, you have to use the simulator to test these\ud sensors, especially in the initial phase of these designs. The cost to simulate thousands of nodes networks is very low, and the simulation can be completed in a short time. Therefore, simulation of WSN is of great importance for the\ud development of WSN. Protocols, schemes or even new ideas can be assessed in very large sizes. WSN simulators allow users to isolate different factors with setting up configurable parameters. In this paperwork we have used two\ud simulators: Network Simulator 2 and Omnet++