Reconciliation is the process of providing a consistent view of the data imported from different sources. Despite some efforts reported in the literature for providing data reconciliation solutions with asynchronous ...

In recent years, educators, particularly those within the tertiary level landscape, have been subject to criticisms for their apparent inability to effectively educate students; in particular, their failure to explore the ...

Conceptual understanding of the management of real situations and heterogeneous problems in manufacturing and engineering in general is one important competence in industrial organization. This paper describes a series of ...

A series of practical on-line classroom using the forums as a tool were developed in different subjects of Industrial Organization during five consecutive years instead of the traditional face to face sessions. The purpose ...

Collaborative virtual environments (CVE) support the collaboration, communication and social interaction among users in virtual spaces. We present a customizable CVE implemented on top of the Web that allows for the creation ...

Ubiquitous Computing or Pervasive Computing is a new paradigm that aims to provide information and communication technology accessible anywhere, by anyone, available anytime, where computational resources should be integrated ...

Collaborative software modeling is a trend to increase business productivity and reduce costs. However, the two main types of collaboration still present problems, for instance: synchronous, despite avoiding conflicts, in ...