background: computers and internet  play an ever- increasing and important role in medical education.this research was performed to determine the rate of knowledge, attitude, and performance of the students of birjand university of medical science in the case of  computer and internet use. methods:  this descriptive – analytical study was performed on 425 students of birjand university of medic...

The distributed development of software is increasingly widespread, driven by the globalization of companies and business and enabled by the improvements in communication and computing [1]. The distributed development of software introduces new aspects of cooperative work in which a greater emphasis is placed upon technological support of the software development process. Software development a...

This paper outlines present and future directions for software in a Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) environment. The three major CIM components -production management, data management, and communications management -are described in terms of software available today and future software based on emerging international standards. Key standards efforts such as product data exchange, open s...

This paper examines three ideas: First, the traditional relationship between a science, the mathematics it uses and the engineering based on it. Second, the nature of (software) computer science, which may not be a science at all, and its unusual use of mathematics. And finally, the nature of software engineering, its relationship with computer science, and its use of mathematics called ‘formal...