The world has become a global village. Today applications are developed which require sharing of resources dispersed geographically to fulfill the need of the users. In most cases applications turn out to be time bound thus leading to Real Time Distributed System (RTDS). Online Banking, Online Multimedia Applications, Real Time Databases, and Missile tracking systems are some examples of these ...

Human daily life today – at work or home – would seem comfortably familiar to someone living in the United States 40 years ago, in 1972. In 2012, most adults still commute to work morning and evening, and work 5 days a week, 9 to 5. Most live in cities or suburbs3 in nuclear families, and engage in a wide range of recreational activities, e.g., reading, playing or listening to music, watching T...

Globalization 世 界 化 leaves no stone unturned. As current globalization seems to demand comprehensive transformation of a society, its impact on language and culture can be detected in every facet of life. The global economy has been influencing traditional values and ways of thinking for a long time. The concept of the global village has changed the outlook of future society. In Japan, ‘interna...

Introduction Recent advances in networking and communication technology have enmeshed us in a richly mediated and informative world, transforming the nature of our everyday interactions into a physical-digital hybrid experience. At the heart of this development is the lightning-fast transmission, reception and transformation of digital information. While previous generations encountered a ʻcult...

Description: The study of the ethical issues related to computer use developed primarily in the 1980s, although a number of important papers were published in previous decades, many of which are contained in this volume. Computer ethics, as the field became known, flourished in the following decades. The emphasis initially was more on the computing profession: on questions related to the develo...

The emergence of worldwide computing networks is often said to make us all inhabitants of a “global village”. It will not matter where you are in the world, you can still communicate with everybody else. You will be able to access relevant information regardless. This has not made us less mobile, however. On the contrary, we are more mobile than ever. It may sound like a paradox, but an impress...

Agents of participatory democracy or purveyors of consumer capitalism? Guardians of the public sphere or lap dogs of the power elite? Much of the debate about media’s role in the “democratization” of various societies around the world demands an examination of the implications of such questions. For starters we might consider if mass media engender, as Marshall McLuhan once envisioned, a “globa...

Roadmap to achieve global elimination of child labor in near future Dr. Saurabh RamBihariLal Shrivastava MD, Dr. Prateek Saurabh Shrivastava MD, Dr. Jegadeesh Ramasamy MD Address for Correspondence: Dr. Saurabh RamBihari Lal Shrivastava, 3rd floor, Department of Community Medicine, Shri Sathya Sai Medical College & Research Institute, Ammapettai village, Thiruporur Guduvancherry Main Road, Semb...

Telecommunications has had a powerful impact on development in rural areas of Peru and Indonesia. The AID Rural Satellite Pro­ gram demonstrated new ways of providing telephone service and transformed the telephonce into an educational tool through the addition of simple audioconferencing equipment. INTRODUCTION The tremendous growthi in worldwide telecommunications services in the last few dec...

The existence of heterogeneous systems in the now existing global village brings about a lot of complexity in the search and retrieval of information. However, continuous changing fields of knowledge offer a number of standard procedures and methods made possible by the up spring of technology to help users solve their queries. This research examines the application of knowledge management proc...