Internet and e-Commerce have provoked major re-configurations of the tourism value chain. Especially Destination Marketing Organizations (DMO) as marketing and information service providers have to face the threat of disintermediation; and they need to respond with higher level services and products. This paper presents our findings from a knowledge management project with Austrian National Tou...

With the current national emphasis on translational research, data-exchange systems that can bridge the basic and clinical sciences are vital. To meet this challenge, we have developed Slim-Prim, an integrated data system (IDS) for collecting, processing, archiving, and distributing basic and clinical research data. Slim-Prim is accessed via user-friendly Web-based applications, thus increasing...

In the context of an increasing number of retrofitting projects and greater consideration for the criteria of sustainability, architects and engineers are looking for a global optimization of existing buildings and therefore need to multiply comparisons between different possible variants. In order to structure the approach of this complex process, research carried out with the support of the S...

ii NOTICE The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency through its Office of Research and Development partially funded and collaborated in the research described here as indicated through the authors' affiliations. Additional support for this project was provided by the Office of Radiation and Indoor Air (ORIA) of the Office of Air and Radiation in collaboration with the Office of Emergency and Rem...

In the article, author analyzes developed communication approaches in implementation of national projects and draws conclusions about importance preserving activating existing measures times crises that Russia is experiencing new socio-political economic realities (sanctions, special military operation, general isolation). The article focuses on activities ANO National Priorities created by Gov...

Recently, several researchers have suggested directly exploiting in a programming language temporal logic’s ability to describe changing worlds. The resulting languages are quite diverse. Tl+ey are based on different subsets of temporal logic and use a variety of execution mechanisms. . So far, little attention has been paid to the formal semantics of these languages. In this paper, we study th...

The Text REtrieval Conferences (TRECs) are a series of workshops that encourage research in information retrieval from realistic applications by providing large test collections, uniform scoring procedures, and a forum for organizations interested in comparing results. The first workshop was held in November, 1992, and workshops (following evaluations) have been held yearly since then. In addit...