The processing power of mobile devices has greatly increased in recent years. This increased power has allowed for a greater range of applications to be deployed on this platform, providing constant access to information for end users. The limited size of these devices however, causes a number of usability issues which make these applications error prone and difficult to use. This paper present...

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The Student Online Project Planning and Tracking System, SOPPTS, is an online system designed and implemented to enhance the communication avenues and the project planning/tracking requirements of student projects for the Ball State University (BSU) software engineering classes. This paper presents the design and assessment of this tool. SOPPTS has been designed and field-tested to provide real...

With today’s nearly ubiquitous access to information of all types, it is difficult to discern what is important from what is not. Mobile and fixed location users alike are faced with a tradeoff: either check many information sources frequently or miss important information that may impact the user. In this work, we define a new approach to information management, one that uses the context of th...

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The paper presents the rudiment of universally sustainable development project for a small country that lacks exceptionally valuable or unique natural resources. This is a result of rather long experience of the author while studying the perspectives of small country development under conditions of intense globalization and conflict because of world territorial division among the different deve...