This paper provides technical details and user guidance on the Research Infrastructure of Chinese Foundations (RICF), a database of Chinese foundations, civil society, and social development in general. The structure of the RICF is deliberately designed and normalized according to the Three Normal Forms. The database schema consists of three major themes: foundations' basic organizational profi...

The role of information systems and technology in stimulating interest in privacy is discussed, with an emphasis on the move towards regarding privacy as an economic right. Current proposals are shown to derive from pragmatic, problem driven analyses, rather than clear philosophical foundations: they are therefore inflexible and limited in scope, and advances in technology are likely to render ...

this article discusses the technical foundations of the prose poem and trying to look for common or similarity with the foundations of the romantic school and its assets. the prose poem in most founded and doctrine meet romantic so that adopted it and benefited from his principles, and his roots and tried to improve it and makes it different from romance. romantic school depends on in some of i...

It is common for information exchange between heterogeneous systems to be syntactically correct but fail to achieve its intended purpose due to semantic mismatches. NATO research group IST-094 is developing a framework to facilitate semantic interoperability. We will show a live demonstration of one possible approach to implementing a message translation broker, following the Semantic Interoper...

It is common for information exchange between heterogeneous systems to be syntactically correct but fail to achieve its intended purpose due to semantic mismatches. NATO research group IST-094 is developing a framework to facilitate semantic interoperability. We will show a live demonstration of one possible approach to implementing a message translation broker, following the Semantic Interoper...

European Journal of Information Systems (2006) 15, 239–240. doi:10.1057/palgrave.ejis.3000627 In the third issue of the 2005 volume of the European Journal of Information Systems, I introduced a new Editor’s View series to the journal, starting with mine (Paul, 2005). In this issue, I am pleased to present the second and third Editor’s View papers by the Editors of the Information Systems Journ...

Information Integration is one of the core problems in cooperative information systems. We argue that two critical factors for the design and maintenance of applications requiring Information Integration are conceptual modeling of the domain, and reasoning support over the conceptual representation. In particular, we present a general architecture for Information Integration that explicitly inc...

In the eld of geography, we have beenexamining the contribution of the morpho-genetic rep-resentation to the comprehension of the cycle: reality,representation, model, reality. A distinction is madebetween map and geomap based on the notion of locus-object. 1. Foundations and limits of cartographic rep-