The main aim of the paper is to raise some issues related to the access and usage of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in South-Eastern Europe. It is based on the results of a recent project and highlights the trends and the remaining challenges for ICT development in the region. A short review is made on the changes in the concept of Digital Divide with the time, and in particul...

The emerging learning society requires a different development strategy, but also a conceptual and statistical framework that goes beyond the conventional approach and provides a broader dynamic framework for policy analysis. The novel time distance methodology is applied to the analysis of digital divide in the USA by income and educational level. It also shows that different statistical measu...

es’ have been set up in some unserved and underserved areas to reduce the effect of digital divide. Even though, ese initiatives’, its acceptance and effectiveness are ser acceptance of Telecentre was demonstrate Disadvantage communities, User acceptance

Through task decomposition and module combination, minmax modular support vector machines (M-SVMs) can be successfully used for difficult pattern classification task. M-SVMs divide the training data set of the original problem to several sub-sets, and combine them to a series of sub-problems which can be trained more effectively. In this paper, we explore the use of M-SVMs in multi-view face re...

this paper investigates the forecasting gold coin futures contract price in iran mercantile exchange. this research has presented a hybrid model based on genetic fuzzy systems (gfs) and artificial neural network (ann) to forecast the gold futures contract, at first, we use stepwise regression analysis (sra) to determine factors which have most influence on stock prices. at the next stage we div...

We present a one-way dissection formulation of high-order compact scheme for the solution of 2D Poisson equation. One-way dissection is a type of matrix reordering, divide and conquers procedure. Efficient and concise compact schemes of 4th and 6th orders are derived using the truncation errors of the Taylors’ series expansion of the governing equation. The system is split into sub-domains and ...