Human resource information systems (HRIS) have become a major MIS subfunction within the personnel areas of many large corporations. This article traces the development of HRIS as an entity independent of centralized MIS, assesses its current operation and technological base, and considers its future role in the firm, especially its relationship to the centralized MIS function. The results of a...

Aerial and satellite imagery has a key role to play in natural resource management, especially in forestry application. The submetric resolution of the data enables to study forests at the scale of trees, and opens up new prospects to inventories in their will to get accurate assessment of the resources, with some automatic algorithms when possible. In this paper, we present a method to extract...

There are 893 sites belonging to the Middle Ages currently recorded in the Notts SMR. Amongst these may be noted 16 castles, 15 monastic sites, 87 DMVs and SMVs (both certain and alleged), 72 moated sites, 117 fishponds (of which 37 are certainly mediaeval), 23 houses, 195 churches and 32 chapels. To these may be added the 395 or so communities or villages mentioned in Domesday Book where we ha...

The Northamptonshire sites and monuments record currently contains 1573 records related to the Roman period, which constitutes 22.5% of the total. A large proportion of the undated cropmark sites are, however, also likely to be Roman and/or Iron Age in date and should be added to this total. In Northamptonshire this period is characterized by intensively occupied and large scale rural landscape...