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The paper explores the possibilities for the introduction of computers in archive offices, where the primary concern is the management of personal funds. The design of an automated system for handling the funds, as well as the necessary indexes and searches utilized by the system is presented. The implementation of the system was done at the Macedonian Academy of Arts and Scieneces, where archive office provided the background for the both, the definition, the implementation and the operational phase of the project.
The problem of finding all minimum-hop paths from one node to another arises in several contexts for adaptive routing in computer communication networks. This paper presents an efficient algorithm for determining all paths with minimum number of links between two nodes in a network. Polynomial bound is established for the worst case time complexity of the algorithm. Directions for further research are also proposed.
Strategic planning is a decisive process toward sustainable development for any organization. Mozambique has developed many tools toward good governance, among which Poverty Alleviation Strategy Paper (PARPA) is an umbrella. PARPA includes different key decisive segments of society, particularly the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) as the pool for development. This chapter investigates to what extent e-Governance, particularly the development of strategies based on ICTs, can contribute to minimize the impact of floods at local governments by addressing best practice and decision-making process. The authors address backcasting methodology as an approach to consider in a participatory strategic planning for long-term decision-making processes. They use Chókwe District as a showcase where e-governance has an impact in mitigating and preventing the impact of floods.
This paper maintains that mobile phone payments present a significant opportunity to integrate more users within Uganda's financial system. Besides enabling services that can improve the performance of small businesses, mobile payments afford an opportunity to integrate more users within the traditional banking system at a reasonable cost. In order to evolve a successful model and realise these benefits, Uganda can learn from the Philippines, a developing country with arguably the most successful and widespread use of mobile payments in the world. Action areas include reviewing the national policy and legal environment, building capacity and collaboration amongst multiple regulatory agencies, and the need to be accommodative of as many stakeholders as possible. This will create a truly national system that can leverage the projected growth of the mobile phone market and bring benefits to the general population.
The development of formal systems for reasoning about knowledge is one of the main research issues in Artificial Intelligence. A reoccuring problem in most of the systems is the one of logical omniscience or consequential closure which expresses the notion that when a reasoning agent knows anything he knows all its logical cosequences. This result is neither intuitively admissable nor computationally feasible. The paper explores the possibilities of restricting the omniscience in an intensional context.