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The paper presents the CRUD functions of the Hydra for Web system for work on lexical-semantic databases with relational structure similar to the structure of WordNet. It supports functionalities for editing of relational data, simultaneous access of multiple users, parallel data visualisation. Hydra for Web has been used for the development of the Bulgarian wordnet.
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The assessment of the competitive position can answer the question what are the competitive advantages and disadvantages of the company at that time. The results could be useful for the selection of priority areas for action by the company management. In this study an assessment of competitiveness by selected indicators of two of the largest Bulgarian telecom operators - Mobiltel and BTC, was made. There is a comparison of labor productivity levels, financial indicators (return on equity ratio, current ratio, financial autonomy ratio, financial autonomy indicators); indicators of company growth (revenue increase, increase of the relative market share in relation to the main competitor, fix assets increase, staff increase). The results could be useful for the selection of priority areas for action by the company management.
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To look constantly for something new, to combine with already existing and to face up the challenge to stand up for it because you’re convinced that this is the right way. This is the credo of the High School of Mathematics “Academician Kiril Popov” – Plovdiv (Bulgaria) for more than 45 years. To combine mathematics, computer science, information technology and English language and intricate threads that bind them in a successful career as a Systems programmer or to connect them with the art and to prove that they have a place in high school of mathematics and organize vocational training for another profession – Computer graphics, and deserve the trust of parents to entrust their children – that’s the meaning of being a leader in innovations.
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The text presents the development of the concept of Universal Postal Service in the context of building common market for postal services at EU level. A review of the postal reform in the European Union is made. The scope of Universal Postal Service in Bulgaria and in other countries of the European Union is compared. The major trends in the market of universal service are outlined. Some directions for optimizing the scope of Universal Postal Service and increasing the efficiency of national postal operator are derived.
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More than half a century ago an American professor of English literature, Joseph Raben, founded Computers and the Humanities, the first journal in the field. In the first article of its first issue Louis Milic wrote with uncommon clarity of vision that,The true nature of the machine is unknown to us, but it is neither a human brain nor a mechanical clerk. The computer has a logic of its own, one which the scholar must master if he is to benefit from his relations with it. Its intelligence and ours must be made complementary, not antagonistic or subservient to each other…. The computer can be made an extension of man only if it opens avenues we have not suspected the existence of. (1966: 4)
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As editors of Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Digitalia, we are proud to announce the publication of the first issue of Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Digitalia, the first Romanian academic journal dedicated entirely to the Digital Humanities research and practice. The main aims of Studia UBB Digitalia are motivating and promoting the research in the interdisciplinary field of Digital Humanities, especially in Europe, in general, and Romania, in particular.
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St Patrick of Ireland, the fifth-century missionary and bishop, wrote two epistles which are commonly referred to as Confessio and Epistola ad milites Corotici. These two texts survive in seven medieval manuscript witnesses which were copied centuries after Patrick’s time. This article discusses digital transcriptions of these manuscript witnesses. The transcriptions were encoded using the encoding standard of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) following a documentary editing approach. The transcriptions will be the core of a new digital documentary edition. This edition is meant to be a research tool for the exploration of the medieval documents, but at the same time it is a mediator between the manuscript witnesses and existing text-critical editions and translations of the texts. This mediator function is achieved by including markers of lines and chapter of a canonical edition and links to an existing text-critical edition online. In the final section a few examples will briefly be look at that illustrate what kind of analysis will be possible and what visual presentations of the transcriptions will be incorporated in the new edition.
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Today’s scientific practice makes data the first territory for analysis and publishing becomes the rich context for cross referencing and interpretation. Scholarly publishing practices, editing and publishing in general have been shaped by the printing press and later on fashioned by the launch of the scientific journals starting in 1665 with the Philosophical Transactions by the Royal Society. Trends are mounting towards a self-publishing model, let that be under a known editorial label or in a self-sustained environment under university’s press umbrella or by the help of online free existing tools and services. All of the practices lend themselves to one purpose: being indexed, being parsed, mined for data, and emerging as valuable contributions to the field and become relevant. This paper explores some the new tool chains the Open Web Platform offers and some alternatives to be considered in the daily editing workflows. The envelope of the existing technologies is pushed further to step into the future world of deep learning and artificial intelligence. An exploratory tab will be set on the possibilities self-publishing is presenting the researchers in terms of tools and publishing platforms other than the regular channels.
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The aim of the present study is to create the profile of persons who have become aware of their need to have a specific tool to move intelligently in an urban space. The research is conducted within the frame of smart cities literature and approaches cities from the perspective of the presence of Information and Communication Technologies in all areas of social, economic and political life. In this context, smart people are considered to be persons who use the advantages of technology to obtain information-knowledge and are capable to identify the need of a smart tool to assist them in various domains. A concept map is created that is interpreted as a tool to measure the physical and virtual presence of senior undergraduate students in Economic Informatics in places significant for academic information and knowledge transfer. The authors try to demonstrate the importance of combining data mining and social network analysis methods so as to carry out a complex analysis of the problem and validate by their findings important research by Fortunato, Girvan, Papadopoulos, Adedoyin-Olowe et al.
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When one talks about “digital art” there are a great number of very different manifestations that could potentially fall into this category. One of the first things to keep in mind is the fact that as a term “digital art” does not refer to any particular style or aesthetic, thus the great variety. Much rather it is a medium through which artists choose to present their ideas. However as with all things digital, this can take on a lot of different facets, the digital turn has provided not only the opportunity for art archival and dissemination, but also as an extensive creative tool whose only limit lies in the imagination and/or technical skill of the author. To put it simply, digital art can range from works created entirely with the use of a computer and software, to alteration done with the help of the digital medium. It can include appropriation of other classical works that receive new life and meaning through this approach.
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nțeles în sens larg, fără pretenția unor redefiniri sau reinterpretări teoretice, postmodernismul a avut în spațiul cultural românesc manifestări vizibile mai ales în domeniul literar, muzical ori al artelor vizuale. În ceea ce privește cercetarea științifică din domeniul umanioarelor, puțini au fost cei care au avut vocația sau curajul de a fi contemporani-cu-epoca-lor în stil dar și în conținut. Cu alte cuvinte, cercetarea științifică românească a rămas cantonată în vechile tipare metodologice, tematice și stilistice, păstrând „toți nasturii închiși la cămașă” și constrângerea unei cravate deja demult demodate, purtate pe post de marcă a seriozității academice. Cu toate acestea, câțiva cercetători cu o deschidere interdisciplinară mai amplă – asemenea unor temerari experimentatori ai „stilului neastâmpărat” în cercetare sau a unora care știu-să-se-joace-serios și să facă din actul lecturii academice o plăcere nu numai pentru creier, dar și pentru urechi sau ochi, cum sunt (pentru a intra în logica lui Trei ) clujeanul François Bréda, sibianul Gheorghe Manolache ori bucureșteanul Bogdan Ghiu – au abordat subiecte marginale ori metisate într-o scriitură cu certe valori estetice, nefăcând rabat, în același timp, de la rigorile științifice. Importantă pentru acești cercetători a fost realizarea unor texte polivalente, structurate pe mai multe paliere de înțelegere, cu trimiteri mereu subversive „pour les connaisseurs”, dar care, nu în ultimul rând, trebuie să producă plăcere. De cele mai multe ori, tehnica (de codare) folosită pentru lansarea mesajului ideatic apelează la: jocuri de cuvinte, întreruperi, pauze, puncte de suspensie, paranteze, slashuri, sublinieri, ruperi de ritm, fragmente, aluzii, linkuri, travestiuri, mixaje, combinații neașteptate ori kitschuri de toate felurile (de limbaj, bibliografic, tematic, discursiv etc.).
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The adoption of the new law on preschool and school education laid the foundations for a competent approach in Bulgarian education. The implementation of this approach can be done in many ways, one of which is the implementation of integrative links in the process of training on a structural and functional level. The present paper provides a competent model of mathematics and information technology training with integrative links.
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In the present paper an idea for optimizing the positioning of serving units in tourism business is revealed using some applications of mathematics in economics. The elaboration has a methodological character. Methodologically the authors assume that some tourist objects (hotels, restaurants, etc.) are given and they try to determine the best possible position for a serving unit (store, office, etc.) using a set of optimization problems. Finally, an approbation of the results with a real example is considered.
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This is the second part of the survey on mathematics discovered by computers. The first part is published in 2015 in the International Journal of Computer Discovered Mathematics. The second part of the survey contains articles published in 2015 – 2017.
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The paper studies variations of a standard six-sided dice. In particular, we consider dice with other integer numbers written on the faces, but with the same sum of those numbers. What is examined is how any two of those modified dice play against one another in a random toss. Several assertions are proved.
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The application of the latest information technologies is a lasting trend in the practice of modern primary education. This is particularly relevant for mathematics education and is mainly explained by the very nature of mathematical knowledge - uniquely defined, algorithmic, precise language, etc., which makes them suitable for interpretation with the means of information technology. Innovative technologies diversify traditional teaching methods, make pupils’ thinking wider, diversify training and give the ability to turn boring learning into interesting. This attracts the attention of all students because they are actively involved; a new organization of the learning environment is achieved; instead of a passive listening of the information from the teacher, it is possible for the pupils to be personally involved, to concentrate on and use their own knowledge.
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This paper discusses issues of information security and protection technologies in IP networks and studies existing threats to them.
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Мethodical possibilities for using computer education technologiesin the lessons to solving physics problems are described and discussed. The topice “Harmonic oscilations”, 9th grade. Quantitative, qualitative and experimentalproblems are presented.
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