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This book contains a selection of articles from The 2014 World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST´14), held between the 15th and 18th of April in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss recent results and innovations, current trends, professional experiences and challenges of modern Information Systems and Technologies research, technological development and applications.
The main topics covered are: Information and Knowledge Management; Organizational Models and Information Systems; Intelligent and Decision Support Systems; Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools; Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems; Radar Technologies; Human-Computer Interaction; Health Informatics and Information Technologies in Education.

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Insufficient utilisation of information technology in the state administration.- The Intention to Share and Re-Shared Among the Young Adults towards a Posting at Social Networking Sites.- Extending the Groovy Language using AST Transformations.- Benefits management enhances the organizational competitive advantage.- MusE Central: A Data Aggregation System for Music Events.- The Process-Oriented Implications in the Development of Health Informatics Curriculum for Teaching and Learning.- The Connective Scheme Between The Enterprise Architecture And Organisational Structure.- Proposing formal notation for modeling collaborative processes extending HAMSTERS notation.- An empirical study of the factors affecting Mobile social network service use.- Visualization of Services Availability: Building Healthy Communities.- Selection of Safeguards for Fuzzified Risk Management in Information Systems.- Towards a flexible and transparent database evolution.- Understanding Information Security Culture: A Survey in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises.- A Survey of Cloud Computing Migration Issues and Frameworks.- Using Text Summarizing to support Planning of Research and Development.- How to Use Activity Theory Contradiction Concept to support Organization Control.- The Impact Of Educational Background On Working Relationships In Offshoring Projects.- Prediction Models for Hospital Bed Management using Data Mining techniques.- Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Technology: FI4VDI project.- Selecting Suitable E-Procurement Decision Models for the Maldivian Public Sector by Evaluating MCDA Methods.- Improving High Availability and Reliability of Health Interoperability Systems.- An evaluation on the Usability of E-Commerce Website using think aloud method.- A Generalized Scalable Software Architecture for Analyzing Temporally Structured Big Data in the Cloud.- Systematic Review Tool to Support the Establishment of a Literature Review.- Sentence Meaning and Semantic analysis in the Alignment method for Parallel Text corpora preparation.- University application process - Decision Support Models.- Vision-based Portuguese Sign Language Recognition System.- Modeling data integration for Dynamic Allocation and Intelligent Scheduling of Airport Terminal Resources.- Software Process Improvement from a Human Perspective.- Real-Time Statistical Speech Translation.- Viewpoints for Requirement Engineering in a Cooperatif Information System (VpCIS).- mEMR: A Secure Mobile Platform Integrated with Electronic Medical Records.- Simulating a Dynamic Transport System to Enhance the Transportation Performance in Road Crisis Condition.- Envisioning a New Future for the Enterprise with a Big Data Experience Framework.- Speech Separation Based on Improved Fast ICA with Kurtosis Maximization of Wavelet Packet Coefficients.- Information Persistence Architecture for Informal and Formal Care Providers.- Towards structured EPR for supporting Clinical Decision making.- Design and implementation of a competency repository.- An Application to Select Collaborative Project Management Software Tools.- Web RTC Framework and Client.

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