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Precision viticulture (PV) and precision agriculture (PA) requires the acquisition and processing of a vast collection of data coming typically from large scale and heterogeneous sensor networks. Unfortunately, sensor integration is far from being simple due to the number of incompatible network specifications and platforms. The adoption of a common, standard communication interface would allow the engineer to abstract the relation between the sensor and the network. This would reduce the development efforts and emerge as an important step towards the adoption of "plug-and-play" technology in PA/PV sensor networks. This paper explores this need and introduces a framework for smart data acquisition in PA/PV that relies on the IEEE 1451 family of standards, which addresses the transducer-to-network interoperability issues. The framework includes a ZigBee end device (sMPWiNodeZ),,as an IEEE 1451 WTIM (Wireless Transducer Interface Module), and an IEEE 1451 NCAP (Network Capable Application Processor) that acts as gateway to an information service provider and WSN (Wireless Sensor Network) coordinator. The paper discusses the proposed IEEE 1451 system architecture and its benefits in PA/PV and closes with results/lessons learned from in-field trials towards smarter WSN.

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The developments occurring in recent years in the Information and Communication Technologies led inevitably a great effect on the operation, structure and strategy of organizations around the world, and obviously also in the tourist sector organizations. Through the Information and Communication Technologies, it is possible to reduce communication costs and operation and may increase the flexibility, interactivity, efficiency, productivity and competitiveness. Information and Communication Technologies appear one of the area most critical to the success of tourism in the future and the way it will promote the tourist destinations. This paper aims to analyze the relevance given by the various Portuguese institutions of higher education to Information and Communication Technologies in their degrees. The analysis carried out was done in degree courses operating in this school year, 2012/2013, in Portuguese universities and polytechnics, public and private.

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Websites quality is strategically important for organizations and for their clients' satisfaction. The rapid growth of web applications increases the need to evaluate web applications quantitatively and qualitatively. When you attempt to evaluate websites, many different evaluation methods can be used. This paper analyzes and presents different quality models in order to perceive which is the most appropriate, depending on the situation.

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The administration of systems and networks is a technical specialized complex task. If large organizations can have in their Information Technology (IT) departments systems and network security specialists, Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) typically can't; they have only some computers science broadband IT collaborators that respond by the maintenance of the IT resources, and, in some cases, accumulate with some software development. We make of this view the start point of our research, allying the growing need of securing the IT resources and the information sources which are becoming more and more valuable for every single organization. For SMEs the solution for implement security is, many times, an outsourcing task. The problem is that implementing security is an exercise that overflows the common IT domain, but it starts by fully understanding the organization culture, policies and procedures. This knowledge is something that collaborators learn day by day and not something that we can put on paper easily and tell some outsourced specialists to secure. Even if that could be done, the daily maintenance of the security would be a very hard task. This paper makes considerations about security on SMEs reality and presents a framework that permit a high level approach for implement security, more focused on the organization vision of what we want to do than on a technical vision of how to implement it. The framework hard core is one abstraction layer focused on the organizations perspective and a translator layer of them into technical rules capable of been applied on the IT resources, like servers, computers and network equipments.

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The developments occurring in recent years in the Information and Communication Technologies led inevitably a great effect on the operation, structure and strategy of organizations around the world, and obviously also in the tourist sector organizations. Through the Information and Communication Technologies, it is possible to reduce communication costs and operation and may increase the flexibility, interactivity, efficiency, productivity and competitiveness. Information and Communication Technologies appear one of the area most critical to the success of tourism in the future and the way it will promote the tourist destinations. This paper aims to analyze the relevance given by the various Portuguese institutions of higher education to Information and Communication Technologies in their degrees. The analysis carried out was done in degree courses operating in this school year, 2012/2013, in Portuguese universities and polytechnics, public and private. © 2013 AISTI.

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With the rapid expansion of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) throughout almost all aspects of tourism and hospitality industries, the task of integrating technology into educational curriculum will be a need. Information and Communication Technologies appear one of the area most critical to the success of tourism in the future and the way it will promote the tourist destinations. This paper aims to analyze the relevance given by the various Portuguese and Spanish institutions of higher education to Information and Communication Technologies in their degrees. The analysis carried out was done in degree courses operating in this school year, 2012/2013, in Portuguese and Spanish universities and polytechnics, public and private.