Vasile Daniel Pavaloaia

• PhD Hab.
• Professor (Full) at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University

The fields of information systems and technology continue to evolve at a rapid pace, offering new research directions and expanding career opportunities [...]

In the context of the increasingly digitized society, the adoption of cloud technologies in public administration becomes more relevant and necessary [1]. This study focuses on assessing the degree of cloud service utilization in public institutions in Romania, as well as on analysing the ethical and security implications associated with this adopt...

About five years ago, prior the onset of Covid 19, higher education institutions used to carry out online learning activities somewhat as an alternative to the face-to-face classes. Now, more than ever, it's become widely accepted and highly imperative that any modern school needs a digital approach (and strategy) if it is to achieve its mainstream...

In the last decade, the European countries witnessed significant progress in the implementation of smart city initiatives, where, based on the specialized literature, the topic of algorithms is of outmost importance for achieving sustainability and efficiency goal in relation to smart city initiatives. The current article aims to perform a review t...

Electronic commerce has a strong connection with recommendation processes. There are various forms of recommendations, ranging from virtual assistants to online suggestions made in real time. Different algorithms and technologies are utilized for each form, and the choice of technique is dependent on the task at hand. For instance, artificial intel...

The greatest technological changes in our lives are predicted to be brought about by Artificial Intelligence (AI). Together with the Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain, and several others, AI is considered to be the most disruptive technology, and has impacted numerous sectors, such as healthcare (medicine), business, agriculture, education, and...

In the last two decades there has been obtained tremendous improvements in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) especially in the sector of face/facial recognition (FR). Over the years, the world obtained remarkable progress in the technology that enhanced the face detection techniques use on common PCs and smartphones. Moreover, the steadily...

Background: Using the power of Internet, crowdfunding platforms are currently changing the traditional landscape of fundraising. Social media-based IT platforms in particular are bringing the creators of crowdfunding projects closer than ever to potential investors. A large variety of factors function as determinants of individuals' intention to pa...

Companies use social business intelligence (SBI) to identify and collect strategically significant information from a wide range of publicly available data sources, such as social media (SM). This study is an SBI-driven analysis of a company operating in the insurance sector. It underlines the contribution of SBI technology to sustainable profitabi...

Nowadays, companies in Romania and abroad compete intensely for attracting employees, but the demand in Romania for qualified information technology (IT) personnel exceeds the supply. Previous studies have also reported that the IT market is quite “choosy”. The World IT Project contributes to a better understanding of perceptions of Romanian IT wor...

Any brand’s presence on social networks has a significant impact on emotional reactions of its users to different types of posts on social media (SM). If a company understands the preferred types of posts (photo or video) of its customers, based on their reactions, it could make use of these preferences in designing its future communication strateg...

Modern Business Information Systems: Extended ERP components and their integration is a sequel to the first volume entitled Modern Business Information Systems: the Enterprise Resource Planning and its Functions, also published with Lambert. In this volume, authors extended the analysis of ERP systems with other interesting aspects as well as with...

The role of local and central public administrations in promoting sustainable development and building up a better future for society is essential. In order to fulfill this mission, employees in public administration sector must engage in long life learning processes, for the purpose of developing skills such as: anticipation, interdisciplinarity,...

In 2018, the city of Iasi has won the Emerging City of the Year Award at the CEE Shared Services and Outsourcing Awards Gala. This success was achieved as a result of joint efforts over the last 10 years by the business community, the local authorities and the university environment. As such, it was proved that the collaboration between the univers...

This paper analyses the potential enhancement of e-commerce websites with Semantic web technologies from the consumers’ informational perceived satisfaction point of view. Information quality is a central preoccupation in the field of business information systems’ discipline and it relates to the semantic interoperability field of research. The pur...

Within social networks, the emotional status of customers of an important brand has a significant impact on their social behavior depending on the type of watched posts (photos or videos). This study examines how social media technology usage and customer- centric management systems should contribute to a firm-level capability of social customer re...

The use of products and processes based on technological advances has been considered especially relevant to achieving a successful company that overtakes its competitors. This study draws on relevant literature on Radical Technological Innovation to advance theoretical understanding of radical innovation in technology and to analyse its main featu...

Organizations are sociocultural constructions that arise due to a multidimensional process of modelling during which they create and perfect their own method used for learning about and harmonizing the business sector in which they activate. Linking the individual-organizational behavior with the technocentric management system constitutes the main...

The paper intends to bridge the continuously evolving organisations in their quest for competitive, efficient and highly educated employees and the students whose psychological profile changed due to Internet technologies, information availability and use of mobile equipment. Thus, universities - as the main pillars of training and educating the fu...

As the title states, this book approaches the subject of ERP systems, presented in their multiple facets. It is addressed to students, professionals, and other practitioners interested in discovering or widening their horizon in the field of Business Information Systems in general and ERP in particular. The book has two volumes and this is Volume 1...

The book approaches the subject of ERP systems, presented in their multiple facets. It is addressed to students, professionals, and other practitioners interested in discovering or widening their horizon in the field of Business Information Systems in general and ERP in particular. The book has two volumes and this is Volume 1. The subjects present...

The studies published in 2015 analyzing the need for human resource in Iasi IT market (the most representative market for the North-East of Romania) conclude that the demand for specialists exceeds by far the number of graduates from faculties which train IT specialists. Nationwide, within the FEBA2, the employment rate for the students that comple...

The studies published in 2015 analyzing the need for human resource in Iasi IT market (the most representative market for the North-East of Romania) conclude that the demand for specialists exceeds by far the number of graduates from faculties which train IT specialists. Nationwide, within the FEBA , the employment rate for the students that comple...

The actual financial domain is highly influenced by the fluctuations encountered in the global economic crisis that has affected both, though not with the same intensity, rich and economically developed countries and those who do not belong in the above category. The answer to the crisis could be the financial analysis of the enterprise which is co...

In the digital economy, Smart City represents one of the medium and long-term multi-dimensional objectives of each city on its road to modernity. This trend becomes even more obvious in the case of cities from countries with emerging economies. The aim of this paper is to compile a literature review in accordance with the Smart City concept and the...

Profesionistul contabil și știința contabilității îndeplinesc de mult timp un rol principal în procesul de gestiune a întreprinderii. Pe de o parte, profesionistul contabil prin activitatea sa, legitimează rentabilitatea, bonitatea şi profitabilitatea întreprinderii, iar pe de altă parte evaluează gradul de încredere în partenerii de afaceri ai ace...

The accounting and accounting profession fulfill, for a long time, the key role in the management of the company. On one side, the accountant professional through his activity, legitimizes the rate of return, creditworthiness and profitability of the company and, on the other side, assesses the degree of trust in its business partners. In the proce...

The current research illustrates a framework for modeling the bankruptcy prediction models using the Unified Modeling Language. The developed framework uses the Anghel bankruptcy prediction model which is ranked by the local specialists as one of the most representative and actual autochthonous model. Also, our decision regarding the modeling of An...

Volumul de faţă prezintă, la nivelul anului 2014, impactul pe care Tehnologiile Informaţionale şi de Comunicaţii (TIC) îl au asupra lumii afacerilor şi a lumii, în ansamblu. Destinată în principal studenţilor de la facultăţile de economie şi administrarea afacerilor, dar şi tuturor celor interesaţi de sporirea şi actualizarea cunoştinţelor din zona...

Bankruptcy in general, and especially bankruptcy prediction models, have always been of great interest for both practicians and theoreticians. Though several computerized systems that allow automated bankruptcy prediction models exist, very few of them are available online. Therefore, in the current paper it is proposes an online computer-based sys...

IT outsourcing is one of the most frequently met action by SMEs in the USA, Australia and Western Europe but, in this respect, Romania is still at the beginning. Regardless of company size, both the structure and functionality of IT systems are much the same, so the main components that SMEs outsource, are: the Internet connection (with sub-web ser...

Prin structura acestei cărți ne-am dorit și conturarea unei culturi a domeniului, astfel încât cititorul să opereze cu ușurință cu nenumăratele sintagme, termeni de specialitate și prescurtări, dar să aibă și o bună cunoaștere a pieței internaționale și în mod special a celei din România. De aceea veți găsi numeroase exemple cu surse de pe internet...

In the nowadays enterprise computerized context, there is a trend that shifts the business ap-plications to the new mobile environments. In the light of this information, it is highly important to be knowledgeable about the software development methodologies available in order to make the right choice when it comes to developing a mobile applicatio...

In the nowadays financial instability and sharp competition that best describes the worldwide business environment, every company regardless its size, is continuously interested to analyse its financial and accounting performance, the fortcoming threats and the overall enterprise standing as a manner for developing future strategies. This paper int...

The actual financial domain is highly influenced by the fluctuations encountered in the global economic crisis that has affected both, though not with the same intensity, rich and economically developed countries and those who do not belong in the above category. The answer to the crisis could be the financial analysis of the enterprise which is co...

The actual financial domain is highly influenced by the fluctuations encountered in the global economic crisis that has affected both, though not with the same intensity, rich and economically developed countries and those who do not belong in the above category. The answer to the crisis could be the financial analysis of the enterprise which is co...

The current research intention' is to present some methodological approaches regarding the possibilities of computerizing the field of financial analysis. Therefore, at first, the characteristics, necessity and objectives of the financial analysis are clearly presented. Secondly, the classical models of application development are compared within a...

In January 2010, Forbes magazine published an article with an attractive title: Romania – became an accounting outsourcing destination. The article states that our country has fully entered the market of accounting service outsourcing. Also, the results of a study ordered by PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2010 confirm that outsourcing has encountered a...

The nowadays international market of outsourcing services is relatively mature and with age comes wisdom ... Thus, on a grown market, choosing to outsource services can not only be justified by the strive to reduce costs but it aims to meeting more advanced objectives as accurate alignment with business strategies of the enterprise. As a result, ou...

In the now-a-days business environment, when efficiency and profitability are two major aspects to be taken into account by any enterprise, including the small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), interested in obtaining better economic results, the use of computerized tools for performing the financial diagnose on the activity of an enterprise is...

Effectiveness, efficiency and profitability are examples of major aspects that must be highly considered by any Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) interested in obtaining better economic results. Therefore, in order to achieve better fulfillment of SMEs economic and financial objectives, using a computerized instrument for performing the econo...

Bankruptcy in general, and especially bankruptcy prediction models, have always been of great interest for both specialists and theoreticians. Though several computerized systems that allow automated bankruptcy prediction models exist, very few of them are available online. Therefore, in the current paper we propose an online computer-based system...

The now-a-day business environment, based on market economy, stresses out the idea that the main strengths of a business resides in the efficiency and profitability of its activity. Thus, with the use of intelligent systems for determining the economic and financial situation of an enterprise there may be better chances to fulfill the goal of obtai...

Exsys Corvid constitutes a very competitive expert system shell that facilitates, among many other features, database integration. In the current research we intend to bring to attention all the integration possibilities that Corvid offers by theoretical and practical approaches.Thus, in current research, we will conduct the study by implementing i...

The experience in developing performance-centered systems for higher education has improved significantly, and practitioners have made considerable progress in elaborating a methodology. This paper discusses the convergence of thinking among various disciplines in analysis and design methodologies, and describes the key elements of the new-emerged...