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Julian Vassilev
A Research on Demographic Changes within Bulgaria in Regard to European Trends
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The purpose of this study is a research on demographic trends in Bulgaria with a view to finding places which may disappear from Bulgaria’s map and formulating economic polices of the country. The study gives an account of the influence of a set of factors influencing ageing and depopulation processes. Three contribution points may be marked. Firstly, a database structure is defined, allowing the use of census data for other researchers. Secondly, a technology is developed for converting census data into the created database. Thirdly, the study provides an approach for implementing regional demographic analysis.
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Angelin Lalev
Survey of the Support for HTTPS in the Electronic Stores of Bulgarian Small and Middle-Sized Enterprises
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This article presents an empirical survey, conducted in May 2016 and again in January 2017 with the help of software for automated penetration testing. The survey encompasses fixed set of 480 electronic stores, belonging to small and middle-sized enterprises in Bulgaria. The goal of the survey is to determine to what extent such enterprises manage to deploy HTTPS correctly in defense of their electronic transactions. The survey is conducted twice in a 6 month period with aim to obtain information how and to what extent the small and medium-sized enterprises in Bulgaria are adapting to the sharply rising requirements for information security in Internet.
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Petya Emilova, Kremena Marinova
Innovative Solutions and Technologies in Tourism as an Opportunity for Digitalization of the Hotel Business
Summary:
Modern information and communication technologies are a factor for achieving effective management in the tourism sector and in particular hotels, and for this purpose they need to implement appropriate to their scale and requirements modern hotel information systems.
The purpose of this article is to study the hotel information systems offered on the software market and in particular those that successfully combine leading innovative trends such as application in the business of web technologies, cloud solutions and others. In this regard, the following tasks have been solved: the possibilities of Web 2.0 technologies, cloud services and Internet of Things (IoT) technology as important technological factors for the development of the tourism and hotel industry have been analyzed; the peculiarities and functional possibilities of the hotel information systems are presented; criteria for selection of hotel information system are outlined; în this basis, a comparative analysis of the web-based hotel information systems offered on the software market has been made; factors and recommendations for selection and implementation are defined.
