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  EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT OF CSP’S INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE IN TODAY’S HIGHLY COMPETITIVE MARKET

  The telecommunications sector has been developing rapidly in the last few years. Under the conditions of growing competition and imposing new regulatory frameworks by institutions, telecom operators are increasingly implementing innovative approaches to attract new users. The purpose of this study is to present the Operations Support System and ... The telecommunications sector has been developing rapidly in the last few years. Under the conditions of growing competition and imposing new regulatory frameworks by institutions, telecom operators are increasingly implementing innovative approaches to attract new users. The purpose of this study is to present the Operations Support System and Business Support Systems (BSS/BSS) as one of the most important components of the modern telecommunications business in an information and connected society. In order to achieve this goal, the author considered the following tasks: defining the ‘networked’ or ‘connected’ society and the factors for its emergence; briefly analyzing the telecom business in Bulgaria; presenting the main functions of the OSS/BSS systems and the business processes they automate; revealing the major problems and challenges to OSS/BSS systems when launching new services on the market and introducing new technological solutions. The research thesis can be defined as follows: modern telecom business could not have competitive advantages without well-functioning and market-adapted OSS/BSS systems

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  MULTIMEDIA TECHNOLOGIES – A PREREQUISITE FOR INCREASING THE EFFICIENCY OF STUDENTS` TEACHING PROCESS

  The main purpose of this study is to assess the degree of effectiveness of using new and innovative training methods and to outline the opportunities for turning them into an instrument for manifesting students’ activity and initiative in acquiring new knowledge. The objective set is achieved by: theoretically studying modern innovative teaching ... The main purpose of this study is to assess the degree of effectiveness of using new and innovative training methods and to outline the opportunities for turning them into an instrument for manifesting students’ activity and initiative in acquiring new knowledge. The objective set is achieved by: theoretically studying modern innovative teaching methods; approving multimedia products in the training process; measuring the impact of multimedia technologies on the acquiring of the material taught by conducting a survey; assessing the need for implementing multimedia technology in the training process in order to enhance the effectiveness and the degree of acquiring specific knowledge. The working thesis of the present study is formulated as follows: “The use of multimedia technologies in the training process helps increase its effectiveness by achieving a synergistic effect between the different methods and techniques of teaching and creating conditions for turning students into equal participants in the learning process”. The analysis of the results enabled us to assess the degree of effectiveness of training and acquiring new knowledge through the use of multimedia technologies. The conclusions of the survey prove that the thesis set by our team has practically-applied significance and are aimed at improving the quality of the learning process

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  IMPROVEMENT OF TRAINING IN TRADE AND TOURISM BY APPLYING ICT

  The research thesis of this paper is that under the conditions of high-tech economic development the requirements to specialists in commerce and tourism are increasing, therefore access must be ensured to the information and educational resources that extend the theoretical and practical knowledge of commerce and tourism theory and practice at all ... The research thesis of this paper is that under the conditions of high-tech economic development the requirements to specialists in commerce and tourism are increasing, therefore access must be ensured to the information and educational resources that extend the theoretical and practical knowledge of commerce and tourism theory and practice at all levels of higher education. The main purpose of this study is to draw key recommendations for improvement through situational analysis of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) applied in the training of students by the Department of Commercial and Tourism Business in the three educational levels. To achieve this purpose the researchers set themselves the following objectives: to present the ICT established in the practice of teaching; to present the good practices in the use of ICT in teaching students of ‘Economics of Trade’ and ‘Tourism Economics’; to explore the ICT and resources used in the training of doctoral students in ‘Economics and Management’ (Trade) and (Tourism) doctoral programmes. As a result of the study several major conclusions are made, the most important one is that the use of professionally-oriented programme packages provide an opportunity for students to work with them at any time during and after their studies