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A Proposed Architecture for the Development of a Cluster for Graduates of Higher Education Institutions

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Applied Computer Sciences in Engineering (WEA 2016)

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This article discusses the needs and requirements of a mobile application oriented to the graduates from higher education institutions, taking into account the communication established so far in these institutions, the benefits offered by the special applications development for the interaction of between the different communities and the interests that may have the graduates of universities related to their alma mater. For this, there will be a preliminary outline about the architecture that implementation would require for their development, taking into account the needs of users and the viability of infrastructure resources; next to this improvements may be possible about the graduates quality of life and opportunities to develop in the future new utilities in this application.

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Peña-Mosquera, A., Flórez-Vargas, K., Rodríguez-Molano, J.I. (2016). A Proposed Architecture for the Development of a Cluster for Graduates of Higher Education Institutions. In: Figueroa-García, J., López-Santana, E., Ferro-Escobar, R. (eds) Applied Computer Sciences in Engineering. WEA 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 657. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50880-1_34

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