Editorial: commercial and industrial applications: part 2

Editorial – Part 2

Biographical notes: Francisco J. Martínez-López holds an MSc in Marketing and European PhD in Business Administration. He is an Associate Professor in Management at the University of Granada, Spain and an Assistant Professor in Marketing at the Open University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain. He has been a Visiting Researcher at the Marketing Departments of the Aston Business School, Birmingham,...

Maximizing Uptime of Critical Systems in Commercial and Industrial Applications

Hybrid Soft Computing Systems: Industrial and Commercial Applications

Soft computing (SC) is an association of computing methodologies that includes as its principal members fuzzy logic, neurocomputing, evolutionary computing and probabilistic computing. We present a collection of methods and tools that can be used to perform diagnostics, estimation, and control. These tools are a great match for real-world applications that are characterized by imprecise, uncert...

Commercial and Industrial Applications: A Study on RFID’s Adoption

In this paper, RFID as a brand-new pervasive computing technology is to be studied and discussed. In particular, its security threats are the main problems that should be found through literature review. Possible solutions towards these problems are to presented.

Guest Editorial: Toward Commercial Applications of Affective Computing

AFFECTIVE computing has come a longway from its humble beginnings. Starting with a seminal paper by Rosalind Picard [1], it has evolved into an interdisciplinary field with its own IEEE Transactions and numerous special issues in other journals. One of the main goals of affective computing is to create machines which can adapt to users’ emotions in order to produce more natural and efficient in...