Smart Trolley for Smart Shopping

Fractal behind smart shopping

The ‘minimal’ payment—a payment method which minimizes the number of coins in a purse—is presented. We focus on a time series of change given back to a shopper repeating the minimal payment. The delay plot shows visually that the set of successive change possesses a fine structure similar to the Sierpinski gasket. We also estimate effectivity of the minimal-payment method by means of the averag...

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Value by Design: Smart Design Principles for Neighborhood Shopping Centers

This study examines the outcome of shopping center development as reflected in their built forms. Specifically, this research explores if the design attributes of the shopping centers are related to their economic and walkability characteristics. This is a cross-sectional study focusing on 19 neighborhood shopping centers in Houston, TX, each with a supermarket chain store. It assessed design a...

Interactive Fuzzy Interval Reasoning for smart Web shopping

In this paper, we propose an Interactive Fuzzy Interval Reasoning (FIR) method by combining fuzzy logic with interval computing to better serve Web users in terms of effectiveness and flexibility. Web users may use convenient interval inputs for online shopping. In order to serve different customers based on their preferences, different personalized fuzzy partitions to meet different needs are ...

The Smart Shopping System (SSS): An Adaptive E-shopping Application for Reflecting the User's Personal Model

Clothing shopping systems are widely spread on the World Wide Web (WWW). However, without guaranteeing that these online systems are convenient for the average user, it is difficult for THE "online" businesses to gain the user’s trust and it's also intricate for them to build a wide range of clientele. Therefore, we propose a solution, a web-based clothing shopping system call The Smart Shoppin...