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in recent years, virtual communities have been significantly popular and almost all of them are targeted for business profitability. in our study, the profitability of these communities for businesses has been analyzed from a commercial perspective. the study considers virtual community as a business model which can have a great impact on consumer purchase decision process. with respect to refe...

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andApplied AnalysisHindawi Publishing Corporationhttp://www.hindawi.comVolume 2013 ISRNAppliedMathematicsHindawi Publishing Corporationhttp://www.hindawi.comVolume 2013Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttp://www.hindawi.comVolume 2013International Journal ofCombinatorics Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttp://www.hindawi.comVolume 2013<...

The interactive multimedia e-learning system (IMELS) is an e-learning courseware for industrial engineering developed at the University of Hong Kong. The system adopts a problem-based learning approach to the teaching and learning through the delivery of realistic case problems using interactive multimedia technology over the World-Wide-Web. The main features of the system include a multimedia ...

This poster presentation describes our vision, goals and plans for HARNESS, a distributed, reconfigurable and heterogeneous computing environment that supports dynamically adaptable parallel applications. HARNESS builds on the core concept of the personal virtual machine as an abstraction for distributed parallel programming, but fundamentally extends this idea, greatly enhancing dynamic capabi...

this research is intended to design strategies of human resource through miles and snow model in an active industrial center of oil, gas and cement. the research followed an applied approach using survey method. research population included 1100 employees and experts of the same center, 285 subjects of whom were selected as sample by a stratified and systematic random selection. for designing h...

Ethical Considerations for Virtual Worlds Alanah Mitchell Walker College ofBusiness Appalachian State University mitchellaj @appstate. edu Deepak Khazanchi College of Information Science and Technology University ofNebraska at Omaha [email protected] Metaverses, like Second Life and Teleplace, and the inherent technology capabilities that they offer continue to be of interest for rese:u-che...

THE CUSTOMER: CROWLEY MARITIME CORPORATION Our company, Crowley Maritime Corporation (CMC), was ready for a DASD acquisition. CMC’s holding companies comprise t h e world’s largest diversified maritime services organization. DASD acquisition was almost an annual event in that the strategy was to keep three generations of storage on the floor and rotate out the oldest generation with the next DA...