the role of franchising for business growth, job creation, and economic development has been widely recognized around the world. to our knowledge, however, no research has been conducted to investigate franchise practices in iran. the purpose of this study was to investigate franchisor franchisee relationship and franchisees’ buying behavior using structural equation modeling, in tehran provinc...

Classical knowledge production is an author-centered process. The emergence of cooperative internet technologies such as wikis or blogs shows a shift towards stronger cooperative production and communication of knowledge, closing the gap between readers and authors. The incorporation of such participatory mechanisms into CSCL/CSCW systems raises several new requirements. We present an open serv...

30, 1914, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Charles W. Laughlin, Director and Dean, Cooperative Extension Service, CTAHR, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822. An Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Institution providing programs and services to the people of Hawaii without regard to race, sex, age, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, disability...

Fourth Generation (4G) of wireless networks is no more a dream, already knocking at the doors of our information village. 4G promises to offer a vast range and diversity of converged devices, services and networks in order to revolutionize the way we communicate today. 4G would also influence today's networking architecture where the inter-user communication is realized with the help of third-p...

The current research is an applied study, which uses field data and avails itself of a descriptive-correlational and causal-correlation design to analyse the relationships between variables. This study was an attempt to identify variables affecting rural participation in cooperatives forest by-products in Ilam. Population of this research is exploiters of forests' by products in Ilam. The numbe...

The enactment of the Cooperative credit societies Act, 1904 gave a definite structure for cooperatives in India. Although era started long ago, till date they are considered inept with commercial banks providing quality services to their customers. Lack professionalism, Limited area operations, technical knowledge, Poor customer can be as hindrances cooperative institutions also criticized poli...

This study describes the development of a ubiquitous cooperative learning environment using proposed annotation services, wireless communication devices, and the Jigsaw method of cooperative learning. The purpose of the study is to investigate the potential benefits of studying digital course materials with embedded annotations. The SQ3R study method is introduced during the individual study ph...

An increasing number of military systems are being developed using service orientation. Some of the features that make service orientation appealing, like loose coupling, dynamism and composition-oriented system construction, make securing service-based systems more complicated. We have been developing technologies for Advanced Protected Services (APS) to improve the resilience and survival of ...

A large distributed autonomous cooperative system is a system that provides fundamental services for integrating high-level services in a large distributed system with local autonomy for individual system platforms and processes. This paper discusses the role and the functions of Intelligent Mobile Agents (IMAs) in large distributed autonomous cooperative systems. Rather than providing services...