Applications of heterogeneous wireless networks can help to achieve ubiquitous services. Cooperative downloading is a download technique used on cellular networks and wireless self-organized networks. It helps wireless users who are nearing the limits of their data plan to download data from the Internet. However, the existing studies on cooperative downloading techniques omit the problem of da...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to study the awareness level and utilization various cooperative banking services in rural area especially Dakshina Kannada district Karnataka. In India, most states are agriculture dominated, area, banks play a key role bolstering common individual financing his self -employment/business personal needs. effective will improve financial inclusion statistics...

most of the population of nigeria is rural and agriculture is the mainstay of the impoverished people’s livelihood. this paper estimated the determinants of rural poverty in nigeria using the tobit regression model. through the multistage sampling technique, primary data were obtained from 150 rural farming households using a questionnaire. the result of tobit regression analysis shows that inc...

Cloud computing (CC) services can offer substantial cost-effective global operational and relationship benefits if the cooperation between logistics and CC services are resilient. Potential vulnerabilities to cooperation of CC and logistics service providers can occur with respect to vital factors such as security and trust. Extant studies have demonstrated CC benefits as well as few challenges...

Providing a distributed cooperative environment is a challenging task, which requires a middleware infrastructure that provides, among others, management of distributed shared data, synchronization, consistency, recovery, security and privacy support. In this paper, we present the ECADeG project which proposes a layered architecture for developing distributed cooperative environments running on...

Smartphones have been equipped with the cameras that can shoot HD videos, and the video chat apps such as Skype are becoming popular. We can, therefore, intuitively predict the trend that users are expecting to enjoy HD video chats via utilizing their smartphones. Most of the current Internet services, however, cannot support the live HD video transmissions because of their low uplink rate. In ...

The VISPO project studies cooperative information systems in virtual districts to derive possible cooperation patterns and to provide an architectural framework for cooperation. Different organizations cooperate through e-Services, which are available through a Service Oriented Architecture.

In non-economic cooperative applications with resource constraints, explicitly motivating cooperation is important so that autonomous service providers have incentives to cooperate. When participants of such applications have different skills and expectations over services, it may be that an agent receives less than expected from a cooperation. A decision-making strategy over interactions in th...