Consumer trust is widely heralded as an essential element for the success of electronic commerce, yet the concept itself is still clouded in confusion by the numerous definitions and points of view held across multiple disciplines. It is the aim of this paper to synthesise the viewpoints from across the disciplines and bring them together in a multidimensional trust model. It is hoped that in d...

As Cloud Computing provides agile and scalable IT infrastructure, QoS-assured services and customizable computing environment, it increases the call for agile and dynamic deployment and governance environments over multi-cloud infrastructure. By now, governance and Non Functional Properties (such as security, QoS...) are managed in a static way, limiting the global benefits of deploying service...

This paper proposes a compromise model, based on the technique for order preference through similarity ideal solution (TOPSIS) methodology, to solve the multi-objective large-scale linear programming (MOLSLP) problems with block angular structure involving fuzzy parameters. The problem involves fuzzy parameters in the objective functions and constraints. This compromise programming method is ba...

  Divorce is one the most important public health problems which may affect many people especially parents, children, and their close relatives. To emphasize the importance of divorce worldwide, the world figures of some countries have been compared. According to transition from a traditional ...

new statistic based models provide a wide area of prediction equipments for different science areas. among these fields biology have just entered the contest of interdisciplinary sciences. drug discovery is a long and expensive process which could be decreased with theoretical approaches. in this study, 500 reported assayed anti cancer molecules were extracted from science direct articles, sket...

We deal in this paper with complex three-dimensional scenes, partitioned into several objects of any shape, and with varying local dimensions. We propose a consistent topological modeling of such scenes, based on a cellular model. We introduce a de"nition of simple elements for any adjacency graph-based geometrical structure. Then we prove a local characterization of simple cells of a cellular ...

In this work, we consider a multi-period inventory model with raw material procurements done via a reverse auction. Bids are multi-dimensional and they consist of supplier information of price, shortage quantity and lead time. This work is an extension of our earlier work that has integrated single-period inventory models with multidimensional procurement auctions to multi-period settings. The ...