Background. Brands are the most important source of emotional attachment with the consumer, it should be used as a vital tool for attracting and retaining customers of the organization and various sports organizations, should follow the theoretical principles related to brand management and brand loyalty and move towards strategic brand management as a superior marketing philosophy. Objectives...

the major objective of this article is to introduce the institution of ombudsman as one of the most common institutions in administrative law in many countries. having this goal in mind, in the first section, the authors endeavor to analyze the course of development of the institution of ombudsman, as well as its significance and functions. in the second section, they present a score of cases o...

In this study we present an application which can be accessed via www.excellence-networks.net and which represents networks of scientific institutions worldwide. The application is based on papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) published between 2007 and 2011. It uses (network) data, on which the SCImago Institutions Ranking is based (Scopus data from Elsevier). Using this data, inst...

In recent years there has been a growing interest in developing Ambient Intelligence based systems in order to create smart environments for user and environmental monitoring. In fact, higher-level monitoring systems with vital information about the user and the environment around him/her represents an improvement of the quality of care provided. In this paper, we propose an architecture that i...

The abstract model-theoretic concepts of compactness and Löwenheim–Skolem properties are investigated in the “softer” framework of pre-institutions [18]. Two compactness results are presented in this paper: a more informative reformulation of the compactness theorem for pre-institution transformations, and a theorem on natural equivalences with an abstract form of the first-order pre-institutio...

The notion of artificial institution is crucial for the specification of open and dynamic interaction frameworks where heterogeneous and autonomous agents can interact to face problems in various fields, like for instance electronic commerce, business-to-business (B2B) applications, and personal assistant applications. In our view the specification of artificial institutions requires a clear st...

Abs t rac t . The notion of institution is dissected into somewhat weaker notions. We introduce a novel notion of institution morphism, and characterize preservation of institution properties by corresponding properties of such morphisms. Target of this work is the stepwise construction of a general framework for translating logics, and algebraic specifications using logical systems. Earlier tr...