Recently, Huang et al. proposed an efficient authenticated key establishment scheme for self-organizing sensor networks. However, in their scheme, a sensor node and a security manager should exchange public-key certificates to authenticate each other. In this paper, we propose an efficient authenticated key establishment scheme which can reduce the communication cost of transmitting public-key ...

The current paper studies possible neuronal mechanisms for meta-level cognition of rule switching. In contrast to the conventional approach of hand-designing the cognitive functions, our study employs evolutional processes to search for neuronal mechanisms accounting for meta-level cognitive functions required in the investigated robotic tasks. Our repeated simulation experiments showed that th...

The service industry and business-to-business companies have remained at the forefront of studies into internal marketing due to the close contact between employees and customers in such companies. Marketers and industry experts have shown particular interest to the supermarket sector over the past years due to the varied fluctuations in performance that have been reported. Consumers have negli...

In 2002, the European Commission recommended that member countries use formula apportionment procedures to tax multinational companies. This departure from the standard separate accounting (transfer pricing) approach is an attempt to reduce the costs and distortions associated with auditing transfer prices. Unfortunately, apportionment formulas create their own economic distortions and, contrar...

A multitude of companies today has already identified the need to create a loyal customer base and acknowledged that maintain ing existing customers and extending business with them are significantly less expensive than acquiring new customers (e.g.[17]). Therefore this paper describes the development of a conceptual model to investigate several factors affecting customer loyalty towards the se...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this paper is to analyze the Erasmus exchange of students at the University of Ljubljana, Department of family medicine in the period from 2005 to 2010. The beginnings of an Erasmus exchange in the field of family medicine in Europe are described. Ljubljana Medical School has currently 60 bilateral agreements with universities or medical faculties in the EU and EFTA cou...

Developing the e-services has directed organizations to aspire to achieve more market share in the competitive market. Consequently, they must present their services in such a system that customers return to the website and apply the e-services of that organization. This matter has become a serious challenge in this field and has generated a notion such as e-loyalty that various factors affect ...

This study proposes an implementation process model for integrating eXtensible Markup Language (XML) into enterprise applications, which also meets the inter-organization data exchange standard of RosettaNet. This model is motivated by the Manufacturing Execution System (MES) group of Taiwan’s Mechanical Industry Research Laboratories (MIRL) in meeting their needs on enterprise applications int...