The present paper presents qualitative empirical evidence that addresses why internet usage/adoption is low and how it can be improved in small and mediumsized hotels in Malaysia. It explores the key barriers to and influencing factors of internet adoption in a sample of 25 Malaysian small and medium-sized hotels based on a theoretical framework of the organisational innovation and resourcebase...

Social networking websites play an increasingly important role in hotel promotion and marketing. However, designing effective social networks profiles still presents quite a challenge. To support the development of quality hotels’ profiles, we introduce a systematic approach based on an evaluation model that includes a number of heuristic factors and user ratings. The model was developed for Fa...

Adaptation of a component-based system can be achieved in the coordination modelling language Paradigm through the special component McPal. McPal regulates the propagation of new behaviour and guides the changes in the components and in their coordination. Here we show how McPal may delegate part of its control to local adaptation managers, created on-the-fly, allowing for distribution of the a...

Now a days, deducing position and route has become crucial because it helps user to get the destination more quickly and easier. Due to complex structure of buildings and infrastructure like areas, to get the exact location of any entity has become difficult. Therefore, Indoor positioning and navigation system, plays vital role for obtaining position (location) for indoor areas. In order to rea...

The Sharm El-Sheikh/Ras-Nasrani area is one of the most attractive tourist resorts in Egypt particularly and in the world in general. The area has been rapidly growing during the last few years. Many construction projects including villages, hotels, beaches, and roads have recently been undertaken. The following study demonstrates the use of high-resolution satellite images, QuickBird imagery, ...

With the rapid development of information technology in hotel booking context, it is no doubt that many hotels consequently enhance the needs of integrating information technologies into their overall business operations. In this study, we developed a research model which consists of perceived value, trust toward a third party online booking site, and trust toward hotels, and tested it by using...

We describe a compositional algorithm for the minimization of nite state automata relative to branching bisimulation. With respect to this algorithm we describe an in nite class of automata for which the algorithm is linear time. The class includes the classical dining philospher problem and variants. The proof involves showing that certain families of automata generate nite submonoids of a bis...

Going off to college opens many opportunities for learning ? in this case, how to make healthy food choices on your own. It may be that you grew up with relatively balanced meals that are now replaced by a smorgasbord of dining hall offerings. Having nearly unlimited access to a variety of foods is a new challenge for many students. However, focusing on eating foods that are high in fiber and p...

We study a class of examples of minimizing automata with respect to branching bisimulation in the context of the Span(Graph) model. Compositional minimization is particularly efficient for the class which includes the classical dining philospher problem and variants. The reason for the efficiency is that finite subsets of the class generate finite submonoids of the bisimulation monoid. We indic...