The invasion of new technologies combined with the high cost for running shop force enterprises to search for new sales methods. Network applications and ICT (Information and Communication Technology) can help achieve e-commerce goals. In Greece, many enterprises in the agro-food and drink sectors are already present on the internet. This paper studies the adoption of e-commerce on websites tha...

In computing clouds, it is desirable to avoid wasting resources as a result of under-utilization and to avoid lengthy response times as a result of over-utilization. In this technical report, we investigate a new approach for dynamic autonomous resource management in computing clouds. The main contribution of this work is two-fold. First, we adopt a distributed architecture where resource manag...

Today's economic crisis has led to bankruptcy of many successful, but usually large-sized enterprises. This brought into question the future of large-sized enterprises. However, the only alternative to largesized enterprises (LEs) is networking of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) into Regional Production Networks (RPNet). RPNet is non-hierarchical organizational form in which every SME...

In today’s scenario of increasing energy prices, new legislations, and rising consumer concerns regarding environmental issues, industries face an unprecedented challenge reducing their consumption without negatively impacting profit productivity. Based on this, companies are focusing analyzing efficiency, which has various criteria to be considered, at least three organizational levels. To clo...

In supply chain management (SCM), the selection of suppliers plays a vital role in an efficient production process. Over last few years, to form trade-off between quantitative and qualitative criteria, SCM is considered very conclusive. The decisions generally demand different criteria balance every possible inconsistent parameters involving subjectivity uncertainty evaluation information mostl...

Preference surveys often strive to reveal the perceptions of respondents with different demographic and habitual characteristics reflect features a local community or city. However, target group can be considered priori homogenous in some cases, which requires an adjusted survey methodology. Apart from smaller sample size, aggregation technique individual preferences into global common priority...

In Poland, there is a high ratio of private transport and unfavorable patterns daily commuting. These can be changed by introducing comfortable eco-friendly vehicles, such as e-scooters e-bikes. At the same time, development e-micromobility-based vehicle sharing services market developing. The aim article to analyze selected available on Polish identify most useful vehicles from two opposing pe...